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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...
...refugee camps along the Thai border, a host of smaller agencies-including Christian Outreach, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Church World Service and the International Rescue Committee-are working alongside UNICEF and ICRC staffers. These groups are supported largely by private contributions from the U.S., where special church collections, newspaper ads, mail-in campaigns and benefits have reaped millions for Cambodian relief. Says Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee: "This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents and cans of tuna fish. This is a crisis of staggering magnitude." Interagency cooperation is the official policy...
...part of its outreach, the FCA plans to distribute fliers in conjunction with a UPenn Christian group at tomorrow's football game. Casto also coordinates fellowship meetings at local high schools and churches to explain the purpose of the group...