Portland Observer, January 26, 1983 Section IV Page 3
METROPOLITAN
Red Cross moves Northeast
The Red C ro n is planning to
build a new blood center and head
quarters for the Oregon Trail Chap
ter in Northeast Portland. “ This
project has been deferred for nine
months because of the economic cli
m ate,“ stated David Rawlinson,
chairman of the board of directors,
“ but the needs o f blood services
makes it m andatory that we pro
ceed.”
The new American Red Cross
building, consisting of laboratories,
classrooms, offices, storage areas,
conference rooms, and dining fa
cilities, will be located in the North
east corner of the Emanuel Hospital
urban renewal area. The site con
sists o f 4.5 acres and is directly ac
cessible to the 1-5 freeway. The loca
tion is also central to the 55,000
square mile are served by the Red
Cross Pacific Northwest Regional
Blood Services; to the metropolitan
area’s higher density population of
blood donors; and to the five-coun
ty area served by the Oregon Trail
Chapter of the Red Cross.
According to Rawlinson, " O u r
time-line calls for a Capital Fund
raising e ffo rt during the first few
months of 1983; the sale of our pre
sent property; and the sale of Indus
trial Development Revenue bonds in
early summer, with construction on
the building to begin in the fall of
1 9 8 3 ." Construction should be
completed in the fall of 1985.
Cost estimates to provide 11,850
square feet o f new construction
amount to 512,781,000; including
land costs, furnishings and equip
ment, and all fees and permits.
$517,493 was spent in 1981 to pur
chase the Emanuel property. The
Red Cross presently has on hand the
sum of $500,000 to be used for the
project and it is expected that
$1,700,000 will be realized from the
sale o f the present property. The
fund raising campaign is targeted at
$5.5 million, and the balance needed
after the campaign will be secured
from the sale of Industrial Develop
ment Bonds
$4,563,700.
The planned new construction
calls for a three-floor building
containing 11 1,850 square feet.
84,751 squah feet, or 76 percent,
will be assigned for use by the Paci
fic Northwest Regional Blood
Center. The rem ainder o f the
building, 27,099 square feet, will be
utilized by the Oregon Trail Chap
ter.
The Red Cross headquarters in
Portland serves a 32-county area in
Oregon and Southwest Washington,
collecting, processing, and distribut
ing blood for patients in 76 hospi
tals. In addition to Blood Scrvcies,
the Corbett Avenue location is
headquarters for the Oregon Trail
Chapter which administers: Service
to M ilitary Families and Veterans;
Disaster Servcies; Safety Services;
including W ater Safety, First Aid
and CPR; Nursing and Health Ser
vices; Youth Services; and Commu
nity Volunteer Services. These
Chapter services are provided in
Multnomah, Clcakamas, Washing
ton, Columbia, and Yamhill Coun
ties through funds from United Way
(blood services operating costs are
supported primarily through a pro
cessing fee charged to hospitals).
Twenty years ago, 61,330 units of
blood were collected and almost all
of it was used as “ whole blood." In
Community, court
seek answers
Racism has long been a disputed
factor in the juvenile court system.
Although Ron Herndon o f the
Black United Front and H al Og-
burn, administrator o f (he Multno
mah County Juvenile Court agree
there is presently a discrimination in
the juvenile court, they disagree as
to what constitutes racism and its
scope.
As a result of a recent study of the
Multnomah County Juvenile Court,
Ogburn told M etropolitan Youth
Express reporters during an inter
view that he has called a meeting
with Ron Herndon, Avel Mayfield
and other community leaders for
Thursday, January 27 to “ begin to
better understand what the needs of
minority youth are and to work on
specific plans for the future."
According to the Court Monitor’s
Project, conducted by the National
Council of Jewish Women, in which
volunteers observed 6 months of
fact-finding, preliminary, and dis
positional hearings, a dispropor
tionately high number of minority
youth were involved in the juvenile
justice system and also received
harsher punishments for similar o f
fenses than white youth even when
both groups had the same amount
of prior convictions. Il stated that
roughly three times as many minor
ity youth were in court as would
have been expected from their popu
lation in M ultnom ah County. A l
though recent census figures show
87 percent o f the children in M u lt
nomah County are white, and only
13 percent are m inorities, almost
half o f the children committed to
MacLaren and Hillcrest, (he state’s
training schools, are minority.
Although Ogburn questioned the
accuracy of the study's findings, he
admits "there are problems."
Ogburn defines racism as a "lack
o f awareness o f cultural d iffe r
ences.” Herndon feels that the
problem is “ institutional,” rather
than individual, and stems from the
fact that “ whites expect minorities
to fa il.” Both felt that by training
juvenile court staff to understand
the problems that m inority youth
face, such as a rate o f unemploy-
ment twice that as for white youth,
in ferio r education, and harsher
treatment in schools, juvenile court
intake workers and counselors
would be better able to understand
what m inority youth need when
making recommendations to judges
When asked if educating his staff
would change the way the juvenile
justice system treated minorities,
Ogburn replied, "That's an import
ant part of it, but not all of it. The
Juvenile Justice system isn't to
blame. We are in an important posi
tion to be able to do something
about it, but the problems in the
school, the problems in unemploy
ment, we didn't create that. There
are not enough counselors trained to
work with minority youth at service
centers or probation facilities; thus
they are sent to state training
schools."
When questioned about specific
recommendations to lessen discrim
ination in the Juvenile Court sys
tem, Herndon replied, "Y o u need
to get more black people involved in
the system from top to bottom. The
institutions in the black community
which work with young black peo
ple should be utilized more, the
Northeast Youth Service Center, for
example. People who have worked
successfully with young blacks
should be brought in to study the
system and make proposals for ac
tion! We have a serious problem in
Portland. We don’t necessarily need
people with titles and degrees, but
someone who knows what they are
talking about when they discuss
young black people in trouble. We
need to further humanize the Juven
ile Justice system."
Some of the National Council of
Jewish Women's recommendations
were that all Multnomah County ju
venile court professionals should de
velop procedures to guard against
discrimination, examine their a tti
tudes, and better prepare for hear
ings.
The meeting to develop an action
plan to put the court monitor's re
commendations into effect will be
held at 1:30 p.m . at the Juvenile
Court.
1981-82, 123,498 units o f blood
were collected, and from that blood.
300,099 blood components were
produced and made available to pa
tients with a wide variety o f illnesses
and conditions, .from burn, sur
gery, and trauma victims, to cancer
patients whose immune systems
have been undermined by chemo
therapy.
O f necessity, much o f what we
talk about relative to this project
w ill deal with " w o o d , b rick, and
m ortar. How ever, it must be re
membered that this is not what the
program is about. When the con
struction o f this new facility is
achieved, the essential functions of
blood for the entire region will be
guaranteed for the forseeable fu
ture," said Rawlinson.
Thia la an architect's modal of the naw Rad
Croas building to ba built In the Emanual Hoapital
araa of North Portland.
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