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Seattle Municipal Archives Finding Aids

Seattle

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Subject Source: Nwda

Found in 1150 Collections and/or Records:

Model Cities Program Administrative Commission Records

 Series
Identifier: 5405-01
Scope and Contents note Correspondence, fiscal records, Commission charters and by-laws, and manuals of an agency created to increase the flexibility and efficiency of the Model Cities Program in administering its projects. The Commission was a public corporation established in 1972 to undertake certain fiscal activities not within the Model Cities Program's legal authority. It allowed the City to avoid the prohibition against lending its credit to Model Cities projects involving the purchase and redevelopment of...
Dates: 1972-1975

Model Cities Program Financial Reports

 Series
Identifier: 5408-01
Scope and Contents note

Financial reports and audits conducted by the Model Cities Program and other accounting firms, including Touche Ross and Co. The audits and reviews cover program and contracting costs.

Dates: 1970-1972

Afro-American Arts Records

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Identifier: 5411-01
Scope and Contents note Model Cities funding was directed to Black Arts/West, a program of the Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP), to enhance its performing arts program. The specific purpose was to expand theater activities and provide community exposure to drama. Funding supported a children's theater, the professional training of actors, and the production of plays of local and regional interest. By the final year of Model Cities funding, Black Arts/West productions drew audiences totalling over 12,000, and...
Dates: 1969-1974

Swimming/Water Safety Education Project Records

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Identifier: 5411-02
Scope and Contents note The project was initiated in July 1971 to provide children and adults in the Model Neighborhood with swimming lessons and water-based exercise classes. The YMCA operated the project. During the summers of 1971 and 1972, over 200 pre-teens received swim lessons. In 1972, the program expanded to include weekly "swim and trim" classes for adults; and in 1973, funding provided portal to portal transport for 50 youth who enrolled in water skiing classes. Due to a reduction in Fifth Action Year...
Dates: 1970-1973

Cinematography Project Records

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Identifier: 5411-03
Scope and Contents note The Cinematography Project provided training for high school and college students in cinematography, still photography, film production and directing, film and videotape editing, television news photography, and screen writing. It also provided career counseling and job placement. During its first year, the project was administered by the Seattle School District #1. However, the project focused more on community based activities and local television stations and did not aligned with the...
Dates: 1970-1974

Black Academy of Music Records

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Identifier: 5411-04
Scope and Contents note The Black Academy of Music was established as a community orchestra in 1970 to provide residents with instruction in Black music, composition, and arranging, and to prepare talented students for music careers. SMCP refused to fund the project because it felt there was little chance the Academy could secure permanent funding. The Department of Housing and Urban Development also had a policy against funding independent entities that had no track record of management and fiscal success....
Dates: 1973-1974

City-Wide Recreation Project Records

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Identifier: 5411-05
Scope and Contents note This project, administered through the Department of Parks and Recreation, was designed to create a centralized resource for comprehensively planning, programming, and promoting recreational opportunities. The goal was to develop model information and a planning resource system using computer technology that could coordinate recreation activities city-wide. At completion of the project, the Parks Department implemented the program and analytical tools at the Ballard and Loyal Heights...
Dates: 1972-1974

Youth Services Project Records

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Identifier: 5411-06
Scope and Contents note This project was funded to create a comprehensive youth recreation program for approximately 15,000 model neighborhood youth with an emphasis on the older teen population. The project grew in scope in 1971 to include efforts to form a consortium of youth serving agencies to coordinate city-wide planning for all youth programs and to support youth advocacy. SMCP funds provided support for planning and administrative staff as well as thirty special projects operated by youth service agencies....
Dates: 1969-1974

Model Neighborhood Camp Records

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Identifier: 5411-07
Scope and Contents note

Provided for renovation and operation of the Red Barn Ranch near Auburn as a resident camp to give model neighborhood youth a camping experience.

Dates: 1969-1973

Prepaid Health Care Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-01
Scope and Contents note

Provided comprehensive health care to 1500 low income families in the model neighborhoods.

Dates: 1970-1974

Odessa Brown Children's Clinic Records

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Identifier: 5412-02
Scope and Contents note

Provided medical and dental services to approximately 10,000 model neighborhood children annually, and supported health education and outreach.

Dates: 1969-1974

Environmental Health Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-03
Scope and Contents note

Campaign to remove junk and garbage, raze unsafe buildings, clear vacant lots, control rodents, and extend environmental health education in the model neighborhoods. Quarterly progress reports include photographs, maps, and copies of the Seattle-King Co. Health Dept. Environmental Health project "Environmental Newsletter."

Dates: 1969-1974

Developmental Comprehensive Health Care Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-04
Scope and Contents note

Predecessor to Prepaid Health Care Project.

Dates: 1968-1970

Community Mental Health Services Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-05
Scope and Contents note

Provided mental health services in the model neighborhoods and Harborview area. Operated by Harborview Medical Center.

Dates: 1969-1974

Pioneer Square Neighborhood Health Station Records

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Identifier: 5412-06
Scope and Contents note

Provided health care and preventive practices services to transient population in Pioneer Square and the International District. Operated by Harborview Medical Center.

Dates: 1970-1974

Food and Nutrition Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-07
Scope and Contents note

Attempt to reduce incidence of malnutrition in the East Model neighborhood and to raise the general level and quality of family nutrition.

Dates: 1970-1971

Treatment for the Indigent Alcoholic Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-08
Scope and Contents note

Project to remove indigent alcoholics from the criminal justice system, to improve evaluation of alcoholism treatment programs, and provide effective treatment and referral services.

Dates: 1970-1973

Neighborhood Health Services Project Records

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Identifier: 5412-09
Scope and Contents note

Provided decentralized health and dental care to residents in the Planned Variations Model Neighborhoods.

Dates: 1971-1973

Center for Addiction Services Records

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Identifier: 5412-10
Scope and Contents note

Provided comprehensive rehabilitation service including detoxification, emergency medical assistance, and crisis intervention.

Dates: 1972-1974

Odessa Brown Neighborhood Health Complex Records

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Identifier: 5412-11
Scope and Contents note

Established a health care clinic in closer proximity to model neighborhood residents than any other existing facilities in order to better serve community health care needs.

Dates: 1969-1974

Legal Services Project Records

 Series
Identifier: 5413-01
Scope and Contents note

Legal services provided in civil cases and education programs concerning the legal system. Offices established in the Southeast and North model neighborhoods.

Dates: 1972-1973

Community Service Officers Records

 Series
Identifier: 5413-02
Scope and Contents note

Project designed to improve relations between model neighborhood residents and Seattle Police Department, to reduce juvenile crime, to provide police with better understanding of minorities, and to increase percentage of minorities on the police force.

Dates: 1971-1974

Community Based Residential Treatment (Group Homes) Project Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5413-03
Scope and Contents note

Provided therapeutic alternative living situation for youth with serious family conflicts, provided resources for youth services agencies, and tested feasibility of short-term resolution of youth-family conflicts.

Dates: 1969-1974

Public Defender Program Records

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Identifier: 5413-04
Scope and Contents note

Provided legal counseling for low income defendants and sought reforms in criminal justice system.

Dates: 1969-1974

Chance Halfway House Records

 Series
Identifier: 5413-05
Scope and Contents note

Community-based corrections facility for adult felony offenders designed to aid their social and personal adjustment.

Dates: 1970-1974