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Show na Page 3 Guest Editorial Letter Open (Submitted by Mrs. Zoe Harris, Utah Association for Mental Health. Originally distributed by the National so the residents of each area can by Viola Laxton hate to see Community Action Programs and the Model Cities Program discontinued. While Model Cities is scheduled for another year, we should now take full advantage of this fact. This program, through the task forces has taught residents how to express themselves, how to set goals and plan projects. Model Cities contributed many programs to the area to e families better help themselves. The Community Action Program has organized councils I low-incom- meet and discuss their needs and problems. This in turn improves the community as councils set goals and plan programs to fill Association for Mental Health.) needs. CAP helps residents accomplish their goals. The councils are really losing a valuable friend when CAP is behavior and attitudes in relation to issues that directly affect them and their families. Mental illness, phased out. We have learned how to work with agencies and the commissioners these last few hope this association will continue. Another benefit from I years. these programs has been employment for low-incom- e residents. The American public beginning to cease its ostrich-like Be A Saturday Hero. boy needs someone to look up to. You can be that someone A any day of the week. Call School Needs 2 Hil! School operates largely on volunteer help and donated materials. It needs many things to enhance its educational program. Check the following list and see if you can help in any way. The School needs: a school bus or truck -- - a playground lot or area mu si cal instruments: especially a Brother. June 30, paper discontinue athletic equipment: balls, - bats, nets, rackets - a ping pong table, a pool table educational games a tape recorder - tents - a water dispenser for the -- paints, charcoals, water colors, acrylics, oils, crayons building supplies: pencils vacuum cleaner Suggestions about possible sources can be as valuable as the contribution itself. If there is anything you can do please call Marmalade Hill at 359-802during any school day between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Library neighborhood news Publication is a publication of the Communications Service Center, Inc., under the direction of the Joint Board of City and County with editorial offices located at 383 East 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. throughout the country. However, it is clear that Program Neighborhood of the News is made partially possible through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a guaranteed distribution of 30,000 copies. For further information, 467-801- 4. Published by the Communications Service Center, Inc. Marlene Marie Young, Editor and Director Tim Funk, Staff Reporter Lynn Westberg - Graphics Donald Young - Photographer Weldon C. Matthews, Advertising call The Salt Lake City Public Library is pleased to announce another program in its Readings in Poetry and Prose series. On Thursday, April 19, Earl Ganz will read selections from his short stories and other prose works in the Lecture Hall of the Main Library at 8:00 p.m. Earl Ganz was born in Brooklyn and attended Tufts, Harvard and Cornell Universities. He left graduate school in 1958 and held many different jobs, including those of theatre manager. In 1963 he joined the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was the first recipient of the special Paul Engle Writers' Fellowship. He has been the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Montana Writers' Workshop and is currently enjoying visiting professor status at the University of Utah where he is teaching creative writing and contemporary fiction. Dr. Ganz has had over fifteen Joint Board of Commissioners Jake Gam, Chairman Distribution by Reliable Courier and mail. short stories published in numerous periodicals including New World Writing, Iowa Review, the Malahat Review, and the Mediterranean Review. everyone in the country. It is estimated that 21 million (one in four) families are directly affected by mental illness. CMHCs provide treatment services close to home. Most patients are treated on an outpatient basis, rather than being institutionalized in large, impersonal and remote state mental hospitals. Services are offered on ability to pay. treated implying a limited commitment by the Federal government to complete a network of CMHCs Special availability of services to funding for new demonstration program, Offers gradually at a pace made possible by Federal appropriations under the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. Presently, there are fewer than 500 Centers, serving 30 of the population. The goal has been revised to 1500 Centers by 1 980, which will mean 973, and will HEW Secretary Casper Weinberger referred to the federal financing of Centers as a 3 salt lake 1 program has been growing Treatment is usually shorter and, therefore, less costly. In 1970, 13 of all mental patients were Centers. -- -- art supplies: tempera Commissioners Administration h3s stated that it will not support renewal of the Centers legislation which expires masking tape, marking pens, tuba, guitar, The Neighborhood News funds. Therefore, the mousie autoharp, ukelele, and rhythm instruments - Administration suggests that the Centers program has proved so successful that there is no longer any need for federal matching 1 Be A Big for centuries considered a taboo subject, is at long last emerging from the hidden recesses of fear and superstition. It is becoming a subject for open discussion and most families no longer feel the need to hide away a relative who is suffering from mental illness. The Community Mental Health Center (CMHC), as a treatment facility, is a means of further breaking down the barriers of myth and prejudice. The Nixon 36 today. Be a hero. 486-- Donated Supplies Maramalade is drafting the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, stated on January 7, 1967 in Seriate Report 90 - 294, "Our goal for complete coverage is 2,000 centers, but we will fund only 286 CMHCs by the end of the year." Up until now, the CMHC the 225 existing Centers. One of the Administration's reasons for the cut in the CMHC program is that it creates inequities in the mental health care delivery system, since people served by the Centers receive better care than the rest of the nation. The obvious answer is not to discontinue funding of the in Congress' intent was to provide CMHC coverage for the total nation. Senator Lister Hill, who program, but to continue played an important role coverage. in providing federal "seed" funds until there it total national The Central City Neighborhood Council is organizing a campaign to save summer school. Mass Meeting April 6, Monday 7:00 p.m. Summer School Auditorium Come and join your neighbors to save the school for people! 1 |