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Thursday, October 16, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Youths find achievement in homes
Achievement Flaces, a correctional program in Lawrence for predilequent and delinquent youths, is a model that has been applied to Brazil and several areas of the States.
According to Curtis Braukmann, co-director of the project, increased interest in the Achievement Place program reflects a national movement to counterbalance institutionalization of delinquent and other problem youths.
Braunwick described projects in Oranha, Houston and North Carolina as being "pretty good."
Lawrence has Achievement Place for Boys and Achievement Place for Girls. The boys' home, founded in 1967, and the girls' home, founded in 1971, were initially sponsored by the Lawrence Depts. But now sponsored by community members.
A married couple called "teaching parents" runs each home, counseling the youths and serving as their supporters in school authorities, school authorities, school authorities and court officials.
Six to eight years from 12 to 16-years-old are in each home. Through systems of self-government and relationships developed through training, students learn to parents, the youths are taught to respond better to criticism and instruction. Jo Anne Taylor, co-director of Achievement Place for Girls, said, "The kids want to have some input in making decisions that will be responsible they give them, the more institutes they are with their progress."
During or just after dinner the teaching parents and the youths have a family
conference in which the day is evaluated and the year is chosen the chance to make sales, she said.
Taylor said youths chosen for the programs were "none who were extremely violent or who would endanger other people in the community."
"We don't take them if they don't feel that the program is one that they want to partake in."
The youths are selected for the program by a committee, which includes personnel from the courts, school and one of the teaching parents.
In addition to giving consent, both the youth and the parents must recognize the
Braunkaum said, "The primary emphasis has been to deal in a manner which would benefit the individual in the best way possible, and get him back into the natural community so that he may perform as a productive member."
The University of Kansas is involved in
programming through the department of
human development.
Susan Eck, research assistant to the project, said KU received grants to help with development, research and evaluation of programs that use in the training of teaching parents.
A lower percentage of Achievement Place youths are institutionalized after leaving the program than those who go to places such as the Youth Center for Boys in Topeka, said Kathy Kirgin, director of evacuation for the project.
In Brazil, "Houses of Eight," which are similar to Achievement Place, have been built in the 1980s. The town is named after
Montrose M. Wolf, professor of human development and co-director of the project, said, "We receive little feedback from students in our limited materials about Achievement Place."
The youths are taught social and vocational skills.
KU is given money by the government to distribute literature on the project, he said. Till now the university has paid for it.
From page one
The Achievement Place model has also been applied to 17 Kansas communities, Kansas City, Mo., Las Vegas and Chaska, Minn.
with recommendations in the report of the corporation board's committee on purpose and long-range development accepted by the board at its Sept. 27 meeting. The report stressed the necessity of increased, quater hourly preparation for incorporation of the Union to make it brighter.
The KPH reported earlier this month that it had logged 70.59 arrests per 1,000 vehicles in 1974. In 1973, there were 38.87 arrests per 1,000 vehicles.
There have been 10 traffic deaths in Douglas County so far this year, the KHP are within the city limits, the same number of deaths recorded at this time last year.
The number of fatalities on Kansas roads and highways, however, has decreased since the 55 m.p.h. limit was enacted in 1973, according to Martin. As of yesterday, 387 persons were killed in highway accidents. Three people were killed and about 510 at this time in 1973 when the speed limit was 70 m.p.h. on highways and 75 m.p.h. on the Kansas Turnpike,
City foresees no delays in obtaining garage site
The Kansas Highway Patrol is cracking down on motorists who violate the 55 m.p.h. speed limit on Kansas roads, according to KPH officials.
Lt. Col. Jim Martin said recently that there was a 38 per cent increase in the number of speeding violations in Kansas for the first time since compared to the same period in 1974.
Clanathan, city planning director, said yesterday.
Remodeling
The Lawrence City Commission is once again moving to condemn the controversial property designated as the site for the proposed city maintenance garage.
Phase two of the project would be the removal of the west-central (main) staircase. Burge said. On level four, the plans call for the construction of a bay window to protrude three to four feet on the west wall where the staircase is.
Speeding tickets up; deaths down
Part of the controversial site, located at 12th and Haskell streets, is the Rare's Garage and Auto Salvage, owned by Orville Ray, 918 E. 12th St.
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As part of an agreement with city officials, Ray also applied for a permit to rezone his property from residential to limited intensive industrial.
Ray had agreed that if the property was resold, he would sell a northern portion of it to another buyer.
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On Aug. 8, Ray sought an injunction against the city's June 17 condemnation of his property, which doesn't conform to the law, which allows his property to be condemned.
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He said that as he understood it, the contract between Ray and the city was still valid. Ray must now drop his injunction against the property condemnation, McClanahan said, because Ray's waiver of the injunction would still hold.
However, Tuesday night the city commission supported the recommendation of the planning commission and voted against rezoning the property.
UNDER THE AGREEMENT, if the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission had agreed to accept the rezoning, the city would have paid $46,000 for Ray's land and would have constructed a screen around the salvage yard. Ray would also have been compensated $7,500 for relocation of the cars on the site.
McMianlan said that since rezoning wasn't granted, the city would go back through the condemnation procedures and then proceed to the condemnation jury set for the property.
Ray declined to comment.
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The hole left by the staircase removal would be covered on each level, and the uneven floor at level five would be leveled so that access to the ballroom from the stairs could be made without descending and then immediately climbing four stairs.
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Since the central staircase is the main
Burge said the final phase of the project would be improvements of the cast access of the bridge.
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