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Northwest Area Quality of Life initiative. There also is the Flanner House Child Development Center which provides care, and education for toddlers, and pre-school children. There is a Before and After Care program providing safe place care, and education for school-aged, and adolescent children. The agency also provides a Health and Wellness program through the onsite branch of the Center of Wellness for Urban Women. Flanner House is also a location for the Center for Working Families providing life skills, job readiness, and employment services through its unique Skills to Success program.
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small building on Colton Street under the direction of Sarah Colton Smith. The early programs of the organization were divided into several departments and included
Employment, Recreation, Vocational Aids, Music, and a Day Nursery. One of Flanner Guild's first projects was the creation of a rescue home for unwed mothers and their children in 1908.
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Street) as a result of the "Indianapolis Study." This study, an analysis of the city's black population, began in 1937 with a grant from the
Indianapolis Foundation. Completed in 1939, the study gave the city's first complete survey of the financial, educational, cultural, and medical background of its black population.
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Located within the North West Area (NWA) of
Indianapolis, Cleo's Bodega & Cafe serves as a food access hub for the community. The NWA is the largest food desert in Indianapolis. While also taking on the issue of food security, this project is a Workforce Development initiative with a commitment
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Blackburn developed several dynamic programs that gave Flanner House national attention. Among those was his self-help housing project that began in 1946 called Flanner Homes, Inc. The project became a national model for providing local and federal funding to help low-income black war veterans
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Superintendent of Flanner House. Blackburn's primary goals included teaching individuals to achieve personal, economic and social progress. Under his leadership as Superintendent (1936-1975), a new facility was built and opened in 1944 at 16th and Missouri Streets (333 West 16th
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for support. The Board was reorganized and the name of the organization was changed from
Flanner Guild to Flanner House. Support received from the Board of Missions allowed Flanner House to continue operations and purchase a new facility by 1918. The new location at the corner of West and St. Clair
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African-American community service center and was named for Frank Flanner. When Flanner died in 1912 and the organization fell on financial hardships, they changed the name from Flanner Guild to Flanner House and added many services with the financial assistance
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Flanner House continued to add programs targeted at the specific needs of the community it served, including assistance to homebound senior citizens, a residential youth center with case referrals from the juvenile courts, and the addition of a branch of the Marion
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The purpose of the organization was to promote the social, moral, and physical welfare of the
African-American community through the establishment and maintenance of academic and vocational education and self-help programs benefiting the surrounding community. Flanner Guild began operations in a
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Today, Flanner House continues its mission of service and self-help through, senior citizen services, assistance programs for those in financial need, the Food
Justice program, which includes the F.E.E.D. program and the Flanner Farm. Flanner House provides Economic Development initiatives that
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Also developed in 1946, was the Herman G. Morgan Health Center. This center was constructed with support from the Indianapolis Foundation and Indianapolis Board of Health and Hospitals. The program was unique because it was the only structure in the state of Indiana designed and constructed to
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that the people who work in the store will be hired from the neighborhood and community through the Flanner House Community Center for Working Families Program. The store also serves as a place where not only produce from Flanner Farms, & Brandywine Creek Farms organic farming, is sold.
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Organized by Cleo Blackburn in 1954, the Board of Fundamental Education was a nationally recognized experiment that built responsible citizens by teaching and encouraging their pride and initiative. Flanner House, in cooperation with other agencies (including
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In 1967, Flanner House moved to 2110 North Illinois Street and in 1979 to its present location at 2424 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street. During the 1960s, the employment placement services were discontinued since this service fell under the jurisdiction of
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provide preventive medicine and a public health program to the community it served. The services of the Health Center included annual physical examinations and immunizations as well as consultation and instruction in proper nutrition.
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County Public Library in 1979. In 1987, Flanner House became a member of Community Centers of Indianapolis, Inc. (CCI), a federation of neighborhood multi-service centers located in Indianapolis.
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