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Betty© Harris
f Harris Elected
I To NUL Board
Of Trustees
| Bettye J. Harris, Board Chair
► man, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Ur
c, ban League, was elected as South
Jern Regional Trustee to the Na
• tiona) Urban -League Board of
Trustees, April 4 in Dallas, T*.
' Harris previously served as sec
retary of the Southern Regional
Assembly.
In her new position at the na
tional level of the Urban League,
Harris will be responsible for
looking at issues which effect the
30 affiliate# of the Bouthern Re
gion.
The National Urban League
has 111 affiliates in the United
States. It is.a national organize
.Harris states, “I believe it is
increasingly important that'cor
porate and community combine
forces to promote equal opportuni
ties for all citizens.
1 believe in the National Ur
ban League Movement. I am con
vinced that some of the soda], ed
ucational and economic needis of
our people can be alleviated by
this great movement,” Harris
adds.
Harris is serving her second
term as chairwoman of the local
Urban league affiliate. She is
also Director of Community Re
lations for the Charlotte Housing
Authority and is vice-president of
United Way of the Greater Caro
lina!, serving on the Executive
Committee, Allocations & Re
view Board, United Way.
The National Urban League
Annual Conference will be held
in Houston, Tx., July 19-22.
IBM Grants $3,500 To Anita Stroud
Charlotte, NC - The Anita
Stroud Foundation has received a
$3,600 grant from the IBM Corpo
ration to purchase a personal com
puter and the IBM Writing to
Read program to be used in the
foundation's existing reading pro
gram.
The grant was made through
IBM's Fund for Community Ser
vice, an IBM program, through
which employees, retirees, and
their spouses can obtain grants for
nonprofit organisations in which
they are involved. Shelby Walters,
contracts purchasing buyer for
IBM Charlbtte and member of the
foundation's board of directors, re
quested the grant for the founda
tion.
The Anita Stroud Foundation
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ed Clinics:
cational Issue
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By Loretta Manago
Post Staff Writer
No one denies that America is ex
periencing a teenage pregnancy
crisis. On that point everyone
agrees.
Where the disagreement comes
is in finding methods to effectively
deal with the problem.
Existing programs, such cm sex
education courses and family
planning agencies, in view of the
ever rising number of teen preg
nancies suggest, that even with
these alternatives, something is
still amiss.
°9® solution, being offered, is
school-based clinks. That solution
ha* Mtirred as much controversy, if
not more, than the idea of teaching
sex education in public schools did
in the late '60s and early '70s.
Faye Wattleton, president %f
Planned Parenthood in a recent
J«t Magazine article (Nov.'86)
stated ....the solution to this dsvas
tating problem (teenage pregnan
cies) lies in increasing accsss to sex
education in the schools, providing
greater communication at home
about birth control and sex and
making contraceptives available i
even if jt means providing them
Wishing school-linked clinics."
22 cities across the country, hav
ing established 75 school-based
clinics to date find Mrs. Wattle
ton's remarks right on target. In
cities like Houston, San Francisco
and Chicago, school-based clinics
are in full operation. Even in
North Carolina, school-based clin
ics can be found in Greene County,
Anson County and Robeson Coun
ty (no contraceptive are dispensed,
no prescriptions for contracep
tions are written, nor or any abor
tion services provided at the
school-based clinic in Robeson
County).
According to Dr. Michael Kagay,
vice president of the Harris organ
ization, "public support, both na
tionally and locally seems to be in
favor of school-based clinics and
of linking schools with family
planning services. Even In a re
cent Harris poll, 40% of American
teens said clinics whore con trace p
operates an after school enrich
ment program, in the Anita
Stroud Youth Development Cen
ter located in the Fairview Homes
community. It provides education
in math, reading, writing, and art
to approximately 76 children in
the area. "The program is special
because it teaches the kids the val
ue of life and gives them self
esteem," says Mr. Walters. "It
gives them the opportunity to be
somebody."
Mr. Walters says the foundation
will use the computer to develop
programs to improve the chil
dren s skills in reading and writ
ing.
Conference On Drug-Free
Public Housing Scheduled
Secretary of Housing and Ur
ban Development Samuel R.
Pierce Jr. recently announced that
HUD and the National Association
of Housing and Redevelopment
Officials (NAHRO), in association
with the White House Conference
for a Drug-Free America, are
sponsoring a National conference
on Drug-Free Public Housing.
roe National Conference, to be
held in Atlanta May 1-2 at the
Marriott Marquis Hotel, is de
signed for participation by public
housing agency directors, manag
ers and resident leaders, who
wish to learn practical, "hands
on,” tested techniques and strate
gies for removing illegal drugs
from their communities.
Secretary Pierce, who will be
the conference's keynote speaker,
said, "The National Conference on
Drug-Free Public Housing will be
come a cornerstone at the Presi
dent's commitment to the national
crusade against drugs, and is a
major step toward establishing the
strong public/private sector part
nership that is needed for a drug
free America." y>‘
Other scheduled speakers at the
conference are: J. Michael Dorsey,
HUD general eounsel; Dr. Donald
Ian Macdonald, special assistant
to the President for Drug Abuse
Policy; Dr. Charlos Schuster, di
rector of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, and Bertha Oilkey,
chairman, board of directors, Co
chran Gardens Tenant Manage
ment Corporation, in St. Louis,
Mo.
Six workshops providing an op
portunity for the exchange of ide
as and broad discussion will make
up the care of the conference pro
gram. A workshop on law en
forcement will highlight ways in
which local police, public housing
authority staff and residents can
work together to eliminate drug
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Many young girls fall prey to the line above, contributing to the rising statistics of teenaee
pregnancies.
tives can be obtained should be in
or near schools. Harris further
commented that most of those
who said that such a clinic should
be located elsewhere did so be
cause they felt confidentiality
would hot be maintained.”
Proponents of school-based clin
ics say that pregnancies among
teens actually decrease as a result
of this revolutionary idea. They
argue, with their opponents who
protest that openly discussing sex
ual behavior and providing teens
with contraceptives will increase
or hasten sexual activity.
Substantiating their arguments
with the findings of a John Hop
kins' experimental school-based
pregnancy prevention program
that involved inner city high
school girls, school-based clinics
proponents maintain that among
these high school girls a dramatic
decrease in pregnancies was
shown; they postponed first inter
See School on page 8A
Civil rights figures from around the country
gathered at New York'a Vista International
Hotel to Join the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
in a testimonial to the Honorable Constanoe
Baker Motley, United States Judge for the
Southern District of Nets York. Judge Motley
is a 90-year alumna of tho Legal Defense
. Fund. During her years there, from IMS to
1965, she won nine of the 10oases she argued
before the 8upreme Court; the tenth was over
ruled in a decision delivered last year. The oc
oasion also marked Judge Motley's assump
tion of senior status with the court, where she
has served sine# 1966. Mrs. Motley appears
here with Robert H. PraiskiU, LOP president;
Bernard G. Segal, Philadelphia attorney and
founding LDP board member; Donald L. Hoi
lowell, regional attorney for Atlanta, EEOC,
retired; Julius Chambers, LDP director
oounsel, C.B. King, a civil rights attorney
practicing in Albany, GA, and William T. Cole
man Jr., LDP chairman of the board.
A workshop on treatment, pre
vention, and education will dis
cuss how to spot drug abuae and
where to go for help In setting up
programs. The threat of AIDS to
and from intravenous drug users
and the role of private treatment
centers will also be discussed. The
vital rale of residents in achieving
drug-free public housing is the
topic of another workshop, which
will examine ways of implement
ing successful programs under
taken by residents.
"Providing an Alternative" is the
Local Effort
Helps Neetfy
Addi McClain has a new house
today, thanks-to the City's commu
nity development efforts. Bascom
Bradley has a renovated bath
room. And Rachel Hall was able to
open a children's day care center
that hired 11 unemployed people.
These are just three examples
representatives of hundreds of lo
cal people who have benefitted
from federally-funded Communi
ty Development Block Grants giv
en to the City and distributed local
ly. This week (April 11-18) recog
nizes the importance of these
grants and the community devel
opment program on the quality of
life experienced by elderly low
and moderate-income people.
Mayor Harvey Gantt pro
claimed this week "National Com
munity Development Week" in
Charlotte at a City Council meet
ing April 6. The week was pro
claimed nationally by Congress
earlier. | m
"The Com
munity Devel
opment pro
gram is one that
deserves recog
nition and con
tinued funding,
not only be
cause of its imr
portance to the
area w* live in,
“%ut because of
Gantt
its impact on society as a whole,"
Mayor Gantt says. "Through this
program, literally hundreds of
people have been able to obtain
better jobs, live in more comforta
ble homes and eiyoy improved liv
ing environments."
The program, started in 1975,
has received steadily declining
federal funds. Funds are used to
provide educational training for
pre-school children, fire preven
tion programs for low-income and
elderly people, new streets, side
walks and trees, loans to business
es for creating new jobs and better
housing for families.
title of a workshop designed to in
form, participants how to work
with local, private industry coun
cils; the workshop will also illus
trate the successes of resident-run
businesses and training programs
in public housing.