J uly 9, 1997 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Family ties Get to our young before the courts do
m M arian W right E delman
Frieda Murray o f northeast Portland enjoys a July 4th picnic
at Blue Lake Park with her family, including grandson. Gary
and granddaughter-in-law, Cynthia.
OPERATION
FRONTLINE
FACTS
Operation Frontline is share Our
Strength's (SOS) nutrition edu
cation and food budgeting pro
gram that connects chefs with
people who are at risk of poor
nutrition and hunger.
Cooking & Nutrition:
Operation Frontline chefs are
trained by SOS and serve in teams as
volunteer teachers. The six week
cooking classes, which serve people
who are struggling to feed their fami
lies on limited incomes, are taught
in nonprofit community centers.
Each class focuses on a theme in
cluding shopping smart and eating
more fruits and vegetables. Chefs
add their own creative touch with
low cost, nutritious recipes they cre
ate and demonstrate for participants,
who are recruited by the community
centers and leave each class with the
ingredients to try the meal at home
Operation Frontline classes are
currently running in Baltimore,
Boston. Burlington, Chicago, Dal
las, Denver, Detroit, New Y ork City,
Providence, Portland, Seattle and
Washington DC. Over five thou
sand people have participated in
Operation Frontline classes since its
start in the fall of 1993. The pro
gram is scheduled toexpand to Phila
delphia by spring 1997.
Amid the public hysteria about
“rising" juvenile crime rates and
politicians’ please for harsher pen
alties against young law-breakers.
New York Supreme Court Justice
Gloria Dabiri is starting to hear a
different response to crime.
“ I think more and more police
officers and prosecutors are un
derstanding that it will take more
than punishment to address youth
crime,” says Judge Dabiri, a mem
ber of the Black Community Cru
sade for Children’s (BCCC) Juve
nile and Family Court Judges’
Leadership Council. “ I spoke at a
National Prosecutors Association
recently, and the title of the meet
ing was C om bating Juvenile
Crime through Prevention It's
nice to see the district attorneys of
major cities and others beginning
to understand that it’s part of the
job to address this issue before our
children end up in court.”
Still, the government’s response
to juvenile crime tends to be “too
punitive," Judge Dabiri notes, re
flecting on much of the legislation
Families Needed To
Host Foreign High
School Students
Foreign high school students will he arriving into the local area for
homestay programs for the 1997-98 school year and Pacific Intercul
tural Exchange (P.LE.) urgently need local volunteer host families.
P.l.E. is a non-profit educational organization. The students are all
between the ages of 15 and 18 years. They bring their own spending
money, have full medical insurance and are anxious to share their
cultural experiences with their new American families. P.I.E.’s aca
demic homestays range in length from one semester to a full academic
year, while the students attend local high schools.
P.LE. representatives match students with host families by finding
common interests and lifestyles through an informal in-home meeting.
Prospective host families are able to review student applications and
select the “perfect match”. As there are no “typical” host families,
P.LE. can fit a student into just about any situation, whether it be a
single parent, a childless couple, a retired couple or a large family.
For 1997-98, P.LE. has students from Spain, Germany, Brazil, China,
Russia, Croatia, Poland, Finland, and other countries. P.LE. has
sponsored more than 13,000 students from 18 countries since its
founding in 1975.
Families interested in learning more about hosting, should call Teresa
Knapp at 1-800-894-7633 or our International Headquarters at 1-888-
Pl E-USA 1.
P.LE. thanks families for opening your hearts and homes!
Educating Children:
Kids Up Front, a partnership with
Kraft Foods, is the children's com
ponent of Operation Frontline that
builds on the success of the adult
program and helps children at risk
of hunger make better food choices
and improve their diets in the long
term The program provides hands-
on activities for children in Boston,
Chicago, Seattle and Washington,
DC.
Fur more information call 202-
393-2925.
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floating around Congress. “We know
the kinds of things that place kids at
risk, but we aren’t addressing them.
We know children need adult super
vision, and that we need to address
truancy, abuse, and neglect. We
know that we need more after-school
programs that build relationships
between kids and adults."
Judge Dabiri is right. Too many
politicians focus on the immediate
political reward for "getting tough”
with young offenders. They ignore
the long-term societal benefits from
investing in ways to keep young
people out of trouble, and turn them
back into productive citizens when
they do enter the court system.
Now, Congress is under pressure
to pass another “tough on crime”
bill targeting young people. One
piece of that bill already has passed
in the House, the Juvenile Crime
Control Act, which provides $500
million a year for states to punish
young offenders, provides for try ing
more children in adult courts, and
devotes not a penny to prevention.
Also awaiting passage is a second
House bill that threatens to under-
mine the Juvenile Justice and Delin
quency Prevention Act o f 1974,
which is the primary grant the fed
eral government allocates to states
to run juvenile courts, with such
existing conditions as states must
protect truants and runaways from
unjustified incarceration, and juve
nile delinquents from incarceration
with adults. On the Senate side, yet
another bill includes certain harm
ful provisions similar to the two
House bills. All three pieces of leg
islation fail to invest adequately in
preventing and emphasize trying
children as adults and imprisoning
children with adults. A comprehen
sive bill, based to some degree on all
three measures, is expected by mid
summer.
Something is wrong with the val
ues o f a nation that would rather
spend $30,000 to lock our children
up after they get into trouble and
won’t spend 3,000 to give them a
Head Start. And something is wrong
with us if we do not fight the
criminalization of our youths and
their need for positive alternatives to
the streets: jobs, after-school pro-
C h o r e W a rs
“That shows that
men might be from
Mars, but women
live in the real
world,” commented
E leanor
Holm es
Norton, the D.C. Del
egate totheU.S. House
of Representatives.
To the Contrary is an
all-w o m e n ’s
news
analysts show that airs
weekly on 250 stations
nationwide before an au
dience of a million view
ers. To the Contrary is a
platform for the voices of
women of all ethnic back
grounds and political philosophies to
speak out on the major issues of the
day that affect women, children,
and families.
Men and women both think
household chores are shared fairly,
but women are less sanguine about
the arrangement. Married men say
household chores are shared fairly
by a 71% to 16% margin. Sixty
percent (60%) of married women
agree, 32% do not. Meanwhile. 78% ol
married men who say that chores are not
split equally concede that their wives do more
ol the chores.
lender Gap on Question
f Who Does Housework:
Vho Has the Better Deal...
Zien? or Women?
It’s the nineties, but men
nd women still have; difler-
nt views on who does the
louse work...and who has the
letter deal overall.
A Maricopa Research/To the
Contrary poll found that 65% ot
named men say they split house-
lold chores equally with their
pouses. but only 47% of married
vomen agree. “I wonder what
aundry day is like in the 18% ol
louseholds where spouses disagree
in this point,” quipped To the Con-
rary host Bonnie Erbe.
The survey also found that most women
52%) say men have a better deal in the
overall relationship between men and
vomen. However, most men (52%)
»ay either that women have a better
Jeal or that neither gender has an
;dge. Overall, women say that
men have the edge by
a4-to-l margin (52%
to 13%) while men
see it as a much closer
call...35% to 24% (35% ol
men think they have a better deal while
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It's National Night Out—
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Violence is a real threat in
today’s society and we should be
concerned about it. Children are
among the most likely of all age
groups to be the victims of vio
lence. And one out o f every two
children murdered in America is a
Black child, even though Black
children make up only 15 percent
of the juvenile population.
But we need to make sure that
our concern over crime doesn’t
force us to forget that these are
still our children. They are 10
times more likely to be victims of
violent crime than to be arrested
for a violent crime. Also, while
violent crime by youths is still too
high, it dropped 2.9 percent be
tween 1994 and 1995, the first
decline in a decade. Homicide by
youths fell 15.2 percent between
1994 and 1995.
It wastes more energy, and more
money, to come up with stricter
punishments than it does to join
forces on the measures we know
reduce crime and broaden oppor
tunities for young people.
Neighborhood crime prevention volunteers promoted National Night Out in the
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