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•+-WVia counseling, hot lineReach Out West EndHOTLINE TRAINEES — gathered recently atthe Reach Out West End to discuss the problems encounteredin answering a hot line. Adults and youth from four cities were in on this first session. Montclair Council-Jlt;man Paul Jones, third from left, joined the meeting to find out what the duties entailed. On his left isReach Out counselor Paul Smyth. Volunteers are desperately needed for this service. Training sessionsThiare held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays at 2 p.m. For further information, call 984-4016.West End NCCJ is sponsoring the5th annual Interreligious InstituteThe. F.nrl f.hnnrpr rtf rhf*cess of establishing a C.nnmMIRpv Harrv HnwarH T.hanlaincommunicateyouthReach Out West End, an intervention house for drug users that has been operating on a song and a prayer and $200 a month since January now has adequate funds provided by the Short-DoyleShort-Doyle Act to get into full swing with all of its long planned projects.One of these projects is the spectacular new hot-line operation dubbed the “No-Heat-Line by one of the Reach-Out counselors, Paul Smyth.This “No-Heat-Line .will serve youth and parents from the entire West End portion of San Bernardino County, including Fontana, Alta Loma, Etiwanda, Cucamonga, Upland, Ontario, Montclair and Chino.By calling the number, in operation since May 1, persons will be given the aid and information they may need. The “No-Heat-' Line is 983-3628.Someone is at the facility, located at 1670 E. Holt Blvd., Ontario, 24 hours a day.On three nights a week the counselors conduct formal confrontation sessions. Young people arrive on Monday, Wednesdays and Thursdays to partake of the Reach-Out product.Youth and parents may come to the facility any time of day or night for help, talk and comfort.The intervention program operates' on the premise that drugs themselves are not giving the users any problems, but that it is real people with real problems who need to be reached.Reach-Out-West-End has a youth and parent-oriented program. It looks as If it may have hit on an answer to the flaw in the social fabric which has led to this massive, na-3 —___—cation. I feel we fhust set up a different kind of communication system when dealing with people s feelings am problems.“This is through a face-to-face confrontation. Communication requires a feed back. This whole modern society of so-called improved communication —and I'm referring to the expansive telephone system, television in the home and the school — is phony.“Real communication doesn’t seem to exist as most of us go around being dishonest Iri our talk, comments and communication with each other. It is shallow and phony.Eventually there will be four staff members, all qualified counselors living at Reach Out West End.Right now key members of the staff include Danny Moreno, soft spoken, self assured and a former addict, who has now devoted his life to helping youth.Smyth is a vibrant young man who has also spent his life working with people with problems.Smyth's interest is also inyoung people with problems. Smyth casually mentioned that he had a couple of college degrees, which helped qualify him for the job. He also spent the past seven years working with drug addicts. He was a counselor at the California Rehabilitation Center and spent time at the Veteran's hospital working with brain damaged children.Two part time counselors are also employed at Reach Out. They are the Rev. Steve Sutherland, whose mission is the troubled youth in the streets, and Paul Nam Kung, one of the organizers behind the Reach Out West End. Nam Kung was head counselor and organizer for the MonroviaReach out project. , 'Although Reach Out is set up to serve the community, tfiafro-gram cannot exist unless the community helps to support it.Its present facility, an attractive, warm home at 1670 E. Holt in Ontario, is donated. Reach Out has leased it for a dollar a year.Although money granted to Reach Out does pay fdr personnel, it does not cover such things as transportation, furnishings, repairs and yardwork.These are the items the public must help with. Volunteersalready have come forward with furniture, a car, desks, tables and filing cabinets.Bate 8 Botting of Montclair donated a 1956 Ford convertible. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Hover, also of Montclair, have donated furniture.The Dependency Prevention Commission is donating desks, table and chairs. -Moreno said it is not only things that are needed, but people.Volunteers for answering the new hot-line, bookkeepers, lawyers, psychologists and. secretaries are needed.Volunteers are desperately needed to help man the phones. Moreno has estimated that persons are required for about 90 hours a week to answer the “No-Heat-Line.Members of die community who wish to help Reach Out become more firmly established through their donations of goods and time may call Moreno or the secretary, Susan Johnson at 984-4016.Smyth said visitors are welcome at all times. He also stated that all the counselors are available to speak before women’s groups, servicfe clubs and church gatherings.
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Montclair Tribune
Montclair, California, US
Thu, May 14, 1970
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