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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-06-07, Page 17Local Initiatives a$ "project Co - Win has been in.. win Goderich for the months winds uP this t spokesman Moe d this week released a t on the project, its and its failures, but at overall the project 1 worth the effort ex- on it by the project em- end its guiding council- Blanchard's report ea for project Co -Pilot d in early November It was quite evident Youth in f °d e going hen and ped to do something We contacted Dr. Mills and discussed ideas with hint and he a meeting with the Co•Pilot staff and Dr. udson, Unit Director, m and Addiction Unit Goderich Psychiatric several meetings and ns with various people ich it waa.decidecl that nk Si Us'�r< Harry and Deputy,-, 1 )1tce t King ,would be the responsible for project . The application was p and sent to the Local Programs in Toronto oval • 'day. December- n, 1972 ed a phonecall from Manpower, in , informing uw that o•Pilot had been an- y the Federal Govern- "' rnent and was due to start on Monday December 11, 1972. We later received the terns of reference and defined objec- tives of project Co -Pilot as agreed to by the sponsors. These were as follows: The project will provide eight jobs at a federal cost of 21,391.00. A drop-in• center for youth will be provided to give infor- mation to young people about drugs, alcohol, and other problems they may encounter with provision for referral to appropriate agencies for those who need special help. Co -Pilot will organize programs and activities for the young out-patients of the Goderich Psychiatric Hospital. Co -Pilot will arrange adult seminars and discussion groups for local parents of the com- munity who are concerned with the problems of youth. Co -Pilot, in conjunction with local agencies, will attempt to set up a permanent youth organization for Goderich. Co -Pilot workers will be sub- ject to the,,direct guidance of the advisory group. • With these guidelines ., in mind we promptly opened our office at 38 Hamilton Street and began to put our plans into action. The staff members were split up into four major committees, these being: Property committee; in charge of the center as such and the - . sponsibil'ty for th- c• proper cleaning- and main- tenance and physical aspects of the- project. Recreation con►Mitt ee, working with Mike Dymond, Local Recreation Director, way in charge of all recreational ac- tivities participated in by. Co - Pilot. Information; coHIM ittee responsible for providing films, pamphlets, speakers and general information for ac- tivities as well as Public Relations and the weekly column in the Signal .Star. - `Services committee: concer- ned with provision of ."coun- selling" referrals, and an- swering crisis telephone ser- vices. Also included the GPH committee in charge of all out- patient activities of the Goderich 'Psychiatric and the Human Relations seminars which took place 'at Knox Church eveYy second Tuesday. At first many people Were very enthusiatic about project Co -Pilot and were very eager to join the advisory board to help us out. As soon as Co -Pilot became a routine job, however, we began to lose our hoard members rather quickly. The fact thar we were also plagued by rumours in the. beginning might also have had something to do with it. We are however very grateful to Dr. Frank Mills, James . McCaul, Dr. Harry Hudson and Chief Pat King for their help in guiding us throughout the project. The first four months proved to be quite busy as we were in the process of promoting new• ideas and activities. After these activities were set up the last two months were much slower since (Jur jobs consisted mostly of supervising existing programs Herethen is a list of all our major activities over the six month period and a small analysis of their success or failure - Thanks to Rev. Robert Rayrnont and to the Property Committee of North Street United Church we were given the use of the church g tn- nasium every Monday and Wednesday` nights from 9:00 p m. to 11:00 p.m. and -every Saturday afternoon from 1:00 p m. to 4:00 p.m. For the first- four months these free activity periods a;t.- tracted an !' of about 25 ming people on weeknights and an average of 30 to 4Q people on Saturday af- terrttlons. 'Phis program was very suc- cessful but gradually dispersed due to the fact that our only equipment consisted of one volleyball and one basketball. People soon tired of the sarne games and g adually stopped attending the activities. The early . firing weather was not pleasan enough to start any outdoor ctivities and even if it had beer equipment would have still been a major ,problem. The recreate al activities at North Street Church would at- tract people trorn the ages of 12 to ever) 25 or :30 years of age. '1 his made the competition for the 'younger kids a bit too rough, ,o, thanks to Rev. L. I(oval from Knox Pre(,byterian Church, we obtained the use of the Knox Church gymnasium foi to activit periods. for kids betwet n the ages of nine to 14. 'I he -,e free activity periods 444 curred from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p rn ever, Saturday afternoon. They were quite successful at fiat -bit gradually tapered off due to the lack of adequate materials Under the supervision of Dr. Harry Hudson, ,from the. Gotten; h P,vchiatric Hospital, we were allowed to involve mni.; ,,u t,,pirt lents from the ho>prr;,1 10 our activities. This permitted them to talk to people on their own level without any legal or medical involvements When Dr. Hudson left the hospital to go into private prac- tise this severed our liaison with the out-patients somewhat but eventually.,rthev were all released from the hospital which terminated our duties there. This program was also very successful in as much that it; gave the young out-patients a chance to he with their own peer group. On Saturday, ;j•'ehruary "1 the Goderich Psvchiatri, Hospital was the scene of an all day seminar on the question o1 drug abuse in the area The seminar was tltle,f "Goderich Community Workshop' and was sponsored by the Goderich and District Labour Council, the Canada Labour Council and Co -Pilot. O er 150 people attended and project Co -Pilot was deemed as a very worthy en- deavor by young people to promote activities and programs ,for all interested , 11 zer►s The day lore seminar was very success ul, it also cleared up a lot of misconcep- tions about Co -Pilot, but like most endeavors of this type there was never anything done to follow it up. Many people congratulated us for a job well done and promised to drop into our office to see us at work but never showed up. The seminar did however educate many adults HUNTING FISHING & SPORTS EQUIPMENT SPORTING GOODS 73 Hamilton St. 524-6985 I r r 1 ,,r,! tiumc,>e ha, something extra for you It's a cl,*t i;tl for two at ;i ;I,,t art only 1,59.90. 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