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April 10,1991-T h e Portland Observer-Page 9
The Reading Tree
Presents Its 9th Annual
Silent Auction And
Punch Party
Sunday, April 28th lpm-6pm2116
N.E. 18th (near Tillamook)
Special Music by: Goldie Irby, Sam
Jackson, Joseph Thomas, The Dorseys,
etc.
Auction items such as: Japanese
dinner for 4, Autographed Blazer Bas
ketball, Cakes, Pies, Boat trip, Moun
tain Cabin for weekend, Roses deliv
ered, etc.
Help us prepare for the 20th year
of the Reading Tree in Irving Park and
the 4th year in Alberta Park.
Tickets are $2.50 or PAY AT THE
DOOR.
For more information call Betty
Walker at 281-1768.
The Reading Tree is a summer
program in Irving and Alberta Parks in
Northeast Portland. It has been at Irv
ing Park for 15* years and at Alberta
Park for 3 years. The Reading Tree is a
community based, positive reading ac
tivity program where children, parents,
volunteers and staff, together, can share
in building reading skills, story telling,
phonics and songs. The program is free.
In 1969, Irvington reading Houses
were established for youth of all ages
within the community. In 1971 this
idea was expanded to start the Reading
Tree Project in Irving Park. Working
together, youth and adults from Irving
ton and adjoining area came to partici
pate where they share and leam to
gether.
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Graduate Record
Examination (GRE)
Review Course
Portland State University’s Divi
sion of Continuing Education is offer
ing a Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) review course that is designed
to help students maximize their per
formance on the GRE, a test that is used
by many colleges and universities as an
objective instrument to evaluate candi
dates for admission to graduate pro
grams. Taught by experienced instruc
tors, the review course provides stu
dents with a methodical review of
material covered on the GRE, in-class
student exercises, and home study ma
terials complete with answers and ex
planations.
The GRE review course meets
Saturdays 9am-5pm, April 27, May 4,
11,and 18,1991 on PSUcampus. Tui
tion is $185.
To register, send payment payable
to Portland State University .Division
of Continuing Education, PO Box 1393,
Portland, OR 97207; or phone 725-
4832 with your VISA or Mastercard
number.
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E X P E C T TH E B EST!
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Proposed Cuts To Dart Programs Resulting From Measure 5
Johnny Jones (not his real name) is
a 14 year old student who was brought
in for day treatment by his parents. He
had been in the public school system
and several different treatment programs
before he came to Tio Nicks Adoles
cent Day Treatment Program. Johnny
was diagnosed as a conduct disordered
child who was also aggressive. He was
too disruptive for the regular classroom
environment, he was behind in his grade
level, he did not respond well to the
guidance of his parents at home, he had
no close friends, and at times he was the
target of aggressive behavior from other
students because of his inability to
manage his emotional responses well.
Although Johnny was diagnosed as se
riously emotionally disturbed he had to
wait almost a year before an opening
was available. During that time he was
not in school for several reasons, most
of which were included in his treatment
as issues he and his family had to ad
dress. Johnny’s parents are not eligible
for Title XIX. His parents income is not
enough to pay for his treatment and
support the rest of their family. He is
not included under the services avail
able for handicapped students under
the guidelines of the public schools. If
he were not in this day treatment pro
gram he would not be able to receive
the treatment he needs.
Tio Nick’s is one of the programs
operated by the Center for Community
Mental Health. It provides therapeutic
counseling services as well as educa
tional services for Fifteen seriously
emotionally disturbed adolescents. The
program is located in North East Port
land. Il is funded through the Childrens
Services Division to serve children who
are not able to benefit effectively from
the regular educational system due to
problems with their behavior. These
children need the special structure pro
vided by a therapeutic setting with more
individualized instruction and individ
ual counseling for the child and their
families.
Johnny is only one of many chil
dren in the state of Oregon who are
enrolled in Day and Residential Treat
ment (DART) Services. Johnny is among
61% of children currently served who
will be involuntarily discharged from
treatment should the proposed cuts by
CSD be implemented as planned. Due
to the impact of Measure 5, CSD has
been placed in the position of eliminat
ing services to any children whom they
are not mandated to serve under the
Title XIX program (Welfare Eligible).
CSD is proposing to reduce the budget
in several ways by cutting the budget
16.5% for all DART programs; by fund
ing only the children on welfare; by
transferring the administration of the
DART Programs to the Department of
Mental Health and by channeling all
referrals for Day Treatment through
the EPSDT (Early Periodic Screening
Diagnosis and Treatment) system.
Should these policies be implemented
63% of the children currently served
throughout the state in the DART pro
grams would be without service (those
who are not on welfare). Several pro
grams throughout the state who do not
have any welfare recipients in their
programs whould close.
It is not certain how the services
for those children who are not on Wel
fare would be provided. The public
schools and the Department o f Mental
Health are already struggling to pro
vide services at the current level. Cer
tainly the children deserve to be treated
in a therapeutic setting that prevents
them from eventually becoming part of
the residential care system or the juve
nile justice system.
We are asking the legislature of
the State of Oregon to consider the long
term effect of the elimination of these
treatment services from the state. The
most needy children would be elim i
nated from treatment, approximately
75% of the programs, located primarily
in the rural and hard to reach areas of
Oregon, would be eliminated as they
would be unable to operate with the
limited number of eligible children in
their programs.
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CHEAPER
T H A N “CHECKING
ACCOUNT.
Cash your check at a place like this every
week and it'll run you about $2.50. Buy
five money orders at sixty-five cents apiece
and you're spending well over ten bucks
every month just to use your money.
Which isn't exactly cheap, but it’s prob
ably less than what a bank charges, right?
A t U.S. Bank, you can have a checking
account for as little as three bucks a month.
Which means you can cash your paychecks
for free and write up to twelve checks a
month. After that it costs fifty cents a pop.
So why are we doing this? Because one
thing we realize in these tight financial
times is that we're
all in this together. 1 U » S .| B A IM K ..
Ç 1991 United States National Bank o f Oregon. Member F.D.I.C.