“THE BOULEVARD HOUSE”
A 21st century campus-community settlement house in Detroit
The Boulevard House is a partnership between the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Peoples Community Services, and El Museo del Norte. The house was launched in the summer of 2012 in a vacant building owned by People’s Community Services. The purpose of Boulevard House is to create a placed-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in southwest Detroit. The Boulevard House will be the temporary home for El Museo del Norte, providing the project with office and meeting space. We will also establish a small gallery to display the results of community history projects in mini-exhibits, and a community garden. The Boulevard will host both University of Michigan community-based learning classes, and workshops for local youth.
The Boulevard House is located at 412 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan
Core Institutional Partners
The Purpose
Inspired by the settlement houses established over a century ago in England and the United States, The Boulevard House aims to create a placed-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in the southwest Detroit neighborhoods of Hubbard-Richard and Hubbard Farms. Infused with the theme of art and culture for community change, The Boulevard House serves as a convening space for:
A 21st century campus-community settlement house in Detroit
The Boulevard House is a partnership between the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Peoples Community Services, and El Museo del Norte. The house was launched in the summer of 2012 in a vacant building owned by People’s Community Services. The purpose of Boulevard House is to create a placed-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in southwest Detroit. The Boulevard House will be the temporary home for El Museo del Norte, providing the project with office and meeting space. We will also establish a small gallery to display the results of community history projects in mini-exhibits, and a community garden. The Boulevard will host both University of Michigan community-based learning classes, and workshops for local youth.
The Boulevard House is located at 412 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan
Core Institutional Partners
- University of Michigan, School of Social Work,
- Community Organization Learning Community of the University of Michigan
- People’s Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit
- Museo del Norte Project (a University/Community partnership between Fronteras Norteñas and the UM Latina/o Studies Program)
- The Boulevard House will also work collaboratively with local Southwest Detroit art, history and social advocacy groups, as well as regional institutions of higher education including Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University
The Purpose
Inspired by the settlement houses established over a century ago in England and the United States, The Boulevard House aims to create a placed-based residential space for campus-community collaborative work in the southwest Detroit neighborhoods of Hubbard-Richard and Hubbard Farms. Infused with the theme of art and culture for community change, The Boulevard House serves as a convening space for:
- community work for community changes with primary focus on community residents;
- community action for social change led by community members in partnership with faculty, staff and students from anywhere in the world;
- student capstone experiences across graduate programs in arts, humanities, urban planning, architecture, engineering, social work, public health, and other identified programs with a basis in community based research practice principles;
- secondary and postsecondary education opportunities and pathways for community resident youth, with a particular but not exclusionary focus on Latino children and youth.
- provision of developmentally appropriate art and humanities based cultural experiences for resident children, youth, adults and seniors.
- neighborhood based initiatives of graduate and undergraduate programs, departments and schools across the University of Michigan (including School of Social Work, Architecture & Urban Planning, Art & Design, Music, Theatre and Dance).
