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URBAN LEAGUE United States Department of Agriculture is responsible for handling such actions. The Department of Family and Children Services also has a legal services program in conjunction with the Augusta Bar Association. The program is operating strictly on a voluntary basis of local attorneys. The usual number referred is two to four per month. The types of cases handled are: Legitimization, wage earners plan, bankruptcy, divorce (only if welfare recipient), personal representation, adoption (only if welfare recipient), hit-and-run accident, automobile accident (when no insurance), sued for bills (when welfare recipient), larceny, and advice. Under Title V of the Work Experience Program, the Department of Family and Children Services had one hundred twenty AFDC recipients in training. They are participants in the Work Incentive Program (WIN) of the Department of Labor. The staff is located at the Department of Labor to provide supportive case work and services for individuals in WIN. As an experiment, the office was open one night per week until 8:30 p.m., but this did not seem to serve a need although it was tried for eight weeks and against the advice of the State Department of Family and Children Services. Mrs. Emma Carson, Executive Director, stated that the prevailing attitude of the staff is definitely shifting more toward help than before. She felt this was the best staff she had ever had and that the rapport of the community is improving. AUGUSTA CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION The National Welfare Rights Organization has a Chapter in Augusta with a fairly large membership. The Chapter lacks financial resources, although the Office of Economic Opportunity workers have helped in putting on fund-raising efforts. In discussing the Food Stamp Program, Mrs. Margaret Faver, President of the Augusta Chapter, stated that it took her, personally, over one month to become eligible. She also stated that everyone had to pick up his own stamps and this causes people to leave their jobs during working hours and, possibly, lose pay. In discussing the general services attitudes of the Department of Family and Childrens Services, Mrs. Faver stated, “....that if you are not working, it is harder to become eligible. They want to stay around (the house) until the child is there”. It was additionally noted that the Day Care Center operated in the vicinity where Mrs. Faver lives does not take children until they are three years old and it is only open until 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Faver said she had not known that the Department of F mily and Children Services offices had been open on an experimental basis at night and thought that the caseworkers should have “spread the word” among their clients. She did feel, however, that the caseworkers were friendly and noted that they addressed clients by titles. She felt that the high turnover rate lessened the effectiveness of the department. THE SALVATION ARMY The Salvation Army is an organization designed to operate as a religious and charitable cooperation in all states and territories of the United States. The program is carried out by officers of the organization assisted by qualified personnel through the Augusta-South Carolina area, limited to the United Fund area. Its services include: (a) Emergency assistance for local families, transient families, and individuals without funds for meals, lodging, etc. (b) Services and consultation to unwed mothers. (c) Location of missing persons. (d) Visitation to correctional institutions and assistance for families of prisoners. (e) Emergency disaster relief on short-term basis. (f) Christmas bureau. (g) Summer camp for boys and girls from six to eighteen years old. The Salvation Army seeks to serve all people regardless of age, color, or creed. In so doing the resources of the community are considered and the cases within the category of another agency are referred to avoid duplication of services. The facility has transient quarters, family rooms, and a welfare office. Both blacks and whites share the transient quarters which have beds, a washing machine and dryer, and bathroom facilities. Table 33 is descriptive of the activities of the Salvation Army. This information was not available by race. IIMBSsAVE! SAVE! LIMITED E AO/AEC INDOOR QUANTITIES OV/O VI I OUTDOOR $2.99 & $3.99 Sq. yd. Rubber-back R.A. DENT FLOOR COVERING »to 6 1121 PINE ST. Ph. 724-2182 M ° n * hru Sa ‘ - ARIES (March 21-April 19): Friend ships, goals and long-range plans take on new sparkle. You can get just about any thing you want now—just be sure to use your charm, not your fist. TAURUS (April 20 May 20): Starts a six -month period of public activity. Inter ested in a job? Now’s the time to find one. You may also enjoy some recognition for past efforts during this cycle. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At last you feel that your drive is out from under the wraps. Continue in any house-cleaning or refurbishing tasks you’ve set yourself. Start some new courses. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mate should be easier to live with now. Social gadding about is enjoyable. Most of your interests are centered rather close to home, but you get comfort from any glamorous contacts. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Opportunities for personal creativity strong this week. Spouse may show more life than usual. A six-month period of inter-personal activ ity starts now. Relax. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of your thoughts and goals seem to be hiding, while your emotional nature comes to the fore this week. A new health cycle starts now, bringing more energy. LIBRA (Sept. 23 Oct. 22): Hobbies, en tertaining, children, sports all get a new lease on life. Your efforts may be more strongly concentrated in these areas for about six months. enikA's > "360" WEEKLY boßoecope Week of May 2, 1971 TABLE B PRUGF MMATIC SFR.I .FS ‘D . OF THE AUGUbT/ SA LVATION ARMY CHA PI E R ■ Service to Homeless . Lodged Meals Clothing 1 ,8?A Emergency Help; Needy persons ; j.. | Grocery orders 035 Presc r ipt ions Burned-out families 33 nothing 27,296 (articles) Consulted with Other Agencies : 73 L Budget: Public and Fort Gordon Christmas donations $28,343 48 Programs and activites $2L,936 All other income $ 3 1 39 United Fund $42,000.00 Balance c 159 52 Total $99,203 83 DAY CARE LICENSING OFFICE The State Department of Family and Children Services has a Day Care Licensing office in Augusta to service eleven counties for the purpose of licensing and reviewing day care operations. There are twenty-nine centers in Richmond County -two of which are strictly for the children of the Work Incentive Program participants and one (the Turpin Hill Center) is an Office of Economic Opportunity neighborhood service center. There are several day care centers that provide service on a sliding scale basis. Ten inquiries or applications have been made recently with regard to opening new centers. Sixty percent of these applications represent requests from the black community. Miss Elizabeth Smalley, a licensing worker, stated that there are not an adequate number of centers. She stated that many interested persons and organizations are prevented from developing centers because of zoning laws, inadequate financial resources, and failure to meet other important criteria. She felt that there is a vast need for basic community education regarding licensing and what to look for in a day care center. The state is providing basic public relations material on licensing requirements. This material is placed in supermarkets, Y.W.C.A.’s, public meetings, etc. Several pamphlets, however, were revised by the audit team and, in our judgment, the material is entirely too technical to be of value to those who are most in need of this kind of information. THE SCOUTING PROGRAM The scouting program in Augusta is administered by two councils which serve Richmond County and fourteen others. Mr. Jack Bo wden, Assis t a n t Director of the Georgia-South-Carolina Council of Boy Scouts, stated that there are approximately twenty-three packs, twenty-seven troops, and seventeen explorer units in the Augusta area. Last year approximately sixteen or seventeen boys in the area received the SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Home and parental duties become even more im portant than they usually are. It may be a good idea to have the wiring and heat ing systems attended to within the next several months. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Al though entertaining your children’s friends can be important this week, you should be getting out more yourself. Buy a pretty outfit for yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 Jan. 19): Start to plan some major changes for your total environment which can be carried out within the next six months. Your values could change radically. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For the next six months your energy levels should be higher than usual. Projects close to home are still requiring much attention. Try to change some attitudes. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A good time to implement some of your closely held dreams. Writing or some other little-used talent will be stimulated for the next six months. Now you can get your personalized computerized horoscope, 20 pages of in depth knowledge of the factors govern ing your life, plus a six-month day by day forecast of your physical, emotional and mental responses. Send $lO 'with your name, address, place and time of birth to Erika, P.O. Box 2, Glencoe, 111. 60022. Money refunded if not complete ly satisfied. <s* / O' <b ■ Before yor slam the d00r... ■ I THINK CAREFULLY ■ I ■ tWI ■ ABOUT THE GROWING LIST OF UNMET NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY. How are they being handled now? Can two out dated governments really do ' a better job than one? Wesay that Unified Government opens the door to ACTION. MRRt' ABOUT THE STRANGULATION OF OUR CITY, CHOKED BY URBAN jHE NEEDS ITS OWN PROBLEMS OF OLD AGE, AND CONFINED BY ARTIFICIAL BOUNDS THAT WE CALL CITY LIMITS BEYOND WHICH WE CANNOT GO FOR RELIEF, OK EVEN THOUGH THOSE LIVING ON THE OUTSIDE ARE DEPENDANT MB ON THE CITY FOR THEIR OWN SURVIVAL. |S We say that Unified Government is a door that opens to financial help 9HK > where it is needed most. Already we have lost out on millions of dollars in |MM| state and federal grants just because of our stagnant city limits and declining MSH| SmIS population. ABOUT THE YEARS IT HAS TAKEN TO GET LOCAL GOVERNMENT BK REORGANIZATION TOTHISPOINT. m|M j ’. We say that any new charter must go through the same tedious process: it ' must clear legislative obstacles in Atlanta, it will require a mandate from the MMB people (that's what Amendment 112 was all about in 1968), ... and then it WIRK ' mu st come up again for a vote. And the same or similar political opposition /i" fe, wi 11 aga inar i se. MBH This is no quick or easy job. In fact, it will be easier to amend the proposed gHK ~t ) charter than to get a brand new one at some future date ... and TIME IS RUNNING OUT. ABOUT THE TRUTH THAT THE ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THIS MB COMMUNITY IS AT STAKE. EVERYBODY LOSES IF WE CONTINUE GOING THE WAY WE ARE NOW. B Open the door on a new day. H I VOTE on May 25th H Paid for by the League of Women Voters of the Augusta Area , Eagle Scout Award either three or five of these were black. It was also stated by Mr. Bowden that percentage-wise, young black males take more advantage of the Boy Scout program than whites and they have no trouble finding black leadership to assume responsibilities for the troops, that of the Boy Scouts, stated that they have twelve senior troops, fifteen cadet troops, and two hundred that of the Boy Scouts, stated that they have twelve senior troops, fifteen cadet troops, and two hundred and thirty Brownie troops. The twelve senior troops are in-both the rural and urban areas and are almost equally divided in terms of race. During the summer of 1970, the Girl Scout Council implemented a program called “Summer Fun” which was designed for young black women in rural South Carolina. The purpose of this program was to reach low-income rural families not active in scouting. Approximately two hundred fifty girls were involved. The program was considered highly successful by the Council, which plans to continue it. Mrs. Frazier noted that recruiting volunteers is always difficult and that recruitment was equally difficult in getting black and white scouting leadership. BOARD AND STAFF COMPOSITION OF SELECTED SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES Following this narrative are two tables, numbered 34 and 35, which depict the racial composition of the boards and staffs of selected social welfare agencies in the Augusta area. Os the ten selected agencies contacted, there are one hundred ninety-two board members. (This excludes the State Office for Day Care Licensing). Os this number, forty-five (23 percent) are black. Twenty-seven (60 percent) of the forty-five black board members are found in two agencies. This is an obvious disproportionate manner of representation when one considers the population of the community and the percentage of blacks served by these agencies. One cannot expect someone who is unfamiliar with the problems of being poor and black to be able to guide an agency in a manner which would be beneficial to the black community. Additionally, only two agencies have consumers of their services on their boards. Agencies which are primarily involved with youth do not have any representation on their boards for this consumer population. The selected agencies employ a total of two hundred ninety-two persons (see table 35). Os the total number of employees, one hundred five (36 percent) are black. One eighteen (6 percent) of the black employees are in supervisory positions. Thus, there is a greater gap in black employment than there is in black board participation. Both are in serious need of black participation. The programs and services offered by these agencies are varied and could easily provide for the general welfare of the community if a more wholesome attitude is assumed in the operation of these agencies and if consumers are part of the delivery process. NEWS-REVIEW MAY 20,1971 •- TABLE 36 AUGUSTA BOARD COMPOSITION OF SELECTED SOCIAL AGENCIES BY RACE Board NameTota IWhitesßlacks Department of Family and Children Services 5 * Office of Economic Opportunity 24 9 *5 Bethlehem Community Center 24 12 12 Girl Scouts 30 27 3 Boy Scouts 49 41 8 United Cerebral Palsy Day Care Center n/a* n/a n/a Ways and Means American Red Cross 36 34 2 Day Care Licensing (State Department of Family and Children Services, Division of Children and Youth !4** Salvation Army 2420 4 Totals 192 147 45 (23%) Not Available for application **These are on the state level and not Included in the total £ TABLE 35 STAFFING PATTERNS FOR SOME OF THE MAJOR SOCIAL WELFARE AGENC IES/ORGAN IZAT IONS Total Number Number Supervisors- Name Number Whites Blacksßlacks Salvation Army 16 16 Soc ia I Security - Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 33 30 3 State Department o ( Family and Children Services - Day Care Office 2 I I Augusta Chapter - American Red Cross 2 2 Ways and Means I I Welfare Rights Organization 35 *— 35 United Cerebral Palsy - Day Care Center 3 2 I Boy Scouts G»ri Scouts 11 10 I Bethlehem Community Center 10 2 8 Office of Economic Opportunity 40 8 31 Department of Family and Children Services 125 102 23 Totals 292 186 105 >8 One non-white is Mexican-American which accounts for discrepancy. 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