COUNTY LOOKS AT YOUTH FACILITIES; GROUP HOMES DISTURB RESIDENTS.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Van Nuys residents are upset about a proposal before the Board of Supervisors today to reopen a pair of youth group homes that were shut down by the state last year due to drug use, rioting and sex among residents. The supervisors are considering buying or leasing Pride House and Lion's Gate as part of a plan to care for children who have been taken from unfit unfit not properly prepared, e.g. physically incapable of performing hard work as in racing, because of lack of training. Said also of food prepared unhygienically. unfit for human consumption parents, wards with mental illness and juvenile offenders, but neighbors are upset. ``The kids were out of control and terrorizing the adjacent neighborhood. It's the wrong location for an operation like this because its adjacent to residences,'' said Don Schultz For the Marketing expert, see . Don Schultz is a former president and a former vice-president of the United States Chess Federation. He was born in New York in 1937 and currently lives in Florida. He was elected vice-president on August 14 2005. , president of the Van Nuys Homeowners Association. ``We had constant crime in the neighborhood. We had the police here every other day,'' said Brian O'Shea Brian O'Shea (born December 1944) is an Irish Labour Party politician. He is currently the Labour Party Spokesperson for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs. Brian O'Shea was born in Waterford and educated at Mount Sion C.B.S. Waterford and St. , who lives near the group homes. ``The kids that were in there were having sex parties on the roof.'' The two group homes are located in two buildings on opposite sides of a three-acre, 180-bed ``Children's Campus'' on Saticoy Street, just west of Sepulveda Boulevard. This time around it would be run by county employees, rather than a private contractor. The idea is to use the site to relieve overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at MacLaren's Children's Center in El Monte El Monte (ĕl mŏn`tē), city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, , the county home of last resort for children in its dependency system. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San had asked for the study, suggesting that juvenile delinquents juvenile delinquent n. a person who is under age (usually below 18), who is found to have committed a crime in states which have declared by law that a minor lacks responsibility and thus may not be sentenced as an adult. at MacLaren could be moved out to Pride House and Lion's Gate. Peter Digre, director of the county's Department of Children and Family Services, has recommended that Pride House and Lion's Gate be used to house mentally ill teen-agers. While the site has a 180-bed capacity, Digre is recommending that a maximum of 40 children be placed there. Digre said he is open to other options, like using the homes instead to house younger children, ages 10, 11 and 12. ``I'm perfectly prepared to implement a program in that facility,'' Digre said. ``But if we use it, we have to develop it as a staff intensive facility.'' Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. , whose district includes Van Nuys, said the past problems at Pride House and Lion's Gate make it a bad investment, and the county should look for a better location. ``It's inappropriate for these kids to be moved into Pride House,'' he said. ``It's clearly not a fit for the neighborhood.'' Yaroslavksy said that before buying new sites, county officials first need to create an effective program for helping the children at MacLaren with special needs. ``Our problem is not square footage. Our problem is treating them,'' Yaroslavsky said. |
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