Box 15, Folder 12, Document 13

Box 15, Folder 12, Document 13

GOAL:

To

To

To

To

To

To

To

To

To

To

To

recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit
recruit

recruit

100 Junior Volunteers for recreation;

50 Junior Volunteers for education;

50 Junior Volunteers for health;

100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers
100 Junior Volunteers

100 Junior Volunteers

for

for

for

for

for

for

for

for

cultural enrichment;
tutoring;

big pals;

buddy program;

day camp counselor;
resident camping;
bus supervisors;

crafts and hobbies
INDIVIDUAL AND CASEWVORK SERVICES

This part of the Youth Opportunity Program will attempt to
accelerate services to individuals or groups requiring special attention,
The individual and casework services will deal with such problems as unwed
mothers, truancies, absenteeism, emotional disturbances, delinquent behavior

and VD.

Most of its work will be done through group services and recreational
and religious agencies.

Objectives:

A.

Goals:

E.

To augment and increase needed individual and casework
services to members of casework and health agencies for
children and youths.

To help poor youths more effectively, utilize the services
referred to above.

To more thoroughly familiarize poor families with available
services in the community to serve their children and youth.

TO support other programs and staffs in their work with troubled
and/or troubling children and youths,

To undertake small demonstration projects in the hope that they
will become the regular part of the agencies' programs.

To conduct a small pilot project aimed at some follow-up
work with pregnant giris and unwed mothers. This project
will involve 200 girls.

To conduct a pilot back-to-school and follow-up effort.

To conduct pilot out-reach or street programs in selected
areas of the city.

To conduct a special counseling and small-group treatment
with some selected youths referred by agencies.

To provide some assistance to the Fulton and Dekalb Juvenile
Courts in dealing with youths that are wards of the Courts.

Program Activities Planned:

A.

Multi-agency projects to follow up on girls treated in the
Grady Hospital's unwed teenage mother projects.

A major back-to-school effort in the fall of 1968;
A limited out-reach. street workers project;

A releasee program for youth returning from Youth Development

' Center.


Committees on individual and casework services and juvenile delinquency have
been organized. The chairmen are Mrs. Marian Ford and Edith Hambrick for
casework and individual services, and Mr. James McGovern for delinquency.

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