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T he P ortland O bserver • F ebruary 09, 1994
The Gladys McCoy Academy:
A Study In Commitment
Continued from Metro
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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 .”
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