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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-02-07, Page 18,fC • SIG +iAl-ST;P,►A, TIWR4PAY,. EPEBU4 Y .: • ON: Di A' . otIrr home for Adolescents will Go ierich to serve needs .:of ohilalren in e .county who presenia excessive demands for oster'faixiilles. Aeeording to 1 John. Penn, -director of Fancily and'Children's- Services o for Huron' County, thR new. program will match a need which has developed in the county. "These' children are too emotionally or behaviourally upset to be placed in a foster family," says Penn, "and there is evidence they do better in a group home arrangement." - Group • honle care ,operates well with ° teenagers according to Penn. The program will use the house formerly used by the . county's Children's Aid Society Teenage Living Experience (CASTLE) program which was terminated at the end of November. The • home- will ac-• commodate children who require more, than the average familsituation can give them. Abused children do well hi' group homes says Penn. They. don't trust foster parents will not abuse them. In a group home they have the opportunity to see other children who are living in the home and have not_ been abused: The children who have lived NIP grants Goderich will receive $450,000 in federal and provincial grants for neighborhood im- provement projects,. Eimer MacKay Federal Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Housing Minister Claude Bennett announced February 4. Goderich is one of 30 Ontario munia palities that will share more than $34 million in,federal and provincial funding to•be distributed under terms of the Community Ser-. vices Contribution• Program.Under this scheme, the total costs for the neigh- borhood improvenient projects are shared 50 per, cent by the .federal government with the remaining costs shared equally by the province and the participating municipalities. "The grants may be used for wide variety of projects including water, sewers, roads, sidewalks, parks, centres 'and ret facilities to.help preserve residential neigh- borhoods," MacKay said. mproveme •- recreational' Bennett added "the 30 municipalities receiving this year's allocation of funds were selected because they were fur- thest along with project planning." Of the allocations • announced today, $22,670,000 . is being • provided by the federal• government, acid $11,335,000 by Ontario. The municipalities will provide----the—rem ain ing-- $11,335,000 fora total of $45,340,000 in neigh borh.00d improvement activity. . Today's allocations • represent• the maXimum amount of federal arid provincial funding that" will be provided to the municipalities as con- 'struction of their projects .takes place. The • Community Set - vices Contribution Program replaces • the federal funding previously provided 'under the `Municipal Incentive • Grant Program, ' the Neigh- borhood I community Program and the Water and Sewage Treatment Program through Canada Mortgage and Housing • Ufa pen in Goderich for young there for a time act as role models for the newcomers. QTreup m hoes. also. work well for the delinquent .child says Penn. The new home in Goderich will be the first group home initiated as a pr'ogra. m by FCS with professional child care workers' living in the and slue hag been placed in another home in FCS care. The • prpperty co{n- mfttee of county council toured the. house recently skilled group home home. • ', - and county council ap- parepts will: live in the New resources must be proved 82,000 in • its home.' Family and developed •far• children in property budget . for Children' -s Services the county every. Year -maintenance and repairs.. (FGLS) is looking for a says Penn. 'Last year: a to the house in its 19.80_ married Couple With bhild ,foster group horiie was • budget. The livingroorn care training or previous arranged and this year .will be redecorated and and wallpapering done in three bedrooms. The county will con- tinue to rent the house to FCS for the group home program. John Tinney, reeve of Hay Township. and vice-chairman of the property committee, told council he did not want to see , the house: fall into disrepair while a new use for the' house is being experience as group the county group home is plaster will be repaired initiated. home parents. The home being started. ' will accommodate up to The new project is still six children ranging in subject to the approval of ages from 10 to 15 years. the Ministry of Com- - The program will be 'munity and Social Ser - funded on the basis that vices and the location of one of the parents will group home parents will work fulitime in the determine the opening group home and the other date of the home. Penn is w-i-1l-haveafob-outside the looking_ for -ward- to - home. FCS will pay the' opening the home April 1. group home parents on a The CASTLE program, scale • of $12,000 a year which was cancelled, plus living ac- served older teenage commodation. girls who lived with a Penn said the program single social worker, who Will 'cost .$40,000 and the worked outside the home. project will be funded by She acted as. a role model deflecting the cost of for the girls living at the supporting two children home who were focusing in institutions and the on becoming in- CASTLE n- CASTLE -.operating dependent. The program budget. The program will operated for four years have $.20,000 from the and on an average, three CASTLE budget and the to four teenagers were $24,000 saved when the living at the'home. two children who are now The girls were either. institutionalized are wards of FCS • or - placed in the group home. teenagers from the . • More money will be community who had left saved down the road said home. The program was • Penn, when the - children- initiated through the who would ..be placed _in -Children's Aid Society institutions for the lack of _which app_roached_coun°ty-_ a group .home, can be council , who purchased_ placed in the new the house. The agency program. then rented the house The average length of " from the county and the stay in the group home , agency and the, county for.' a child will be.' six . shared -the funding of the Months to° a year. The program. child's parents will, be The program Was actively. involved in' the ter.minated in• favor of the - program , and will con- new program which there tribute ° financially. is a greater need. for in 0 Parents will participate the county at this time. • in family counselling- Penn said he supposes it sessions focusing on re- is inevitable "in a small integrating the child in community like Goderich his family.. that people would,' not The focus of.a program understand the CASTLE • for the child, who 'will program and there has • remain in the care of FCS been talk about • over' the long term, will promiscuous behaviour be normalization of. the at' the home. He said he 0 •. • 0 • 0 0 • • • 0 • 0 • • • • • ,• SHOPPERS SQUARE. GODERICH' • Canton Valentine Cards ' • Valentine Gifts • Heart Shape Box Chocolates • Our usual good selection of'Box Chocolates ,- Black'Magic, Rowntree Dairy Box, Turtles • Valentine Playbooks For Kids ••••00.00••••®•••••••••�i•••••••••• J. M. 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The retail_ price of beef 'shot up a whopping 31 cents per • pound in January this year. Increases at the wholesale and farm -gate levels were seven cents per pound and 11 cents per pound respectively. This means that farmers got ,11 -cents, per po15nd • more, Ivholesalers got, four cents per pound less and retailers 24 cents -per , pound more than a month. ago. Thus, the price in- crease for the 4,8 pounds of beef in the OFA Food Basket is $1.48 retail and $0.53 farm -gate from December 1979 to January 1980" In -contrast, pork prices continued to tumble -- 19 cents per pound retail and 13 c.ents per pound farm -gate. Thus, the price drop for three pounds of pork in the OFA • Food Basket is $0.56 retail and $0.43 farm -gate -from a month ago. The median retail price • of chicken went up from $0.98 per: pound to $1.04 per pound, and turkey from $1.18 per pound to $1.38 per pound in the last month.., Producer prices 'ere • unchanged. 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