General Convention Youth Program-- Projects Funded
Diocesan Press Service. August 28, 1972 [72140]
DATE : August 28, 1972
FROM : Young Generation Program Group
SUBJECT : Proposals Approved for Funding -- December 1971 to date
In June, 1972, the seven regional committees of GCYP completed their first full year of operation. All committees have met at least four times; one has held seven meetings. The committees have reviewed proposals which range across a broad spectrum of youth concerns. Field visits are made to projects and groups that meet the committee's priorities and criteria.
The following proposals have been approved for funding since December, 1971:
WEST COAST COMMITTEE
EXPERIMENTAL MINISTRY, OFF-CENTER COFFEE HOUSE, Hawaii; $1,200; one component of a larger proposal. Development of a place where runaway youth and youth who have disassociated themselves from the Church can begin to clarify values and negotiate with the Church for change.
OPERATION CROSSROADS, CENTER FOR CREATIVE ALTERNATIVES, San Mateo, California; $1,500 -- to employ work/study young people from San Mateo Junior College District to compile information and to staff employment and education resource centers.
AFRO-AMERICAN BOOKSTORE, San Diego, California; $9,200 -- to provide the community with a Black bookstore and an outlet for Afro-American and African literature; employment through which young people will gain experience in management and market development.
BLACK EDUCATIONAL CENTER, Portland, Oregon; $7,400 -- to provide training and skills for Black people which will enable them to take a more active part in directing the economic and social life of their community.
ADVOCATES FOR INDIAN YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH COUNCIL -- AMERICANS BEFORE COLUMBUS, Albuquerque, New Mexico; $5,000 -- publication project to make Americans Before Columbus a regularly published national Indian newspaper.
CHURCH YOUTH GROUP, Minto, Alaska; $1,000 -- program of cultural enrichment.
NATIVE AMERICAN COALITION, Macalester College, Minnesota; $5,000 -- innovation in Native American education.
PAWNEE INDIAN MEMORIAL HISTORICAL AND CEREMONIAL CAMPGROUND, Pawnee, Oklahoma; $2,650 -- youth initiated tribal heritage project and research.
ARAPAHOE CULTURAL MUSEUM, St. Michael's Mission, Ethete, Wyoming; $3,194 -- Project I -- Supervision for Neighborhood Youth Corps members who will serve as guides at the Museum, the mission, and the high school during the summer of 1972. Project II -- Ten days' study at the Denver Museum for artistically-orientated young people who will learn techniques and make a diorama for the Arapahoe Cultural Museum.
NEWTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA, $2,000 -- child care center on Fort Berthhold Reservation.
HUT-MUZEE INDIAN CLUB, Owyhee, Nevada; $700
ALASKA NATIVE SISTERHOOD CAMP, Ketchikan, Alaska; $1,000
PROJECT LIGHTHOUSE, Mobridge, South Dakota; $3,500 -- Housing, travel, and program money for an Indian worker to counteract the forces of separation; assist Indian youth in achieving self- determination and integration into their community.
MIDWEST COMMITTEE
REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH MOVEMENT, Racine, Wisconsin; $3,500 -- A collective of young people who carry on a free breakfast pro- gram for school children; a clothing cooperative; -and the pro- vision of transportation to enable visits to relatives or friends in prison.
COMMUNITY ARTS, Indianapolis, Indiana; $500 -- Young people from Herron School of Arts, located in a poor area of the inner city, provide their community with concerts, art shows, plays, etc. They have involved the community in the enterprise and have created community rapport through the fine arts.
CENTRO PARA LA SALUD DEL PUEBLO PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, Chicago; $1,500 -- Free clinic in a Puerto Rican community, with a staff of volunteer doctors and youth who serve as translators and advocates. After training, young people accompany patients to the clinic or the hospital and translate between patient and doctor.
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; $2,000 -- conference for Indian students at the University of Wisconsin.
THE ASSOCIATION, Muncie, Indiana; $1,750 -- Young people 16-25 lead a series of conferences to enable other young people to develop community-building skills within the context of the Church. $1,000 is for training of leaders in events such as those available in Province V.
PROJECT INNER-ACTION, Cleveland, Ohio $3,438 -- Educational project in the inner city, offering a program of creative learning experiences for children and employment for young teachers.
CONCERN, INC., Cairo, Illinois; $3,000 -- Recreation, alternative educational opportunities, etc., for youth in a town where there are no youth centers or programs.
NORTHEAST COMMITTEE
UMOJA YOUTH PROGRAM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; $9,000 -- working with street groups, providing a job clinic, housing, meals, physical care, pride in self, cooperation with community.
VOYAGE HOUSE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; $10,000 -- Crisis counseling center to provide legal help, job placement, mental health care, temporary housing for youth alienated from home or school.
BLACK STUDENT UNION, Boston; $3,000 -- Minority students' service center for high school and college students; voter registration program for people 18-21.
ONE LANGUAGE DROP-IN CENTER, Roxbury, Massachusetts; $4,500 -- Street work with minority youth; music instruction program, counseling, medical and legal assistance.
BEN LEWIS ACADEMIC CENTER FOR KIDS, Washington, D.C.; $5,000 -- Alternative pre-school; innovative teaching methods. Young people are leaders and teachers.
KENSINGTON PROJECT, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; $6,000 -- Collective in a working class community carrying on community organization.
OCEAN CITY SUMMER MINISTRIES, Baltimore, Maryland; $1,500 -- A group of college students who work with youth through a hot line, resource center, referral, and crash pad facility. Grant is for rent of a place to house staff.
APPALACHIAN COMMITTEE
APPALACHIAN FILM WORKSHOP, Wheeling, Kentucky; $7,800 -- Emergency grant to enable the project to continue until additional funding is received in four months.
MOUNTAIN PEOPLE'S PHOTO WORKSHOP, Appalachia, Virginia; $1,000 -- to record and document effects of strip mining.
YOUTH COMMISSION, COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS: $11,335 -- Involving mountain young people as communicators with regional and local projects; making video tapes and kinescopes to help young people in working with organizations in the mountains. Working to reduce the number of school dropouts. Giving economic advice to unemployed young people.
MOUNTAIN YOUTH SELF-EDUCATION, Knott County, Kentucky; $5,000 -- Work with young people toward creative, non-violent responses to the situation in Knott County.
COEBURN CORRECTIONAL FIELD UNIT 18, Coeburn, Virginia; $500 -- A group of local young people set up a workshop in which 75 prisoners will make saleable items; learn skills; teach skills. Money from goods produced is to help with other projects and to create a fund toward a new start for men after release from prison.
SUMMER HEALTH PROGRAM, EASTERN KENTUCKY WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION, Mud Creek, Floyd County, Kentucky; $2,880 -- Conduct training for and employ six young people during the summer to find people on Mud Creek who are suffering from disease; help them to get medical care.
GLADE SPRINGS YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, Glade Springs, Virginia; $4,588 -- A clearing house for job development, counseling, and placement for low income youth of the area who find it difficult to enter the labor market (three-fourths are minority group youth).
APPALACHIAN MOVEMENT PRESS; emergency grant; $1,000 -- to enable continued publication. Other support is pending.
BETHLEHEM CENTER, Richmond, Virginia $171
MINERS FOR DEMOCRACY, Charleston, West Virginia; $4,500 -- Reform movement of young miners in the coal industry seeking to overcome black lung disease, unemployment, unresponsive local government.
SOUTHEAST COMMITTEE
SUCCESSFUL LEADERS OF TOMORROW, Holly Springs, North Carolina; $8,000 -- recreation for youth in Western Wake County. 93 participants, ages 14-23.
THE WORD, INC., Orlando, Florida; $8,000 -- Mission and witness to young people on the streets in Central Florida.
BLACK AND BOLD PRODUCTION COMPANY, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; $1100 -- An arts-and-crafts cooperative run by high school and college age young people who are also working to improve the physical and cultural situation of the neighborhood.
YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR BLACK UNITY, North Carolina; $2,500 -- Organizing high school and college-age youth around educational issues.
TREE HOUSE, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; $4,000 -- Home-style living for 10-12 young people who cannot tolerate close relationships with adults. They work or go to school, interact with the community, develop skills in living, build confidence and identity.
PILOT APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; $4,000-- Ten-week training for 20 young people toward a marketable skill and development of social abilities needed to attain self-sufficiency.
PARK STREET TEACHERS CORPS, Atlanta, Georgia; $3,000; Further education for youth who have not completed elementary or high school; work with truants, breakfast program; pre-kindergarten program.
VIRGINIA STUDENT CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE, Kenbridge, Virginia; $3,000 -- Student programs of community organization, legal aid, voter registration.
DRUG EDUCATION CENTER, Paragould, Arkansas; $2,000 -- Work with youth of the community who are in early stages of drug involvement to provide constructive activities and alternatives.