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This is Potrero Hill on its southern slope, Hidden from most of the lovely city views lives a neglected community, a community of hilltop dwellers who dream of leaving their hill a community of people trapped on their hill. The view for the youth of Potrero is one

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of alienation and denial. New Society Youth Club is trying to alter that view. Tonight. Assignment four looks a target area organizations attempting to meet the growing needs of youth. In our time. Eight hundred young people are members of new society. It is housed in

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a one hundred and one year old building, the Olivetti Presbyterian Church. In its fifth year, the organization is under the leadership of director Mojo Taboo to a co founder and counselor, director Walter Robinson. Well, a new society, uh, likes to regard itself as a place a

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czar home away from where kids can get away from the pressures of his parents, where he could be with those of his own peers in an atmosphere that is relaxing where he can shoot pool if that's what he's inclined to do, where he can, uh, become

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involved in woodcarving way. Have sewing classes, set up a young ladies on various cultural and academic activities. The idea behind this is that if once we can get kids relaxed, uh, in an environment that they feel free waken begin to talk with them, they begin to

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talk to us about many of the problems that they have on from this. We attempt to deal individually and collectively, uh, with these problems designed programs, uh, that would cater to the needs of the youths in a district like Potrero Hill. The real test of these

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talks, the best indicator of effective communication is in the area of juvenile delinquency. Those kids who have already found trouble outside their homes in the conflict of the street. In our five years of working with the youth guidance, sending some of the probation officers out that

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we have had over two hundred kids that have been released our club, mainly because we had shown some interest in helping some of the community kids and out of these over two hundred kids, we've only had one case where one of the guys actually went back

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to Uganda Center for a second time. The others were sent on to school or either tried to be enticed to enter into some type of training programs that would benefit them or prepare them to get some type of vocational training. But success brings with it an

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old problem, one of the major causes of the conditions faced by these young people. Unemployment. And it's handmaiden poverty, for there are few places to train and aspiring youth and fewer places for him to find a job. Patrol Hill is is surrounded by industry, and we've

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had a very, very difficult time trying to get our youth jobs in these various industries that surround mature Hill. We give them assistance and filling out applications. Um, how to conduct themselves at interviews off time. We intercede directly by going to the employer uhh for special

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compensation or a special consideration of these youth. And they get frustrated after repeatedly going two interviews for jobs and they turned down. Nor is new society safe from the struggle for survival. The major problem we face at the New Society is a lack of adequate financial

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support. Now space limitation, a small staff that we have. We just can't really react to all of the problems that are involved with the youth the situation. Is that a point of desperation? Yeah, The young people in the community have followed indicated in many ways that

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they will not tolerate growing up. Living under the conditions that their parents have been forced to live under. This city has an obligation. This society has an obligation to integrate all of the members and to meaningful participation in the society. And thus far it has failed

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to do that. All of these conditions seems to add up to one thing in the patrol here project, which is survival of the fittest, sort of the rule of the jungle, where a person has to do all sorts of things to survive in this area overnight

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way hope that we could stamp out this type of, uh, adverse living for people who are human beings who are considered as animals or something. The theme for the people of the Mission District. Delinquent activity is a fact of life on ugly, demeaning fact, which must

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be prevented. Wrap A Riel alternatives program fights to provide fundamental opportunities for Mission Area Youth, one of many community service organizations from the Mission Coalition. Rap begins its third year under the direction of Jim Queen. A lot of the kids who were working with getting busted

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at center, taking to you guys. So we decided that from the appearances that we're making with kids there, we found that if we told probation officers who often had a caseload from one hundred one hundred twenty kids, way told them that we had something going on

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in the community and the community was willing and could take responsibility for its youth, that they would release the kids to us. So this process went off about perhaps a year, year and a half where we did this very informally, where community volunteers to go up

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and speak for kids they released to us. And then we decided that perhaps the best thing we could probably do is to do this on a full time basis and have a whole program which formally dealt with with the problem. Delinquency cannot be passed off a

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smear Lee, a phenomenon of ghetto existence. It can be prevented if Mawr Energy is expended in attacking its causes and less energy wasted in punishing its victims. Youth cancer itself is a mission. You know that the system has failed because because you guys center merely acted

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as a punitive institution. It only deals with delinquent behavior of an individual, but at no time does the society at large Juno Juvenile Center itself deal with people. It's problems of social problem that people have of unemployment and discrimination, lack of education and so forth. So

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we no longer feel that these guys in yourself is valid for our people anyway. Wraps methods are simple and direct. It's medium is trust, community and individual. When a terrible brother walks into the colleges and approaches a brother in the Cottages and when he says them,

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Hey, what's happening, brother? This book is this lights up because he realizes that he's not alone right off the bat. And when her brother realizes that he's got covered and that there's a community supporting here and that is one of many, you have a whole situation.

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For the first time, this brother says, Maybe I can trust somebody, and maybe I do need somebody, and maybe here's where the start is. The amazing thing is that it's happening inside this community inside this area that we're talking about the Mission District that we're developing

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those and fathers who really care about their kids were getting understand. I have one child involved in the rap program. We were having a lot of trouble with her. She was a runaway and somebody told me about wraps. So we brought her down here, and since

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she has been involved in this program, most of our troubles seemed to have disappeared. Uh, she worked all summer through rap and was able to buy our own clothes. She has some place to go and talk her troubles over as sometimes she wasn't able to talkto

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us rough. Madonna Putin rep provides me with an opportunity because it's a center that renders enough aid to the new youth. Looks like a Google form. A wrap on your patrol sooner. Magnificat there. The Rap Youth Patrol is one of the best things to come out

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of the Mission District for the mission. It helps provide security for the kids that are out on the streets looking churches. The Town Way started patrolling first on Friday and Saturday night recently started control because North allowed a policeman that were coming around in the community

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at nighttime patrol the streets So Jack kids up, grab him talk to him and pick it up two or three times a night just around something. A problem with that is that Is that maybe it was just a little bit drunk. And maybe if he was

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a little drunk and share them taken to the hospital or taking somewhere where you get some kind of medical treatment. When you're working with kids in the community, you're talking about working directly. They're not from far away, but right there where the action is. And I

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think you'll find that the people like the people that rap and the people in the community are willing to work with. Their people are willing to sit down and pay the dues and are willing to go beyond just a job. You know, saying these are These

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are my people or these are the people that that are there and you have to have an answer for them. This little brother went to Junkie Man this little brother follow this little brother took dope. This little brother followed this little brother OD. This little brother

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followed this little brother died. This little brother followed for about a year and a half a group of us have been meeting from different organizations and talking about drugs and talking about what we could do to get something like a drug treatment drug abuse center inside

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the mission inside our community. And about six months ago, we started started this and this is the Center for Change, a sister organization, to the Rial Alternatives Program, located on twenty fourth Street. In the heart of mission drug activity, the center is attempting to combine the

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best of on the street directness with professional medical aid for young drug users. We're doing like counseling seminars and drug drug abuse and, uh, training things. Doctors come in and give us stuff on first aid and how to treat like overdoses and things like that. Uh,

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we're trying to build relationships with hospitals on on drug abuse and ways of treating it there. So what we would like to do is have some kinds of discussions with parents. And as we work with the kids that go to court, talk to the parents about

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the realities of it and how, uh and and really trying starts in conversation with adults and the kids in the community, the most urgent problem attacked. At the center, though, is that of counseling youth with riel and immediate drug problems on that could mean anything, a

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simple answer or the delicate honesty of a few encouraging words. Often this counseling takes place in group sessions held in a small room at the rear of the office. It was a real thing when I first started working as a counselor drug counselor. It's like kids

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in the district. They would walk in and they would say, Uh, you know what's happening with you? Uh, you know, one of the fellows anymore, like an executive got your own desk and it was just Secretary briefcase and things like that. It was Paul really working

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down there after you speak with one of us, you know? You know, uh, they were all you know, come in and just say hi to see what's going on. They started getting interested enough to, you know, when were very positive sides of a program like this

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is that it's going to instill in the community and interest and seeking alternatives on its own rather than depending on outside elements like why GC or correction and, uh, punitive measures. It's gonna really develop medical facilities and, uh, you know, community things within its own. The

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primary purpose of the Youth Council is to provide the young people of our community to have a formal voice in the planning and implementing programs that meet their needs. And we have a program here with following goals. Number one is the multiple fate Youth into meaningful

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endeavors in education, recreation and culture, and number two to prepare to youth to be ableto present their needs to the various use serving institution in our community and through the Youth Council to stimulate interaction between youth groups in our area, a mask is being destroyed in

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Chinatown. It is the face of happy, humble people, docile and content with being a tourist attraction. That mask is being replaced with the real face of youth grown tough under the strain of exploitation. These young people are attempting to bring unity amongst themselves where none had

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been attempting to stop street wars, the soaring crime rate and restore dignity and integrity to their community. Their sight of operations, the old hungry i of fire gutted nightclub abandoned as useless. The organization, the China Town North Beach Area youth Council Youth councils try. You know

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all you know, all the community youth organizations, especially the local gangs in the community. They have been fighting among themselves. You know, we've tried to get them, at least to sit down and talk to each other before they get any father and their problems. But we're

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just trying to, you know, unite them, Uh, you know, for their own self survival, because they need each other to survive in this community, you know, in the world, Well, the strength of the Youth Council lies in the fact that these young people are assuming the

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positions of responsibility in the organization's operations. They hire, fire and dictate policy unlike any other youth agency. This isn't something that's run by an adult. And, you know, just put out for us for the summer is to keep us cool to keep us quiet. And you

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know, when school starts, just let us loose on the streets again. This program committee exists as long as they use wanted to exist. And, you know, it's always the other youth coming, coming in and taking over, You know, the work that the past people have left

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off you know it won't be the same people all the time. You know they're gonna do the program, what they want and what the community wants, what the youth want. Nor are the youth councils activities confined to aiding just youth in Chinatown. More and more, it

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is acting as a buffer between an uninformed adult community and the institutions outside the area. Well, like I think, my parents like, you know, they like the program like, you know, they think it's good and like, No, my parents are constantly coming down there like, you

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know, any time like they don't understand something or like if I get into some kind of trouble, they would, you know, always come down like a lot of other parents come down to, like when their sons have problems. Or like, uh, if there's something undermined or

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like a you know, like if they want to say something like, you know, about the school system or uh like you know just anything that's bothering them. For the last year, the Han Youth Council has been working very closely with the Youth Guidance Center, uh, the

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police department in the schools, and we have handled all Chinatown cases, uh, the past. Through the youth guidance center, we have been also able to get funding from the Department of health, education and Welfare to finance a use services and coordinates coordinating center to search Chinese

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delinquency that have been arrested or have citations. Uh, in our area are staff spent a lot of their time going upto You've gotten center, you know, just getting people out of jail, uh, you know, interpreting for the parents that don't know how to speak English. And,

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you know, that wasn't supposed to be the main purpose off the youth Council. But, you know, that's what it turned out to be because the need was there because, you know, a lot of kids were getting busted and, you know, no one was representing him. No

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one was representing them. You know, they just got shafted as they went through the procedures. And, you know, their parents didn't understand. You know enough about the agencies in the community to, you know, seek legal aid for them. We're tryingto reach a lot of other use

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that don't belong to any clubs. And you know, that's something that we haven't done too much of in the past, you know, because there's not all use belong to the clubs that, you know, representing the youth council. There's a lot of groups that, you know, a

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lot of kids that just hang out in the streets, You know, they don't belong to any church or any group. You know, they don't have any place. You know, Zack, they're the majority. Those people that don't belong to any club. They're the ones that we have

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to try to reach. Now. The problems facing these youths will not be eliminated overnight, But they must be resolved for a society out of touch with the needs of its youth. Is a society out of touch with its future? Thank you. Yeah,

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and yeah.