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"I knew the pitfalls of foster
care and I wanted to make sure
this program was right," said
Mayer. "Before The Orchards
started its foster care program,
my husband and I took in a
teenage girl as foster parents.
We had no idea what we were
getting into.
"At the time, our two sons had
graduated college, and our
daughters were a senior and
sophomore in high school. The
foster child was a junior.
I thought everything would
work out well.
"However, this child was so
terribly damaged, had such a
lifetime of problems, that no
matter how I dressed her to
play the part of an Andover
High School student, she was
doomed for failure. There was
no support for us as foster
parents; I couldn't get her into
therapy. We cried when she left.
She changed our lives. All of us
felt our eyes were opened to a
whole new world.
"I was determined to create a
foster care program that would
promote success. The Orchards
program offers foster parents
24-hour support, respite
workers and therapy. There is
also access to therapy for the
foster child. Our foster parents
receive 52 hours of training
before they are given a child,
which is well above the state re-
quirement."
In 1982, Franklin and Mayer
were instrumental in creating
The Orchards Family Treat-
ment Center, a Southfield home
used exclusively for therapy,
birth family visitation and
foster care programs. The idea
was to take children and
families out of the sterile and
often intimidating atmosphere
of the clinical office and place
them in the naturally warm
and inviting atmosphere of a
home.
At the Family Treatment
Center, children and parents
meet with therapists and
parents interact with their
children and try to rebuild a
family relationship. Foster
parents also meet with birth
families in a comfortable set-
ting to discuss the child's
progress.
"We had one family in which
all of the children were remov-
ed because of neglect and
hunger," Franklin recalls. "The
children were afraid of their
mother. The case worker helped
the mother prepare a meal in
the kitchen of our Treatment
Center home. The kids watched
and helped. That experience
helped them feel less fearful of
their mother!'
The Orchards also created
two camp programs for emo-
tionally impaired children. The
Ted Schwartz Day Camp,
located on the property behind
the Livonia home, serves
children ages three-eight.
Three 21-day sessions operate
June through August. Children
are placed in small groups with
highly-trained teachers and
parents can attend weekly
group meetings.
With the Fresh Air Society,
The Orchards also developed
Silverman Village, the area's
first residential camp for emo-
tionally impaired children.
Despite these successes,
Gerald Levin and Suzanne
Franklin have many dreams for
the future. They would like to
see enough funding to reinstate
two preventative programs that
had great impact on the
general community, Phone
Friend and Adventure Club.
Phone Friend's volunteer staff
answered phone calls from
"latch-key" children, home
alone after school. Adventure
Club provided an after-school
group for elementary school-
aged children who showed ear-
ly signs of emotional
disturbance.
Franklin envisions programs
that will help parents with
their parenting skills, before
problems begin. "I'd love to see
a Thy Lending Library that
would also teach parents how to
play with their children. We're
also working on a Teen Parents
Program that would offer a full
range of services for teen
mothers and fathers in the Pon-
tiac area, which has one of the
highest rates of teen pregnan-
cies in the nation!'
The Alternative Residential
Assessment and Crisis Center
is a new program scheduled to
begin next fall. It will provide
a short-term stay for children in
a crisis situation. The child's
educational, home and mental
health needs will be assessed
within a two- to eight-week
period. The assessment pro-
gram is expected to keep
youngsters out of regional
psychiatric facilities and speed
their treatment and placement.
"Some things don't change,
even after 25 years," Levin said.
"Our spirit of innovation and
our desire to meet our com-
munity's unmet needs con-
tinues. ❑
Scientific
Method Cited
Rehovot — "The scientific
method should be applied not
only in he laboratory, but
also in the handling of politi-
cal and social issues," stated
Abba Eban, chairman of the
Knesset's Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee at the
graduation ceremony of the
Weizmann •nstitute's Fein-
berg Graduate School.
In the wake of the Six-Day
War, Eban said, many Is-
raelis had failed to differ-
entiate between political de-
sires and political realities.
If, however, Israel's problems
were to be solved, a more ra-
tional approach was required,
he declared.