Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Safe Streets Act, the YRB receives 75 per cent of its quarter-million dollar core budget from the Governor's Committee on Law Enforcement (GCLE); most of the rest comes from the city of Cambridge. The Bureau is supposed to emphasize changing the systems that control the city's youth rather than merely to approach each kid as an individual problem...
Saravelas came to Cambridge from a job as the director of a Young Men's Jewish Council Youth Center in Chicago. He was appointed by City Manager Corcoran after being selected by a board of directors that included politically connected Judge Lawrence Feloney, a. clergyman, and representatives of the schools, the police, the probation department, and the Shady Hill crowd. After Saravelas was hired, the board reverted to a simple advisory role, and Saravelas found himself a comfortable house on the North Shore...
...with Police Chief Reagan. Although the staff members wanted to take a stand, Saravelas said that by so doing the Bureau would only alienate the police department. So the CYRB said nothing, refused even to call for an investigation of Larry's death. Said one North Cambridge youth, "They work for the city. They do whatever the city says. They were on the city's side...
...mandate is to emphasize systemic change. Last spring, Saravelas gave the go-ahead to four staff members who were preparing original programs designed to meet that need: silk-screening, legal, and newsletter projects, as well as long-range plans for a bail fund project, a medical program, a youth union, and a guerilla theater group...
...when I spoke to Saravelas he could name only four programs currently in operation (excluding the Bureau's two $50,000 satellite projects and an educational census conducted in conjunction with the schools and a number of other city agencies). They were a Junior Advocate program (which trains youth to do counseling work), a psychology program, an alcoholism program in conjunction with the hospital, and the cosmetics program...