KV Stresses Group Interaction

Treatment Corrects Delinquent Behavior

Cuided Croup Interaction is the official name of the
game at Kentucky Village Treatment Center.
Through its use, the responsibility for the correction of delinquent behavior is placed on the youth's
shoulders.

This is the second of a four-paseries on Kentucky
Village Treatment Center, focusingon the" institutional-ization- "
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ofjuvenile delinquents.

Charles VV. Bonta, director of social services at KV,
described the program as the "treatment and habitation of young people with behavior problems."
"I used the word habilitation rather than rehabilitation," adds Bonta, "because the terrible reality is that
the social functioning of the vast majority of young
people we receive has never been adequate."
"In order for treatment to be effective," the director
says, "efforts are made to establish a treatment climate
where all members of the staff are a part of the treatment program."
To this end,
cooperation in effecting treatment goals for individual youth is achieved'

through a medium of 10 treatment teams, composed of
all the personnel to whom youth from a particular
cottage are assigned for any phase of the youth's
treatment program.
This includes anyone from the cook to the cottage
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shifts,
parent, who lives with the children in
to the social worker who serves as the team's coordinaeight-hou-

tor.

This treatment team is concerned with any matter
affecting the youth. This may include living conditions,
behavioral problems, or a part of the decision to release
the child from the institution.
Intensive Croup Therapy
In addition to the teams, two methods of treatment
are utilized at Kentucky Village. A majority of the youth
are involved in intensive group therapy. Scheduled
sessions are held five days each week with a qualified
social worker, called a juvenile counselor.
"It is very surprising how open the kids are," noted
Dick Jones, a young social worker. "They really develop
an attitude of wanting to help themselves and each

other."

The group also meets when a specific child requires
the assistance and help of his fellow group members.
Jones noted that, "I'm usually more of a gatekeeper
rather than a leader of the group. Thekids in the group
trust each other."
Many of the youth do not have the personality traits
or the mentality to benefit in a group set-uThen the
treatment method of casework is utilized.
The. youth that fall into this category are assigned
e
to social workers on a
basis. However, because of the crowded conditions at KV and the lack of
funds to hire more workers, the average number of youth
to a social worker is 30.
A Lack Of Funds
Salaries are another problem that arises from thelack
of money provided to KV by the state.
"There is a large number of turnovers, both in social
workers and cottage parents," noted Robert L. Good,
superintendent of KV. "Stability is what is needed for
one-to-on-

this type of program."
The salary of cottage parents is low and the work is
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University of Kentucky, Lexington

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Kernel Staff Writer
Steve Bright, new Student
Government president, said Tuesday afternoon that the recent SG
election was a mandate for academic reform and student involvement in University decisionmaking.
Bright spoke after he and new
vice president Skip Althoff were
sworn into office by UK President Otis A. Singletary.
Altliough calling for "radical
change," Bright insisted that his

administration wants the opportunity for "a peaceful revolution."
"We refuse to pretend that
these opportunities exist within
token involvement and advisory
committees," he said.

Bright promised that his administration would give immediate emphasis to such matters as

the quality of teaching, improvements in undergraduate instruction and advising and changes
in curricula and course requirements. He asked the faculty to
recognize the need for change.
Regarding student participation in University affairs, Bright
said students must utilize the
positions within the system that

they now hold.
He added: "We must adopt
the principle of selection of students by their fellow students,
not faculty or administration, if
student involvement is to beany-thin- g
more than token

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Bright said the fact that students are most affected by decisions made within the University
is justification for greater student
power.
"The University exists for students, not faculty members or
administrators. We should not
adjust to this University, it
should adjust to us," he

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Rallies, Fasts, Marches
Mark Vietnam Moratorium
By The Associated Press
Vietnam moratorium advocates plan to mark Wednesday's
income tax deadline with fasts,
rallies, and marches to protest
the use of public funds for war.
Boston-type- ,
tea parties were

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Peaceful Revolution Urged
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into Boston harbor to protest
British taxes.
Chicago area Women for Peace
planned to dump tea at the fed-- ,
eral building office of Sen. Ralph
A reenactment of
l.
Smith,
the Boston tea party was sched

uled in Des Moines at a noon
taxpayers' rally.
From the Battery, New York
demonstrators were to parade to
Internal Revenue Service headquarters near City II all for a rally,
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scheduled in New York, Chicago
and Des Moines, and there was
to be street dancing to rock music in San Francisco.
In the forefront of several of
the activities were defense principals in the recent Chicago 7
trial, including the defense atFrank S. Coots, junior journalism major, and Susan Mary
torney, William Kunstler. Others
Crimsley, junior human relations major, have been selected to
of prominence included Sen.
head the 1970-7- 1 Kernel and Kentuckian.
French
Charles Coodell,
The selections were made at the Board of Student Publicawriter Jean Cenet, actress Jane
Fonda and state Rep. Julian Bond tions meeting Tuesday night.
Coots won a close race over Bob Brown for the honor after
cf Georgia.
Counterdemonstrations also the two were narrowed from an original list of four applicants.
Other applicants were Jean Renaker and J. Patrick Mathes, both
were planned. In New York, they
were being sponsored by the Sijunior journalism majors.
Coots is presently Kernel managing editor, the ranking news
lent Majority Mobilization Committee and the Catholic War Vetposition on the staff. A native of Louisville, Coots has served as
associate editor, assistant managing editor and Kernel staff writer.
erans. Leaders of these groups
He is also ombudsman for the paper, serving in a position he
said they would not try to interfere with the antiwar protestors.
helped to create during the fall semester. Coots was responsible
A preamble was held Monday
for organizing the Kernel's Feb. 4. environmental awareness issue,
at Lowell, Mass., to whip up "Moving Toward A Crisis."
He is married to the former Janie McCune, also of Louisville.
enthusiasm for a Boston ComMiss Crumley was chosen over Gwendolyn Ranney, a junior
mon rally Wednesday.
At Battery Park ceremonies
journalism major from Bowling Creen. Miss Grimsley is a member
of the present Kentuckian staff and is a member of the Honors
Wednesday morning at the foot
of Manhattan, tea and income' Program.
She has served with the Student Center Board, was a member
tax 1040 fonns were to be cast
of Cwens, is the president-elec- t
of Mortar Board, and is a Keninto New York harlwr in imitation of the Boston tea party of tucky Babe.
Both new editors assume their new responsibilities in the fall.
1773, when colonials dumped tea

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