They will be administered by the Juvenile Court, but the Court feels none of its programs can succeed without community involvement The Court will train volunteers to work singly and in groups with the youths, and will encourage residents to form special committees for each home

YOUTH TREATMENT TEAMS

The Jackson County Juvenile Court will conduct a mobile counseling program which will not be restricted by traditional methods. The community based program will function on evenings and weekends. Youths will work with a Detached Youth Treatment Team, consisting of a professional probation officer, a group worker, and two neighborhood liaison workers

The five initial centers will be in the MN to work with youth in its first year, the project is expected to involve 100 youths. The Juvenile Court will train volunteers to work with its treatment teams, and work with local merchants to set up job orientation programs. Area residents will be asked to form special committees for each center

The existing social services programs covering welfare, food commodities, emergency assistance and other forms of aid have developed into a highly fragmented, complex system.

To help mesh these services, all Model Cities projects are geared toward meeting the social needs of MN residents in an inter related fashion It is, therefore, misleading to single out particular projects as being exclusively in the social service sector. In fact, virtually all Model Cities efforts are directed at social service programs. Among such programs can be counted Adult Education, Mental Health Aides, additional CEP facilities, NPG emergency assistance, Satellite Golden Age center, concentrated code enforcement, and parole and probation aides.

The day care project is a major attempt to co-ordinate a range of private and public agencies in one of the most important social services.

FIVE YEAR GOALS

To raise the standard of living of MN residents to a level consistent with that of the city.

To develop social services responsive to the residents' needs.

DAY CARE CORPORATION

Only 4.4 per cent of the child population (5 years old and under) in the Model Cities areas are being served by day care centers. Yet, among all families which have income at or below the poverty guidelines, 25 per cent are headed by women. And many families make informal baby-sitting arrangements.

The number of homemakers to provide day care for children whose mothers are temporarily absent from home because of illness is limited. Based on a rule of thumb used by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, one homemaker per 1,000 general population is needed. The Model Neighborhood thus needs 67 homemakers. It has 31.

Model Cities will fund a not-for-profit Day Care Corporation to implement a high-quality child care program in the MN. Half the board will be representatives from interested or involved agencies and half will be MN residents who may have children participating in the program.

This project will encompass family day care services for children, under three years old, educationally and socially oriented programs for three-to five-year olds, and after school day care services for six-to nine-year olds. Parents of children in the Day Care project will receive counselling.