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PAGE 4 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY. JUNE 15, lt84 POVERTY CREATES PROBLEMS BEYOND BASIC NEEDS continued from page 1 confusing for both the applicant and the employee. "We are getting to the point where there will be a single application for all programs," Swager said. In terms of volume, Swager commented, "When our business is good, everyone else's is bad." Until January or February, business at the McHenry County office had been brisk, but Swager said there has been a 25 percent drop in the number of applications. Generally, IDPA in Woodstock receives about 200 to 250 applications a month for some sort of assistance. Frustration is a key factor that faces both the impoverished person or family and the service agency employee as well. For the indigent person, the maze of services and forms and red tape can be staggering. The bright spot in McHenry County is the interaction bet­ ween employees of the various agencies. For the most part, they are aware of what each other offers and directs a bewildered client to the right office. "McHenry County can pride itself on the interaction between agencies," said Robert Martens, executive director of Family Service. Jones commented that there are fairly regular lines of communication between IDPA, the Housing Authority, Family Service, Pioneer Center, the Department of Children and Family Services, Court Ser­ vices, the Youth Service Bureau, Family Alliance, and the Senior Citizens, to name a few. Martens and Jones lauded the efforts of local volunteer groups, like Church Women United or Friends In Service Here (FISH), which provide a myriad of services to the needy. One of the advantages of the communication in a small county, like McHenry, is that clients are generally known from agency to agency. "Staffers get together and decide what is the best way to handle a client's situation," Jones said. 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Swager said there was not nearly as much cheating on aid in McHenry County as there was in Cook County. "McHenry County is small and there is no support for a cheat among the population," Sawager said. "A neighbor is more likely to report someone cheating in McHenry County, where they might get away with it in Cook." Cools and Waldo both ex­ plained some of the frustration in working with the indigent. It can be a very frustrating exercise to watch someone at a marginal income level, Cools said. For the person who makes $10,000 a year there is no help, except for very short-term. Waldo noted that it was very difficult to deal with a person in real need after the previous case had abused the system, or knowing that immediate help might keep someone from being a regular, but having red tape hold up the aid. Cools also explained that the Hispanic population in McHenry County face prejudicial problems, as well as low in­ come. Formerly, the Hispanics were immigrants who tried to get unskilled labor positions. With the bad economy, even the unskilled positions were in demand and the Hispanic usually came out on the short end, Cools said. "There are tremendous hardships for the Hispanics," Cools said. "The illegals who live in some of the most ap­ palling conditions don't even try to get into the system.'* For the rock-bottom poor, even housing, adequate or otherwise, can pose quite a problem. "Some people will say something crazy or threaten suicide just to get into a hospital so they'll have a place to stay," Waldo said. In Aurora, a group of churches joined forces to address the problem of housing. A program called PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) has just completed its second successful year. 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ELM(RTE. 120) MCHENRY(815)385-3660 Services (DORS) and a PADS member, said it is an inter­ denominational program to provide immediate, overnight shelter to anyone during the winter months. This year the program ran from Nov. 1, 1983 to April 30. Scanlan said the host church opens its doors at 7 p.m. and provides the homeless with a simple meal and a clean place to sleep. A different church hosts each night of the week. For those people with enough money to have a place of their own, but perhaps not enough to make rent, involvement could include the McHenry County Health Department and ultimately the courts. Richard Wissell, ad­ ministrator, said the Health Department has been involved in rent squabbles. Most often, someone stops paying rent, Wissell said. Then the landlord shuts off the water and the tenant calls to say the place is inhabitable. "If the tenant owes the lan­ dlord money, the court generally does not look too favorably on the tenant," Wissell said. "If we tag the premises for a deficiency, the landlord has the option of eviction rather than repair." The Health Department also finds itself involved in custody matters, particularly in situations where the living conditions pose a threat to a child's safety, "In one instance, we had to recommend the court take the children because there were five great danes living in the house," Wissell said. "In addition to the mess, the only speck of food in the house was dog food." Poverty has also led to a whole spate of different programs created by the nursing division. According to Eileen Hansen, nursing director, programs such as the Well Child Clinic; im­ munization clinic; supplemental food for women, infants and children; homemaker, chore, housekeeper program; free pregnancy testing, high risk infant program, dental screening a and education and the adult clinic all grew, at least in part, from problems facing the poor. 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