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Show Battle Waged Standards for services are important for adequate treatment and there is a commitment from the Utah State Division of Alcohol and Drugs that there will be no money Against Drug Abuse Problems allocated to private treatment agencies that can't meet service qualifications, he said. Prevention, the other major concern of the Foundation, Anderson said, is just as important. He stated that the Foundation feels that education is by Kirk Terry In waging the battle against drug abuse, the Comprehensive Drug Treatment Project, supported in part by Model Cities funds, coordinates the drug treatment and prevention Anderson said, where the staff would respond to the individual's problem and determine the best agency to treat the condition. In this example, Anderson agencies concerned with drug continued, the addict might be sent to the Odyssey House for help. That program, he said, is a "drug free" program entailing a abuse problems. five year curriculum of James Anderson, executive secretary and administrator of the project, said that the Utah treatment. activities carried on by the community's many different Drug Foundaiton, applicant agency for the project, coordinates the various drug abuse agenices with the goal in mind of developing and delivering the most efficient and timely services to those in need with a minimum of duplication of effort and funds. The Foundation has a 24 member Board of Directors, he said, that includes staff from all the drug treatment agencies in the community. Input into the Foundation, he continued, is formed by these agency staff bringing to the community a vast not go through "cold turkey", the physical withdrawals the addict undergoes when he quit s heroin, the individual could be sent to Project Reality; that project administers Methodone as a substitute for heroin until the addict's dependence for heroin is conquered. The Crisis Center must determine first, however, said Anderson, if it is feasible for the person to receive help from the project. Should a person come to the Center with an amphetimine treatment. The general purpose of the Utah Drug Foundation, stated Anderson, is two fold, prevention himself that he needs help to overcome the problem. He would be sent to the Drug Crisis Center, For further information concerning drug abuse, contact the Drug Crisis Center, 868 McClelland Ave., 355-284- 6. problem, he continued, that better outline the addiction identifies within community's young , Anderson stated, drug abuse can find an easy victim. The Foundation is concerned with bringing about, or developing effective channels of communication between all institutions, the young, old, and agencies, in the dissemination of drug abuse information and the truth about drug abuse. By creating this kind of effective dialogue, Anderson said, the younger segment of the community can more openly accept the real facts concerning drug abuse. indicate to the Center staff, stated Anderson, that he could might be referred to Project Manhatten which offers activities of the project and the agencies, Anderson detailed what an individual who is seeking help for a drug abuse problem might encounter from the project. One case might take place, he said, when a person with heroin evils of drug abuse without actually knowing as much about the problem as do their children. When the "establishment" losses its respect in the eyes of the If he, the addict, were to amount of expertise and service representative by the large cross section of agencies served. To necessary in that the community must be knowledgeable about drug abuse. All too often, he said, parents, in their zest, will counsel their children about the News Requested From Agencies residency or outpatient The Model Neighborhood News is requesting all agencies in News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board stressed, and in the identifying of gaps in treatment services. coordination of all services, he explained, can Insured remedy, or fill gaps that might make themselves evident. of City and County Urban Development. Commissioners with editorial Housing Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Phillip R. Blomquist Stephen Harmsen Conrad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn delegates attending. The many of the special agencies on aging in all 50 states. But, charged a recent report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, the changes "have not strengthened Conference considered such the Federal programs and questions as: 1 . Should early retirement be committment in aging in any way . . . rather they have fragmented an already flawed and feeble agency still further. The situation officially encouraged or discouraged? How much income do elderly citizens need now to live with a minimum of decency? Where should the money come from? 2. Should all elderly citizens has created chaos." As just one illustration of the utter lack of national direction in this area, there are now 20 different federal agencies exempted from property attempting to run special taxes? Should workers pension special services for the elderly. In almost all cases - particularly true for the AOA - the programs reach only a be programs or provide rights be "vested" so they can take their pension credits from one job to another? Should the federal government greatly smattering of people. As another example of inadequacy, the Community Nutrition Institute increase subsidies for mass transit as it subsidizes other forms of travel little used by the elderly? The response to the Salt Lake in reduced bus rates has met with overwhelming response by Senior Citizens. The questions are profound and affect every one of us. For while most of us are not among what the National Council of Senior Citizens recently classified as the "life-lonpoor" - who have meals for elderly programs, appointments, expansion or changes in eradicate their lifelong savings; or they'll be forced to retire early on meager pension benefits. More than six years ago, when Congress passed the 1965 Older Americans Act, establishing and News is delivered to approximately 20,000 homes and also to public officials and would appreciate any million elderly poor, another 5 million among us are "near or telephoned to the delivered Model Neighborhood News office, 383 East 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115, telephone given 467-80- 1 4. They will be prompt attention. and families - have incomes of as much as $4,000. It would seem that we should look again at the older people among us and be thankful for the resources they represent. But we should also demand that there be reordering of priorities so that their needs are met and their a potentials for People Helping People. Want to help? no discrimination. The facts today shockingly mock every aspiration. about what the Pentagon spends to publicize its - military programs continued Model Cities - economic status; suitable nousing; opportunity for $44,750,000 a meaningful life be fully realized. adequate income in retirement; the best health which science can make available without regard to year ending June 30, 1972, was Call and accomplishments. 467-941- 6 The AOA has been repeatedly reorganized - as have -- individuals goals included in the law glittered and glistened. Among them; an Items may be mailed, forthcoming. American households Administration on Aging, the be information that might poor." Only one in three older will The Administration on Aging's total budget for this fiscal shut-in- s tabulations. In addition to the 5 the ambitious Federal employment with ago 65 or over lives in poverty, according to the latest census underskilled and underemployed many will fall into instant poverty when they become old. Millions will find they have drastically underestimated the illness while a reaching a grand total of fewer than 12,000 people. Asa direct result: One in four Americans age always been undereducated, obsolete; or some Washington counted a grand total of 265 programs for home delivered Model Cities project offering constructive criticism, news of expected to be Publication of the newspaper organizations concerned with the problems and is weekly with a distribution of interests of the area. copies. 20,000 15. Utah 841 City, Many of the residents are not acquainted with the work being Information Specialist and Editor Marlene Marie Young, Community done by many of the agencies and Joint Board of Commissioners Conference on Aging was held in Washington with over 3,200 occupations have become offices located at 151 East 21st South, Building No. 4, Salt Lake Distribution by Reliable Courier Kirk Terry, Staff Reporter Roger Taylor, Staff Reporter and Photographer Steve Varley, Staff Reporter and Photographer White House for Letters to the Editor, stories or anything of importance to you, or that you feel is worth publication. This applies to agencies, residents, neighborhood Publication of the Model councils, or other organizations. Neighborhood News i$ made, The Model Neighborhood possible through a grant from the Department of long-planne- d submit any news items which would be of interest to the residents of the area. Space will be made available mods! neighborhood n gwq The Model Neighborhood of 1972, the In February huge amount of savings they need to make their retirement nest eggs inflation proof; millions will suddently find themselves out of a job because their skills or the Model Neighborhood to and treatment. The Foundation is committed to treatment, he . . . Poverty Threatens Elderly g individual procedures, human interest salt lake from your editor . ii ini w! mm in i nimmawti I I I |