to be alone is to live in a gray world a place where common everyday activities seem narrow and meet at times even intolerable to be alone and to be a boy is to live in a frightening world a place where fears and insecurities can eat away like acid at the confused mind of all normal emotions there are many such young people today the forgotten ones youngsters have been deprived of normal parental relationship sometimes the situation seems unavoidable this is run in age twelve his parents both four and ronnie is often alone too much alone is close to a wall about themselves refused to seek friends he's become quiet and withdrawn because it twelve he's afraid there are agonies that are not shown scars that are not see what other things can be see grim and squalid things that contribute to the nation why black harvests a violent since human waste days are rather forgotten ones other after thoughts of broken homes and selfish unthinking parents they own can grow like seeking roots in tortured twisted ways delinquency is spreading throughout the land like a great malignant growth feeding on the greedy send out of control it's sickening growth almost succeeds to the fall all too often the problem is fought with and inadequate ideas but not always there are new and increasingly successful techniques being brought to bear this is the summer camp of the pride of judy a children's services which for the past forty years has pioneered in the field of child care as a residence home for orphans and underprivileged children an institution devoted to the care of needy children children who come from walks of life from all conditions children from troubled homes children from families that are well off from families that are it is here in the control laboratory of the pride of duty a summer camp that their troubles are found out before they become community property it is here that the young who need help can get out can learn and experience the potential a wide range of activities provided not just the healthy body building competition about the sports but instruction in various parts and craft a program comprising a wide choice of media and able in each child to select the one that best his individual skill metal plate and even plastic there is for the embryo journalist if not the roar of the presses at least the it's a pleasurable and satisfying activity a means of providing fun in french means also bringing out the child's personality dramatics can be the most wonderful therapy in the world for a child even when the show is to borrow  occupational phrase a turkey and there's another means of expression in this unique summer camp more important than any other and just a little surprising in this very secular religion judea believes that in order to train a child in the way he should go a child should first be provided with the strength which only face the knowledge can bring religion is not a tag down thought here but rather an integral part and just in the fabrics of each day's activities transmitting to the children the wealth and strength of their jewish cultural and religious heritage they all prayers of their faith in the language of their heritage  and so the forgotten ones the children of broken homes the underprivileged the dependent can hear experience for a few brief months along with those who are more fortunate the phone line they are entitled to there is can play provision made for their basic needs there is care of the spirit care of the body there is especially care of the personality the inner workings of a child are more complex and amazing than those of a miniature watch they are handled properly they will function smoothly play out of water fights will be at times unruly but children are also as delicate as a miniature watch a job a psychological jolt can do great damage to damage that it first can't be seen like the outside of a watch a child may appear to be a normal condition but the appearance can be deceiving but not all children respond in the same way not all children take part in the game not all children joined in with the others these are the ones who often need extra help the quiet who never fully participate who don't respond who sit aside like ronn listening not caring if thoughts elsewhere is feelings hidden but tormented in a situation by sharp command to pay attention but not be in order it might even aggravate an emotionally disturbed  thoughtful step by step procedure the social worker in charge is immediately told of the boy question ronnie's keeping to himself too much keeping a high wall around his personality keeping everybody away  social worker is a highly trained specialist a young man but one who has already done years a postgraduate study who has a practical working knowledge of psychology it is his job now to learn as much about ronnie as he possibly can and the job is not one that can be put off time is crucial in the case of the young the quicker a boy can be reached the better beginner fears that torment romney that mold him in an unfriendly attitude that force him to so act  alone to bring the social worker knows what this means knows that he can afford to defer action but he must act must power around he at once i'm asked the social worker can intervene unless he can get through to the boy ronnie will slide deeper into his condition so deep perhaps that he may never be whole again this is what's at stake this is what the social worker must fight for the psychological life of a child once contact has been made once communication is established the social worker can learn about the boy's problem noted symptoms for his injury is of a kind that cannot be cured with a pill or an injection is one must be probed for must be skillfully dealt out the search may take a long time if he needs it ronny will receive the full range of psychiatric treatment is hidden life will be explored his insecurities will be washed away a life that might have been wasted and is thus restored a boy who was afraid will not learn to deal with his is only one among many surveys indicate that forty five percent of the public school children in new york city are emotionally disturbed and like run a nice guy but two hundred sixty five thousand children between the here to psychiatry can be of great help but compels bobby to pose in this way what makes him act like a fool and tend increasingly toward a behavioral pattern suggestive of juvenile delinquency two may be found through a number of ways the rorschach test plots that have different meanings for different people and telling what he sees in the audience shapes also tells us something else he tells about himself he tells without his even knowing it the nature and the intensity of his problem a child's problems can usually be related to the parents this is bobby's father unable to understand what is happening with son he too is interviewed in this instance by a social worker in order to more completely fill out the picture the pride of duty insist that parents must be willing to submit themselves to psychiatric treatment if it is necessary for very often the problem of a child when it is traced back to turns out to be the problem of the parent group therapy sessions for parents are frequently enabling them to discuss their problems and able in them to learn about their children and themselves too when all the information about bobby has been gathered the planning conference is held where the skills of the psychologist the psychiatrist and social worker come together they must try to fit the pieces together try to read the pattern they must make a diagnosis and then they must plan to treat the facts about bobby are clear he is mentally and emotionally cup but he's beginning to get into trouble beginning to rebel the report made by the social worker indicates that bobby's mother is ill and it's been hospitalized for over six months there are three other children and bobby is the oldest he is during the day when the father's at work product to fill the vacuum created by the onus of bobby's mother mrs matthews fills two purposes she physically cares for and supervise the children during the day when the father is at his job and she serves as a substitute mother preserves a family atmosphere so necessary to the on the homemaker service as a means of continuing the normal household routine in the face of a family emergency and the situation involving young children and is under great strain definitely qualifies as an emergency the father after all is not to be blamed loves his children he is not indifferent to his responsibility he simply can't deal with what is  a difficult situation the homemaker arriving promptly every morning and tattling the household in his absence provides him with reassure the children are in good hands and bobby is being looked after bobby too is reassur reassured about his place in his family or children need to have their world to fight to be told their place they look to others to tell them who they are what they are to do they need this certainty before they can begin to develop in their own individual way by taking over the chores and the responsibilities prematurely thrust upon bobby the homemaker restores to him his psychological problems once again as an eleven year old boy service certainly one of the most valuable techniques ever devised to help families that have been disrupted to help children from being twisted in their growth it is important to keep the child at home to keep the home intact a child whose mother arranges to have preschool aged children driven daily to an affiliated nursery school hendrik street day nursery and the mothers work at their jobs to overcome financial and other difficulties the children get the benefit of professional supervision and a here they learn to do many things for instance the basic relationships of color the discipline of making a straight line a symmetrical curve and the other games for children of this age there's no such formal separation of activity but children make their own judgments they make their own game but some do not some children even at this age act on  hostility and the actual manner in which they play here again the skill of the psychiatrist and the counselor is needed and provided for and another determined and patient struggle for the soul of a child to g duty or how to compensate for a cruel infirmity there are many such situations which must be dealt with the planning committee of the pride of duty of children services knows this and has acted accordingly as plan to prevent the plight of today's forgotten ones out of all this planning has come a new development in the field of child care a radical departure from the past the pride of judaism has changed itself into a multi service institute dedicated to the welfare of children and institution with five major services dovetailed to answer most of the problems of the child so to speak under one roof one central intake office with joint planning between services without delay and without w are going from one institution to another an institution that works at prevention while it works secure which keeps the family together and strengthens it whenever possible the results are the most gratifying the human heart can experience  who is beginning to slide into trouble now smiling just enjoying a normal healthy family relationship headed for a normal healthy life boy once afraid to seek friends who tried to close themsel now a protest open to the joys that all children prevented from falling into the darkness of fear and loneliness now living in the dawn of a new life these are the results of the part of judea and the nine thousand others who generosity of the people of america