TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR NEIGHBORHOODS The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) has provided CUE with a grant to provide technical assistance and training to neighborhood associations. The grant is a part of the Mott Foundation sponsored Neighborhood Grants Program that the Oregon Community Foundation . administers for the Portland area. The program's plans include working with Southeast Uplift on the third annual leadership conference. CUE will be providing three or four more intensive trainings as follow-up to what is offered at the conference. Topics for the intensive (1/2 day or longer) workshops might include: action planning, fund raising, mediation and conflict resolution, communication and outreach, and newsletter production. Materials are also being developed for each of the training areas and will be made available to attendees and others by mail order. Another important part of the project will be the development of a training program for the five area boards that represent individual neighborhood associations throughout the city. At the end of the project a directory of technical assistance information in the greater Portland area will also be published. CABLE TV SENIOR SERVICES PROJECT The Center for Urban Education has announced plans to develop a series of cable television programs to assist area seniors to continue to li".'e independently. The project, funded by a $162,000 grant from the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust, will involve production of bi-weekly cable television programs by teams made up of professional video producers, volunteer senior producers and technicians, and staff members drawn from senior service agencies. Each program will be developed through a collaboration between a specific local service agency and project advisors. Area agencies involved in program production include the Visiting Nurses Association (Healthlink), Good Samaritan Hospital Neurological Sciences Center Education and Family Support Program, and the Clackamas County Senior Citizens Council. The project will also assist senior service agencies in the metropolitan area to make more effective use of cable television and videotape materials. CUE will develop a catalogue of video materials of use to service agencies, will train agency staff in video production, and will operate a videotape exchange service to encourage wider use of video resources among local agencies. CUE will compile production, cost, and audience data to enable social service agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of cable television as an outreach and service medium. Among the project's final products will be a complete report and handbook for use of video by social service providers. Fall 1986 RAIN Page 45
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