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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-JUNE 29, 1972-
Psychoeducational Centers
To Involve Forsyth County
Three state agencies will co
operate in implementing a $2.9
million program of comprehen
sive . educational, health and
social services for severely
emotionally disturbed children
in Georgia, according to an ann
ouncement by Governor Jimmy
Carter, State School Super
intendent Jack P. Nix and Act
ing Commissioner of Human
Resources Battle Hall.
The program will ultimately
affect Forsyth County.
The cooperative project is the
first such venture ever attem
pted by the three agencies
the Georgia Department of Ed
ucation, the new Department of
Human Resources and the Univ
ersity System.
First phase of the project will
establish 14 psychoeducational
centers over the state to serve
severely emotionally disturbed
children up to ages 14. The $2.9
million for the flrstyear’s pro
grams combines $988,000 appr
opriated by die Georgia General
Assembly during its 1972 sess
ion; $1,459,173 from the U. S.
Office of Social and Rehabilit
ation Services under Title IV-A
of the Social Security Act; and
$437,900 for 58 teachers to be
paid under the Minimum Found
ation Program.
The project was developed
and will be administered by
the Department of Education’s
Program of Special Education,
Herbert D. Nash, director; D
lvislon of Elementary and Sec
ondary Education, Dr. Claude
Ivie, director; Office of Inst
ructional Services, Dr.H. Titus
Singletary Jr., associate state
superintendent of schools. Re
presentatives including Dr. P
eggy Wood of the University of
Georgia, Stan Jones of the Gov
ernor’s office and Derril Gay
of the Department of Human
Resources participated exten
sively in the development of the
project.
The long-range proposal, of
which the $2.9 million funds the
first phase, provides that by
1976 Georgia will have a net
work of 33 psychoeducational
centers offering comprehensive
educational, social and health
services to all severely emot
ionally disturbed children ages
0-14. Each center will provide
testing, diagnosis, evaluation,
individual program planning and
parent consultation for behavio
rally and emotionally handic
apped and economically de
prived children ages 0 to 14;
therapeutic classes for child
ren ages two to six who have
severe behavioral, emotional,
developmental or learning dis
orders; and therapeutic classes
for school age children with
moderate to severe behavioral,
social or emotional disorders
who cannot be served in the
ordinary school setting. Each
center will serve a multi-co
unty area but will be funded
through a single school sys
tem as fiscal agent.
Robert B. Otwell
Forsyth County
School Superintendent
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY - AUGUST 8, 1972
“Better Schools
Make Better Communities"
YOUR VOTE AND INFLUENCE APPRECIATED
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Second Place Show Winner
Brenda Howard (Center) Is shown with the second place trophy
she won in a hair fashion trend show at the Lanier Area Tech
nical School, Gainesville. She graduated from the school last
week and plans to open a beauty salon in Cumming shortly.
Shown with her are Mary Patton (left), the model for the show;
and Mrs. Judy Hulsey, (right), Mrs. Howard’s teacher.
Criteria for the selection of
the areas were two, according
to Nash. In the first group of
eight centers to be funded are
four systems which were alr
eady offering such services f
lnanced with local funds--
Clarke County, DeKalb County,
Glynn county and Chatham co
unty. Four additional systems
in the first eight to be funded
gain top priority because of
their high ratio of poverty le
vel families as defined by the
social Security Act, Title
IV -A, and because they had been
involved in extensive planning
for the past year.
These are Thomas county sc
hool system, fiscal agent, ser
ving Thomas county, Thomas
ville, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady,
Mitchell and Seminole counties;
Lowndes county school system,
fiscal agent, serving Lowndes
county, Valdosta, Ben Hill co
unty, Fitzgerald, Berrien, Br
ooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, L
anier, Tift and Turner counti
es; Carroll county school sys
tem, fiscal agent, serving C
arroll county, Carrollton, C
oweta, Heard, Meriwether and
Troup counties, LaGrange,
West Point and Hogansville;
Paulding and Haralson count
ies; Way cross city schools,
fiscal agent, serving Atkinson,
Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Cl
inch, Coffee, Pierce and Ware
counties.
The four systems already op
erating programs will be used
as models for the statewide
centers and they will greatly
expand their services to in-
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elude a larger number of ch
ildren and broader geographic
area. Clarke county schools,
fiscal agent, will serve Barrow,
Elbert, Greene, Jackson, M
adison, Morgan, Oconee, Ogle
thorpe and Walton counties; G
lynn county schools, fiscal ag
ent, will serve Bryan, Camden,
Long, Liberty and Mclntosh c
ounties; Chatham county, fiscal
agent, will also serve Effingham
county.
“The combination of funding
from both state and federal s
ources will make it possible
for Georgia to reach every ch
ild who needs services,” ex
plained Nash. “Federal funds
may be used to provide serv
ices for only those children
who qualify under IV-A elig
ibility requirements; that is, t
hey come from families of four
persons which have annual in
comes of SB,IOO and also have
one or more handicapped ch
ildren. With the state funds
we are providing services for
all other children in the geog
raphic areas selected, thereby
insuring a complete, compreh
ensive program for all severely
emotionally disturbed child
ren.
“We estimate that about one
half percent of the state’s pop
ulation age 0 to 14 needs the
services that will be offered,”
Nash said. It is estimated that
the Clarke County center will
serve 266 children; Glynn co
unty, 154; Chatham, 300, Th
omas, 208; Lowndes, 237; C
arroll, 263; Waycross, 152; and
DeKalb, which uses a different
program model 30.
In addition to the eight cen
ters that will begin functioning
immediately, six more centers
will begin planning programs
and are expected to be oper
ative in spring 1973. These
centers are included in the
funding.
They are Baldwin County,
serving Hancock, Jasper, J
ohnson, Putnam, Washington
and Wilkinson counties; Gaines
ville, serving Banks, Dawson,
Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham,
Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, S
tephens, Towns, Union and Wh
ite counties; Dalton, Serving
Cherokee, Gilmer, Fannin, M
urray, Pickens and Whitfield
counties; Burke county, serving
Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson,
Jenkins and Screven counties;
Americus, serving Crisp, D
ooly, Macon, Marion, Schley,
Sumter, Taylor and Webster
counties; Dublin, serving B
leckley county, Cochran, Dod
ge, Laurens, Montgomery, P~
ulaski, Telfair, Treutlen,
Wheeler and Wilcox counties.
It is estimated that these six
additional centers will serve
another 1,000 children.
Funding for eight additional
centers will be requested by
the Department of Education in
the fiscal year 1974, six in FY
1975 and five In FY 1976. State
funds, If granted, will again be
used to match Social Security
IV-A funds to provide services
statewide by 1976. Teachers
will be allotted to the centers
under the Minimum Foundation
Program Law, Section 20. The
strong state support for meet
ing the needs of severely em
otionally disturbed children Is
part of overall efforts to ful
fill requirements of a 1968 s
tate law that mandates special
education services for all Ge
orgia children by 1976.
Services will be provided both
in the centers and on an out
reach basis in field centers.
Children will receive diagnostic
educational, psychological, and
psychiatric evaluation; remed
ial services such as special
education and prevocatlonal t
raining; nonresidential com
munity-based group treatment
and assistance in obtaining ad
ditional help from agencies In
their own communities. Fam
ilies will beoffered conferences
and counseling, the chance to o
bserve their children In Instr
uctional situations, training in
classroom procedure, parent
group meetings, a home pro
gram and assistance in obta
ining aid from other comm
unity agencies.
The Georgia Department of
Education will provide needed
educational services; the De
partment of Human Resources
will furnish social services and
health services such as
medical, nutritional and dental
care; preventative health mea
sures such as immunizations;
periodic examinations and
prenatal and infant health c
are.
The University of Georgia
will provide continuing ev
aluation of th e centers as they
become operative, insuring that
effective methods of helping
severely emotionally disturbed
children are shared and that
ineffective approaches are dis
carded. The University is also
helping systems in writing pro
jects and providing technical
assistance and training for tea
chers and aides. The Govern
or’s staff is providing budget
ary liaison and coordination
among the agencies.
Aim of all the efforts will be
to enable severely emotionally
disturbed children to particip
ate in regular educational pro
grams and pursue a normal
course of education and social
adjustment. “Eventually,” said
Nash, "we hope they will hold
jobs and participate as prod
uctive members of society, th
ereby reducing for eliminating
the need for extended state sup
port. We are not reaching this
group of children In Georgia
now, except in a few centers.
Research and demonstration in
similar projects in the nation
have proven that this group of
children—the severely emot
ionally disturbed -- can be
helped to the extent they can
lead normal lives. Right now
most of them wind up in in
stitutions, as wards of the s
tate in one way or another.
We know that within two years
these centers can reduce the
number of children wh o end
up that way,” he said.
The centers will accept re
ferrals from parents, schools,
early childhood development p
rograms or other child serving
agencies, according to Nash.
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The plan is Number 2716. It
includes 2,707 square feet on the
first floor with basement rooms
adding 1,197 square feet. For
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lanta, Ga. 30329.