The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1997 Page: 6 of 12
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Page 6-THE GROOM NEWS, Thursday, July 3, 1997
Community Groups Encourage Cooperation Of Program
Have you ever been a way ror service providers (CRCGs) are local serving agencies within that to plan for needed services, becomes unsolvable. In
involved with children and
adolescents whose needs are
not clearly met by one
agency or who are being
passed back and forth from
agency to agency? Or
worse yet, the child or
adolescent doesn’t have the
"right" diagnosis for certain
services or programs. Have
you ever wished there were
and
families
to
come
together to plan for these
children and youth before
they slip through the cracks
of the system. There is a
way to help; and
Community Resource
Coordination Groups help
to address these issues.
Community Resource
Coordination Groups
If You Ask Me. . .
By Donna Burton And Nobody Did
This is another
installation in "Country goes
to Town" but with a twist.
While the last story left with
my ineptness in dealing with
city things, this deals with
how city people are
incapable of understanding
how us country hicks have
the ability to be "one with
nature."
First of all let me give
you an example. . . The
hospital had a beautiful
patio. Lot’s of birds hung
out there, pigeons,
blackbirds, sparrows and
some kinds that I cannot
name. You take a country
kid and a city kid and put
them on that patio.
Wanting to get as close as
possible to the birds (most
likely with the idea of
catching the birds) the city
kid will run at the birds
chasing them. The country
kid will either pick a quiet
spot and find something to
feed them or pick up a rock
and throw at them.
Now, I know that may
sound kind of cruel, but the
city kid thinks that he must
move faster to get
something he wants, with no
notion of what he would do
if he catches it.
The country kid knows
what his goal is. He knows
that to touch it he either
has to gain its confidence or
kill it.
Harsh, yes, but it is a
reality.
As usual, I was in the
right place at the wrong
time. As I sat in a
laundromat washing some
clothes about 25 minutes
from the hospital, the sky
move to the center of the
kitchen.
"How close is 610 and
290?" I asked.
"Right over there," she
said pointing out the front
window to the maze of
highways.
"O.K." I grabbed a taco
and sat down to feed my
frustration.
"A tornado will come," I
thought to myself, "It will :
blow my body out to sea
and no one will ever know
what happened to me. My
mother will be left here all
alone,
home?"
Voices
How will she get
of the other
began to look
familiar to me.
I thought to
all too
myself...
"Now if I was at home... I
would be headed for a
hole!"
As the clothes dried, the
sky got darker. Finally I
figured I should get back to
the hospital. At least my
mom, who was still in ICU,
wouldn’t be worried about
me.
I threw the clothes in the
car as it began to sprinkle.
Two blocks from the
freeway the bottom literally
fell out.
Street flooding is a real
problem in Houston, so
with visions of a drowned
out car in my head, I pulled
into a Taco Bell to wait it
out. As I walked into the
eatery, a lady behind the
counter was announcing that
a tornado had been sighted
at the junction of 610 &
290, and if she heard
anything else we would all
diners began to penetrate
my inner hysteria.
Four burley construction
guys were talking among
themselves at the next table.
"If I hear a train... I’m
getting under this table!"
one of them said.
I leaned over and asked
them if the sirens would go
off or what.
They had no idea.
I sat there mulling this
over in my mind when I
realized that the four burley
construction workers had
stopped talking and chewing.
There was a low roar that
was becoming louder.
One of the muscle-bound
city dwellers was turning
white and looked like he
might dive under the table
at any moment.
Deciding to take matters
into my own hands, I went
to the door, opened it and
listened.
Walking back to my seat,
I explained to four very
tense guys, "It’s only a pick-
up without a muffler at the
drive-up window!"
With a simultaneous sigh
of relief, the guys began
male posturing like slapping
each other on the back and
joking about how scared the
others were.
I finally left and made my
way back to the hospital
When I walked back into
the ICU waiting room a
lady, who seeing my wet
and frazzled look, asked if I
had been in the storm.
Answering to the affirmative
she continued, "Did you see
the tornado?" "No," I said,
"But I was pretty dose to
it."
"Oh, I’m sorry!" she
exclaimed. "You would
have realty had a story to
tell back home if you had
seen it."
"Latty," I answered, "I see
them all the time at home
and if you knew me you
would realize that I always
have a story to tell!"
interagency groups county, many CRCGs also For example, a child many communities, CRCGs
composed of public and include parents of children receiving special services can recognize the gaps of
private agencies that with disabilities as regular through his or her school service that exist in their 4
develop service plans for members. Carson County district may also be area and can plan for
children and adolescents CRCG members include the receiving important appropriate programs to
whose needs can be met following: Texas supplemental services from meet those needs. Asa
onty through interagency Commission for the Blind, another agency. Due to result, more children and
coordination and Texas Department of eligibility requirements, the youth get the services they
cooperation. Health, Texas Panhandle agency’s supplemental need.
CRCGs originated when Mental Health Authority, services have ceased. The CRCGs cover
the Texas Legislature passed Texas Department of family has experienced approximately 95 per-cent of
Senate Bill 298 into law in Mental Health and Mental numerous road blocks to the public school-age and
1987. This bill directed the Retardation, Texas replacing this service, and state’s juvenile population,
state agencies serving Department of Human the child's progress is For more information *
children to develop a Services, Texas Department threatened. The family about the Carson County
community-based approach of Protective and Regulator perhaps with the assistance CRCG, contact its
to provide better Services, Texas Interagency of an agency, could make a Chairman Sally Crawford,
coordination of services for Council on Early Childhood referral to the area CRCG. Amarillo State Center,
children and youth who Intervention, Texas Juvenile The CRCG could then phone # 351-3414 or
have multi-agency needs and Probation, Texas develop a plan to address Carson County Judge Jay
require interagency Rehabilitation Commission, the service needs of the R. Roselius, phone # 537-
coordination. Texas Youth Commission, child. 3622.
CRCGs are organized or and Local Representatives CRCGs make it more
established on a county-by- from Private Sector Service likely for children and their
county basis. CRCG Providers. families to get the help they
members are from public CRCG members meet in need within their community
and private sector child- partnership with the family before the situation
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