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
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•»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.
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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
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personal, the produce is high quali
ty, and the prices are low. The
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event, and is sponsored by Rain
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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."
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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. The services are
on a quarterly basis but they hope to
have it more frequently — monthly
— within a relatively short period of
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