LOGAN: the agency that began in a Mishawaka schoolroom

Founded 1950 on Logan Street, Mishawaka; seated today at South Bend; the county chapter of The Arc from 2022

The community-resources agency of this county's disability record is LOGAN Community Resources, and its founding ground is Mishawaka's — the one institution in this boundary set whose first chapter belongs to this city. In LOGAN's own telling, the founding families refused to let their children be sent away to institutions, and "started their own school on Logan Street in Mishawaka. That's how LOGAN got its name in 1950." The school outgrew its street: by 1968 a brand-new school building stood across from the University of Notre Dame, and the agency's center of gravity crossed into South Bend, where it remains. LOGAN today is seated on Jefferson Boulevard in South Bend, with LOGAN Industries on Boland Drive, group homes throughout the community, Autism Learning Centers in South Bend and Granger and at Benton Harbor, Michigan, and, since March 2018, the Hannah & Friends Neighborhood on Hollyhock Road. On 21 June 2022 LOGAN joined The Arc of Indiana as the local chapter for St. Joseph County. Secondary profiles put its service at some 1,400 to 1,500 children and adults a year. Mishawaka's share is therefore double and exact: the founding itself — the name the whole county's agency still carries is a Mishawaka street's — and the continuing service of a county agency to Mishawaka's families from a South Bend seat. The children's campus line of this same record — the 1882 orphans' home and the campus that descends from it at 1411 Lincolnway West — stands whole in the banked fragment and is pointed to, not retold.

Sources:

1. LOGAN Center, "About" (logancenter.org) — the 1950 founding on Logan Street in Mishawaka and the name's origin, the 1968 school building, the present seats on Jefferson Boulevard and Boland Drive, the group homes, the Autism Learning Centers, the Hannah & Friends Neighborhood from March 2018.
2. LOGAN Center / The Arc of Indiana, news release, 21 June 2022 — LOGAN joined The Arc of Indiana as the St. Joseph County local chapter.
3. Agency directory profiles — service of roughly 1,400–1,500 children and adults annually, printed as the profiles' figure.
4. The banked charities fragment — the children's campus line (1882 orphans' home to the Oaklawn Children's Campus), pointed to and not retold.