Improving Kids' Environment is a partner in the Citizen's Healthy Homes Initiative with the Concerned Clergy and the Citizen's Multi-Service Center.  As a partner, IKE wrote a Needs Assessment for the Kennedy-King Park Neighborhood on Indianapolis' Near Northeast Side.  The Needs Assessment was published on August 23, 2003. Back to Main Report

Citizens Healthy Homes Initiative:  A Project of

Citizen’s Multi-Service Center

Concerned Clergy of Greater Indianapolis

                                    Improving Kids’ Environment

601 E. 17th St.

Indianapolis, IN  46202

(317) 926-2351

chhi@ikecoalition.org

Indianapolis Citizen’s Healthy Homes Initiative

Kennedy-King Park Neighborhood Needs Assessment

Assessment Team

Concerned Clergy             Citizen’s Multi-Service Center         Improving Kids’ Environment

Margie Oakley                   Florence Alexander                               Tom Neltner

Tom Neltner                       Jennifer Darby                                       January Jones

Florence Alexander             Melissa Drew                                        LaTasha Timberlake

LaTasha Timberlake

Advisory Committee Members                                                    Youth Mentors                      

Florence Alexander                                                                          Ashley Brownlee         

Mary Clifton – Caravel Commons                                                    Michael Hasell

Jennifer Darby                                                                                  Laurel Hill

Robert Frazier – King Park Area Development Corporation             Joshua Person

Ron Gyure – Indiana Legal Services

Shauna Hill – Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic

January Jones

Dave McCormick – Marion County Health Department

Margie Oakley

Janice Mason-Porter

Tom Neltner

Janice Person

Linda Smeltzer

Julia Taylor

Sarge Visher – Congresswoman Carson’s Office

Other Community Youth Participants

George Brookins                    Lynette Brookins                Zach Brownie

Tiffany Dees                           Toyana Dees                      Khiry Easler

Da’ Retta Goldsmith               Ken Gunn                          Akeem Gunn

Brittany Hampton                   Jewel Hampton                  Victor Hopkins

Carl Hudson                          Ecker Hurt                          Jarvis Hurt

Marlin Marrero                      Phillip Person                      Justin Williams

Jeanette Williams

Special thanks to Mark Boyce and Sean Mulroony of C.P Morgan for providing maps of buildings in the neighborhood and detailed ownership records. 

For more information regarding this Needs Assessment, contact Tom Neltner at 317-442-3973 or mccabe@ikecoalition.org.