10 - S A N D Y (Ore ) POST Thurs., Oct. 13, 1977 (Sec 2)
Private agency consulatanf
says children benefit
'Gambling' benefit Saturday
Roll the dice.
T^at w ill be the cry Saturday
night on Mt. Hood during the
annual Tahoe at Timberline
benefit for the Rehabilitation
Institute of Oregon.
A division of Good Samaritan
Hospital and Medical Center.
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the institute seeks to restore the
physically disabled to as near
normal lifestyles as possible.
It provides treatment to
persons who have suffered
s tr o k e s ,
p a r a p le g ia ,
quadriplegia, hip fractures,
severe back and head injuries
and amputations The 38-bed in
patient part of the hospital
serves about 150 out-patients
annually, stressing the full use
and development of what
remains functional in each
person
The Tahoe at Timberline
event w ill include a prime rib
dinner served from 7-10 p.m.
Dancing, gambling chips for
gaming tables and late night
snacks w ill also be served.
Prizes w ill be awarded in
various games of skill. Over
night accomodations also are
available.
Those wishing to attend are
asked
to
contact
the
Rehabilitation
Institute
of
Oregon Guild at 229-7718.
Club elects
officers
The Sandy Livestock 4-H
Club has named Mark Ten
Eyck as president for the 1977-
78 school year.
The Sandy Livestock Club
held its first meeting of the
year in the Sandy Upper Grade
Library on Thursday evening,
Oct. 6.
Other officers elected are
Susie K rick, secretary; Tana
Nonam aker, re p o rte r and
Patty Murphy, vice-president.
Club officers report that the
club has started the year
several new members.
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Krause Furniture Co.
604N.E. 8th
665-1103
A m p le P a rk in g Free D e liv e ry
by Lori Varosh
R ick Scott
Bank names
manager
Rick Scott has been named
new manager of the Hoodland
branch of the Clackamas
County Bank
Scott began his banking
career in 1969 and has held
various positions from teller to
loan officer. He most recently
served as the assistant
manager of an independent
bank branch office in Portland.
The new manager attended
Treasure Valley Community
College in Ontario and has
completed numerous American
Institute of Banking courses.
He is a 1977 graduate of the
N o rth w e s t
In te rm e d ia te
Banking School.
Scott and his wife Coleen
have one daughter, 10-month-
old Lindsay. They presently
reside in Portland and are
planning to build a home in the
Wemme area.
The couple enjoy camping,
ifshing, hunting skiing and the
outdoors “ We are truly looking
forward to making our home on
the mountain and becoming
involved in the community,”
Scott said.
His civic activities have
included memberships in the
FBLA
raises
money
Members of the Sandy Union
High School chapter of Future
Business Leaders of America
(FBLA) say they are starting
out this year as strong and busy
as ever.
Officers for the year are
Annette Wallis,
president;
Jinny Kim, vice president;
Debbie Johnston, secretary;
Genine Lwas, treasurer; Gwen
Wallis, publicity director and
Jertny Johns, historian.
The club is sponsoring a
paper drive through the months
of October and November in
addition to selling donuts and
licorice on Fridays. This is
being done to raise money for
the
Nov. 17-19 Western
Regional Conference in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Six girls from Sandy’s FBLA
chapter attended the con
ference last year when it was
held in San Francisco, Calif.,
and came back saying it was a
worthwhile trip.
Coming up on Oct. 29 is the
L in n -B e n to n
L e a d e rs h ip
Confernce. Several F B LA
members attended that con
ference lastyear and indicated
they wanted to go again. It w ill
be held in Albany as it was last
year.
The staff at Boys and Girls Aid Society,
2301 NW Glisan St., Portland, realizes a
need to tread lightly.
“ Caution—human beings," warns a sign
near the entrance. “ Handle with care.
Feelings, however, have been ruffled as
a result of the proposed Children s Ser
vices Division-private adoption agency
agreement. The plan would turn over all
children under age 5 with no physical or
social problems to private agencies for
adoption
The clash is unfortunate, Virginia
Hodges, Boys and Girls Aid adoption
consultant, believes.
“ I ’m sorry this had to come to such a
battle,” Hodges said. " I have no doubt
CSD caseworkers are committed to
children.
“ Unfortunately, in this proposal, they
come out looking like the loser.”
State caseworkers, Hodges feels, see the
proposal as an accusation they have been
shirking their responsibilities. The private
agency adoption consultant, however,
believes the proposal could be the start of a
beneficial relationship.
“ I t ’s better if we work together. If one
side falls short, the other side should say,
‘How come?’
“ We’re starting with easy-to-place
children just to get the machinery oiled,”
Hodges figured.
" I f I had my way, I would prefer to start
with the hard-to-place child. We’re star
ting this way to see how the com
munication works. With easy-to-place
children, you don’t have volumes and
volumes of records.”
The consolidation is needed, she
believes, because private agencies have
traditionally had lim ited communication
with CSD.
“ Since the idea was started, private
agencies have been meeting regularly,
almost once a week, to share practices and
questions,” Hodges noted. “ I t ’s terribly
exciting because we’re working together.
"Once the proposal is cleared, public
and private agencies w ill have to get
together.”
A prim ary benefit, according to Hodges,
w ill be freeing children in foster homes for
placement.
“ The whole argument is that there are
no children waiting. In fact, children just
aren’t freed for adoption because they are
believed to be unadoptable.
“ We just placed a child with serious
medical problems after two or three years.
We were trying to get him adopted, but we
couldn’t get him through the system.
“ It shouldn’t be my decision to say, ‘We
can’t do that.’ This agency has been
placing children who are quite com
plicated from other states; children who
are emotionally damaged, who have club
Virginia Hodges
feet or who have muscular dystrophy. We
chouldn’t consider anyone unadoptable.”
CSD caseworkers have claimed that
agency w ill become associated with
problem children. The prospective parent
who wants an easy to place child w ill not
contact CSD, they fear.
According to Hodges, such a stigma can
be avoided with a full-scale public
relations campaign.
“ The program won’t be harmed because
we’ll work with what we have. We’U work
with the parents to get people turned
around as to who is adoptable.”
A high level of communication among all
the agencies w ill promote understanding
among the public, she said. Prospective
parents w ill have just as much opportunity
at CSD as at the other agencies because
information w ill be shared.
Hodges doesn’t believe the program w ill
be etched in black and white.
“ A mother has a right to decide which
Proposal strips choice, chance,
says state adoption supervisor
by Patty Farrell
staff reporter
The state adoption supervisor for north
west Oregon agrees with the intent of the
proposed adoption changes. “ I t ’s the focus
that’s not right,” according to Mary Ann
Lubich.
She supports the principle of involving
the private agencies more with adoptions
and the Children’s Services Division
(CSD). The proposed change which would
give private agencies responsibility over
placing easy to place children in per
manent homes is “ just the wrong place to
start,” she said.
“ The need has to be filled where the need
exists, not where we want to place the
need. And the need is in placing the hard-
to-place children.
“ That’s where the most resources
should be.”
Not only should private agencies be
helping place the state’s load of hard to
place children, but CSD should not be
restricted to just those children, according
to Lubich.
"The bulk of our inquiries are for easy
to place children,” she said. “ We can
solicit many of those families to extend
themselves to take a handicapped or
mixed racial child.”
She disagrees with specifics in the
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O ffice
of
Housing
and
Redevelopment has announced
the availability of $12,500 for
home rep airs fo r senior
citizens.
This free program is open to
county residents who are 60
years of age or older, TW
rehabilitation. which ranges up
to $3.000 per home, covers all
facets of home repair from roof
repair and siding replacement
outside, to painting and inside
plumbing
Other
possibil
ities include electrical work
and repairs to the furnace.
A waiting list is being
developed for the service.
Interested parties may contact
the Office of Housing by calling
655-8593.
An in fo rm a tio n
brochure and application form
w ill be mailed.
agency she wants to work with when she
gives her child up. A g irl on a CSD
w orker’s caseload may become pregnant.
The relationship she has established with t
that caseworker w ill be more important
than this rule, even if it is an easy-to-place
baby.”
No state money w ill assist the easy to
place adoptions. Negotiations are un
der way to allow state funding of hard-to-
place cases.
“ The placement and follow-up work for .
an older or handicapped child is very
expensive. We w ill have to have a contract
with the state to be able to afford such
placements,” Hodges said.
Clinician efforts would be directed
where the children are.
"P lacing children from other states is
quite complicated, but we do it. Once we
get all the private agency staff, about 21-25
people, I think we’re going to come up with
a lot of resources.”
M ary Ann Lubich
proposal, but sees the issue more as a
question of philosophy.
“ Every fam ily should have a choice,
whether they go public or private. A
person should be able to go to any agency,
and that agency should be able to offer
them any type of child.
“ They may not get the child they want,
and the agencies may vary in numbers.
But at least those people would have a
choice.”
She believes choice should especially be
available in a public agency. If the state
has no easy to place children, people who
could not adopt through a private agency
would have no chance at those children.
“ CSD must take all applications,” she
said. “ We can’t turn down anybody, even if
he doesn’t have a nickel.
“ It's a difference of getting your foot in
the door. Your foot can't get turned down
here.”
Lubich said recourse is important to
many families, especially blacks.
“ In a public agency, if a person feels he
is not treated fairly, he can pick up the
phone and call the governor If you need
recourse, you’re going to get it here—fast.
“ We have to treat everyone fairly.
Private agencies can completely wipe you
out, right at first.”
Some of the points raised in opposition to
the proposed changes are irrelevant, said
Lubich. She said none of her caseworkers
have been concerned about job change or
loss of job. They're not afraid to take on
other assignments because “ you don’t get
to be an adoption caseworker until you’ve
worked in the other units.”
Caseloads of all hard to place children
don't scare her workers, according to the
supervisor “ It ’s nice to have an easy to
place child once in a while, but that's not a
relevant issue ”
Adoption fees are not critical, either She
indicated that fees are the least of a
couple's concerns.
The important point to Lubich is to give
-everyone a choice.
“ Here, at least you get a chance and
you’re entitled to that. ”
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