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...direction of PBH's overall activity planning reflects the effort to resolve these problems. One trend points to the expansion of educational activities within the House, both in terms of small group programs in each project area and larger study programs relating to social problems and social service in general. Another trend exists in the development of activities oriented toward specific problems rather than toward an entire group of institutions. Not only does this development offer intrinsic advantages for committee planning and evaluation, but it helps to see past institutional bureaucracies and the prospect of co-optation, to areas where...
...third trend, and the most significant for changing the character of PBH, is the redirection of programs toward community involvement as opposed to work within institutions. These new efforts frustrate any attempt to arbitrarily distinguish "social action" from "social service" because of the programs' relative independence of some of society's more odious establishments. By entering the community, volunteers may gain a greater sense of the uniqueness--and the limits--of their contribution...
...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...
...Mental Health Committee (MHC) has found the dilemma relatively easy to solve, since the trend in mental health work is already pointing toward treatment in the community rather than institutionalized rehabilitation. Originally constituted as the Mental Hospitals Committee, MHC changed the meaning of its "H" last fall. The committee began its work in the back wards of Metropolitan State Hospital combining these efforts with some one-to-one case aid work throughout the fifties. This year, MHC remains in only one Metropolitan State ward and in one children's unit, primarily because students on MHC are still interested in that...
Besides choosing national and local candidates, voters increasingly must deliberate the pros and cons of complex referendums and state constitutional amendments. In Washington state, for instance, voters will face an alltime record of 24 measures. The trend seems to be toward the greening of the ballot. Voters in several states will be asked to accept or reject major environment measures...