The document provides statistics and summaries of various summer programs run by the City of Evanston Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Department and its partners in 2012. It details participation numbers in areas like beaches, camps, sports, arts, and job programs for over 500 youth. The summer programs focused on recreation, education, civic engagement, and employment for Evanston residents of all ages.

1. September 18, 2012
2012 Summer2012 Summer
ProgramsPrograms
Parks, Recreation &
Community Services
Department
And
Evanston Public Library

2. Evanston School District 65
Evanston Township High School
Department of Children and Family Services
TED Fund for Summer Camps Scholarships
Evanston Community Association Tennis Leagues
Northwestern University
Northwestern University Community Scholarship Program (22 scholarships)
Soar Illinois
Youth Outreach Umbrella
Youth Job Center
James B. Moran Center
The McGaw YMCA
YWCA
Affiliated Organizations of the Department (AYSO, FAAM, Team Evanston,
EBSA, etc.)
Partnerships

3. Lakefront
• Beach Attendance: 175,645
• Tokens sold: 21,800
• Daily tickets sold: 29,000
• Scholarship Tokens: 245
• Free Tokens: 450
• 10 Visit Teen Punch Cards: 300

4. Lakefront
900 free beach tokens distributed to the
following agencies:
Free Beach Passes for weekly
group outings

5. Youth Programs Camps
• Youth Aquatics Campers: 528
• Counselors in Training: 30
• Evening Teen Aquatics Campers: 30
• Adult Aquatics Campers: 11
• Parent/Child Aquatics Participants: 45
• Waiting list of over 250 individuals
Trips and
Classes
• Clark Street Sand Castle Contest
• Open Fishing
• Open Tubing
• Evanston Historical Kayak Tour
• Fishing Kayak Tour
• Rowing For Fitness
Youth & Family Programs
Lakefront

6. Dog Beach
– Passes Sold: 990
– Attendance: 10,850
Lakefront
Dempster Street Beach
– Launch/Rack passes: 290
– Season Launches: 100
– Daily Launches Sold: 30
Lessons/Rentals
— Boat Rentals: 1350
— Lessons Taught: 136
Church St. Boat Ramp
– Launch Passes: 126

7. Other Lakefront Statistics:
•Water rescues: 27
•Watercraft assistance: 42
•First Aid incidents: 25
•Missing person searches: 16
•Lakefront Picnic permits: 150
•Lagoon shelter rentals: 24
•Lighthouse shelter rentals: 44
Lakefront

8. Park & Facility Permits
• Picnic permits issued: 268 Tennis court permits issued: 110
• Park permits issued: 54 Fire Circle permits issued: 71

9. Affiliated Youth Sports
Organizations
Provided Athletic Field support to the following
Affiliated Organizations:
Evanston AYSO (soccer): 1,750 participants
Team Evanston (soccer): 650 participants
Evanston Baseball Softball Association: 1,500 participants
Evanston Jr Wildkits (football): 120 participants
Evanston Lacrosse: 445 participants
52 Athletic Fields

10. Special Recreation
Special Olympics
-Special Olympics Summer
Games: 17 athletes
- Area Bowling Meet: 11 athletes
- District Bocce Meet: 9 athletes
Camps
Cooperative
Program with
Campers
2012
Park Camp Districts 65 & 202 46
Camp REAL Ecology 19
Special Needs
Aquatics Program
Lakefront
Program
6

11. Inclusion Programs
In 2012, approximately 180
children/young adults have
received services through the
program
Disabilities addressed in the
Inclusion Program include:

12. Teen Volleyball (15 teens)
LIT for Teens (13 teens)
Chess (65 tweens/teens)
Fencing (21 tweens/teens)
Teen Aqua Adventure (19 tweens/teens)
Chandler-Newberger Center
Sports Camps (1,122 youth)
Great America (149 youth)
Basketball Camps (51 youth)
Gymnastics (55 youth)

13. Tennis---James, Crown, Leahy, Lovelace,
Evanston Township High School
350 registrations
Youth Golf---Evanston-Wilmette
Community Golf Course
158 registrations
Beach Volleyball---Clark Street Beach
112 registrations
Lego Camp — Ackerman Park
146 registrations
Pee Wee Sports Camp - Bent Park
125 registrations
Preschool (Kaleidoscope) Camp - Leahy Park
187 registrations
Other Camp Programs

14. Red Cross Safety Classes
Teen Babysitters Training
July 4 Parade
Chandler-Newberger Center
Open Roller Skating
Open Basketball and Volleyball
Birthday Party Rentals

15. 224 “Friday Free Tennis Lessons” at
James Park
483 Free youth tennis lessons at
Foster Park
121 Free youth tennis lessons at
Leahy Park
Evanston Community Tennis
Association (ECTA)
Tennis

16. Talent Show at Twiggs Park
Music Talent at Custer Fair
Beach Party at Clark Street Beach
Dodge Ball Tournament
Mayor’s Super Summer Teen
Programs
Beach Volleyball at Clark Street Beach
Scavenger Hunt at Ridgeville
Chess Tournament at Chandler Park
Roller Skating and Open Basketball
Volleyball at Chandler-Newberger

17. Robert Crown Ice Center
• Teen Free Public Skating Passes 87 Participants
• 773 Public Skating Participants
• 256 Hockey Camp Participants
• 86 Figure Skating Campers
• 71 Freestyle Skating Campers
Learn to skate/Practice ice
•115 skaters registered for Practice Ice Packages
•660 Drop in participants for practice ice
•264 youth and young adults registered for ice skating
lessons and clinics
•July Skating Competition and Summer Skating Exhibition
•81 drop in skaters for speed skating practice
Summer Fun On The Ice

18. Robert Crown Center
• Summertime Creative Play (age 2-5)
• Surf and Turf (age 6 – 12)
• Fun Factory (age 5 – 8)
• Kid City (age 8 – 10)
• Tween Town (age 11 – 13)
• Counselor-in-Training (age 13 – 14)
• 507 participants
• 342 elementary & middle school
• 165 preschool campers
• Five variety day camps serve
children ranging from toddler to teen
• Structured indoor/outdoor activities
include sports, music, art and dance.
Summer Camps

19. More Summer Fun At Robert Crown
• Robert Crown Center
Open House
• Art Instruction
• Youth Dance Classes
• Ceramics
• Martial Arts
• Lacrosse Camp
• Youth Sports Instruction
• Drop-In Gym (347 Participants)

20. Fleetwood-JourdainTheatre
Three fully-produced plays
– HEAT
– HOME
– Truth be Told
Two “Dramatic Readings”
– Woza Albert
– Going to St. Ives
Two Concerts
– Gospel Music Celebration
– Blues Set featuring David “Chainsaw” Dupont
Spoken Word Event
A Play for Very Young Audiences
– Janet and the Beanstalk (written, directed, and performed by
members of the FJT Teen Drama Club)

21. Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre
Drama Clubs
•Primetime Player’s Senior Citizen Drama Club
•FJT Teen Drama Club
•YSTEP/Youth & Senior Theatre Ensemble Project
20% Increase in Audience Base
Averaging over 70 ticketholders
per show
More than 25 Evanston
residents performed or worked
in a professional production.

22. Fleetwood-Jourdain Center
Summer Camp
•125 Blooming Campers (4 ½ to 13 yrs.)
Kindergarten Camp
Program Digitales
Myth Busters 2
Culinary Arts
Neilson and NU Health and Nutrition Day
at Fleetwood-Jourdain Center
NU Campus Kitchen provided 250
sandwiches and healthy snacks for 10
weeks to Fleetwood-Jourdain Center
participants

23. Other Programs
•Intergenerational /Neighborhood Garden
•Open drop in basketball 896 participants
•Midget/Pint Size Basketball 325 players a week
•Late night young adults basketball avg. 25 per night
•Adult Basketball league 406 participants
•Roller skating – all ages 3,892
•Young Adult Fitness Activities 37 per day
•Open rec time for middle school youth 675
•Junior Referee Program 230
•Karate Program
Fleetwood-Jourdain Center

24. Summer Food Program
• Provides free nutritional meals for
individuals 2½ to 18 years of age
• Four Serving Sites: Fleetwood-
Jourdain, Robert Crown, Mason
Park, James Park
• 32,000 number of meals served
in Summer 2012
• 95% funded by the Illinois State
Board of Education
Mason Park Drop in
Recreational drop-in program for Middle
and High School youth
Activities included:
• Drumming Program
• Video Game Tournaments
• Middle School Referee Program
• 2 on 2 and 3 on 3 High School Skills
and Drills Clinics for 156 youth
• Computers with Internet
• Pool
• Table Games/Arts and Crafts
• Summer Reading Program Site
Outreach Programs

25. • Over 1,200 individuals visited the
animals at the Center
• Staff coordinated over 700 volunteer
hours with Northwestern, ETHS, other
organizations and residents
• 820 campers attended seven summer
camps at four separate sites
• 500 campers participated in canoe trips
including campers from Fleetwood
Jourdain, Robert Crown and camp
REAL
• 272 garden plots rented to residents at
four locations – Lighthouse, James
Park, Twiggs and McCormick Gardens
• Free Access to Fishing program at
Lovelace Pond saw over75 participants
each Saturday and over 150
participants on Fishing Frenzy Day
Ecology Center

26. Youth Programs – Levy Center
• Roller Skating
• Open Gym
• ETHS community
service/SYEP
• Tae Kwon Do
• Teen Trips
• Fitness classes
• Fitness Room
• Computer Lab
• Park School Collaboration

27. Evanston Public Library
Summer Reading Program

28. Look How We Have Grown

33. Cultural Arts

34. 27th
annual Evanston
Ethnic Arts Festival
July 21-22, 2012
Dawes Park
• Close to 100 artists/vendors
representing 55 countries/cultures
• 2 stages featuring continuous
entertainment
• Family Arts Activities Area
• Teen performers from ETHS
poetry slam team
• Headline performer Sidi Touré
from Mali featured on cover of the
Chicago Reader music section
Cultural Arts

35. 40th
annual Evanston
Lakeshore Arts Festival
August 4-5, 2012
Dawes Park
• More than 100 artists showing
work in a wide range of artistic media
• Best in Category Awards in 11
artistic disciplines
• Continuous music throughout
the weekend, including ETHS jazz
ensemble, Handsome Salamander
• Children’s Crafts Tent
• Silent Auction
Cultural Arts

36. • 16 performances at six
park locations
throughout Evanston
• Audience members
traveled from as far
away as Kentucky and
North Carolina to attend
Evanston’s Starlight
Concert Series
Cultural Arts
Starlight Concert
Series, June –
August 2012

37. Starlight Concert
Series, June –
August 2012
• The 2012 Starlight Concert Series featured
several youth performances, including the
Paul Green School of Rock, The Loneliest
Funk, Going Backwards, T-Dot, and
Expressions of MJ
Cultural Arts

38. Starlight Movie Series, August – September 2012
• Seven films presented at six park locations (eighth film cancelled due to
inclement weather)
• Screenings of Iron Man and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off scheduled in response
to ETHS student preference poll
Cultural Arts

39. Summer Arts Camps
• The Cultural Arts Division
offered 17 different
Summer Arts Camps,
providing learning
opportunities in the arts
for more than 500 kids
• This year’s Arts Camp
theme was Inheritance
and Legacy, in recognition
of the founding of the
program by Marilyn Price
30 years ago
Cultural Arts

40. Summer Arts Camps
The City’s wide variety of Arts Camps
offered something for over 500
campers ages 5-14 years old:
YAP
Full Day Arts Camp
Writers Workshop
Early Childhood Arts Camp
Media and Advanced Media Camp
Battle of the Bands Camp
Radio Camp
Costumer Camp
Knight Camp
Princess Camp
Crafters Camp
Magical Worlds Camp
Pirate Camp
Victorian Camp
Time Travelers Camp
Arts in the Park
Arts in the Loft
Early Childhood Camp
Pirate Camp
Advanced Media Camp

41. Public Art Murals
Three Public Art Murals were approved during summer 2012:
• Y.O.U. Camp mural at Central St. Metra viaduct
• YMCA Camp Wanago mural at Greenwood St. Metra viaduct
• Justin Wynn Fund mural at Church St. Metra viaduct (October installation)
Cultural Arts

42. Mission: To facilitate effective public/private collaborative
partnerships that ensure the following:
•Recruitment, training, and retention of an Evanston youth and young
adult workforce that possesses the skill sets needed to compete in the
21st
century economy;
•Academic, vocational, certificate and entrepreneurial internships,
externships, and apprenticeship programming opportunities;
•Coordination of City of Evanston programs and projects that impact
youth and young adults;
•Development and promotion of civic responsibility and engagement.
Youth & Young Adult
Division

43. Physical Health
MentalHealth
Intellectual Health Employability
Civic Responsibility
and Engagement
Youth Development Best Practice
Model

44. 2012 MSYEP Outreach Procedures
• Conducted student recruitment through key staff members at the
Youth Job Center, Family Focus, Y.O.U. and McGaw YMCA;
• Held seven employment outreach sessions at Evanston Library (2
sessions), Chandler-Newberger Center, Robert Crown Community
Center, Ecology Center, Levy Senior Center, and Fleetwood-
Jourdain Community Center.
• Conducted outreach sessions at all Evanston Middle Schools, and
Evanston Township High School.
• Visited two area alternative high schools.
Youth & Young Adult
Division

45. Student Demographics
• 543 students applied for
jobs
– 51% -females
– 49%-males
• 169 students placed with
jobs
– 44%-females
– 56%-males
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46. 2012 Partnering Employers
50/50 Partners50/50 Partners
Actors GymnasiumActors Gymnasium
Davis Transportation, LLCDavis Transportation, LLC
Evanston Township High School Operations DepartmentEvanston Township High School Operations Department
Hilton Orrington/EvanstonHilton Orrington/Evanston
Kiwanis Club of EvanstonKiwanis Club of Evanston
KRAVE, LLCKRAVE, LLC
McGaw YMCAMcGaw YMCA
The Salvation ArmyThe Salvation Army
TE & CompanyTE & Company
100% Partners100% Partners
Hilton Garden InnHilton Garden Inn
Northwestern GroundsNorthwestern Grounds
Other Employer PartnersOther Employer Partners
Evanston Township Edible AcreEvanston Township Edible Acre
Family Focus Our PlaceFamily Focus Our Place
State Representative Daniel BissState Representative Daniel Biss
Cook County Commissioner Larry SuffredinCook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin
City of Evanston PartneringCity of Evanston Partnering
DepartmentsDepartments
Citizen Engagement DivisionCitizen Engagement Division
City Manager’s OfficeCity Manager’s Office
Collector’s OfficeCollector’s Office
Community & Economic DevelopmentCommunity & Economic Development
Evanston Fire DepartmentEvanston Fire Department
Evanston Police DepartmentEvanston Police Department
Health DepartmentHealth Department
Human ResourcesHuman Resources
Information TechnologyInformation Technology
Evanston Public LibraryEvanston Public Library
Parking EnforcementParking Enforcement
Parks, Recreation and Community ServicesParks, Recreation and Community Services
Public WorksPublic Works
Purchasing/FinancePurchasing/Finance

47. Chase Banking Workshop Community Services Team Tour of 2012 Worksites
Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin
Youth Office Team
…civic responsibility is the key to promoting a livable city in addition to well-rounded citizens
Youth & Young Adult Division

48. Additional Community Outreach
•Support Mayoral and Aldermanic Youth and Young Adult
Development and Engagement Efforts;
•Approximately 150 youth and young adults attend two
Open Mic Programs held at Family Focus and Fleetwood-
Jourdain Community Center
•Outreach worker has recruited 60 young adults to
participate in Career Pathways Program.
Youth & Young Adult
Division

49. Seasonal Employees
Recreation & Community Services
• Summer Youth Employees Program 106
• Robert Crown Center 75
• Lakefront Operations 117
• Chandler Newberger Center 41
• Fleetwood-Jourdain Center 21
• Outreach Programs 15
• Ecology Programs 31
• Cultural Arts 37
• Inclusion 45
• Special Recreation 6
• Parks/Forestry 12
GRAND TOTAL 506

50. Thank you!
Comments, questions
and suggestions