Anti-Poverty Program Director To Be Announced Next Week By CAC
Barnstable Patriot, September 01, 1966
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Appointment of an
executive director of
Cape Cod's newly organized Mili-uoverty group, the Community Action Committee of Barnstable County, inc.,
at a yearly salary of 411,500. probably will be made next week.
According to Roscoe McDowell of Hyannis Port, chairman of the new croup's personnel committee, there have been more than 20 applicants i far the executive position, He said I Ms committee is looking for a coll''Bo graduate with experience in ( business administration, writing ' Md speaking ability, and with creative nnd imaginative qualities. "Our director," said Mr. Mc-Dowell, "will be trail-Mazing hi unchartered territory and will ««ed to have pioneer attributes. Bemuse the Anti-Poverty program is « adventure into the new and the thalienging, the caliber of the director will be important." T «e Office of Economic Opportun-,ly ln Washington early In August sectioned a grant of 131,263 to the Cone Community Action Committo' It has received the necessary approval by Gov. Volpe. A break-Q wi) of the grant which was only MBo less than the local committee } guested shows the following bud-Ket: $25,886 for personnel, $600 for ""militants, $2,322 for travel. S2,100 'Ql «¦"!, $1,374 for supplies, 11,603 * rental equipment and $875 in ^i costs .
while the survey made last year y Cape cod Community Council as somewhat of a shock to resldw of an area long considered one ' «w most affluent in the north-«•¦ . it did reveal that approxlmatesaiwl!60 famllles have Incomes »f ™m a year. More than half of ,„ ' ^e survey indicated, earned Je * than $2,ooo. The Council's survey further showed that those families, classified by the OEO as "poor and living in a state of poverty," represent 11,589 individuals, or 16 and a half per cent of Cape Cod's population.
Reasons for "poverty pockets" throughout the Cape are cited by Louis Jacobucci. executive secretary of M.S.P.C.C.'s Cape branch, and a member of the Community Action Committee. They are illiteracy, und^r-employment (working at such low wages that a family cannot be supported) and poor health. Mr. Jacobucci added, "There Is great ne^d for year round, low income housing. Every May and June we hear from poor families who have been ousted from winter quarters to make room for the higher summer rentals. Heading the Community Action Committee as president is Edward C. Hempel, Barnstable County 4-H Clubs agent. The group, incorporated last fall, sprang from the Cape Community Council. Other officers are John A. Coe, Forestdalc, vice president; John L. Roche, East Harwich, secretary, and the Rev. Kenneth R. Warren, Barnstable, treasurer.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
