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Clinton Announces $850Million
in Assistance to Help More Than
330,000 Homeless Americans
B A LTIM O R E - President
Clinton today announced $850 mil
lion in grants to help more than
330,000 homeless Americans get
housing, job training, child care,
mental health service and substance
abuse treatment so they can move
from homelessness to self-suffi
ciency.
The assistance announced today
will go to more than 300 communi
ties, all 50 state governments, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
and American territories. In addi
tion, more than 1,000 non-profit
organizations such as the Salvation
Army, Volunteers of America and
Catholic Chanties will receive find
ing for homeless assistance pro
grams.
“The President’s policies rec
ognize that if we provide home
less people with the help they
need, they can overcome their
problems and work their way out
o f poverty,” Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Andrew
Cuomo said. “I have met men and
women across this nation who
would be dead today or would be
living on the streets if not for our
programs.”
A total of $700 million of the
HUD assistance is targeted to 1,420
long-term programs to help indi
viduals and families permanently
end their homeless status, as part of
HUD ’ s Continuum of Care approach
to homelessness.
Programs funded by the Con
tinuum of Care grants will provide
transitional and permanent housing
assistance and will help people over
come problems that can lead to
homelessness, such as a lack of ba
sic education and job skills, mental
illness and drug addiction. The
grants are awarded to states, local
governments and non-profit groups
based on a number of factors that
measure the effectiveness of plans
homeless people become self-suf
ficient.
“Every homeless person has a
story of enormous personal tragedy
and incredible hardship,” cuomo
said. “Helping these men, women
and children rebuild their lives isn’t
easy, but it’s one of the most impor
tant investments we can make it. It’s
an investment that says America is
the land of opportunity not just some
of us, but for all us.”
Communities submit Continuum
of Care plans to HUD that reflect
efforts to address the complexities
of homelessness through a range
o f housing and services. This ser
vice have a short-term goal o f pro
viding emergency assistance and
assessment of a homeless person’s
needs and a long-term goal o f help
ing the person to obtain permanent
housing and become self-suffi
cient.
Cuomo said the Continuum of
Care plans to HUD that reflect ef
forts to address the complexities
of homelessness through a range
ofhousing and service. The serv ice
have a short term goal o f providing
emergency assistance and assess
ment of a homeless person’s needs
and a long-term goal of helping the
person to obtain permanent hous
ing and become self-sufficient.
A C o lu m b ia U n i v e r s it y
study co n cluded th at H U D ’s
hom eless p o licies sp elled out
in the C o n tin u u m o f C are
“ have had a p o sitiv e im pact on
c o m m u n itie s a c ro ss the n a
tio n ” and w ere an im provem ent
from p ast effo rts that focused
on sh o rt-term em ergency s h e l
ter.
New Weapon Against Cancer
P O R T L A N D , O re .- P rovi
dence St. V incent M edical C en
ter has a new weapon against can
cer that is dram atically altering
how physicians treat their p a
tients.
The first v ariation o f PET
(P ositron Em ission T om ogra
phy) scanning, a nuclear m edi
cine im aging system , is now
a v a ila b le at P ro v id e n c e St.
V incent. PET scanning uses ra
dioisotopes in order to produce
im ag es o f m etab o lic or b io
chemical activity within patients.
In cancer patients, m alignant tu
mors usually have a greater m eta
bolic activity than norm al tissue
Wyden Named
To Serve As
Top Democrat
On Forestry
And Public
Lands Panel
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-
Ore.) was chosen to serve as the
Ranking Democrat on the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources
Committee’s Subcommittee on For
ests and Public Land Management.
The Subcommittee is chaired by
Republican Senator Larry Craig of
Idaho.
"This is going to present a great
opportunity to develop policies to
form what I’ve called the "Third Path
Through the Woods:, said Wyden,
“protecting our natural treasures
while still giving timber workers
and their families the opportunity to
do well. I’m looking forward to
working with Chairman Larry Craig
in a bipartisan way to try to get be
yond the divisive debates of the past
and find common ground that helps
our region keep and build upon our
remarkable quality of life."
The Subcommittee has jurisdic
tion for all legislation relating to
public lands administered by the
Bureau of Land Management and
the U.S. Forest Service, as well as
continuing oversight of those agen
cies. Wyden has served on the Sub
committee since his election to the
Senate.
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and this can be detected by the
new scanning procedure-a major
breakthrough for cancer patients
and the physicians who treat them.
Some patients w ho’ve had heart
trouble also m ay benefit from
test.
Forthescan, fluorodeoxyglucose
(FDG) is injected intravenously into
patients. The 90-minute scan is per
formed an hour later with the patient
lying flat on a table.
T he sc a n ca n d e te rm in e
w hether a potentially abnormal
region in a patient shows what is
known as FDG uptake (increas
ing the probability o f cancer) or
if it does not (as in benign condi-
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