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Newspaper Page TextPage 8 Portland/Observer Thursday February 24, 1972 Sidney Wicks # 3 t '• * i »* W itli defensive statistics d itticu lt to measure, the best rating of an all-around bas ket hall player at e his abilities as a scorer, as a re bounder and as a playmaker. In this respect, in games through February 13, Sidney Wicks ranked as the third best perform er in the NBA, tra ilin g only Kareem Jabbar I f c m lbs uikee Bucks, end veteran John lla vlice k of the Boston C eltics in tlie a ll- around ratings. Jabbar had hauled m 1030 rebounds, had earned 262 assists and scored 2,117 points for a total In all three categories of 3,415. Numbers you should know for aid Aboition Inhumation and Referral S ervice................. ...287-1151 ACLU ............................. A FS C .............. ................... ...235-8954 A ir Pollution Control Albina M u lti service Centei AMA ....................... Better Business Bureau ...226-3981 Buckman l lental C h ile Concenti uted Employment Progi am.....388-8391 Community Care Consumer C redit Counsel mg Consume! Protection Contact Centei . . 2S07 County H ospital..... D ra ft Counseling (days) ,.224-9307 (days ami evenings) . ' .'8-d ill . F ire 1 'epaiintent .. .232-21 1 1 FISH (emergency aid) Food Stamps........ 229-/i9?<> Four-C (4-C, Child Care) ,.288-8861 Legal Aid downtown ... A lb in a ................ Southeast......... ju u . le g a l Clim e (A lbina).. . .284-5712 1 IF C e n te i......... 28 1-6878 Mental Health C lin ic ............................ 254-7101 M ll itai y Counsel mg..............................224-9 107 Model C itie s ......................... 11 av I icek’ B total « 507 rebounds, 471 assists and 1,657 points. W ickshad snared 717 rebounds, earned 234 as sists and had scored 1,533 points foi a total rating of 2.524. 5 little help f i his frie n d s — New Y o rk Jet superstar Q u a r- t e r b a c k jo e N'amath gestures to Los Angeles Dodge. - . ra n k D odgersF Robinson, Wes Parke and vlaury W ills that they are going all the way to the top this year in then buttle fu the National You know because you read II in the Dbsei voi I L e a g u e Pennant. Broadway Joe a nd the Dodgers guested on "S p o rts C hallenge" the syndicate,! tele visio n show aired m 127 c itie s and hosted by D ick ¡.ngerg (la : left) The PORTLAND TRAFFIC SAFE TA COMMISSION urges all d riv e rs to dun tiie ir lights well in advance, because the glare of bright lights blinds an oncoming d riv e r fo r five to seven seconds. That five to seven seconds could really get you. NAAC P ....................................................... 284-7422 NAACP C redit I nion........ ...............281-77 h Our House (drug assistance)................630-3414 > 'Ur.sic la Cltnlc................................ 123-4121 People's Dental C linic...................... » 7 - 6 >. ' ’tu p le ’ s Health C lin ic ...........................288-7279 Planned Parenthood................... 287-1189 p M SC....................... ;..:..'.” ” ’ "233-6.S4l ........................................................287-4|9o Polson C enter.................................... ...228-9189 P°>“ * .............................................. .....7 .4 2 6 -7 5 5 1 Portland o b server ................................ 283-2486 Problem Solvei s (legal ski tut m inors)........................ 229-5476 senior Adult C itiz e n s ............................ 288-8338 Suicide Prevention................................. 227-0403 i Nobody knows everything, but reading the Observer Heins' I There are many ways of ad vertising, but the cheapest way to get the best results is in the ’Observer Classified Sectionl Sw itchboard........................................... 7 .2 3 3 -3 6 1 8 lax Resistance.......................................222-4642 r r i- M e t (C ity bus)...................................... ( ,/, Lrban A c tio n .......................................... 233-3618 I rban League......................................... 224-0151 L 1 ban League (fie ld office)................ 288-6517 .V” .C I,n lc ................................................ W elfare. .22 9-07 8i Women’ s L ib eration.............................. . »5-4919 Dan M e rn n . left. Sport Challenge: Coordinato! welcomes Frank Robinson, form erly of the Bal- geles for years' " ° W F r* n“ R° bU” ° n h” ° * * d a h° ™ * Los A " . DR. JEFFREY BRADY MODERN LIFELIKE M Ml PLATES PARTIAL PLATES ANO EXTRACTIONS Immediate Restorations P la ta « m » a r« a d im m e d ia t e ly a l t a r t e e t h a re e s tro c ta d • Partial Plates • Dental Plates SLEEP DURINC EXTRACTIONS I SOMME FCRTOTRAL U V 9 I T I sicisthkr A M in v r iS T I BO A M O M TM O R M U S S M V I p a m frh - arv f a m r s o o r io r HOURS: W a a k d e y t 8 : 3 0 t a JrOO S a tu r d a y 8 i3 O t a 1 rOO DR. JEFFREY A S t M t IS B U IL D IN G S W 3 r d A M a r r i , on P o r tla n d O r a q a n P hone: Rip C ity is s till being thi died bySidney W icks ripping a w a y point after point. Your Youth Care Centers serve young people ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ B arbara Poolin Take a teenager - about 15 - one who runs away time and again, shopliftschronical- ly, refuses to go to school, and gene: ally rejects parental control. Chances are that after a while he’ s going to get in trouble with the law. \nd unless he can find a rea son to charge his actions, ne may be setting up a pattern fo r the rest of his life , one that w ill interfere with his grow ing into a responsible adult. It’ s important that someone • : n ,. |o be, give him other options. That’ s what the YaunChild CareCen- ters are about. Through the Model C ities program, the -hurch has been able to establish three resi dential homes in Portland’ s Albina area. Yaun operates two of these homes; the third is Acheson House. Yaun’ s homes serve young people be tween the ages of 12 and 17. The g irls live in a huge gray and the boys' home is located at 5039 NJ2. 9th. Each can accommodate ten young ¡ieo- ple and a pair of resident ' • Dp I . presently, tne g irls ' home is filled and seven boys are enioiled. T hese are young men and women who have teen involved in consistently ¡elinquent be havior and for whom neither their own fam ily's home nor a foster home provides the necessary env 11 onrnent foi dealing with their problems at the present tim e. They are placed at Yaun through one of two channels or a combi nation of both-Juvenile Court and the Oregon State C hild ren’ s Services D ivision. Most of them were In detention im mediately p rio r to coming to Yaun. No one is forced to come and live at Yaun. The people who are there have expressed a desire to try it out. The opportunity seems attractive to many young peo ple whose alternative is M a o laren Home fo r Boys and the H illc re s t School of Oregon (fo r g irls ), the state's train ing schools. Yaun steps in before the point when comm it ment to one of these schools would occur. The project is directed by Reverend Samuel Johnson, an active member of the Albina community. Reverend John son is m inister at the Hign- land Church of C h ris t, found e r of the Highland Community Center, and co-founder of the LIFE Center, which serves low-income fam ilies. He has also been involved in other social programs which have helped bring about change. P art of the philosophy be hind the project is that some of the problems of helping youth in the Model C ities area are due to environmental am! cul tural forces which at times 1 un contrary to societal norms, so that to deal re a listica lly with these problems, one ought to treat these youth within the environment which is in fluencing them, and to which they w ill probably return. F irs t p iio iit y in accenting youths is always given to Muri el C ities neighborhood re s i dents. The program permits continued participation in community life , attendance at neighborhood public schools and use of community re sources. Yaun offers these young people a controlled environ ment with opportunities fo r increasing freedom ami re sponsibilities. It seeks to provide its residents with al ternative choices of behavior which are socially acceptable. on the premise that in order fo r change to occur. It must become more comfortable and rewarding to the individual to develop new patterns than to stick with his old, fa m ilia r ones. The key to the program lies in its structure. one of the fundamental methods used in the home , is contingency contracting. I his essentially means that e x a c ted behavior is made clear to the participants, and p riv i leges are earned on the basis of how well tie contract has been cat ried out. The other m ajor part of tie program is called Guided Group Interaction. An hour long group meeting is held each weekday afternoon, led by a trained professional. Tne discussions center around ways of adjusting to problems in daily life situations. Ire group w ill often put pressure on Individuals to make real attempts to deal with th e ir problems. This is also tie tim e fo r residents to bi tng up anything they want to d is cuss about the program. In some cases, rules have been changed because of what has come out of these talks. 3 stay at Yaun is divided into four levels, taking a min imum of twenty weeks to pass through. A new resident be- gins at Level 1, which is a sort of tria l period dui mg which the individual, the staff, and tlie group in the home de termine the advisability of tne newcomer's continuing in tlie program. If all goes well, at the end of 2 weeks, he w ill move up to Level I] for a mini mum of 6 weeks, and the same fo r Levels HI anti IV. Each move to a higher level le- mands Increased participation with a positive attitude, ie - sulting in increased freedoms. Along with the form al pro gram , the staff trie s to pro vide Yaun’ s young people with a lot of love and understand ing, as well a se xe rcisin g cre - a tivity and fle x ib ility in th e ir work. The emphasis is on free choice, with rewards given for positive behavior. Pun ishments are also dealt out for infringements of the rules and lack of cooperation, but these ire usually m inim al, fo r example, taking more th in the allow©! amount of free time w ill result in a s im ila r amount of time being docked the following week. There Is also a Fam ily Services s tif f which works as counselors with the young men and women, their fam i lie s, and with potential foster fam ilies in the area. A weekday at Yaun begins with rising early, tidying one’ s room, breakfast, and school. The boys, if they are of high ' ■ ' . ' , hi » the g irls , to je fle rs o n . A ll of the elementary school age Children ittend King. L'pon returning from school, each resident has tree tim e, as much as he Is e n title ! to ac cording to the level he is on, and then helps with tasks in the home, after which the group meeting is held. F ol lowing lin n e i, child care as sociates from the communi ty conduct activities with the kids, either taking them out somewhere or doing some thing in tlie home. A ctivitie s are often athletics, c ia fts , music and tlie like. I hen an hour for homework and lights out by 11:00. Weekends are free days, during which the residents may choose to lie on their own 01 go on activités with tlie housepa rents. Everybody goes to church on Sunday. If a young man or woman successfuly completes all the levels of tlie program, he or she graduates. When gi adu.i- tlon is near, the Fam ily ser vices staff works to flrel a suitable placement. In most cases, this means that me child w ill go back to his fam ily ’ s home or go to live with home, opMI Sin 0 I te >, nine graduates up to last sum m er. A t that point, tlie pi o— gram was placed unJei Model C ities S U |«I V isio n , and th e re have been 2 more graduates since then. Another two hoys are due to leave this week. I he g ills ' home, opei iting • last sumtnei, expects to have one gi aduate In the near future. Termination from the pro gram may occur before tins point. E very e ffo it is made to keep a person at Yuan for 1 ■ tom it I tea ,i„e, no violation of the program is cause fo r dism issal. In cases where the program does not seem to 1© benefiting in individual, however, 01 whm violations of the law are In volved, the t iff and thegroup in the home . or not the placement should continue, with the staff making the final decision. A pet son may choose to leave as well, in which case lie returns to detention. Along with treating youths, Yaun focuses on employing ami training Model C itie s res idents In tlie program . These people can help with th e ir understanding of the problems In the community at the same time that they train fo r future careers in social service. Ihe centers are funded Jointly by Model C itie s ( a federal progi ini) and tlie Ore gon state C hildren's Services D ivision. "I hiee-foui ths ol tie funding comes from state monies and one-fourth from lodel C ltis rocsl operating costs fo r ten months in 1971 ran roughly $165,000. When you talk to tlie ksls themselves, they ireoutspok- en about the program ami many of tiie ir comments are negative. I hey feel that there are too many restrictions on then freedom. As one of the g irls su d , " I . very little thing's got a rule to I t . " Most complaints were about free tim es l«ing a privilege rathei than a right, and about not having enough of it. General feelings were that the group discussions are beneficial, and everyone agrees that It's le tte r to le at Yaun than In detention or at Macl.aren 01 H illc re s t. Hut nobody would confess to the pr ogi am'sdoing them any good. The aim of the YaunChild Care Centers is to teach skills and techniques which w ill en able its young men and women to relate to the system. As M r. Frankel put It, "W e don't do any m oralizing. When they leave, they’ ll make tiie ir own decisions, but while they're with us, we reward honesty and good lie h a vio i. " W lieri a |>ei son graduates from Yaun, then, he’ ll have tlie ex po 1 lence of acting In a posi tive manner, and If he chooses to continue that way, he’ ll know how. Dr. Hart to lecture D i . J lines S. H a lt w ill lie returning again this yeai is guest lecture! of PoitlamJ area’ s fifth annual "H a rd ’ s P rologue," 1 le n d It series foi tlie Dreg on Shakespearean Festival Association. D r. l i n t , a membei ol the Portland State L m ve rsity Engllal I m u lty, has < hosen is his topic tin discussion, " | lie Range of Comedy” in theatre. Hart has serve I as a lecturei at tlie Festival’ s Institute of Renaissance studies in Ash lars) and Is able to give unu sual insights that heighten the enjoyment ut the 1972 sea son s repei tor y p e ifo im a n - cea. Ihe six-p a rt series w ill begin March 16 at 10: »0 ui the Portland home ol F e sti val Board membei M is .l.a r ii- " 1 J , III ' X I I I .• conduct©! foi five consecu tive Ihuradays. A "p o s t ses sio n " is planned a lte r the F e stiva l’ s summer season. Donation foi the series is $15.00 ami all proceeds go d ire c tly to the F e stiva l's En dowment Fund in auppoi t of scholarships foi young actors and technicians. Last year, the senes raised $1,800 foi Festival scholarships. A few reservations are s till available. Area residents in terest©! in reseivlng space fo r the 1972 "H a rd ’ s P ro logue" should contact M is . I .arnai I ooze, J 1 ., 5500 5.W. Hewett lllv d ., Portland o rc a li (503) 292-1886, F u ll Information on the Fes tiva l s 1972 Season Is avail able l.y w riting: "Shakes p e a re ", Box bOS, Ashland, Oregon 97520.