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P age B7 T he P ortland O bserver • F ebruary 09, 1994 The Gladys McCoy Academy: A Study In Commitment Continued from Metro ▲ hanccnicnt, Inc. (SEI), who is her personal mentor. The kids think Ms Bradley is very hip! First of all, they call her “M arcy” and get away with it. Secondly, on those occasions when they are se n t to the principal’s office, they can count on Marcy playing some good hip hop or positive rap music in the background. However, in spite of this easy going style, academics is number one at the McCoy Acad emy. Fifty percent of the teaching staff have Master degrees and the other have Bachelors in such sub jects as m athem atics, science, history, etc. Says Bradley, “I sin cerely believe that they (kids) have as much or more potential than any of us. If they just learn to love themselves, or should I say, we must teach them to love them selves and let them know how special they are, then they are going to be okay ... I don’t think that I can survive on the street the way many of them have, that must mean they got something 1 don’t have.” The Gladys McCoy Academy is a program of Oregon Outreach, Incorporated (OOI). 0 0 1 was founded by Becky Black five years ago to work with high risk youth in the area of employment and education. Although the organi zation has a budget of less than $500,000 annually, including the Academy, last year OOI provided education and employment ser vices to 2359 youth! A rem ark able feat for any organization, let alone a small agency such as OOI. The Gladys McCoy Academy is planning an open house in the near future. The projected date is late February or early March. According to Ms. Black a few more minor repairs need to be made and funds are needed to com plete those rep airs. Says Becky Black, “ We take pride in attempting to stretch taxpayers’ dollars as far as humanly pos sible. Our cost per youth served at McCoy is right at $20.00 per youth which includes a summer pro gram, drug and alcohol counsel ing and employment assistance. This is equal to the average stu dent cost for the state of Oregon school system .” Continues Ms. Black, “There may be a percep tion that because we serve so many youth we must have lots of money, but the real truth is that we are struggling financially, just like the next program. But we arc com mitted to serving every kid that needs us.” What makes the partnership work is that each partnership works within the realm of their total nutrition Smart ways to satisfy a sweet tooth particular expertise. And the other partners are humble enough to defer to that expertise when the need arises. Oregon Outreach pro vides most of the teachers and teaching curriculum. Mainstream provides substance abuse coun seling and treatm ent, and Yaun provides adm inistrative and gen eral counseling support. The McCoy Academy does not see itself as a cure-all, but rather an im portantpartof a larger com munity effort. Admits Black, “ In the beginning I b eliev ed the naysayers who said these kids did not want to learn or attend school. But my experience in the last five years has proven such beliefs to be wrong over and over again. Not only do these kids desire to learn and attend school but share all of the other aspirations of a normal teenager. What we have to do is to be patient and provide the educational options that works best for them .” To get more information on the McCoy Academ y, contact Marcy Bradley at 281-9597 or Becky Black at 287-0823. Con cludes Ms. Black, “The McCoy Academy is just one option. We know there are others who are working ju st as hard such as AYOS, POIC, CWAC, SEI, Ur ban League and Jefferson Acad emies to mention just a few .” Opportunities Available For Older Adults! If you are 60 or older, on limited income ($726 or less) and would ben efit from a meaningful experience, consider the Foster Grandparent or Senior Companion Programs today! F o s te r G ra n d p a re n ts are matched with children in Head Start Programs, day care centers, public schools and hospitals. They help tutor, assist in physical therapy or just befriend a child who needs a supportive ear, Senior Companions are matched with at risk adults in Multnomah County private homes where they may be providing home care after a hospi tal stay, monitor activities of daily living on behalf of their clients or provide information and referral. The rewards of both the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Programs are numerous and include a $200.00 tax-free allowance, daily meal, transportation costs, paid time off and sick leave.Foster Grandpar ent training has been scheduled in early February. 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