Thursday, September 4, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
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With its new name and leadership, the Pélathé Community Resource Center faces ongoing change.
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Changes come to Indian center
The center, formerly known as the Lawrence Indian Center, continues to offer services, including a food pantry, job training, community-resource referrals and cultural programs focusing on Native Americans.
"How the center got its new name is actually an interesting story," said David Cade, executive director of the center. "Pélathe was a Shawnee Indian scout."
The center adopted its new name in May.
Pelathé Community Resource Center
But the center also is looking to expand its reach with the help of a membership drive and a new director.
Where: 1423 Haskell Ave.
Who: David Cade, executive director
Phone: 841-7202
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday
"We are funded by the United Way and other grants but not having a program like 'Friends' is one of the weaknesses we have had to face." Cade said.
Yancey and Paesani would work at the center 16 to 20 hours a week through the end of the academic year.
Cade said that Pelathé was the lone scout who rode from Kansas City to Lawrence in 1863 to warn citizens of Quantrill's raiders and that Pelathé's willingness to aid others fit the center's mission.
Friends of the center will receive a quarterly newsletter, be informed of its cultural-recreational programs and may receive reduced entry fees to center events, Cade said.
availability of resources for minorities to the center.
"I'd like to think I came in here with only the shell of a program to work with last winter," Cade said. "Our staff and our board has been very successful in rebuilding this program. We have more diverse people with good skills and expertise."
He also said the center would try to have some member-only programs once people responded to the membership campaign.
To increase program funding, the center has launched a membership campaign called Friends of the Pélathé Community Resource Center.
Cade took over as full-time executive director in December.
The campaign is designed to create awareness by bringing Native Americans and others who have concerns about the
Two student interns from the University of Kansas, Jean Yancey, St. Louis senior, and Patrick Paesani, Albuquerque, N.M., graduate student, will work at the center this fall.
Bret Dillingham, board member and social-work field instructor for the center, said
"They will be responsible for doing direct-line services, helping to develop and facilitate new programs that may not start until next year," Dillingham said. "They will have a chance to do some hands on with programs they create next semester."
Social-welfare students volunteer, earn credit
By Ann Premer
apremer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Course combines service, homework
Amy Griggs, director of the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, 2518 Ridge Court Road, spoke to the class about their options for fulfilling a 20- to 30-hour volunteer requirement for their course, Social Welfare in American Society.
A social-welfare class turned into a volunteer network center yesterday morning when a local volunteer coordinator briefed the class on volunteer opportunities.
"It doesn't matter why you volunteer," Griges said. "It's that you do."
Students with a course requirement for volunteer work are well-received by volunteer organizations, Griggs said.
Alia Ahmed, class instructor and social worker, said many of her students were already involved in volunteer work but that others needed help finding a volunteer organization.
"I didn't know about any of the organizations," Karen Zeitman, Dallas senior, said. "I had no idea that we even had half of these organizations in Lawrence."
Griggs and the students discussed some of the 150 volunteer organizations in Lawrence, where the center places volunteers.
"Use this experience to learn about what you want to do," Griggs said.
"Volunteering is a good experience for them," Ahmed said. "It gives them an opportunity to see the different areas that they can work in."
Nearly every interest was covered as Griggs talked about organizations that helped seniors, children, troubled teens, families and AIDS patients, as well as others.
Griggs told students to choose an interest and then to test the water.
She said that if a certain volunteer situation did not work out, students should try another organization.
Griggs told students that their volunteer work was a good way to get in the work force and possibly start a career.
"That is my theme," she said. "Volunteering is a way to get a job and experience."
She said that her volunteer work at the center helped her get the job as director a year and a half ago.
Grigs said students should get an early start finding a volunteer organization because many had screening processes that took several weeks to several months.
Other requirements of some volunteer organizations include training or a tuberculosis test.
For example, volunteers at Headquarters Counseling Center, 1419 Massachusetts St..must complete 100 training hours before they can volunteer with cases, Griggs said.
Some organizations require a larger time commitment than others.
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