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Show N'O- Page 6 Free Clinic beginning For several weeks the Model Neighborhood News has been featuring a column written by a member of the Salt Lake Police Department. This week we have an interesting combination of articles written by two very different individuals. Sgt. Max Yospe of the Police Department talks about the delinquent girl and Andrew Kish, a talented young writer who also happens to be an inmate at the Utah State Prison ( and a regular contibutor to the newspaper) writes about juvenile delinquency in general. Compare the ideas presented in both articles and send us your comments. Model Neighborhood News, 383 East 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Available to anyone, the create a delinquent girl - by Sgt. Max Yospe, Salt Lake City Police Department It didn't take many moments before the officer knew he had a wild cat on his hands. Stopping to check the shadowy figure moving along the street with an unsteady gait, the officer found, to his surprise, that his "drunk" was a teenage young lady of about 15. His second surprise came upon his approach and as he attempted to pro.miscuous young lady - self-centere- friends, nice clothes, good grooming. Then she will feel like a freak. Don't give her any religious training. Then she will have no " substitute for the lack of parental love. Set a bad example. Let her think that delinquency is a normal way of life. Expose her to immorality. Call her such harmful names as stupid, clumsy, ugly, etc. This will help her to loose her sense of Whenever she does anything wrong, don't correct her. The Police Youth Division stands ready to help and advise troubled parents of where help can be received within the community for problems in the home. A police sergeant, with authority from the Juvenile Court, counsels with minor cases and behavior problems which are deamed to be Another in the many ways your police department serves the community. juvenile Delinquency - necessitated placing the 15 year old in the detention center until Juvenile delinquency is a problem that is rapidly increasing she could rationally give throughout the United States. It is a social problem that might be reduced considerably if more emphasis were placed on newer rehabilitative methods toward helping the juveniles rather than just locking them up. As it now stands today, and parents so she could be released into their custody. The police officer knows that this type of action is only a temporary measure. The future program of the juvenile court's involvement , as well as other guidance agencies within the community, which the court may involve, can add up to a very complicated effort of many to change attitudes and behavior of a 1 5 year old girl and her parents. As Salt Lake City Juvenile officers receive specialized training to cope with the many frustrations which confront them in their daily work, they learn many of the reasons for delinquent behavior. What would you do to a girl for the eleven years, between her fifth year and her sixteenth birthday, to make her into a typical delinquent, such as you would find in society today? Andrew Kish, regular contributor to the Model Neighborhood News. ideas of how to commit crimes. Sending anyone to prison that is under 25 years of age is only breeding a criminal for the rest of his life. Society has yet to settle the bigger question of whether it wants to punish offenders or rehabilitate them. If the goal rehabilitation, many radical changes must be made in our juvenile institutions and prisons. Working towards rehabilitating the juvenile before he becomes incorrigible is the area where we need to concentrate has for past decades, the enforcers of the law have depended on the institutions for juveniles to rehabilitate them. These institutions are commonly known as detention centers, reform schoois, youth camps, reformatories, etc. Hundreds of thousands of youths are travelling through these places and the biggest percentage of them will eventually pass through a prison. It is evident from statistics that the rehabilitation system in the juvenile institutions is not working as expected. Subsequently, when the supposedly incorrigible juvenile cannot be handled he is sent to prison, where he learns bigger helping them obtain a good education can prepare them fora brighter future. more effort. We should look at the relationship between increasing delinquency rates and more mothers working outside the home and weakening family ties. Certainly increasing divorce rates affect behavior problems in children. A parent feels leaves and the child unwanted or rejected or perhaps to blame for the break in the family and runs or in other ways, acts out his deep feelings. Where both parents work different suspicion, embarrassment are no excuse for not seeking help. The clinic is open to everyone and it is free, free, free. If you aren't sure of your health condition, take advantage of the Free Medical Clinic. Come Though s On Wednesday night or call and see what 355-284- Citizen Do You Participation Want To Dance ? 3 on citizen in Model Cities How about a little dance step or two to keep those young ladies of yours in line? offers a generalized assumption on the subject: Jackson Community School, 750 West 1st North, is offering a HUD Technical Assistance Bulletin No. participation modern dance class every "The quality of life in American cities cannot be not provide discipline, and actually make a home an mechanisms for assessing juvenile delinquency. Keeping kids busy, building their self-imag- es and self-respe- ct and 6 arrangements can be made. too much free time to roam the streets and look for things to do. Parents working long hours to provide for their families may leave their children unsupervised, unhappy one. Of course, many other problems contribute to the rise of delinquency, but the solution is not to lock the youngsters up and think they will somehow come out of it alright. A better idea than reform schools and detention centers would be neigborhood centers with qualified personnel to assist the young people, guide them and be a friend to them. Let these centers have jobs for the juveniles to keep them off the streets, projects to help the community while at the same time helping the youngsters. Instead of ignoring or coping with the rising juvenile delinquency complications, the community should work together to devise solutions that will deter d Lack of money, age, is shifts, the children are left with by Andrew Kish about herself and drug-relate- "father-in-heaven- h doctor will be on hand at that time to take care of anything from colds to hepatitis. The doctor will also counsel anyone with a health problem no matter what its nature. Care is not illnesses. limited to The Free Medical Clinic is and can run well equipped numerous medical tests. Blood testing, urinalysis and the like are part of the clinic capacity. If immediate care isn't enough, arrangements can be made for more extensive services, usually on a referral basis. A prostitute - a drug addict? Withhold all affection. Then she won't be able to show love later on. With no affection, she will become This would cause her to withdraw from society. Deprive her of Ultimately, the contact information p.m. a detain this delinquent for identification. Drug Crisis Center Free Medical Clinic, 868 McClelland, is open every Wednesday from 8 to 9:00 What influences in her formative years would change her into a self-wort- How to Offered - improved unless people of all classes, races and ethnic groups and public officials on all levels of government, create processes and problems, developing strategies and planning and implementing corrective actions together. It is clear that citizen organizations cannot alone plan and carry out a broad program like Model Cities, that necessarily involves the authority and the responsibility to govern. It is equally .clear that local government must develop new relationships with and responsiveness to people in the neighborhoods if it is to meet effectively their needs, and if neighborhood residents are to benefit as people and grow in their capacity to function as citizens. It follows that citizen participation, in any city, is a complicated cluster of rights and responsibilities that affect both citizen and local government. Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. Cindy Bettini, teacher of the class, says it is for girls ages 10 - 13. She admits it is somewhat unstructured but says it gives girls a chance to develop and learn "discipline." Right now there are between six and eight regular class members. Anyone is invited to participate. The class is free and girls may work out in any kind of clothes they have. "Dungarees are fine," says Cindy. Cindy volunteered to teach a language class at Jackson but when Mrs. Lucy Otero, director, found out she was modern dance major at the University of Utah, she was enlisted to teach the dance class. She would like to teach ballet and yoga in addition to modern dance but says it comes down to a matter of time and money. She works for free and the demands of school take up most of her time. Get your young girls in shape. Call the Jackson "Government . . . cannot be wiser than the people." Adlai Stevenson Community School and ask for Mrs. Lucy Otero. The number is 355-777- 6. |