Authorizing the Mayor to submit grant applications to the Indiana Committee for the Humanities for the Youth Service Bureau of the City of South Bend, Indiana

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ICH Pro iect Prospectus Furm 1. Name, address & phone of sponsoring group Youth Services Bureau 121 S. Michigan.St. South Bend, Indiana 46601 219 - 284 -9231 2. Name, address & phone of project director Patrick J. Fleming Youth Services Bureau 121 S. Michigan St. South Bend, Indiana 46601 219 -284 -9231 3. Project title: "The We Nobody Knows ''-- Neighborhood- Ethnic Awareness 4. Briefly describe the proposed project. Include your objectives and means of reaching them. Estimate the number of public sessions involved. This project will complement the activities of the Summer Fun Program, a five year old program of the Youth Services Bureau, which provided diverse activities to over 250 young people, age S to 16, each day during the summer of 1978 at six neighborhood sites. The goals of the Summer Fun Program are consistent with the overall goals of the Y.S.B., namely, to prevent delinquency through the creation of environments which promote posi- tive self- awareness experiences and social skill building. Through a humanities project, the Y.S.B. will attempt to foster a sense of neighbor- hood and ethnic awareness in the young participants of Summer Fun '79. An eight week program of activities addressing pertinent neighborhood /ethnic concerns, inc. changing neighborhoods, communication between young and old residents, and youthful contributions to the oral and written histories of the neighborhood, will be conducted by three project facilitators, schooled in one or more humanities disciplines and experienced in various forms of youth programming. Activities will include oral and written inter- views of a cross section of neighborhood residents who will be invited to participate in a series of community forums, poetry, short -story and essay composition on neigh- borhood /ethnic themes and dramatic experiences bringing to life neighborhood concerns. In addition, with the assistance of the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Notre Dame and its director, Dr. Thomas Broden, neighborhood memorabilia, including photographs, written material, handicrafts and music representing different periods and cultures of neighborhood life, will be collected, catalogued and offered for pre- sentation at the 1980 Ethnic Festival in South Bend. Logistically, each facilitator will be assigned to two neighborhood parks and will conduct a three hour activity program four times weekly at each site. To stimulate involvement with various humanities' disciplines, the facilitators will develop various activities, inc. guided neighborhood tours, ethnic- neighborhood games, and movement interpretation of ethnic music, On the fifth day of each week, the methods and projects developed by the facilitators will be shared with other community agen- cies involved in summer youth programming, inc. the South Bend Recreation Department. Each facilitator will be involved with the project for two weeks prior to Summer Fun to meet with the planning committee of humanists to discuss the project and develop materials and for two weeks after Summer Fun to compile information and produce a representative cross section of the young participants' labors.