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Crisis Control Newcomer Hopes to Make a Difference A As director of services, she hopes to attract more volunteers By DELEITHIA SUMMEY Chronicle Staff Wnter Vclma Tyrancc joined Crisis Control Ministries in Winston Salem to make a difference. For years, she had been involved in social work in New York City, but she now enjoys the slower pace. She recently joined Crisis Control as the director of ser vices. After graduating from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Tyrance moved to New York, where she worked as a social worker at the New York City Department of Social Services. She began as a case manager, and after 23 years she had reached a top-level position of the senior supervisor of family and chil dren's services. In her new position, she is cry ing to attract more volunteers to the organization. Crisis Control is a npn-profit organization that main tains an operation that enables peo ple in need to receive food, clothing, medicine and funds for rent and util ities. Although grants and church and individual donations make all this possible, a paid staff of 13 also needs volunteers to assist. That's where Tyrance comes in; she is responsible for recruiting and training volunteers. "I would like to see volunteers do things more uniformly/' she said. "We also need more volunteers." i 4 Before she moved to Crisis Control, she was an instructor of High School Students to Participate in Workshop Fifty students representing 10 area high schools will participate in LEAD 493 (Leadership Effective ness and Development) on Aug. 9 12 at Forsyth Country Day School in Lewisville. Karen Kroncke, director of col lege counseling at Forsyth Country Day School, has been the coordina tor of LEAD since 1991. The pur pose of the program is to help iden tify students with strong leadership potential and leach them the funda mentals of effective leadership. The workshop teaches participants to understand and develop their per sonal leadership styles and capabili ties, while stressing effective com munication, conflict management and group motivation. In addition to classroom work shops, students receive practical tips from community leaders by visiting them in their workplace and engag ing in question and answer sessions. The broad group of community leaders and volunteers offering their time and knowledge to LEAD par ticipants includes: Chief George Sweat, Winston-Salem Police Department; Annette Scippio, direc tor, Leadership Winston-Salem; Jim Wilson, vice president of production Tobaccoville, RJR Tobacco Co. USA; Mike Britt, principal/execu tive director, Children's Center for the Physically Handicapped; Bob Carr, personnel department, John Tilmie, associate dean of Academic Affairs, and Patricia Adams, associ ate dean of Student Affairs, Bow man Gray School of Medicine; Lou Ann Wood, ^president, Junior League of Winston-Salem Inc.; Tom Keith, district attorney, Forsyth county; and Jim Rockaway, director of Personal The two, cchi current*?ee -day^ workshops are offered free of charge. "Project School Buddies" to Help Kids in Need For the second consecutive year, the local school system will team up with a local shopping mall, radio station and the United Way to address the back-to-school needs of less fortunate children in the area. Hanes Mall, 600 WSJS radio and the Forsyth County United Way have joined forces to again sponsor "Project: School Buddies," designed to help nearly 1,000 children, iden tified by the social workers in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System, who are in need of clothing and school supplies for going back to school this fall. Last year, the response was overwhelming with nearly $20,000 in donations collected, assisting over 600 children with such basic items as underwear, socks and shoes. Those wishing to help should visit the two "Project: School Bud dies" displays at Hanes Mall between now and Aug. 29 and select a card listing pertinent infor mation about an area child. Listed inside are the child's specific needs. The customer then collects merchandise that will fulfill those specific needs and returns the dona tion to the display. School social^ workers will make sure the dona tions are distributed to the children. Only new clothing and school supplies will be accepted as requested by the social worker staff. "Project: School Buddies" dis plays are located on the lower level of Hanes Mall near Belk and Dil lard's and includes stores with spe cial offers to customers wanting to make purchases to donate. Students to Display Research Findings Ten minority students from colleges and universities across the country will show off their research this Friday at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Each of the students has pre pared a poster summarizing his or her findings that stem from a sum mer of research in laboratories at Bowman Gray, according to Dr. Mariana Morris, professor of physi ology and pharmacology and pro gram director. The poster session is set for the medical school board room, adja cent to Carpenter Library, from 2-4 p.m. The public is invited. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsored the train ing program in an effort to increase the number of minority scientists. Morris said the focus of the 12 week program was hands-on research training in the cardiovascu lar sciences. The student research efforts were focused on the basic mecha nisms of vascular control and on such disease processes as hyperten sion (high blood pressure). She said the program includes 1 1 mentors, faculty members from the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Internal Medi cine, and from the Hypertension Center. Eight of the mentors have hypertension as the focus of their own research. Velma Tyrone t social welfare for Child Services at North Carolina A&T State Univer sity. Later she became the faculty liaison for the school and the Uni versity of North Carolina at Greens boro's Joint Social Work Field Pro gram. As the liaison, Tyrance was required to monitor the progress of students involved in the program. Coincidentally, she made place ments at Crisis Control, and she was notified that a position was vacant for a "good social worker.*" Although Tyrance has only been in her position for two months, she has plans for workshops cover ing cultural diversity, interviewing skills and information about agen cies and their available services. Tyrance earned a bachelor of science in secondary education at Tuskegee Institute and a master's degree in social work at Fordham University in New York. "I actually did not know about social work until I got to New York. That's when I realized that a large number of people needed help," she said. Tyrance said she enjoys travel ing, reading and spending time with her sons, Marcus, 15, and Nicholas, 12, and her husband (L. to r.): Cornelia F. Tanner of Winston-Salem, Allen Crawford , Ace Hardware manager, and Edith Bailey , coordinator for the Special Popu lations and Programs Unit of the Parks & Recreation Department Tan ner receives a free Care line personal emergency response system . Tan ner won the price, valued at $329 at the Annual Senior Bingo game. Get a $5 Bonus for your $50 shoe purchase. Now through August 8 ONLY. Get a FREE $5 Hanes Mall Gift Certificate with any shoe purchase of $50 or more from Hanes Mall stores. " Just bring your receipts to Customer Service. (Hurry. Offer is limited to first 1,000 customers.) And look for the Shoe KickOff Week sign. Find exciting shoe promotions throughout Hanes Mall. Anywhere you see the Shoe KickOff Week sign. This week only. HanesMall ? ULTIMATE SHOPPING* The NEW 1*40 Bypass, exit Hanes Mall Blvd. OR Business 1-40, exit Silas Creek Pkwy. South. Winston-Salem. (919) 765-8321 or TOLL FREE 1-800-443- MALL outsde Forsyth County.
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