The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-05-04

Montana'S first private agency de
veloped exclusively for the proven
ton of juvenile delinquency becam,
reality (5/1/55) with the filing 0.
State articles of incorporation.
Local Youth Guidance Counselors
are already at work in Billings, Grea
Falls and Hardin. These local coun
ellis and others to be developed across
the state will all be tied together by
charter with the State Youth Guild
ance Council.
The original board of Directors
filing these articles of incorporation
was picked from Billings, and Great
Falls, two cities already having full
time counselors, and Kalispell, a
community where the District Judge,
the Probation Officer and a number
of private citizens have expressed
a desire for the services of a Youth
Guidance Counselor. The board of
directors is as follows: Mr. Glen
Nolte and Mr.. Forrest Crum of Bill
lings, Mr.. Emmett Angland and Mr..
Otto Kotz of Great Falls, and Mr..
LES DuTNOch Oh hdllSp61l.
State offices of Montana Youth
Guidance Council will be located
at 312 First National Bank Build
ing in Great Falls. The board of
directors also announces the hiring
of Franklin Robbie of Great Falls
as executive secretary of the State
organization.
Mr.. Robbie assisted in the launch
ing of Yellowstone Youth Guidance
Council in Billings over two years
ago and helped that local executive
board locate Mr.. Louis Kramp to
serve as full-time counselor. In the
past two years Mr.. Kramp has worked
with over 230 individual cases and
has remarkable record of success
full counseling. He has won the en-
thusiastic approval of the district
judges, the probation officers and
many others concerned with youth
problems in that community.
Early this year Mr.. Robbie as
sisted in the launching of Cascade
Youth Guidance Council in Great
Falls and was helpful in locating Mr..
Joe Austin to serve as a full-time
counselor. Mr.. Austin came from
Lansing, Michigan, where last year
he received his Masters in Social
Work Degree from Michigan State.
Mr.. Austin began working officially
in Great Falls on January II of this
year and already has worked with |
better than 60 cases. He has the
approval of the dis
trict judges, the probation office,
police department, public welfare,
the county attorney and many other
organizations.
Hardin is the third community to
have the benefit of Youth Guidance
Council and Mr.. Roger Shaw of Spo-
zane, Washington, is working in that
community as part-time counselor
oart-time city recreation director.
Mr.. Shaw has his degree in Physical
Education with a minor in psychology
md is we'll equipped for his job. He
100 has won the confidence of all
hose concerned with youth problems
n the Hardin area.
State Executive Secretary Rob-
bic has outlined the objectives and
purposes of Montana Youth Guild
ance Council as follows:
'The purpose of the Youth Guild
nee Council is to lend helping hand
o the local community in the job of
reventing juvenile delinquency. This
J done through the services of a
pecially trained and qualified Youth
Guidance Counselor who will work
losely with existing agencies both
ublic and private. 1t is not the pur-
ose or desire of the Youth Guidance
ouncil to overlap or duplicate any
erv1ce or activity with any other
Sisting agency, organization or pro- |
ram, but to be helping hand in fill
g the gap that seems to exist in
lie counseling field.
The pattern of development is on
county level and the local counse-
RS duties can be outlined in general
follows:
l. BY working closely with public
hool officials, the Youth Guidance
will seek to prevent juve-
lie delinquency through counseling
e-delinquent youth known to be
the "border-line' of trouble.
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