Committee for Services to Youth, Inc. (Bowling Green, Ohio) records

The Collection contains information from nearly the entire history of the existence of Hope House, throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s. It also incorporates much of the information for the Committee for Services to Youth, which grew out of Hope House, with files from the late 1980s and early 1990s. The files within give deal on the inner workings of the home and the organization and its place within the Bowling Green community.

Files includes the types of youths served by Hope House, financial budgetary reviews, legal documents and discourses, board of trustee meeting minutes, correspondence with other mental health and foster home institutions, and interactions with other city departments. Included within the collection were rosters, names of volunteers, staff, and administrators, flyers, meeting minutes, and financial information based on supplies and events run by the agency. Other materials include public relations materials meant to bring the Committee’s mission to the public. Documentation of the major event in the organization’s history, the fire that destroyed Hope House in 1979 is also in the collection along with minor financial records that were recovered from Hope House after the fire.