To be alone is to live in a gray world a place where common everyday activities
seem narrow and meet at times even intolerable to be alone
and to be a boy is to live in a frightening world a place where fears
and insecurities can eat away like acid at the confused mind the vulnerable
emotions.
There are many such young people today the forgotten youngsters have been deprived
of normal parental relationships sometimes the situation seems unavoidable.
This is running age twelve.
His parents both work
and Ronnie is often alone too much alone is close to a wall about themselves
refused to seek friends. He's become quiet and withdrawn because the twelve.
He's afraid there are agonies that are not shown scars
that are not see the OR
but other things can be see grim.
Squalid things that contribute to the nationwide black harvests of violence
and human waste. There is a rather forgotten other afterthoughts of broken homes
and selfish unthinking parents.
They own can grow like sticking roots in tortured twisted ways juvenile delinquency
is spreading throughout the land like a great malignant growth feeding on the on
the ships and out of control. It's sickening growth almost succeeds to the fore.
All too often the problem is fought with old
and inadequate ideas but not always.
There are new and increasingly successful techniques being brought to bear.
This is the summer camp of the pride of Judea Children's Services which for the
past forty years as pioneers in the field of child care as a residence home for
orphans and underprivileged children
and institution devoted to the care of needy children children who come from all
walks of life from all conditions children from troubled homes children from
families that are well off from families that are poor.
It is here in the control laboratory of the pride of duty a summer camp
that their troubles are found out before they become community property.
It is here that the young who need help.
Can get out can learn and experience the potential joy of life.
Rani who otherwise would make an unhealthy adjustment my come to like too much the
dough the company for was at his apartment
and here learn the necessary experience of participation allied range of activities
provided not just to help the bodybuilding competition about Dora sports
but instruction in various parts
and craft a program comprising a wide choice of media
and able in each child to select the one that best fits his individual skill.
Metal. Place but it takes one only
and even plastic there is for the embryo journalist about the roar of the presses
at least the per the mimeograph the summer camp Gazette prints all the news that's
fit to print or rather the news that fits it has only four pages.
There's the opportunity to participate in dramatic
and opportunity the temps even those who are shot in Radisson it's a pleasurable
and satisfying activity.
A means of providing talent French a means also of bringing out the child's
personality dramatics can be the most wonderful therapy in the world for a child
even when the show is to borrow an occupational phrase a turkey.
And there's another means of expression in this unique summer camp more important
than any other
and just a little surprising in this very secular age religion the pride of Judea
believes
that in order to train a child in the way he should go a child should first be
provided with a strength which only face the now that you can bring.
Religion is not a tag down thought here but rather an integral part
and Nashton the fabrics of each day's activities transmitting to the children all
the wealth and strength of their Jewish cultural and religious heritage.
They are prayers of their faith in the language of their heritage to
that the Lord
and God King of the universe will bring it for bread from the earth.
And so the for. Gotten ones the children of broken for the underprivileged
that attend can hear experience for a few brief months along with those who are
more fortunate the full life.
They are entitled to there is complete provision made for their basic needs.
There is care of the Spirit care of the body.
There is especially care of the personality.
The inner workings of a child are more complex
and amazing than those of a miniature watch
and they are handled properly they will function smoothly will play out of water
pipes will be a times unruly
but children are also as delicate as a miniature watch a job a psychological jolt
can do great damage damage
that it first can't be seen like the outside of a watch a child may appear to be in
normal condition but the appearance can be deceiving.
But not all children respond in the same way.
Not all children take part in the game. Not all children join in with the others.
These are the ones who want
or need extra help the quiet ones who never fully participate who don't respond who
set aside boys like running who are afraid to withdraw from life
and it's precisely in cases such as the
that the pride of duty a staff becomes stroller a counselor may observe the
condition. During a storytelling period runny not listening not caring.
It starts elsewhere his feelings hidden the torment in the situation a sharp
command to pay attention but not be in order.
It might even aggravate an emotionally disturbed condition.
Instead there is a thoughtful step by step procedure the social worker in charge is
immediately told of the boy question.
Ronnie's keeping to themselves too much keeping a high wall around his personality
keeping everybody away. But can it mean the social worker.
As a highly trained specialist a young man
but one who has already done years of postgraduate study who has a practical
working knowledge of psychology.
It is his job now to learn as much about Ronnie as he possibly can.
And the job is not one
that can be put off time is crucial in the case of the young the quicker a boy can
be reached the better beginner fears that moment Ronnie
that mold him in an unfriendly attitude that force him to hostile acts taken
or peers will not waste their working time in the ways of acid silently
and without cause urging Ronny to keep to himself to avoid the rough companionship
of sports to run away to be alone to bring the social worker
knows what this means knows that he can afford to defer action
but he must act must power around here at once.
Unless the social worker can intervene unless he can get through to the boy.
Ronny will slide deeper into his condition so deep perhaps
that he may never be whole again this is what's at stake.
This is what the social worker must fight for the psychological life of a child.
Now the struggle begins the struggle for a human personality an unseen thing
but precious nonetheless they can become harmed can become a defective lens for
which an individual sees lies
and distortion they can be helped can be the means of a full natural life.
And so since so much is involved the process begins slowly with patients
and observation.
The social worker will try first to earn Ronnie's confidence once contact has been
made.
Once communication is established the social worker can learn about the boy's problem
can note its symptoms.
The information is then passed down to a caseworker in the Child Guidance Center of
the pride of duty in Brooklyn. This is only a beginning.
And interview with General Ronnie's in need of help.
He will come here often for his injury is of a kind
that cannot be cured with a pill
or an injection is wound must be probed must be skillfully dealt out the search may
take a long time if he needs it.
Round he will receive the full range of psychiatric treatment is hidden life will
be explored his insecurities will be washed away a life
that might have been wasted and is thus restored a boy who was afraid.
Well now learn to deal with his fears
but Ronnie is only one among many surveys indicate
that forty five percent of the public school children in New York City are
emotionally disturbed and like Ronny need guidance
that two hundred sixty five thousand children between the ages of seven
and seventeen are brought into juvenile court. Each year.
Some are already hardened criminals.
Some are like Bobby a boy of eleven with above average intelligence
and a flair for acting tough here to psychiatry can be of great help.
But compels Bobby to pose in this way.
What makes him act like a fool and then increasingly toward to be.
Havior pattern suggestive of juvenile delinquency the answer to may be found
through a number of ways the Rorschach test.
The in clubs that have different meanings for different people
and telling what he sees in the art in shapes also tells something else.
He tells about himself. Details without his even knowing it.
The nature
and the intensity of his problem a child's problems can usually be related to the
parents.
This is Bobby stop angry bitter unable to understand what is happening with son he
too is interviewed in this instance by a social worker in order to more completely
fill out the picture the pride of duty insist
that parents must be willing to submit themselves to psychiatric treatment if it is
necessary for very often the problem of a child
when it is traced back to turns out to be the problem of the parent group therapy
sessions for parents are frequently held enabling them to discuss their problems
and able in them to learn about their children and themselves too
when all the information about Bobby has been gathered up planning conferences held
where the skills of the psychologist the psychiatrist
and social worker all come together they must try to fit the pieces together.
Try to read the pattern.
They must make a diagnosis
and then they must plan to treat the facts about Bobby are clear he is mentally
and emotionally Cup but he is beginning to get into trouble beginning to rebel.
The report made by the social worker indicates that Bobby's mother is ill
and has been hospitalized for over six months.
There are three other children and Bobby is the oldest he is during the day
when the father's at work nominally in charge the one who must see to it
that the younger ones are looked after that they are fit
and Bobby is only eleven years of age. This is the thing he's rebelling against.
This premature responsibility which has been thrust upon the situation is one
that requires other approaches.
Besides that of psychiatry
and so another service of the pride of duty is brought into the picture.
This is Mrs Mattie a homemaker sent by the prosecutor to fill the vacuum created by
the illness of Bobby's mother Mrs Matthews both bills two purposes.
She does equate cares for and supervise of the children during the day
when the father is at his job
and she serves as a substitute mother preserves the family atmosphere so necessary
to the on the homemaker service as a means of continuing the normal household
routine in the face of a family emergency
and the situation involving four young children
and a bother with under great strain.
Definitely qualifies as an emergency the father after all is not to be blamed.
He loves his children he is not indifferent to his responsibility.
He simply can't deal with what is admittedly a difficult situation.
The homemaker arriving promptly every morning
and addling the household in his absence provides him with reassure the children
are in good hands
and Bobby is being looked after Bobby too is reassured reassured about his place in
his family
but children need to have their world defined made to be told their place.
They look to others to tell them who they are what they are to do they need this
certainty before they can begin to develop in their own individual way.
By taking over the chores
and the responsibility is so prematurely thrust upon Bobby the homemaker restored
to in his psychological bounds defines him once again as an eleven year old boy
intelligent stable.
Not at all a sneering young tough guy on the stack is
that the nose of the home maker has restored the Babi something else is natural
smile and extra little.
Bonus thrown in courtesy of the homemaker service certainly one of the most
valuable techniques ever devised to help families
that have been disrupted to help children from being twisted in their growth.
It is important to keep the child at home to keep the home intact a child whose
mother is hospitalized temporarily
or incapacitated undergoes great stress if the child is put under further stress
and operated from home get very often could result in a trauma in which neither the
child nor the parent would recover the pride of Judea
and set up even more services as even more weapons at its command.
It is concerned with children of all ages.
Even those who are in the preschool category
and many of the young ones mothers who were the pride of Judea arranges to have
preschool aged children driven daily to an affiliated nursery school.
HENDRIK street dangers with the mothers work at their jobs to overcome financial
and other difficulties the children get the benefit of professional supervision
and a day applying for a group program for these preschool children
that would also aid them in their identification as you know time is spent probably
from developing copies which would be useful
and fulfilling in later life here they learn to do many things for instance the
basic relationship of color the discipline of making a straight line a symmetrical
curve.
They also learn the messy art of thinker painting they their potential.
Architects very important and these are well what other this is the fun
that only marionettes can give the most ancient of art forms
that peculiarly belongs to children.
And the other games. Why for children of this age.
There is no such formal separation of activity.
The children make their own judgment they make their own game.
But some do not some children even at this age act on a comedy show streaks of
hostility in the actual manner in which they play here again the skill of the
psychiatrist and the counselor is needed and provided for and another determined
and patient struggle for the soul of the child to give
the Child Guidance Center takes on one more problem
and continues to look for others here is just one new situation the product it is
working on.
The better one of the handicapped child whose problem is a heavy one who must learn
from the pride of duty
or how to compensate for a cruel infirmity there are many such situations which
must be dealt with the planning committee of the pride of your dear children
services knows this
and has acted accordingly as plan to prevent the plight of today's forgotten ones
out of all this planning has come a new development in the field of child care a
radical departure from the past the pride of Judaism has changed itself into a
multi-service institute dedicated to the welfare of children
and institution with five major services dovetailed away answer.
Most of the problems of the child. So to speak under one roof.
One central intake office will join planning between services without delay
and without waiting are going from one institution to another an institution
that works at prevention.
While it works acute which keeps the family together
and strengthens it whenever possible.
The results are the most gratifying the human heart can experience a boy who is
beginning to slide into trouble now smiling adjusted enjoying a normal healthy.
Family relationship headed for a normal healthy life.
A boy once afraid to seek friends who tried to close themselves off from life.
Now a protest open to the joys
that all children the prevented from falling into the darkness of fear
and loneliness now living in the dawn of a new life.
These are the results of the party.
Judy these
and the nine thousand others who've gone before them they alumni of the Prodigy the
people who could have had wasted lives but did people who was governorships
and set of grants contributed by the pride of Judea learn to use their potential
became engineers craftsman became life giving surgeons people who even today if
they need assistance can apply to the party to the alumni
and scholarship the part fall apart if you dear is a
stand in a stand in preparing a grade
and unique private institution made possible by the thousands of devoted women who
comprise the part of you.
The auxiliary raids on the by the generosity of the people of America.