Cottage homes
Significant improvements in academic achievements, behavior, psychiatric symptoms, relationship with the parents as well as a decrease in offense rates were found.[2][3][4] From the 1870s, a number of charitable and poor-relief organizations in the United Kingdom who were involved in providing residential care for children began to make use of accommodation known as cottage homes.The family group principle was originally developed at the Rauhes Haus in Germany and at the agricultural colony for young delinquents at Mettray in France.[6] Around 115 Poor Law Unions in England and Wales set up cottage homes accommodation for children in their care.Boy’s Town, a residential child care community with campuses throughout North America, adapted and developed this model further.