Box 3, Folder 13, Document 39

Box 3, Folder 13, Document 39

QUES TIONNAIRIE CONCERNING COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM

Has the local Community Action Program made a positive contribution towards
solving the problems of poor people and improving the greater community in
which it functions?

Very much A very valuable resource to local government.

Somewhat
Not at all
Unknown







Additional Comments:

The CAP, with ten Neighborhood Service Centers within the City, has eek
a bridge of communication between the poor and the larger community and
has sought constructive approaches to the problems of the poor.

Has the local Community Action Program been effective in stimulating the
participation of the poor in community activities that affect their lives?

Very much This has been one of the strongest contributions of Atlanta's CAP.
Somewhat

Not at all

Unknown







Additional Comments:
City Hall utilizes the CAP neighborhood organizations for planning for housing,

Model Cities, land use and for decentralizing municipal services.

Has the local Community Action Program been responsible for increasing







the services available to the poor? as’

Very much The City utilizes the EOA- Sie to extend and see hae city services
Somewhat to the poor.

Not at all

Unknown



Additional Comments:

Through its own services, and through expanded service of other local public
and private agencies, the CAP has directly and indirectly affected an increase
in services for the poor.

Has the Community Action Program improved communications between the
poor and the other sectors of the community (business, government,
education)? sae

Very much

Somewhat

Not at all
Unknown







Additional Comments:

The CAP has been especially valuable in this respect. Recent examples
include assignment of staff to help coordinate the National Alliance of
Businessmen effort, bringing together dissident elements in a dispute
at a target-area high school, serving as a vehicle to bring together
complaining tenants and public housing officials.




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Has the local Community Action Program helped to increase the level of
resources which public and private institutions are contributing to the

local War on Me a
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Very much



Somewhat



Not at ali



Unknown



Additional Comments:
Activities ef CAP have stimulated increased interest from foundations,
civic groups, and government.

Has the local Community Action Program increased the will and the ability
of the poor to help themselves?

ui

Very much



Somewhat



Not at all



Unknown



Additional Comments:

Poor have been helped to see that government will respond to their
needs, and many leaders have been developed who are now able to articulate
and express the needs of the poor.

Has the local Community Action Program helped the non-poor to understand
better the problems of poverty and the need for local efforts to overcome

these problems?

Very much



Somewhat



Not at all



Unknown



Additional Comments:

Local support in Atlanta has been the best in the Nation, and much credit
belongs to the excellent interpretive effort made by the CAP. A current
example involves the designation of a week in January, 1969 as

USTART NOW ATLANTA" week, provlaimed by the Mayor, and designed by the CAP

as a way to generate interest and activity in the "non-poor" community.
How would you evaluate the effectiveness of each of the following programs?

1. HEADSTART: | A
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Very effective



Somewhat effective



Not at all effective

Unknown

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What percentage of the total potential enrollment for this program

is being met in your community? Unfortunately only about 10%

Additional Comments:

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This can be the best long-range effort to prevent poverty, but it is
hampered by insufficient funds. ws

2. LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM:

Very effective



Somewhat effective



Not at all effective



Unknown

What percentage of the total potential enrollment for this program

is being met in your community? 20%

Additional Comments:
Legal Aide keeps issues in the courtroom and off the streets. It
has been very helpful in combatting anachronistic welfare reguktions

and bringing attention to landlord-tenant and séller-purchaser
laws which are iniquitous to the interest of the poor. af

3. HEALTH CENTERS:

Very effective



Somewhat effective



Not at all effective



Unknown

What percentage of the total potential enrollment for this program

BK 20%

is being met in your community?

Additional Comments:

Comprehensive Health Center makks the first real breakthrough
in developing new forms of delivery for health services to the

Poors -

4. NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTERS:

Very effective



Somewhat effective



Not at all effective



Unknown

What percentage of the total potential enrollment for this program

75%

is being met in your community?

*

Additional Comments:

These centers are a base for operations and meetings.
been used for almost every conceivable kind of activity designed

to bring help and/or growth to the target areas served.

They have


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5.

Name
Project

Address

COMMUNITY ACTION EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS 3

Very effective



Somewhat effective x

Not at all effective



Unknown



What percentage of the total potential enrollment for this program

is being met in your community? _10%



Additional Comments:

Employment programs constantly run into difficult obstacles,

such as the shortage of good paying jobs for women, the shortage

of day care resources, the difficity of re-training the educationally
crippled male and moving him beyond the low-wage, low-status job.

Do you know of any better way to reach the hard core unemployed
than we are now doing under present programs?
(1) Further loosening of "red tape" which discourages businesses

from participation in government sponsored "on-the-job training"
programs.

(2) For men and women with very low potential for training and/or
retraining, we need a "public works" type program. (Within our CEP
we have an Atl. Beautifieation Corps wtkh which exemplifies what we need
Do you feel we are assigning proper priorities to the most urgent but it is
problems of the poor? If not, please indicate which problems you only a
feel deserve the highest priorities. small pro-

(1) Jobs (including public works) gram for 60 per-
(2) Child Development sons.)
(3) Community Action

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D rector of Se ote Al

Office of the Mayor

Atlanta, Georgia

Affiliation with Community Action.

Mayor's liaison representative to CAP agency