In 2001, WUMC funded the construction of the $6 million Adams Park Community Center. The center was established to further support positive after-school and summer programs for Forest Park Southeast youth. The state-of-the-art facility includes a computer lab, dance studio, weight room, teen center, full size gymnasium, and adjacent baseball field. In order to further [...]

Since 2002, Washington University Medical Center has supported MERS/Goodwill to operate a full time employment agency in Forest Park Southeast, specifically for Forest Park Southeast residents. Participants in the Forest Park Southeast employment program receive three weels of training on how to be successful on the job. During the training course MERS/Goodwill works with residents [...]

By Jim Merkel Monday, February 26, 2007 10:37 AM CST A group serving nearly 3,000 children from a center on the North Side plans to serve 800 more from a 28,000-square-foot building in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. The Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club officially took over operation of the Adams Park Community Center [...]

MERS/Goodwill Employment Services, located at the Adams Park Community Center and funded by WUMC, has placed over 80 Forest Park Southeast residents in employment within the last two years. WUMC contracts with MERS/Goodwill to have an office in FPSE and to directly target FPSE residents. Esther Williams, MERS/Goodwill’s Director of Community Projects, stated that, “We [...]

For years the northeast corner at Tower Grove and Vandeventer was an unsightly entry point for the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Thousands of people pass by the area on a daily basis with this perhaps their only glimpse of FPSE. Brooks Goedeker, WUMC’s Community Development Specialist, stated, “I thought that this piece of land had [...]

Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club is excited about the opportunity to serve the children and adults in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. For nearly 40 years the youth development agency has provided life-changing programs and services for kids ages 6 to 18. As a chartered member of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Herbert [...]

When some of the restaurant and bar owners on Manchester presented the idea of a unique festival coming to Forest Park Southeast, Brian Phillips, Executive Director of WUMC, agreed that the time was right. “This neighborhood has been desiring a neighborhood wide festival that could bring together residents and visitors to celebrate the city and [...]

For the second year WUMC has worked with Rebuilding Together St. Louis to target homes in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. Rebuilding Together, formerly Christmas in April, is a national organization that revitalizes neighborhoods in partnership with the community by rehabilitating the houses of low-income elderly and disabled homeowners, so that they may continue to [...]