Word: outreach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Wolfman added, "We (Radcliffe) cannot spend our endowment money on community outreach...
...President moved last week to defuse all potential opposition. No fewer than 1,700 people-representatives of business, labor, veterans, black, ethnic, elderly and youth groups-streamed into the White House for anti-inflation briefings from Carter's senior economic officials. The President himself participated in six "Operation Outreach" meetings. One aide reported that most of the visitors expressed support for Carter's budget-cutting plans, though many businessmen complained that they do not go far enough...
Reed and his team are part of the Veterans Administration's new Operation Outreach. Started on Oct. 1, the program now has teams working out of about 40 storefronts and operating on a first-year budget of $9.9 million. By next year the service is scheduled to expand to 86 teams capable of reaching some 100,000 Viet Nam vets at an annual cost of $13.9 million. The VA got the idea from a similar counseling service provided through 65 centers by the private Disabled American Veterans Organization...
...officials candidly admit that Operation Outreach is needed because the VA's normal facilities have failed to help enough of the roughly 500,000 veterans who suffer from what Government psychologists call "P.V.S."-Post-Viet Nam Syndrome. "We find a lot of the guys have turned off society and turned off the VA," concedes VA Administrator Max Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in Viet Nam. He recalls his own struggle with P.V.S. all too well: "It was like a series of secondary explosions going off in my head. I was on an emotional rollercoaster...
...Crawford has discovered that depressed or distraught vets can be coaxed into visiting the informal storefront offices of Operation Outreach. The offices, moreover, are generally manned by Viet Nam vets who have suffered similar emotional maladies. These counselors go through a weeklong training session designed to rid them of their own postwar hang-ups. They also learn how to tell when a vet needs professional psychiatric help rather than some friendly counseling...