Project Reachout

For. Me. And can minor and I would encourage everyone to volunteer in school I do and I know that the more time I put in the more time the teachers have for my children. Hi I'm Marlee and I'm taking balance here in this important knowledge here through tried to reach out.

To you. Billboard knows that volunteer writing is important. Ms Moore joined the 13 year old project RE Job telethon to raise more than 300 pills and volunteer hours to assist in education and training programs in schools throughout America. A joint effort of MPD for their alleged work of education and a variety of corporate sponsors project reach out is a three hour telethon simulcast on WJC channel 30 some of Maryland's best known personalities took part in encouraging viewers to call in and pledge their time not their dollars. Well tonight on project reach we're focusing on partnerships people helping people. They need volunteers like you so that they can hopefully put you in touch with the people who need your help. Do it. Volunteer. Everyone can volunteer and do a good job.

We're trying to help the state out by making ours the city that reads and we can only do that through our lot of volunteers. I love being a volunteer and I can tell you it's the kind of thing that I think you can do throughout your whole life. We're really hoping we're going to more than double the number of hours of people of committed looking for the same thing we're looking for people who are committed to working with the citizens of the future and providing them with the opportunity to expand their skills. It goes to show what can happen when a community rallies around a common cause. Why. What does project reach out accomplish. Young people throughout the state are assisted by volunteers in everything from schoolwork to choosing a career. The program helped me to see exactly what engineers do in real life and make sure that that was the career I wanted to pursue in college. The group before our program came into existence I had a 45 percent graduation rate from high school and I rate was 80 percent. They had a 10 percent acceptance to college and ours was 80 percent the Urban League teaches its students how to use computers and word processing

programs and receptionist and secretarial skills. It also runs a literacy lab to teach reading and writing. Program Director Thelma Smith says these programs offer the chance of a lifetime to students. We can always use more volunteers but because of the volunteers are able to have more acquiring skills and obtaining business. The rain all the. Way. In addition to Melba Moore television and radio personalities entertain the project reach out audience. Talented local performers including the Baltimore Gospel group the Victorians were on hand to make Project reach out. Huge success. Of. The project reach out audience was hot hot hot or Dwight Way names and Yanis.

The band. The band. Without the help of business leaders their employees and MPD as media partners project reach could never meet its goal. The business community in Maryland knows that well-educated well-rounded students will make the next generation's workforce more productive and competitive than any we have ever seen. Far sighted executives from the private and public sectors have donated their time and hard work to the most important asset we have. Our young people like corporations get involved thinking that any good things begin to happen. That's how it worked with C and P telephone and many of its employees are dedicated to serving the community. With several programs that enhance education and are rich the lives of young people. Good morning same answer C and P workers give their

time to a variety of companies sponsored community programs such as tutoring both children and adults in reading and writing. Or in the CMBS program that provides incentive awards for improvement and the academic achievement among children. Several partnerships with schools across the state have been forged and of course CMBS Baltimore County mentoring program is a standout. At the foundation of project reach out is the unselfish work of Maryland citizens with regular people who give of their time to produce results that are far from ordinary. For years Michael but you know Rose the assistant director of the Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt Maryland. Now he volunteers at Montgomery Blair High School and far as knows elementary to help children with math you know my life and the application of that. But when I return I just seem a natural. Work with young people are having. Right now to.

See what I can tell my book outro is someone these children can really count on. They were all in public television looks forward to having greater success in this year's project reach out when citizens of the state of Maryland reach out to Maryland students in a ways that will enrich the lives of all of us. You know. I mean. The things you. Think. You. Bring. You with. Especially like it really touched the hearts of children and helped those hearts to grow

stronger and more caring about other people. And finally like most all of our in this project reach out had a tote board. Only this one racked up hours of volunteer instead of dollars. How did we do. By the end of the program project reach out to give the state of Maryland over 57000 new hours of viewer volunteer time for our schools. Is that good. Well the state office of volunteerism assumes an average hourly wage of seven dollars and sixty seven cents for the types of work generally performed by volunteers. That time is 57000 hours comes to four hundred thirty seven thousand one hundred ninety dollars and service contribution. Project to reach out Maryland's success story. That someone could get counseling from a psychiatric point of

view as well as a medical one. We have social workers who function as counselors and in that regard we have both individual couple and group counseling for members who might desire it through racks to medical services we have psychiatric consultation and counseling both on an individual and group basis so we have a multifaceted approach their relation to counseling. We do some crisis counseling primarily through the social work team and the counselors in our social services unit. Time to lose but your medical our medical services are provided contractually by the University of Maryland Division of General Internal Medicine. They provide a wide array of. Very fine medical services including screening and screening program which we will be referring to as Elder screen will be expanded in the near future. We have one PTS one time health monitoring exams assisted by the Baltimore City Health Department. We have a private practice of nurse practitioners and physicians

who see patients and provide primary care for them and we have an extensive through vaccination program held annually we just completed our through vaccination program for this year. We have a geriatric assessment program in which a person can receive a. Geriatric assessment including all disciplines. We have a housecall program in limited areas of Baltimore City where physicians will visit folks at home to provide medical services in addition to that we have a dentistry provided under the auspices of the Baltimore City Health Department and reduced fee dental services are provided here. Also we have an extensive podiatry service program. So there are a lot of medical needs that can be met through the medical services program here. Last question What is the future for this in the future future for the senator is bright We have recently found. Out about the restoration of funding after the

threats of the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts we consider ourselves to be a highly stable position we have in the last five years suffered some budgetary losses and resultant program and staff losses but we believe that that is at an end. The future looks bright. Encourage persons to come to this center we're trying enervating things we're developing new classes we're looking at all kinds of alternatives for services within the center and the staff would encourage anyone aged 60 and over to come to the center and find out how exciting it can really be. We actually here's a mother question. The fact that this country is growing older and we need more Webster centers. We need more racks to send as we need more senior centers we need more programs that provide a wide variety of options for folks who might have various kinds of needs because we are growing older as a as a nation and we've seen some development of this recently

through a commission on Aging programs such as our racist program operating in the downtown tech company which provides classes and trips for folks who are able to drop into the hectic company and avail themselves of the services we have an arts and aging program of pets on Wheels program a wide variety of opportunities for both. Elderly citizens and volunteers who want to serve elderly citizens. But there could be many more senior centers and we we're hopeful that there will be great. But you think that I did I ask you everything you think. Is there anything else you'd like to say to me if you think anybody in that school. I think you pretty well covered the book and I think I think it's OK. I love you. Government shall be eight or ten and I take it with with me that we have a van will want to visit your advisory council your council is going to meet the waxer Advisory Council is going to visit that center to see what it does It was through and see how it's run. See what activities they eat lunch there

like this room would be the model it is. And provides as many resources at the smaller centers don't.