Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free Winnipeg october a 7 net failing the top guns of trash win speggers to compete at Rodeo for garbage men staff reporter expert says t Here the cowboys of by Allison Bray staff reporter Street kids Are More Apt to turn to a shadowy network of supports on the Street than the very support systems intended to help the North american conference on the family was told Here Kathleen chair woman of child Protection at memorial University school of social work in told the conference that social agencies and the Justice system Are not doing enough to keep runaway or throwaway kids from risking their lives on the in a 1994 study on policies and services for homeless Kufeldt found More than half of 489 Street kids involved in a 1992 93 study on homeless youth in Cal Gary had gone through the child welfare an overwhelm ing number of others were from blended families or had experienced learning problems in school or abuse at there was a Strong sense among youth in Calgary that nobody wanted that they were Kufeldt told conference As she said kids in the care of agencies were often left to fend for themselves once they reached age 16 or with few supports or resources available to i continue to get very upset that children Are spit out at age or if there she even with the most needy group of Chil we just expect them to be Independent at a very vulnerable even for kids trying to get off the resources to help them Are Kufeldt there Are waiting lists to get into programs and a Lack of social workers to respond to and theres often no continuity Between social workers and others in the the courts Seldom look Back to see what has happened to these said Stella a Board member of the family Centre of As Kufeldt said there Are few resources like Halfway houses or followup visits with child welfare agencies available to Young offenders once they Are released from Conse Many have no Choice but to hit the we were horrified that Young offenders were just spit out with nowhere to she said of the despite guidance Kufeldt said the schools Are also contributing to the problem by kicking kids out for poor Atten despite problems they Are having at Home or on the we thought there needed to be a whole spectrum of services Avail she said of the for Kufeldt said school divisions could set up Street level programs to encourage homeless youth to continue education through correspondence teachers should also be better trained to recognize problems kids Are having at Home before they Are severely damaged or turn to the key position i think teachers Are in a key position to pick up on especially sex which can be Evi Dent by kids being reluctant to go Home after Paul coordinator of the youth resource Centre at win Nipges Macdonald youth services said kids need to establish Trust with a teacher or some other positive role yet because agencies Are often so overwhelmed with a child is often shunted Between various so a relationship is never As there is often no one emotionally or physically available to help the child or youth in for kids living in horrendous situations at especially older teenagers who Are rarely made wards of the theres not much help for Johnston for some of they feel safer on the Street than anywhere and next week three Winnipeg men will compete for the title of worlds greatest garbage Man at an International Rodeo in no the chel Laggo and Alex remkes All work for Brownin Ferris Indus which is hosting the ninth annual International truck and heavy equipment Rodeo 28 in the cattleman capital of Ameri for theres nothing funny about his Job As a Rolloff Dri ver of the huge garbage trucks that haul trash to Landfill but Media interest in the Texas contest did make him were the he chuckled when a reporter asked him How hed do in As it turns Bernshine and his two buddies have been people think its easy driving a garbage truck but its Bern Shine Winnipeg has its own Rodeo every summer with dozens of Bufi Laggo and remkes won berths for the Houston event after the latest Bufi Rodeo on City works Yards in july showed they could manoeuvre their trucks against the Best the Rodeo Here and in Houston is an obstacle course where Drivers win Points by twisting their rigs Forward through serpentine Cours past huge barrels and big balls with inches to and they do it All Over the second the rigs swing into reverse and the Drivers Roll Una resting Nick Ternetti tried to get busted again yesterday pan handling outside an Osborne Village like the last time the mayoral candidate tested the cites panhandling the police stayed were in were in front of a financial Ternetti said As he asked customers to donate to food not a Community group feeding the poor and the underclass growing prof by Allison Bray staff reporter relying on the private Sec Tor to Spur economic growth is creating an underclass of unemployed Canad a conference on the family heard their economic insecurity is hurting everyone by Breeding a plethora of social said univer sity of Northern British Columbia professor Gordon the kind of investment were seeing int creating jobs were creating an underclass and third world chair Man of the social work faculty at told the North american conference on the family at the Winnipeg convention Tern Wetsky said that despite moderate gains in employment Over the past few unemployment hovering at 10 per cent nationally remains and 73 per cent of new jobs Are Lowray ing service or Good producing As instead of creating More Middle class Many corporations Are making hefty profits by cutting their existing labor Force or replacing workers with tech he although women Are entering the workforce at a faster Pace than and now comprise More than half the they still Are being paid less than we Are witnessing a Type of labor displacement that results in substantial reductions in labor costs to but marginal izes More workers and continues to impoverish women and their families that depend on the wages of Tern Wetsky the result is not Only a larger Pool of unemployed or Low paid workers but less tax Revenue for the government to fund the very social programs they need in order to this coupled with fed eral government funding threatens to radically undermine the economic Security of Many he we can already see whats happened in Alberta and Ter Novetsky said of recent major cuts to social the Federal government is los ing its clout to maintain he described the end result As a Host of social increasing poverty and downward mobility among displaced especially those Over that often leads to problems such As sub stance abuse and child the conference continues 493 notre Dante 7745544 Ken free press from Bernshine and Laggo Hope to be worlds greatest garbage backwards Over the same other competitors from across the theres the double United the United Drivers must Roll through and Back Australia and up again without an the Rodeo has attracted 150 new and if 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