South Toledo Community Center
The South Toledo Community Center is a collaboration of Western Avenue Family Center and Cherry Street Mission Ministries that serves the Old South End, an area of rich culture and diversity mired in severe poverty and stagnant economic development.
The South Toledo Community Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the ProMedica Advocacy Fund of the Toledo Community Foundation. The Center partners with organizations and community residents to provide wrap-around social, educational, and medical services for residents of all ages in the Old South End. Our partners include Christians Relating Our Savior on the South Side (CROSS), Greater Toledo Urban League, Providence Center for Social and Economic Empowerment, Sophia Quintero Art & Cultural Center, Neighborhood Health Association, Toledo Area Ministries, Abri Family Services, New Kingdom Baptist Church, and the YMCA/JCC.
Among initiatives housed at the South Toledo Community Center is the South Toledo Kids’ Zone, including Baby University, which is based on the spectacularly successful Harlem Children's Zone. This birth-to-college-graduation continuum of services teaches parents to build on their strengths, create a support system, and develop the skills they need to be effective parents.
Located at 1411 Broadway Avenue, the South Toledo Community Center helps the hungry by partnering with individuals and groups to provide at least one hot meal six days a week at the Center, as well as food boxes. We are also in the process of expanding an Urban Agricultural Zone in the Old South End to include the production of quality protein, such as chickens, fish, and goats.
If you would like to learn more about the South Toledo Community Center or donate to help support it, contact Cherry Street's President & CEO.
