 To better indicate its aims and mission, the group would change its name to the Association for Befriending Children and Young Girls, and its activities extended to providing shelter, training, and religious education to girls left to fend for themselves or sent by their families into the street to beg, offering the girls safety, love, and hope.In 1870 they established the House of the Holy Family at 134-136 Second Avenue in Manhattan, accepting girls between the ages of 10 and 21 years.There were 102 girls cared for in 1900.