Thursday, October 28, 1976 THE GRYPHON—Page Seven
Delinquents Begin New Lives . .
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A huge white house, a broken
pane in an attic window
disturbing the reflection of the
trees, a large green porch
surrounding the tin-roofed
house like a box of Reynolds
Wrap, an old barn filled with
two brown and white Shetland
ponies, a gray cat named
Hawthorne and a bright blue
hall all share one quality in the
small village of Leggett, N.C.
These qualities are all grouped
into a program called
OUTLOOK!
OUTLOOK is a home for
girls between the ages of 10 and
16 who are delinquents or
predelinquents whose family
situation needs a little change
for the better. The home can
house nine girls but at present is
filled with only three.
OUTLOOK has been running for
about a year now, and according
to Mrs. Sara Duryea, supervisor
for the group home as well as a
social worker supervisor, the
program has helped ten girls
start a better life.
The home is “mothered and
fathered” by Mr. and Mrs.
Mike and Susan Webb under
the direction and financial
support of the Edgecombe
County Department of Social
Services. The name OUTLOOK
evolved because of the need to
tell the kids that the home
wasn’t “the end of the line,”
but an outlook on life. Girls from
Wilson and Nash counties as
well as Edgecombe County can
apply for admission to the
halfway house. The United
States Division of Court
Counselors decided that a home
was needed for delinquent and
predelinquent girls so that they
could get good help instead of
having to go to a training school
where it seems that afterwards
they continue progressively into
deeper and deeper crimes, “and
that they don’t need,” stated
Mrs. Duryea. The girls who go
to OUTLOOK are mostly
runaways and the like.
The girls have professional
services available to them such
as Psychiatric attention, medi
cal, and legal care. The girls are
put together in a group setting
where the method of “peer
pressure” can be used to help
the girls. “Peer pressure,”
stated Mrs. Duryea, “is the use
of the girls ‘sisters’ to help each
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other in an environment of care
for one another. Each girl
expresses that they don’t want a
‘sister’ to do something wrong
because it might harm her.”
This home requires the
involvement of the parents, and
admission is only allowed
through parental approval. The
girls are allowed to visit home
once a month.
The purpose behind the home
said Mrs. Duryea is that “a
great many young people more
and more are breaking the law,
shoplifting, running away and
being truant from school. Many
times it’s the home that causes
the problems, and we want to
clear up this problem through
the girls home.” Mrs. Duryea
also stated that many “parents
are throwing up their hands and
giving up.” The girls do
household chores and everyone
must share in the responsibili
ties. The girls are taught that
sharing in responsibilities is the
only way to make things
worthwhile. They go to the
public schools and are en
couraged to participate in
extracurricular activities.
The advisory board has 12
members including a law
enforcement officer, citizens at
large, a minister, a high school
student, a juvenile officer, and
other similar occupations evol
ving around troubled girls. The
home is partly financed through
a social service program called
“Title 20” given by the state,
and the remainder of the tab is
picked up by the Federal
Government. The home needs
volunteers, for it’is not as fully
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Mrs. Dureyea summarized
the home best when she said
that at the home the kids
“aren’t even considered as
patients. They’ve just got to get
their head on right with a large
amount of love and firm hand
telling them what they can and
cannot do.”
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