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This year's projects underscore the trend at PBH toward community-based social work. Programs in after-care, cooperative apartments, family aid, alcoholism treatment, and assistance to the mentally retarded take volunteers out of traditional institutions...
...trend in PBH planning is toward programs for service in the community which, by serving groups and individuals, directly address the issue of "human rights" about which Gordon speaks. The South End Low Cost Housing Committee renovates abandoned South End buildings for low and middle-income families. The Columbia Point Program provides recreational activities and educational enrichment for disadvantaged children. None of these explicitly aim toward the overthrow of existing social structures, but all seek to improve the quality of people's lives and extend to them the tools necessary for individual survival and community participation...
...ISSUE OF "SOCIAL ACTION" vs. "social service" pertains most directly to PBH's oldest projects, the Mental Health Committee and the Prisons Committee, both founded in 1954. In these cases, not only does institutional work appear to support highly oppressive establishments, but the benefits of volunteer work to the people within these institutions is unclear...
...committee reveals a decline in popular interest in a social service image, despite a fascination with the institution of prisons that developed after Attica. She believes--as many chairmen do--that political radicalization follows almost inevitably from exposure to the social institutions with which she deals. As PBH has gotten away from liberal notions of altruism. Cherish thinks, people have increasingly questioned whether work in prison classrooms benefits anyone other than the volunteer. Many committee members, however, feel a responsibility to provide a contact for prisoners with the outside world, and the rate of returning volunteers is unusually high...
...volunteers to offer special activities in schools throughout the Boston system failed miserably. Completely uncooperative officials, a lack of communication among committee members, and generally lax volunteer commitment precipitated BEP's dermis. Fortunately, its leadership re-formed the group this year as the Cambridge Education Program (CEP), tying volunteers PBH Membership Figures listed give fetal PBM membership including New Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Members in parentheses indicate the percentage of PBH membership in each of the categories. YEAR FRESH SOPH JRS SRS OTHER...