200-Year-Old Maryland Agency Closes Eight Programs, Lays Off 66

May 1, 2000 200-Year-Old Maryland Agency Closes Eight Programs, Lays Off 66 The non-profit Woodbourne Center, a child care agency located in Baltimore, Maryland, laid off 66 of its 350 employees on April 10, 2000 and closed eight of its programs including the Millennium Center, a for-profit subsidiary designed to help welfare clients get permanent jobs, and a community partnership that provides services to at-risk youth. The Woodbourne Center Inc. began over 200 years ago as an orphanage and is the fifth-oldest child care agency in the country. Following several years of rapid expansion . . .