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Resources:
Where to write for information
about colleges and scholarships
Because o f the recent cutbacks in the federal financing o f student aid pro
grams, many except the most diligent, w ill be unable to attend the college o f
their choice. In addition, increased competition for limited funds demands that
a student not wait until the last minute to seek inform ation or available funds.
Start in your sophomore year.
Perhaps the first step should be to speak with a guidance counselor at the high
school. Be persistent, fo r the "squeaky wheel gets the grease.” D on't accept a
"see me tom orrow " and return three days later. Keep asking for leads. After all,
this is one o f the areas in which a conviction will be helpful.
Ask at your local library for publications that can help lead you to possible
sources. Check w ith your parent or guardian — does his jo b have scholarships
available for children o f employees? Write to your state Department o f Higher
Education for available grants/scholarships.
M any Black businesses have foundations that o ffe r scholarships/grants to
deserving students. In addition, investigate those corporations that advertise in
Black publications — do a little detective work, find their corporate address and
send them a letter o f inquiry.
P hillip M orris annually publishes A Guide l<> Black Organizations In it are
listed almost tw o hundred Black organizations that are interested in progress.
A ll do not have financial aid available, but a 22-cent stamp will help you to find
out. The address is: P hillip Morris, USA Public A ffairs Department, 120 Park
Ave . New York. N Y. 10017.
Some other foundations and their addresses are: Bill Robinson foundation,
313-A N orth 2nd St.. Richmond, V A ; Carnegie Corporation o f N Y. 59« Fifth
Ave., New Y ork, NY 10018; Ford Foundation, 477 Madison Ave., New York,
NY; General Education Board, 111 W 50th St., New York, NY 10019; Harmon
Foundation, 140 Nassau St.. New York, NY; Houston Endowment, Inc., P O.
Box 1414, Houston, T X ; John Jay Whitney Foundation, 9 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York. NY;
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Ave., New York,
N Y; McGregor Fund, 2486 First National Bldg . Detroit. M I; National Phillis
Wheatley Foundation, The Phillis Wheatley Home, 4450 Cedar Ave., Cleveland,
G H ; Phelps - Stokes Fund, 297 Park Ave. South, New York, N Y; The Rocke
feller Foundation. 111 W. 50th St., New York. NY;
Rosenwald Foundation, packard Bklg , Philadelphia, PA; Sachs Foundation,
41« First National Bank Bldg., Colorado Springs, CO; Southern Conference
Education Fund, «22 Perido St., New Orleans, L A ; Southern Education Foun
dation Inc., 913 Cypress St. NE, Atlanta, G A , and Taconic Foundation, 666
Fifth Ave., New York, NY.
The Foundation Center, located at 888 Seventh Avenue, has the mose compre
hensive listing o f foundations under one ro o f. One must go there in person,
however, as they do not give assistance by mail or phone. Some large libraries
have their Foundation Directory in the reference section.
Armed with this limited information to begin your search, don’t forget to ask
those you know who they know Networking is important. Good luck!
Let Portland Observer
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call 283-0090
PCC student Steve Scott (left! get* on the-job training in alcohol end
drug counseling at Project for Community Recovery He « working
under the aupeviaion of PCR'a lead counselor. Harry Watson (right)
From abuser to counselor
" A ll the people I knew when I
was druggm’ on the streets are dead,"
says 52-year-old Steve Scott. They
died violently, from overdoses, from
disease.
Scott didn’ t join his friends. Three
and one-half years ago, he says, " I
got sick and tired o f being sick and
tired " He didn't want to end up like
the other dealers and abusers he
knew A lter IH years o l drug abuse,
nine on a methadone program, Scott
“ went home and went to bed" and
detoxed himself. “ Il took one year,”
he adds, but it's not a method he’d
recommend to others. He got o ff
methadone, but started drinking.
and credits Alcoholics and Narcotics
Anonymous with helping him stay
clean and sober.
What Scott recommends now is
getting help — and he's learning how
to provide that for others H e'll grad
uatc from Portland Com m unity C o l
lege, Cascade campus, June 1986,
with an A A degree in alcohol and
drug counseling — a new program at
Cascade, designed to offer specific
training in how to help alcohol and
drug abusers.
" I'd not been to schixil since 1948,"
says Scott. " I 'd forgotten every
thing I started in basic reading, basic
w riting.”
Right now, thougn, Scott is com
pleting his first practicum, getting on-
the-job experience under the super
vision o f counselors at Project for
Com m unity Recovery (PCR), located
at 735 N orth Alberta PCR opened in
July 1984, as a jo in t project o f the
Center fo r Community Mental Health
and De Paul Center, Inc.
Scott says such a center was badly
needed in N orth Portland because
it's m ulticultural. The staff there
knows, he says, "th a t you have to
deal with a person's culture. Most
treatment centers are designed for
middle-class, white males. Blacks'
needs are not always the same."
" It 's not a different style o f treat
m ent," says PC R Director Bernard
Ings. “ Il's being sensitive to cultural
background."
“ The concept is new ," Ings adds
"W e 're fortunate to be developing
m ulticultural treatment here There
isn't anybody in the country that has
a real handle on it . "
M ulticultural treatment starts with
a m ulticultural staff. PCR has six
counselors — one white, one H aw ai
ian, four Black The number includes
two women. Some, like Scott, are
recovering alcoholics or abusers.
Others are not.
According lt> PCR's lead counse
lor, Harry Watson, that kind o f staff
helps prevent a feeling often created
by white-male oriented centers: "O n
some level," he says,"people don't fed
they belong there. They know those
centers weren't made for them ."
Scott says cultural differences a f
fect counseling techniques at limes,
things like eye contact or the methods
used to get a client to talk about his
feelings. He says out-patient treat
ment is often necessary since people
worry about what " to do with the
kids and w ho'll pay the bills” if
they're treated as in-patients.
PCR counselors don't just help a
person get clean and sober. They help
with housing, relationships, children,
employment — whatever is needed to
treat the whole person.
Scon believes one o f the biggest
things he has to offer as a counselor
is his experience: " A t 52, I was out
there a long time. I've got a lot o f
experience o f street life. I ’ve been
in and out o f institutions. I can
tell people what that kind o f life is
like and how dangerous it is. A lot
ot people don’ t live to get treatm ent."
Life has lurried around for Scott.
His wife is a recovering alcoholic
and addict, enrolled at Marylhurst
with plans to be a therapist. His three
girls, ages 20, 18. and 14, aren't in
volved with "drugs or alcohol yet. I
got my fingers crossed.”
Sant says, " I know I don't have to
dnnk or use. I d o n 't.”
"H e 's bea u tifu l," Ings says. "W e
hope he’ ll hang a ro u n d " after he
graduates."
Fees for services at PCR are on a
sliding scale. No one is denied services
because o f inability to pay. For more
inform ation, call 281-2804.
For more inform ation about PCC-
Cascade's Alcohol and Drug Counsel
ing Program, call program director
Susan Garber at 283-2541, ext. 395
There w ill be an introductory course
offered this summer.
Law school
hosts students
National University School o f Law,
San Diego, invites all prospective law
schixil students and other interested
individuals to an orientation o f the
NU Law Schixil Saturday, June 8,
trom 2 to 6 p.m. at the Portland
H ilton, 921 S.W. Sixth Ave.
National University’s l aw Schixil
provides exceptional support for
individual growth and development
for the beginning law student. Focus
is directed toward organizational,
intellectual and communication skills
as well as conventional subjects in
law. National stresses quality, indi
vidualized instruction to an extent not
customarily found at other law
schools.
National University Schixil o f Law
is accredited by the Committee o f
Bar Examiners o f the Stac o f C ali
fornia.
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