Page 8 Portland/Observer Thursday February 24, 1972
Sidney Wicks # 3
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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)......................................
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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-
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point after point.
Your Youth Care Centers serve young people
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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
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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 ,
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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.