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The Adams Community Center

   Several Forest Park Southeast neighborhood churches sponsor youth programs that provide neighborhood children with a variety of supervised activities in an organized environment. A recent addition to the existing programs in the neighborhood is the Adams Community Center.
   The concept if a neighborhood community center took form during a 1997 neighborhood leadership training program sponsored and facilitated by the CORO Midwestern Center. The leadership program focuses attention on community assets and how citizens can capitalize on existing strengths to solve neighborhood problems. Residents determined that the recreational requirements of children in the neighborhood were not adequately addressed. Church- based youth activities were operating at full capacity. The group concluded that a recreation center would significantly enhance the quality of life in Forest Park Southeast and that it should be developed to augment, not detract from, the existing church based programs in the neighborhood.

   Thanks to the dedication and hard work of neighborhood church leaders and others, the Adams Community Center opened on March 2, 1998. The community Center is made possible by a grant received by Orbit St. Louis (a coalition of South St. Louis ministers) and the newly formed Forest Park Southeast Clergy Alliance. The Center coordinates programs and activities for both children and adults.

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