Kerr began an innovative continuum of care program for children facing mental health challenges, with residential and outpatient psychiatric treatment, and family counseling services.
With fundraising help from the community, Kerr built cottages on the campus to offer safe, residential treatment to young children.
In 1940, the Louise Home and the Albertina Kerr Nursery Home incorporated under the name Albertina Kerr Homes.
The original Kerr nursery ran out of room. Following a fundraising campaign by Alexander’s third wife, Ruth Kerr, and Margaret Bondurant, a new nursery was built in 1921. The building operated as an adoption home until 1967, when services transitioned to foster homes...
Due to increasing need, larger quarters for the Louise Home were built on nine acres of farm and forest on what is now Kerr’s Gresham campus. Over the years, a new Louise Home was built, and additional buildings were added to support different types of...
