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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
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Annual Art in the Park benefits
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ommon Ground Sanctuary is
not a Jewish organization, but
it serves Jewish clients,
has many Jewish volunteers
and is headed by a Jewish chief
executive officer.
When the agency holds its
main fund-raising event this year
— Art in the Park scheduled
Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17-
18, in Birmingham's Shain Park
— there will be Jewish artists
among the almost 200 from
across the country.
"This is the 31st year of the
art fair, and this is my 15th
anniversary with the organiza-
tion," says Tony Rothschild, 57, who
will be joining in as visitors view and
buy original juried art in 18 categories,
listen to live musical entertainment,
sample specialty foods, participate in
children's activities and bid in a silent
auction.
"I'm glad to have so many people
coming together each year with usually
great weather and all the volunteer par-
ticipation," says Rothschild. "It's all for
the cause of helping people, and I like
the connection to art because we use art
therapy as a healing tool."
Last year's art fair netted $150,000,
which went into the Oakland County-
based agency's general fund. The event
attracted 75,000 people.
"About 90 percent of our fundrais-
ing goes directly into programs," says
Rothschild, who reminds fairgoers that
they can purchase many different
kinds of artwork, from paintings to
glassware.
"Our main function is to serve peo-
ple in crisis, and we structure ourselves
with two divisions. Our psychiatric
services are for those with crisis mental
illness problems. Our community
Common Ground Sanctuary's
Art in the Park runs 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, and 10 .
a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, in
Shain Park in downtown
Birmingham. (248) 456-8137.
services are for intervention programs
for people in situational crisis."
For those with psychiatric problems,
Common Ground does emergency
assessments around the clock and uses
a mobile program to
assist. There is a cri-
sis residential home
for adults _ , who can
choose a voluntary
short-term stay.
For those experi-
encing situational
crisis, there is a crisis
telephone line,
which gets about
27,000 calls a year.
The agency also
offers a legal clinic,
assistance for crime
victims, youth shelters and a street
outreach program for homeless young-
sters.
"We don't deal with the Jewish pop-
ulation any differently from any other
populations," says Rothschild, who
reports that a group at Temple Beth El
gives Easter baskets every year for the
kids served by his agency.
"We certainly work closely with
Jewish Family Service. We try to make
sure that our crisis line referrals are up
to date with all the resources in the
Jewish community. We've had a few
cases where people wanted therapists
in the same religion, and we would
call Jewish Family Service."
Rothschild, who grew up in
California and moved to Michigan in
1970 on assignment from VISTA
(Volunteers in Service to America),
holds a bachelor's degree in economics
from the University of California at
Irvine.
He earned his master's degree in
social work from the University of
Michigan after his VISTA term was
completed and went on to assign-
ments as a community development
specialist for the Neighborhood Serv-
ice Organization in Detroit, instructor
at Wayne State University and special
assistant to the late U.S. Rep. George
W. Crockett Jr., D-Detroit.
"I've always been interested in poli-
tics," Rothschild says. "I was involved
in campaigns in Detroit, and that's