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Monday, July 2, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Delinquents Get Another Chance
'Home' Offers Time to Readjust
By JOHN A. KING
Kansan Staff Writer
In Lawrence, there is a family-style boy's home called Achievement Place, which offers much more to the juvenile delinquent than the traditional tail.
Achievement Place Is a Boys' Home with a Difference
The house is large and offers the boys a feeling of belonging to a family rather than an environment.
Wille Brown and his wife, Linda, are in charge of the experiment and are known as **training**.
BROWN SAID Wednesday that Achievement Place, 1320 Haskell, was started in 1966 by the city. He said the people who started Achievement Place would have with the problems encountered by children in the school, in school and with the police.
Achievement Place was started as a permanent foster home, Brown said, and began to develop a program to teach the boys how to cope with social problems.
He said that the program now emphasized professional teaching parents, "who become, in effect, second parents to the kids."
Brown said that, Elroy Phillips, a KU graduate student in human development, and Phillips' wife were the first house parents.
THE BOYS COME to Achievement Place on the recommendation of social workers or other staff members.
He said the courts remained in close contact with the boys progress while they were at Achievement Place and evaluated the program every few months.
Welfare agencies, parents, teachers and
court fill out evaluation sheets on the boys.
We try to correct those areas that may be mistaken.
ACHIEVEMENT PLACE also works with the parents, who fill out home notes on the children when they visit their homes on weekends.
Jaycee Firework Display Planned for July Fourth
This year the Lawrence Jaceys will offer with variety and excitement in their Fourth Annual Workshop.
Larry Sims, president of the Jayces, said he had invited Julie to a celebration would have signaled the end of their relationship.
Members of the Skydiving Club will jump south of Allen Field House at 6 p.m.
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Joseph Plumb Jr., a former prisoner of war, Senator Larry Winn and other state officials will land by the end of this month, and will then come to Memorial Stadium.
The Lawrence National Guard will be the color guard, dressed in Civil War and mod-
ifications.
Plumb, who is from Lecompton and Overland Park, will give a speech at 7 p.m. Albert Gerken will play the Carillon and the Lawrence Indian Club will also entertain
The National Sports Car Club will also show some cars in the parking lot of the station.
Two bands will provide the music for the evening. The Lawrence Community Concert Band will present the marches of John Stokes and Rock band will play some contemporary music.
The fireworks will begin at 9 p.m. in Memorial Stadium and will last for about an hour. Sims said the fireworks were estimated at a retail value of $2,800.
Tickets for the celebration are 75 cents in advance and $1 at the gate.
The Baldwin Jaycees are also making preparations for a Fourth of July concert.
Gary Ebey, president of the Jayes,
said the show would take place at Baker
University's stadium as it had in past years.
But this year, he said, the fireworks display
will be bigger than last year and will last
two hours.
The Jaycees will also have a barbecue dinner. They will set up the hamburger stand at 6 p.m., the Wellsville Jaycees will bring the watermelon and the Baldwin High School cheerleaders will provide the ice cream.
Legal sales of worksbegan Wednesday in most parts of Kansas and will continue through July 5. In Douglas County sales are restricted to July 24 between 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. They can not be sold in Lawrence, Eindora or the business district of Baldwin.
"We counsel the parents," Brown said, and we try to teach the parents different ways of communicating.
There is no set program for every boy who comes to Achievement Place, but it is set up that way.
Achievement Place is run on what Brown called a token economy. In exchange for their work, the boys receive points with which they "buy privileges. If a boy does something wrong or does not do his work, he loses points.
MOST BOSY remain at Achievement Place for a period ranging from nine months to three years, the length of their stay depending upon their progress. They are never fully discharged until their 18th birthday and there is a continuous follow up until that time.
Brown said the three major problems that led directly to a boy's being sent to Achievement Place were problems in school, problems with parents and police contact, which most frequently led to a boy's runaway away from home.
The boys have free time in the afternoon when they may check out and go any place in Lawrence where they can be reached, Brown said.
"IF THEY AREGING to go out and get into trouble, said Brown, "now the time is up."
He said that alternatives to Achievement Place were few, and were primarily limited to low-income students.
Most boys coming to Achievement Place are between 12 and 16. Brown said.
BROWN SAID achievement Place did not take the boys away from surroundings that may have placed them in the program in the first place. They attend their regular schools and the teacher reports on their behavior. The boys learn to cope with their
problems, "stay in school and make higher grades." said Brown.
According to Brown, the idea for an Achievement Place has to originate from the community and be community controlled.
The input should be from the community." he said.
Where the boys' problems with police, parents and teachers had originated.
Brown said he had held training workshops for people from around the country. The workshops are conducted when there are enough people available to start one, which is usually every 4 months, be said.
The boys are given a feeling of being an actual part of Achievement Place through family conferences after dinner every evening. After dinner there is a discussion, a meeting, and a number of days of the day and the boys vote on every issue brought up during the conference.
The Neighborhood Development Program will begin to repair street lighting, sidewalks and in East Lawrence this winter, which is urban renewal director, said Saturday.
Schaake said that the program would include the replacement of old street lights with mercury vapor lights, the placement of street lights in the middle of blocks, the improvement of alleys and the repair of sidewalks.
SCHAKE SAID that the surface conditions of the alleys varied from good to poor. Alley surfaced with concrete will be repaired either by overlapping them with asphalt or by repairing the holes with concrete.
The East Lawrence Improvement Assn.
received $50,000 from city revenue-sharing funds and will finance the work with that money, he said.
Former KU, Haskell Instructor Gets Position in Maryland
Patton received a degree in speech communication and human relations at the University of Kansas and continued here to be an executive officer of Women's Rights at KU for one year.
While in school, she married Robert
Patton has done extensive work in the women's movement, all of it voluntary. She formed the Lawrence chapter of NOW and is presently state coordinator.
Bonnie Patton, state coordinator of the National Organization of Women (NOW), was recently appointed executive director of the WOMEN Coalition, Commission on the Status of Women.
She also setup the Speech Communication Association Women's Caucus. Patton said women were substantially unrepresented in speech communication. speech communication.
"When women make distinctive attempts in the field they should be recognized," Patton said, explaining why she formed a committee to chairperson for its first two-year period.
Off the Hustings On the Ballot
John Conard, director of University Relations, was selected chairman of the Lawrence Postal Customers Council and Citizens Advisory Board to the local school district, both within a few days of each other.
The secret to his political success is that he missed both meetings when the elections were held.
Kansan Staff Writer.
President Nixon's signature on the Health Programs Extension Act removed approximately 65 Kansans from their jobs Saturday but provided a 12-month extension to employees of a dozen national health programs through June 1974.
Included in the extended programs are
By EARLYNNDA MEYER
E. Lawrence Repairs To Begin This Week
For RMP directors throughout the country Nixon's action may provide some assurance that his leadership will be there.
the Regional Medical Programs (RMP), a product of the Johnson administration's "Great Society." The emphasis of RMP has been heart disease, cancer, kidney diseases, strokes and other related diseases.
Act Provides Reprieve for Health Employes
By JOHN A. KING
Kansan Staff Writer
This week Condra officially takes office on the District Board of Education 497, and William F. Bradley, former board member, leaves the board after seven years.
CONDRA SAID, however, that board procedure could be improved by a greater use of the machine.
Condra was referring to what will be his first appearance at a school board meeting as a member of the board instead of an attorney in the direction of D cottonwood, Inc., or a lawyer.
Condra said his main responsibility would be to help the board continue in what he called the positive way that it has been going.
Condra to Add New Viewpoint To Local Board of Education
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He said that if there was a staff of creative, dedicated and flexible teachers.
Condra had mixed feelings on the concept of "open classrooms."
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"I cannot see why a student in the School of Education could not work in an elementary or high school setting for three hours of credit his sophomore year, five or six hours his junior year, and 15 or 18 hours his senior year," said Condra.
questions, according to Dr. Robert W. Brown. Kansas director of RMP.
unique opportunity to involve the University
Cape within the elementary and secondary
schools.
Gary Condra
"A justification of this work would be the old concerto of on-the-job-training"
Other departments of the University that Condra said he thought could be used by area schools were human development and health, housing, recreation, occupational therapy and physical therapy.
ALTOUGH THE PRESIDENT has signed the extension bill, until an appropriations bill for actual disbursement of funds to RMP must be run on a temporary basis.
the open space environment should work very well. But there are students that cannot tolerate the open space concept, he said.
Brown said RMP's mistake was that "we didn't attempt to sell ourselves until the phase out came through." Former RMP testified against extension of the program.
ACCORDING TO Condra, the board had a
Brown said last week he did not think the information was gathered merely to justify the execution.
The lack of a national health policy has caused some confusion. Brown said Congress is now faced with development of a policy.
Brown said he thought the Watereate affair did have something to do with the
"The biggest problem is that we're not well enough understood. Ours is the best method of providing assistance at the local level, and revenue sharing." Brown sad recently.
WHEN THE President's budget information was released in January, the RMP directors learned that their jobs were under threat from the directors throughout the country received phase out instructions on February 2. A phase out plan was submitted by the program to the administration on March 15, confirming the plan for the received in mid-April.
CONGRESSMEN WERE contacted and private individuals were recruited through a letter-writing campaign. A lobbyst was hired and combined efforts the group gathered supportive data for the continuation bill.
Through the joint efforts of all state directors, the continuation bill for one additional year of operation was submitted to Congress.
$81.9 billion has been allotted under the Extension Act. However, it will be some time before individual program appropriations are announced.
President signing the extension bill.
The past year, Patton has taught speech communications and human relations at the University of Chicago.
In April, Patton was awarded the Outstanding College Teacher of Speech by the Kansas Speech Association. Shortly after receiving her award, she applied for the job as director of the Montgomery County, Md., Commission on the Status of Women.
Patton, department head of Speech Communications and Human Relations.
"We don't plan to go and spend money until we have it," he said. "We'll only add staff who we know can help people in the state."
"My own personal opinion is that he
otherwise would have vetted it and forced
me to do so."
RMP remains in cold storage. Twelve months is a limited amount of time for a program designed to deal with heart disease, cancer, kidney diseases and strokes, as well as other related diseases, Brown said.
THE PHASE OUT plan submitted by Kansas in February sought support for about eight staff members through eight of their departments were to terminate employment June 30.
Patton was chosen from 300 applicants. She traveled to Montgomery County twice.
HE SAID that some of the other objectives of RMP have been to promote and foster regional linkages among health care institutions, to improve health services for persons in areas where limited services are available and to generally improve the quality and enhance the health manpower and facilities available.
Fred Pence, a city commissioner, said the reason the Lawrence City Commissioners had urged the East Lawrence Improvement Assn. to "get moving" was that the group was trying to get a plan together for the whole project before starting work.
Her job as director will be to plan, develop and coordinate the activities of the commission. Her work will include coordinating an information and referral system for all services in the County related to the needs of women, and establishing and main-tenue effective working relationships with federal, state and local government agencies.
THE COMMISSION told them to begin immediately and work out the problems as soon as possible.
Among other projects the Kansas program has devoted much of its resources to retraining inactive nurses, funding physicians' continuing education, a statewide medical library network system, a health information system, a cancer information system and coronary care courses for physicians and nurses.
"Everything is 'go' in Montgomery County," said Patton. The county provides funding for a civil rights commission, a human relations commission, Commission on the Status of Women and a consumer affairs division.
KU won't far from her mind—her executive office in Maryland will be painted on the walls.
"We want to hire people in the neighborhood and learn that it's first priority, to get them involved."
Patton's husband will remain in Lawrence.
The project will end when the money is spent or when the work is finished Schaake said. If it doesn't get finished, it will be a continuing project.
Schaeke reported that five alleys in the area bounded by Seventh, 13th, Connecticut and Delaware streets are rated "fair to bad" and could use overlapping.
HE SAID the sidewalks appeared to be fairly good condition except for grass growing between the bricks. Eighty per foot of grass are brick, he said, and are covered by grass.
KU-D cards are ready and may be packed up between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the airport.
Pence said that youths would be employed to work on the sidewalks.
Alleys that are surfaced with rock, Schaake said, were in pretty good shape. The ones that are not in good condition will be graded and the holes filled, he said.
Shaake said the main problem with alleys was the encroachment of trees and brush. He said many were overgrown and some were not maintaining their own property.
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Schaake said the sidewalks would be upgraded, repaired and replaced where needed. The brick sidewalks will be kept where possible.
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