Spilyay tymoo., January 08, 1979, Page 6, Image 6

PAGE 6 JANUARY 8, 1979
Students Spend Christmas Vacation Working
Nine high school and college
students beat the boredom of
Christmas vacation by earning a
few dollars and gaining work
experience. Under the CETA
Youth Employment Training
Program the students took to the
streets and offices for six days,
learning responsibility while con­
tributing to the community.
Coordinator Danny Martinez *
was enthusiastic about student
involvment in the
program,
which is new this year. An­
nouncements of employment op­
portunities were made by coun­
selor Ron Pinkham at the high
school and students volunteered
as soon as school was out.
Martinez rolled
up his
sleeves and worked along with
his clean-up crew as they tackled
roadside debris. Surprised by the
number of pickup loads they
were sending off to the dump and
the value of some of their finds,
the boys soon became enter­
prising. The bottles were turned
to cash and they joked about
selling auto parts to a local
wrecking yard.
Happy to be outside working,
Nathan Jim, Jr. said that if it
were not for the vacation pro­
gram he would probably be home
“just sitting around and looking
at my dumb presents.”
In the tribal offices, fresh­
man Vesta Johnson longed to be
outside but was busily occupied
at a typewriter using skills pick­
ed up at school. Even though
office work is the “last thing”
she’ll ever do, according to
Vesta, she was enjoying her first
job and looked forward to being
able to pay her mom back for a
pair of tennis shoes.
Junior Annette Jim thought
that filing for the education de­
partment was “fun” and college
sophomore Carmela Scott jug­
gled figures in the accounting
department to earn money for
the horse she wanted to buy.
All the students, aged 14-21,
earned $2.65 an hour for their
work. But the additional pay-off
was in training received on the
job and the experience of an 8-5
work schedule.
SEASON FOR SCAVENGING - (above) - Bottles gathered by Charles Frank as part of the vacation work
program clean-up crew produced a little extra cash for him and his partners. The program was funded by
CETA with leftover YTEP monies.
CHRISTMAS CALCULATING - (left) - College sophomore Carmela Scott spent her Christmas vacation
adding figures and otherwise assisting in the tribal accounting department
Spilyay Tymoo Photos by CDS
Health Needs Assessment Survey To Be Underway
On November 17, a health
workshop was held to develop a
Health and Social Services needs
assessment survey
question­
naire. The questionnaire will be
applied to randomly-selected
community members shortly
after Tribal Council approval,
and Health Planner, Sal Sahme,
expects an analysis of the find­
ings to be completed in early
February.
Involving a broad represen­
tation of the community, parti­
cipants of the workshop were on
hand to help compile the survey
questionnaire and included stu­
dents, management, providers,
consumers, elders, and Tribal
Council members (who were
placed with the elders).
The questionnaire is to help
the community identify and plan
for major health and social
service program needs. The an­
swers will hopefully expose i
shortcomings and tell what kind
of job the Tribe, Indian Health
Service, and the Bureau of In­
dian Affairs are doing in provid­
ing health and social services to
the Warm Springs community.
There are four areas in
which the survey questions will
request answers: (1) Quality of
service or how good or bad the
existing services are; (2) What
are our present and future spe­
cific health and social services
needs?; (3) Are we organized
correctly in respect to adding,
subtracting, or renewing a parti­
cular kind of program, service,
or building?; and (4) How acces­
sible are the services to the com­
munity or is the community
aware of the services and do they
use it?
“This survey will give our
community the opportunity to
have involvement and direct
input into how future health and
social services are provided to
our community,” said Sahme.
Sahme explained that this was
because he hasn’t* acquired the
technical experience needed yet.
Dr. Jacobs and Audra Pam­
brun are both Indian people from
the White Cloud Center at the
University of Oregon Medical
School in Eugene, according to
Sahme.
In identifying the gap of
what is already being provided
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“Obviously there are things
wrong with the existing services
and programs,” he continued,
“and it didn’t happen overnight
that these programs happened to
be this way. So it’s going to take
just as long to make better and
change those problems.”
After the surveys are com­
pleted and the findings are in,:
Sahme, Dr. Dave Jacobs, and
Audra Pambrun, will be writing
up the analysis. Sahme advised
the Health and Welfare Com­
mittee that he is utilizing Jacobs
and Pambrun’s services only for
resource purposes and not to
dictate what they feel is right.
DESIGNERS - Members of the Health and Welfare Committee as well as others from the community
joined Sal Sahme (right) in preparing a questionnaire to assess health needs on the reservation.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by CDS