Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Revolution in Iran. A souring of the important U.S. special relationship with Saudi Arabia. A looming economic crisis, and soon, caused by oil shortages and runaway price boosts. A danger that much of the region might change its tilt away from the U.S. and toward the Soviet Union. A Middle East peace seemingly more elusive than ever. These are the troubles and threats that America faces in the so-called crescent of crisis-that great swath of countries running from the Horn of Africa through Egypt and across the Middle East to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, more than...
...Place Runaway House evolved out of the social troubles of the 1960s. At the time, young people were not drifting just to San Francisco to become flower children. They flowed into many major cities. And not all were interested in politics and drugs but were running away from serious problems and needed help. Place House was founded in 1967, making it the second oldest shelter for runaways in the country...
Jackson says that Place House may be the only runaway shelter in the country with this kind of collective organization. We're fighters," she says. Place has fought to remain independent from the control of state social welfare systems which often have regulations requiring agencies to have an organizational hierarchy...
...members of Place are also fighters for other issues. They waged a long battle to be able to keep the names of their clients confidential and out of the records of the state agencies who provide funding. And they helped fight for legislation to change the status of a runaway from a criminal to a child in need of service" who needs help instead of time in court. Presently, the Place staff is organizing campaigns to heighten public awareness of child abuse...
Place House now has the reputation for being the runaway shelter in New England. It took a long time," Jackson says. We had to break a lot of rules...