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A sing along was part,of the evening's program, which was designed to help th6se who are organizing the 1978 International PloWing Match at the. Armstrong farm to get to know each other. ' (Staff Photo) Mayer's Jewellery Member B.B.A. & Gifts Where Personal Service . Is Still Important. Audrey & Lloyd Brussels 887-9000 elected Wednesdy night, nine of them - Steering - committee suggestions, none are farmers. Mr. Heath said he hoped that the, one director County Council will • name will be a farmer. ' An understanding of f,arming, its problems and its influence on life in Huron would "[hope be an attitude at staff level," Mr. Heath said, and he acknowledged "''the need for more' farm represen- tation. Although the centre will have an office, probably in. Clinton; the organizers 'say services will be Mobile "arid ',will travel to people , around the county. There's a possibility that office hours will be held in all the county towns and centre workers will see people in their own homes. Children's Society director —,,--Bruce Heath said the centre, which hopes for co-operation with other groups involved in health care in the county, is needed. urgently. "We're all- in favour of prevention but it always seems to be left on the agenda", Mr. Heath said he wants to see staff time and dollars working on There's a lack of facilitieS and people to give good mental health care to the children* and young peOple in Huron County, interes- ed citizens heard last Wednesday night and a mental health centre that has just got off the ground hopes to change all that, - The Huron Centre' for Children and Youth will fill a gap between children who need help, their schools, families and communities according to members of the steering committee who drafted the pro- posal for the centre arid got provincial funding of $185,000 for ts first year of operation. The centre was first proposed back in March, .when the closing of Goderich Psychiatric Hospital made the not too optimistic outlook for preventative mental health care for the county's young people even bleaker. The steering committee, with members from school boards, community agencies, the health unit, a day care centre and Probation services outlined what they hope the centre will do to the meeting in Clinton last. Wednesday night. The cente, which will have a director, six child care workers and a psychiatrist and psycholor gists available as consultants, hopes to identify and treat high risk children and their families e,atlYt "before problems aevelop," according to public health nurse Joanne Jasper of erich: The centre wil put emphasis on 'parenting" and will treat the dividual child as part of his/her iron is essentially a farthing nimuility and too ,. often rofessionals don't recognize mg's importance to the pie the ntre y are trying, to help, the ays, operating philOsphY However, of the 10 member's of e centre's board of directors, prevention now; rather than "still talking about the yague possi- bility in five years." "A week from now school opens and it'll take two months to pick a director and set up a program. We may have dallied too long," Mr. heath said. Elected to the centre's first board of directors by the 35 - 40 people at the Clinton meeting were: Carol Enget, • Goderich Township, /principal of the Goderich Day Nursery; Mr. Heath, Ila Kayes, Stephen Township, student services co-ordinator . with • the 'Huron County Board of Education; Dr. Bruce Thomson, Goderich, of the huron 'County Medical Association; Helen Eartliff, Clinton, interested citizen; Rev. Jack' Beaton, Centralia, a United Church minister and guidance counsellor ,at Conestoga College; Donna Cornwall, Wingham, another interested citizen Howard James, Egmondville, head of guidance at SDHS; Mrs.Jasper and a nominee from the floor, William Gregg, Goderich • Township of the Bluewater ,Township Centre. THE EiRUSSELS .POST' SEPTEMBER, 8,1976 Huron Centre for Children and Youth Elect board of directors