Summary of projects for fiscal years 1962-64 awarded under Public Law 87-274The Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Offenses Control Act of 1961

List of approved special demonstration grants (as of Mar. 31, 1965)

Provide a halfway house for boys com-
ing out of training school; teach voca-
tional skills; help child readjust to
community.

Provide a tribal program for boys who
would otherwise be sent to the State
Training School; try to combine
revived tribal values with the teaching
of business skills; tribe will build the
(institution) which will be open to
entire community.

4. San Francisco State College. San Francisco, Calif. Train indigenous teenage leaders to be

53, 276

15, 648

83, 308

125, 290

31, 656

99,551

An interagency panel receives referrals
from police and courts (alternative to
sending to court hearing) and makes
arrangements for appropriate agency
to deal with the problem.

2. Rutgers State University.. New Brunswick, N.J. Work with junior high shcool students

who have education and behavior
problems in school and who are poten-
tially delinquent; increase child's self-
evaluation; work with parents; widen
community experience and participa-
tion of children.

55, 650

89, 732

List of approved special demonstration grants (as of Mar. 31, 1965)—Continued

1. Chamber of Commerce.... Hampton Beach, N.H. A community program to cope with the

2. Southern Arizona Mental Health Center.

Tucson, Ariz...................

3. Friends Neighborhood Guild.

Labor Day riots that threatened to
become a tradition at Hampton
Beach. Townspeople and local youth
will operate semistructured recrea-
tional activities, intergroup communi-
cation, and part-time job programs
for the incoming youth.
Training and developing roving consult-
ants to work in natural environment
of school-problem children. Consult-
ants work consistently with parents,
teachers, relatives, etc., in attempts
to stop delinquent behavior.

Philadelphia, Pa... Guild operates halfway house for chil-
dren released from State Correctional
Institution, but who have no ap-
proved home. Guild will work with
parents to see if natural home can be
used. If this fails, attempt will be
made to recruit and supervise middle-
class homes on an interracial basis.
Community intervention team (lawyer,
social worker, education expert, neigh-
borhood representative, community
organizer) receives referrals from police
and courts (alternative to sending to
court hearing), makes a diagnosis and
contacts and persuades appropriate
agencies to help child.

4. Nonprofit corporation... Detroit, Mich.

5. Juvenile court.

Denver, Colo.....

1 Amounts not available. Budget is being negotiated.

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Group treatment methods with young
addicted glue sniffers. Natural groups
will be used. Special tutoring pro-
grams will attempt to raise the child's
confidence in his school performance.

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EXPAND THE WAR ON POVERTY

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON POVERTY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1759

A BILL TO EXPAND THE WAR ON POVERTY AND ENHANCE
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964

R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., Director, Office of Economic Opportunity-
Christopher Weeks, Deputy Director of the Job Corps..

R. Sargent Shriver-Resumed__

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124, 132, 175, 184

130

132

172

175

183

Theodore Berry, Assistant Director for Community Action Programs.
Donald M. Baker, general counsel.

Lisle C. Carter, Assistant Director for Interagency Operations.
William P. Kelly, Assistant Director for Management...
George Arnstein, program officer, Neighborhood Youth Corps....

JUNE 29, 1965

Hon. George Smathers, a U.S. Senator from the State of Florida..
Eric Cox, representing the Metropolitan Athletic Association of Wash-
ington, D.C....

193

205

Dr. Verl Lewis, dean of the School of Social Work, the University of
Maryland

232

Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins, civil rights and political leader, Charlotte, N.C.
Miss Antonio Pantoja, executive director, Puerto Rican Forum, New
York, N.Y..

238

246

Mrs. Dorothy Orr, executive director, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-
Action, Brooklyn, N. Y..

255

Prof. Richard Cloward, New York School of Social Work, New York, N. Y.

262

STATEMENTS

Arnstein, George, program officer, Neighborhood Youth Corps_-
Baker, Donald M., general consul_

Berry, Theodore, Assistant Director for Community Action Programs..
Biemiller, Andrew J., director, department of legislation, American
Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations, prepared
statement.

183

132

130

277

Carter, Lisle C., Assistant Director for Interagency Operations-
Cloward, Prof. Richard, New York School of Social Work, New York,
N.Y

172

262

Cox, Eric, representing the Metropolitan Athletic Association of Washington, D.C.

205

Hawkins, Dr. Reginald A., civil rights and political leader, Charlotte, N.C.
Kelly, William P., Assistant Director for Management..

238

175

Lewis, Dr. Verl, dean of the School of Social Work, the University of
Maryland....

232

Prepared statement.

234

Orr, Mrs. Dorothy, executive director, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-
Action, Brooklyn, N.Y.

255

Pantoja, Miss Antonio, executive director, Puerto Rican Forum, New
York, N.Y.

246

Prepared statement_

253

Shipe, J. Orrin, managing editor, CUNA International, Inc., prepared statement.

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