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Chemical Dependency Program Completes
First Year of OperationThe Gainesville State School
Chemical Dependency Treat-
ment Program, formerly Sub-
stance Abuse Treatment
Program, recently completed its
first full year of operation on
April I. The Texas Commission on
Alcohol and Drug Abuse funded
program consists of a three phase
program design with phase one
and two functioning within the
Gainesville institution. The
phase three component is a fol-
low-up program of students who
have completed the institutional
phases of the program. Each
phase is approximately ten
weeks in duration, with treat-
ment durations modified to
meet the individual client's
needs. Each youth admitted to
the Chemical Dependency Treat-
ment Program receives a
programmed series of structured
exercises at varying levels of in-
tensity as they move through the
program. A strong emphasis is
placed on the self-help programs
of Alcoholics Anonymous, Nar-
cotics Anonymous, as well as in-
Volunteers fund agency
Training for a new Female Of-
fender Program in the Texas
Youth Commission is being
funded by the State Volunteer
Resource Council through a
$1,000donation. Matchingfunds
are being supplied by the
Brownwood Community Ad-
visory Council.
Other volunteer funding action
as a result of the March 11 State
Council Board meeting in Austin
was payment of a $400 fee to a
consultant to provide training in
writing requests for grants from
private foundations.
Thirty-seven TYC volunteer
coordinators, volunteers and
others attended that eight-hour
training workshop April 7. Con-
sultant Jon Guthrie led the
workshop. The training will
make it possible for agency
volunteer coordinators to re-
quest grants from foundations,dividually identifying individual
relapse warning signs and
providing youth with coping
strategies for dealing effectively
against relapse. Models of treat-
ment that the Gainesville pro-
gram has chosen to follow are
the Johnson Institute and the
Relapse Prevention Models of
Treatment.
A longitudinal outcome study is
being planned for the future to
attempt to evaluate the effec-
tiveness of Gainesville's Chemi-
cal Dependency Treatment
Program. The program staff
have made themselves available
to assist in anyway to further this
study's progress.
The entire CDTP staff have
made considerable contributions
to the development and day-to-
day operation of this pilot pro-
gram to assist it in being a sound
program of recovery for TYC
youth.programs
to be funneled through TYC
volunteer councils which are tax-
exempt corporations. Non-TYC
personnel who attended the
workshop were charged a fee.
Eleven State Council repre-
sentatives attended the March
11 meeting and discussed ac-
tivities for the Six Annual TYC
Volunteer Conference to be held
in October in Austin. It was an-
nounced that TYC t-shirts at $8
each are still available through
volunteer coordinators or from
Joan Timmons, Chief of Volun-
teer Services, Central Office.
The State Council also voted to
provide an additional volunteer
award this year to be determined
by TYC chaplains.
The group also voted to request
that each local council hold one
fund-raising project annually in
their own area and send all orJAU 2 1 199
Brownwood Youth
assist in
Snake Roundup
Seventeen students and six
staff members of the
Brownwood State School
cleaned and prepared the youth
fair barns for the Annual Jaycee's
Rattlesnake Roundup, which was
held March 18-19. This is the third
year Brownwood students and
staff have provided this com-
munity service.
Coordinating this year's school
activities were Brownwood State
School employee Galela Jones,
and Jaycee members Pat Mc-
Laughlin and Dwayne Petty.
Participating students were
treated to a pizza party. All
other Brownwood State School
students were treated to an as-
sembly which featured Bob Pop-
plewell, director of the roundup
and a well known snake handler.
He astonished the students by
demonstrating his technique
with live rattlesnakes.
The Jaycees also donated twen-
ty-four roundup tickets to the
Brownwood State School stu-
dents.part of the proceeds to the State
Council. Local councils were
asked tosubmita letteroutlining
how the funds were raised, in
order to assist other counciIswith
ideas for raising funds.
The State Council meeting was
conducted by chairman Joe Huff
of Brownwood. All state officers
were in attendance, including
Ken Neeley of Austin, Barbara
Albrecht of McAllen, and
Manuel Martinez of Crockett.
Martinez reported that the State
Council treasury balance as of
February 22, 1989, was $6,271
(general fund) and $423 (scholar-
ship fund.)2
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