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Volunteer program fills gaps
'Peace Corps of America'
works on community level
By Lisa Millegan
f, mtiraM
When McDaniel finished her rmirv work
last summer at George Tov College at ago SO. she
realized that the recession could make Finding a
job more difficult lhan she would like
rtui fur etl with tin’ choice of taking a minimum
wage job looking hamburgers or wailing until tin
economy puked up. she disr overod a twdter alter
native
.she applied to the Volunteers in Service to
Amerlt a program
I dei ided that I rould spend mv time doing
(VISTA) or doing a survival maintenanre jot) that
wouldn't lie a career move,'' Mi Daniel said
"This is a i areer move ”
VISTA was founded in 5diet during President
Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and is a brunch
of ACTION the federal government’s volunteer
agency
Nicknamed the Peace Corps of America, the
federally subsidized program sends volunteers
around the country to help alleviate problems o!
poverty, such as lack of adequate child core and
transportation
After McDaniel was hired by the Lane County
VISTA coordinator, she was placed in the Univer
sity s Women’s Center lilts summer at the center's
request Now she's helping develop programs lor
older, low-income women students
In one projei t, she has worked with students to
produce a draft of a handlxwik for older students
The pamphlet includes information on how to he
admitted to the University, how to fund educa
tion and which support services are available
Now the group ts looking for someone to print
and distribute the pamphlet
McDaniel has also helped older students identi
fy their problems, like hading Isolated from older
students and balancing school with a part-time
job .She is trying to rei nut more women to serve
on a steering committee that will help generate
ideas fur mooting those needs
McDaniel said one of the most rewarding parts
of working on the projei ts is helping older worn
i'ii students realize that they are not alone
Any time women are ai know lodged lor what
the', re going through, its real important. Mi
Daniel said
However, she said that getting started as a vol
unteer wasn’t eas\
A VISTA projec t isn’t ne> es-.arily real linear
and directed,” she said, explaining that VISTA
participants do not have step-ny step goals set out
for them to uc cumplish
’ There are guidelines (to follow) hut (the pro
ject) can take on i reatneness and change focus
depending on the individuals involved.” she
said
Mt Daniel said she was originally attracted to
VISTA beenuso Iho job was relntod to what sho
had studimi In col logo human resources man
agement
By Iwing a VISTA participant. McDaniel said
sho expected to got a transition between the aca
demic world and a career Working at the Wom
en’s--(’enter "is not a whole lot different than what
I was doing in inv academic process," sho said
She said she wasn't worried about surviving on
the low stipend VI.S'I As rec eive her ause she has
Other funds to draw from.
At a pre-tax salary ofS539 a month for full-time
work, the stipend VIST As receive is barely above
pm ert\ level wages
Hasani Kudnr.i. Women’s ( enter program < oor
dinatnr. said the (enter requested a VISTA lie
i ause the problems of older students became too
mucb for It to adequately handle
The students' needs include1'child care, afford
able housing and medical care, said Holly Stcgner
of the Women's Center, who helped write the
center's proposal to obtain a VIST A participant
Kudura said the problems came to a head about
two years ago when some students decided to
work on defining the needs of older students for
practicum credit Kudura said the project tailed
miserably
It was not anything they could get a hold of in
three to six hours a week." Kudura said I he an
swer seemed to !>e to have a VIS] A working on
It.”
VISTA differs from the Peace Corps in that its
volunteers do not necessarily have a specific skill
that they teach to poor communities. Instead VIS
TAs a< t as facilitators to help people help them
selves
"The real emphasis in the community is creat
ing independence rather than dependence," said
Kathy Ask, VISTA program coordinator for Lane
County
She said ViSTAs play a secondary role in or
ganizing programs to combat problems because
they want the programs to exist after they leave
"ViSTAs are looking at working themselves out
of a job in a year," Ask said
i’asl VISTA projects in Lane County have in
cluded a transportation program for seniors and a
co-op for farmers who sell organic.ally grown pro
duce
The program is managed locally by the Cnited
Wav and was started in Lane County in 1973 Al
though in the past the local program has spun
sored as many as ■It) ViSTAs at a time, only four
volunteers are involved now
Ask attributes the tier reuse to the drop in feder
al funding to the program in the lniiOs, including
President Reagan's massive cuts to social pro
grams
She said the program is trying to recruit more
ret ent college graduates to be VIS TAs "It s an ex
cclient wav to develop contacts in the human ser
v ices field, and it looks great ori a resume," sin
said
Students interested in becoming ViSTAs
should contact Ask. at 4rt-t-GGl>(i
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