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MERS/Goodwill Provides Jobs in FPSE

Recently MERS/Goodwill Industries hired 39 residents of the FPSE Neighborhood. With 39 residents newly employed in the FPSE community, the positive values of the neighborhood are taking deeper root. MERS/Goodwill hires many people in the St.Louis community in their effort to help develop communities. In FPSE this creation of jobs has helped to aid the […]

FPSE Outdoor Movie Night

For consecutive summer’s, WUMC is sponsoring Outdoor Movie Nights in the FPSE neighborhood. The last movie, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, shown Thursday June 12th was the first of several movies to be shown this summer in the FPSE neighborhood. A group of nearly 40 residents made up of families and children attended […]

Home Repair Assistance Program Assists Low Income, Disabled, and Senior Citizen Households to Live in Comfort and Safety

For the third consecutive 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 revitalized neighborhoods in partnership with the community by rehabbing the houses of low-income, elderly, and disabled homeowners, so that they may continue […]

WUMC Continues Its Commitment to Youth Programming

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 […]

Employment Initiative Helps Residents Improve Opportunities

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 […]

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