14 Friday, October 2, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Project Outreach Aids Blind-Deaf Couple, Isolated Detroit Jews

William Stark. 72, has
lived in a Detroit inner-city
neighborhood for the past
12 years. He and his wife
Lucille, 66, are both blind
and almost totally deaf.

Through the years they
managed to survive in a
tough environment without
the assistance of family or
friends. They had lost al-
most all contact with fellow

Project Out-
Jews —
reach entered the picture.
Project Outreach is an
experimental program
under the auspices of the
Jewish Vocational Service

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and Community Workshop,
member agency of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
and a beneficiary of the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign-
Israel Emergency Fund.
Established in February
1980, Project Outreach
reaches out to Jewish
inner-city residents who are
isolated from their religious
and cultural heritage, their
families and society as a
whole. Many of these indi-
viduals are elderly and are
mentally ill, retarded or
otherwise debilitated.
The Starks live in the
Herman Gardens hous-
ing project, near South-
field and Joy roads. As
Passover approached
this year, Stark asked the
activities director at the
- Iler Neighborhood Cen-
ter if she could help him
observe the holiday with
matzot and other tradi-
tional foods.
The director had heard
about Project Outreach
through JVS publicity and
contacted staff program
coordinator Anne Stone,
who said she and JVS have
become known as "the
Jewish connection in De-
troit" to many social service
employees. '
In addition to making her
own regular visits, Mrs.
Stone has found several
volunteers interested in
helping the Starks. For
example, a married couple
drives and assists the
Starks with grocery shop-
ping in Oak Park. Stark
said the kosher meat he is
able to purchase there is
"fresher, more my style"
than what was previously
available to him.
Through the efforts of
Mrs. Stone and her small
cadre of Project Outreach
volunteers, Stark and other
isolated Jews in Detroit are
being brought back into the
mainstream community.
Project Outreach is

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Anne Stone, left, Proj ect Outreach coordinator,
visits with clients William and Lucille Stark at their
neighborhood center in D etroit.
funded by a grant from
clients are in need of bene-
the Jewish Community
fits counseling, individual
therapy or other servi es.
Foundation of the United
Jewish Charities. Made
At the'request of tWo in-
possible through UJC's
terested Federation volun-
endowment program, the
teers, Project Outreach has
yearly Foundation
established a group called
grants provide funding
Volunteers for Isolated
for short-term, innova-
People (VIPs). The VIPs
tive projects which are in
visit individuals on a
addition to the regular
monthly basis, usually dur-
programming offered by
ing the day Monday
Federation's affiliated
through Friday. Mrs. Stone
agencies.
provides orientation for new
Establishment of a Fed-
volunteers, including visits
eration subcommittee on
to four environments where
the mentally retarded pre-
clients reside.
ceded the Project Outreach
"I let the volunteers see
program. The subcommit-
different nursing homes
tee of Federation's Commu-
and after-care facilities and
nity Services Division
let them decide where they
called upon Rabbi Solomon
would feel most comfortable
Gruskin to serve as a con-
visiting. They can arrange
sultant. The rabbi has vis-
to visit a particular person
ited Jewish in= they take'liking to," she
stitutionalized persons dur-
said.
ing his more than 30 years
-Volunteers
have
as Jewish chaplain for the planned several outings
state of Michigan.
throughout the year. In
Mrs. Stone said Rabbi
March, a group of nine
Gruskin helped Federation
clients was taken to the
to identify the number of Shrine Circus. Several
Jewish mentally retarded
luncheon programs have
and mentally ill persons liv-
been hosted at the Jewish
ing in isolation within De-
Community Center in
troit. For years, social
Oak Park by members of
workers, psychologists and
Bnai Brith and the senior
psychiatrists have -advo-
adult volunteers of JVS'
cated de-institutionaliza-
own Senior Service
tion of mental patients.
Corps.
Many former Jewish
For a July picnic on Belle
patients of state agencies,
Isle, the VIPs picked up 30
without living or caring
guests who travelled by bus
relatives to intervene, re-
to the picnic site and
cently have been placed in
enjoyed eating corned beef
foster care homes in inner-
sandwiches served by the
city neighborhoods.
Senior Service Corps mem-
To date, Project Outreach bers.
According to Rhoda
has contacted 115 Jewish
persons, averaging 65-years Raderman, assistant execu-
old, who are in need of assis- tive director of the Jewish
tance. At least 200 indi- Vocational Service, "The
viduals have been iden- clients feel better now,
tified. More than 80 percent knowing there are indi-
of the clients live in a nurs- viduals in the Jewish com-
munity who care about
ing home or group home.
their welfare."
Mrs. Stone said an im-
As an example, Mrs.
portant part of her job is Stone noted that Jewish
serving as an advocate on residents in a predomin-
behalf of these basically antly gentile nursing home
powerless individuals. have sometimes attended a
Generally, she said she Christian-oriented Bible
does this by working study class since that is an
within the system and es- activity offered to them. Be-
tablishing a good rapport cause of the concern of Proj-
with nursing home staff ect Outreach volunteers,
and administrators.
some of these persons will
One problem Project Out- have the opportunity to
reach is working through, take part in a special Rosh
in conjunction with Jewish Hashana service conducted
Family Service, is obtaining by Rabbi Leon Fram at
a temporary rent subsidy Temple Israel.
for the Starks, if and when
Mrs. Stone welcomes
they are moved into an Oak additional volunteers will-
Park apartment. Mrs. Stone ing to make a minimum
is involved in cooperative commitment of a half-day
case planning with Jewish per month to the program.
.Family Service and calls For further information on
upon agency staff to assist Project Outreach, contact
when Project Outreach Mrs. Stone, 833-8100.

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