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Poison Information Specialists answered over 47,000
calls last year, including 66 from Chattoo%a Countg The
specialists work with the Georgia Poison Control Center
Contract Homes Needed
In Chattooga County
Editor's Note: The Chat
tooga County Division of
Youth Services recently issued
a plea for help from area
residents who want to open
their homes as ‘‘contract
homes” to troubled youths.
The following is a description
ofan existiflhome and how it
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worker Craig Fowler ‘
857-8534.
David and Pat Hicks have
a lot to do taking care of their
own two toddlers and minister
ing to the Rev. Hicks' con
gregation at a Methodist
church in north Georgia. And
yet, the Hicks' also serve as
surro§ate parents for bo(i's who
have broken the law and are in
the custody of the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources Division of Youth
Services. B O
While Youth Services
operates the state’s detention
facilities for youthful offenders,
it also provides a variety of
communitK alternatives for
youths who do not require
placement in a correctional in
stitution. Last year 575 youths
were placed in such programs
in Georgia. Some enter “‘con
tract homes” like the Hicks
parsonage, where they stay for
the duration of their
commitment. a 8 !
w"‘-"fi;}—);'?a good bonl' he
really is,” says Pat Hicks
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about the 15-year-old who is
living in her house for nine
months. ‘“His problem was a
lack of discipline at home. Both
parents had drinkingg)roblems.
After his father died he stop
ped going to school. He never
got caught doing anything
really criminal, just truancy,
W ewh :
aaded 0 RO
“I enjoy school now,"" Barry
says. ‘‘l've made friends. I was
lonely in the Youth Develop
ment Center where I was for
two months. I got
claustrophobic. If I have to be
anywhere but home I'd rather
be here. The Hicks' are really
understanding peo[ple. They
talk to me when I need so
meone to talk to. They're just
good to me."”
The youths sent to contract
homes are screened to ensure
that they are no risk to the
community and will do well in
a home setting. They are able
to attend public school and par
ticipate in community life.
“The{ learn from being ina
normal home situation,” ex
plains Pat Hicks. “Thisisn't a
Berfect home, but it's stable.
ike most people, we have mix
ed emotions about discipline,
but we're here to set limits for
a child.”
Says the Rev. Hicks,
“Barry didn’t have any idea
where he was going with his
life. Like so many kids, all he
knew was to do the minimum
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at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. The center’s
toll-free telephone number is 1-800-282-5846.
required to survive day to day.
Their pattern is to quit school
at 16 and go to work at a
chicken plant. I hope we can
break that cycle andpsehow him
some wider horizon. Maybe
he’s beginning to see that he
fi:x}'be anything he wants to
- Louise Kraft operates a
residence that serves a group
of youngsters. A former dru%
counselor and church yout
worker, Kraft started her home
11 years ago because she saw
the need to offer a stable en
vironment to troubled
youngsters.
Kraft says group residences
are good because ‘‘the kids
know it's going to be the same
all the time. They can count on
us, it’s secure here.”
While the majority of kids
placed by DYS in community
residences are from poor
socioeconomic backgrounds.
many are from middle class
homes. All come from families
that have broken down in some
way. Kraft says, ‘‘These
families may give their children
lots of ‘things’' but they
haven't given them the time
and attention they need.”
Dan Hagen, a IKYS regional
contract services coordinator,
notes that youngsters are plac
ed in contract homes when it is
determined that they are not a
risk to their community and in
the belief that structured,
“home-type” livini is the best
arrangement for the youth.
Hagen says, ‘A lot of our
kids have never been held ac
countable for their actions.
Krafts adds, ‘‘The main thing
I teach here is taking respon
sibility for your own actions.
When kids start blaming their
parents I remind them that
their parents didn't make them
do whatever it was that
brought them here.” j
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The emphasis on personal
responsg)ihty se(;‘ms to be hav
ing an effect on the yo ters
in%(:aft's care. Mike, a Is-year
old who dropped out ofschool
at 15, sa{s. “Since I've been
here I've learned to better con
trol myself ain‘fn:ow tt:)ncaontml 4
my temper. ers mor,
of Whal's SolhE 66 deouil hot
and I know more about living, '
on my own.’ 8 %
Mike, whose offenses in
cluded burglary, has learned
also that ‘‘you don't have to
get in trouble to have fun.”
The bogs learn responsibili
ty through the chores the[\" do
around the lovely, well- efit
house. They all help clean the
house, do their own laundry
and learn to cook. And if one
misbehaves, they all suffer.
Recently a water fight led to
the suspension of smoking
priviieges.
When one of the youths has
a problem a ‘‘group” is called.
In group, says Alan, 17, “We
talk about the problems we're
having and get on each other's
case.”
Alan, who served as a
lookout for his mother as she
committed armed robbery,
says, ‘lt was hard to come here
at first, but I've gotten used to
it now.”" Kraft notes that Alan
is a ‘“model kid — he just
doesn’t have any other place to
go.
For some boys, like Jay, 17,
this is the only stable Kome
they've known., A veteran of
two youth development centers
and three foster homes, Jay
says, ‘‘This is better than a
home — if I had one.”
While they are in the group
home, the teens work at out
side jobs when they can and
study for their G.E.D.
When they leave the
residence, Mike hopes to go to
work, Alan wants to get train-
[ Second Front '
County Residents Using
Poison Control Hotline
It’s three o’clock on a week
day afternoon and a Chattooga
County housewife is frantic
after di'scov ering her 14-month
old baby has gotten into the
family medicine cabinet and
consumed an entire bottle of
medicine.
She quickly looks up an
emergency number and dials
the Georgia Poison Control
Center in Atlanta where a
calm, reassuring voice asks a
few simfle I‘uestions.
Moments later, the child's
mother not only has a positive
identification of the medicine,
but she also knows how her
baby might be affected. The
poison information specialist
then gives her clear, concise in
structions on what to do next
to insure her child's health.
The above scenario is fic
tinal, but it graghically il
lustrates the role of the
Georgia Poison Control Center
in providing answers. about
poisonin%s across the state and
around the world.
Located at Grady Memorial
Hospital in downtown Atlanta,
the center answered more than
47,000 calls from across
Georgia in 1985, including at
least 66 from Chattooga
County. .
**Our main job is to give im
mediate, accurate information”
explained Regina Maroncelli,
the Center's managing direc
tor. Calls come in on local
telephone lines, toll-free WATS
lines and a special teletype for
the deaf. Each call is taken by
one of the center's specially
trained information stpecialists
who gets as much information
as dpos:axible from the caller in
order to make appropriate
evaluations and recommen
dations.
After gaining the necessary
information, the specialist con
sults the myriad of reference
material the Poison Control
Center has accumulated on
computer, microfilm and in
volumes of medical books and
Holdups
Prompt
Added GSP
Coverage
A rising tide of rural and
suburban convenience store
violence has prompted the
State Patrol to take on new
coverage patterns, according
to announcement today by
Georgia Public Safety Commis
sioner Colonel Hugh Hardison.
Hardison said he has
directed the state’s 816
troopers to expand their
routine patrol patterns to in
clude more stops and
surveillance of rural conve
nience stores in an effort to pre
vent some of the armed rob
beries taking ofl:ce there.
Shootinfs and violence at these
types of establishments have
13?? several deaths and
numerous injuries in recent
months.
Hardison said such stores
frequently become targets for
criminal activity because of
their late hours and locations.
He said that troopers on lr:isht
time patrol were being asked to
make frequent stops at the
stores and to be seen on patrol
nearl:{y. “If we can convince a
would-be hold up artist that a
law enforcement officer is near
by, he may think twice about
a robbe?'." he said.
In addition to being seen
near convenience stores along
their regular patrol routes,
troopers were encouraged to
visit with store owners and to
make sure that emergency
phone numbers and other
methods of self firotection were
up to date. Hardison said
troopers would urge store
owners or managers not to take
the law into their own hands
but to set good descriptions
and to do such other things as
have a partner in the store
after hours. Tips on transferr
ing money from the stores
would also be stressed.
Colonel Hardison said that
troopers also were asked to
maintain close working rela
tionsal::ifs with local agencies
for backup assistance and joint
patrol functions in an effort to
thwart such convenience store
crimes.
ing as a mechanic and Jay
would like to go to college.
When asked what they plan for
the future they each ifive the
same answer: “‘a family."
Holg:;g troubled
ly':oungs , who in many cases
ave never known a real fami
m“is not an easy job. But
ise Kraft u{s. ‘I wouldn't
trt\dl:i places with anyone in the
wor .'O
journals.
The poison information
specialist then can tell the
caller the best thing to do in
each particular instance. Many
times the center will relay good
news; that the substance in
gested was not toxic or will
cause only mild discomfort.
Other times a home treatment
may be recommended, or the
victim will be advised to seek
treatment at a doctor's office
or emergency room.
The cases the Poison Con
trol Center handles are not
limited strictly to those where
a harmful substance has been
swallowed. They also include
questions on a wide range of
topics such as insect stings,
Feed Grain Program
Allows 80% Planting
Hank Hammond, County
Executive Director, said
farmers who participate in the
1986 feed fl:in program are
allowed to plant and harvest up
to 80 Kercent of their
corn/sor% um and barle{/oats
acreage bases and be eligible
for price support loans, defi
ciency payments and land
diversion payments. The re
quired acreage reduction will
help curtail the burdensome |
supplies of these commodities.
“All farmers with an
established acreage base are
elifible to participate in the
voluntary g‘rogram." Ham
mond said. The 1986 acreage
base is the average of the acres
planted and considered planted |
to feed grains in the last five |
years.
Producers who plant no |
more than 80 percent of their |
feed grain base will be eligible |
for price s loans at $1.92
8. ;er bushel for oats. Ham- |
mond said target prices for |
1986 feed grain crops will be |
the same as were in effect for |
1985 crops. 1
“Farmers may re%tjxest 100 |
percent of their land diversion
payments and 40 percent of the
projected deficiency payments
when they sign us in the pro
am,” l-{ammon said. Land |
sli’version, payments will be
issued in negotiable payment
in-kind certificates. Seventy
five percent of the advance |
deficiency payments will be
issued in cash and the re
mainder in certificates, he said. 1
Deficiency payments are {
made to farm program par- |
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snake bites and poisonous
plants.
As expected, children make
up the bulk of *\gctims. ”llxd
most poisonings n in the
home. Ms. Maroncggesaid the
center's ‘‘busy season’’ is just
starting and will reach a peak
in the summer months. Sur
prisingly, the major increase
during these months occurs in
adults, not in children. Ms.
Maroncelli also explained that
insect bites make up about 10
percent of the center’'s cases
during the peak summer
months, but almost none in the
winter. :
~ One ray of good news is
that childhood poisonings have
seen a sharp decrease in recent
ticipants when the average
market price falls below the
established target price for a
crop. USDA estimates that the
per bushel deficiency pagment
rates will be $1.03 per bushel
for corn, $.98 for sorghum, $.95
for barley and $.45 for oats. Ac
cording to Hammond, land
diversion payments will be
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ears. Accidental poisonings
¥rom drugs and household pro
ducts have dropfi:;?l by over 46
percent since ‘‘child resistant”’
safety cags came into general
use in 1972,
Funded by the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources, the Georgia Poison
Control Center at Grady
employs a full-time staff of
poison information arecialiots
who man the telephones
around the clock. At least two
staff members, including one
registered nurse, are on duty in
the center at all times.
The Georfiia Poison Control
Center's toll-free emergency
number is 1-800-282-5846.
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2.5 percent of the crop acreage
base at a rate of $.73 per bushel
for corn, $.65 for m&:m. $.57
for barley and $.36 per bushel
for oats. 3
For further details or pro
gram applications, feed grain
Froducers may contact the
ocal ASCS office.