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P»oe 2 Portland Observer, September 21,1963 Study shows agencies unable to cope y Chuck Good mac her W h ii has long been obvious to Portland's low-income people and the people helping to make their lives a little leu harsh is now docu mented fact here io Portland. D o U an and Demand: The Im pact o f Hudget Cuts and the Need F o r Social Services, recently released by ■he Portland Budget Priorities P ro j ect o f the American Friends Service Committee, details the growing in ability o f local agencies to cope with increasing demand. State and federal budget cuts and a less than adequate response from the private sector arc given as rea sons for the growing crisis. "T here is a crisis in our communi- V resources," reads the study’s onclusion, "Funding cuts from the deral and slate governments have ot been compensated by an in- vtease in private giving. Nor Is there hope that private giving will fill the gap. According to the report, the im pact o f the crisis is not only meas ured by agency budget reductions _____ •»wt workers layoffs. Rather, the , full impact is best measured in human terms — "F o r many people, services no longer ejdkt." Among the groups most severely affected '« are the same people who have al ways suffered most in our society.. . mothers and children, minorities, and programs for the unemployed." Dollars and Demand reports on an extensive survey o f social service agencies in the greater Portland area. A total o f seventy-six soda! service agencies completed the Com munity Resources Survey. These agencies were funded by federal, state, local an d /o r private dollars. Social service agency directors were asked a series o f questions concern ing agency budgets, demand for services, spending priorities and the future o f community resource fund ing. Nearly all the agencies had been directly affected by federal budget cuts since Reagan took office. The response to those budget cuts varied: nearly two fifths (38 percent) cut staff; over one half (51.2 percent) cut services; and over one third (36.5 percent) knew of no other agency offering their service. Moat agencies (71.6 percent) were forced to make these cuts even as demand for their services rose. Reductions in service delivery often meant loss o f education/pre- vention services, advocacy, and technical assisiance. But other agen cies cut basic |eryices or turned peo ple away by (tightening eligibility re quirements or im p ly limiting the number served. Among the specific cutbacks documented by the survey a rc • An emergency shelter for women and children cut their bed space by one third; • A center for severely disturbed children was forced to close a group home for adolescents; and • the Cleve Allen Dental Clinic in Northeast is unable to take new patients and can provide only limited services to current patients. M any other specific reductions are listed in Dollars and Demand. even a v Perhaps n * a i |z a w w s i a o as i t r revealing as the Doctor treats homeless, poor by Nathaniel Scott D r. Neal Rendleman, physician and surgeon, recently set up the East Side Comm unity Clinic at Baloney Joe’s, 313 East Burnside Street. The clinic, a project o f the Burnside Comm unity Council, welcomes wel fare recipients, medicare clients, and its fees are on a sliding scale. Dr. Rendleman said. Clinical serv ices include check-ups, pre- and post-natal care, psychiatric care (on a limited basis with referral to the proper agency), contraceptive ad vice and child, as well as adult serv ies. The hours are from 4 p.m. until 8 p .m ., M onday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Modesty prevented 33-year-old Dr. Rendleman from claiming to be ii humanitarian, but in view o f the recent change in governmental poli cy, he saw the need for the type o f services he is providing. A native o f Iow a, he attended medical school on the East Coast and did his residency at the Univer sity Hospital in Portland. He is awaiting the approval o f his applica tion to practice medicine at Physi cian and Surgeon’s Hospital, and is realistic about his expectations. " I don’t expect the clniic to make m oney," he said. " I am hoping to yet enough out o f it to pay the rent and my own salary." In the two weeks that he has oper ated the clinic at Baloney Joe's, he speaks with admiration and dismay about the people he has seen. He said mpst o f the people, with the exception o f women, children and those over 65 (and there are some exceptions among that group) are working: doing hard work at low pay as field hands, picking up bottles, cans and selling paper. D r. Rendleman continued his scenario by saying, "T h e sickness they have drags them down. I sec people who Market open The Portland Farmers M arket is open every Saturday through Octo ber from nine a.m . to one p.m . It is located near Emanuel Hospital on N. W illiams Ave. between Graham and Knott. Farmers and gardeners bring fresh fruit and vegetables in weekly to the general public. There are fund raising food vendors and sometimes music. The atmosphere is personal, the produce is high quali ty, and the prices are low. The Farmers M arket is a non-profit event, and is sponsored by Rain Magazine and the Eliot Energy House, and financed by Portland Hureau o f Comm unity Develop ment. inform ation on how the budget cuts have impacted agencies is data on the way that the private sector has responded. Dollars and Demand found "Reaction to the current ad ministration policy o f shifting social service funding from the public sec tor to the private sector was nega tive.” As one agency director com mented: " I t ’s a nice idea, but not grounded in reality." Dollars and Demand's findings on private giving are based on info r mation from both the agencies sur veyed and a September, 1981 report by the Portland Committee for Re sponsive Philanthropy which found that " In Oregon over one h alf o f all Oregon foundation dollars go to only 30 institutions. • Barely 1 percent o f all Oregon foundation dollars go to programs run by and for racial minorities; • Less than 1 percent goes to women's programs; • Less than one percent goes to housing and community develop m en t." andsoon. Dollars and Demand goes one step further than most studies — it concludes with remarks on what people can do to help alleviate the community service crisis; "citizens can advocate for government spend ing that reflects community con cerns . . . Urge the private sector to assume community resource respon sibilities . . . And last, but not least, citizens can oppose the current m ili tary build-up that is draining the humanity from our tax dollar priori ties." MRS. 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We have over 300 skills to offer, many of them technical, and most of them have their civilian counterparts You could learn a skill in the Army that you could carry right into the future. It’s a good chance for you to be what you want to be. So see your Army Recruiter. Dr. Neal Randleman at his new East Side Clinic at Baloney Joe’s, wants to prolong the lives and shorten the suffering of those In need. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) are weak and worn out from malnu tritio n ." And he added that some o f those people are the ones, “ who have to sell plasma to get their pre scriptions fille d ." The clinic’s services are not lim it ed to street people; anyone may ap ply. D r. Rendleman is not oiJy in terested in dispensing advice and prescriptions; he wants to forge a continuum — "c on tin u ity" — as well. M iddle class America, according to him, has always known the value of having a fam ily physician: a familiar face and voice, not the attendance o f a stranger, in'times of ailment and discomfort. "O n e of the things that I sec that is impor tan t.” he said, "(is for these people) to always come back and talk to the same people." D r. Rendleman does not see some people as " r i f f r a f f ’ like some o f the uptown crowd do. The East Side Comm unity Clinic is staffed by Rendleman and his assistant, Madonna DuFrane, a lady who has had training in the nursing field. H e welcomes whatever serv ices can be rendered and has made contact with a number o f communi ty agencies, including the Salvation Arm y, St. Vincent dePaul and the Burnside Project. W O M E N M E A N IN G B U SIN E S S Thus far, he said, the illnesses have been indicative o f the metro politan community. But, he added, “ I expect in the long run that this community will see more T .B . and other diseases that are associated with poverty." In addition to those observations, D r. Rendleman said, " I'v e seen quite a few Vietnam vet erans here." The doctor's observations include dentistry, too. "O ne o f the biggest problems in the city right now, is people who have dental problems and can't pay for the needed serv ices,*.* he said. " In addition to pro longing lives and shortening suffer ing, 1 want people to have a useful integrated role in society.” Michael Stoops, co-founder of Baloney Joe’s, said, " O u r commu nity really needed a doctor in the neighborhood. . . he will sec a lot of sick people." Adding, " W e are going to try to take care o f the people and the anim als." The Burnside Comm unity Coun cil recently acquired volunteered veterinarian services for the animals in their community. 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