Save The Chat Room
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Jim O'Bryan
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Save The Chat Room
Save the Chat Room meeting is this WED Sept.28th, 3:30 and 6:30pm. Please come help us brainstorm ways to get funding.
Jim O'Bryan
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Jeff Endress
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Jim O'Bryan
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Jeff Endress wrote:Jim
Perhaps we could merge with other chat rooms, and through efficiencies and economies of scale reduce the amount needed to continue operations (or is that part of another thread?)
Jeff
Jeff
I really think that the city is large enough to have more than one "drop in center" for kids. I know that when I was young Connection provided a place to channel energies, talk with friends and adults, while learning a bunch about real life in the real world.
The Chat Room provides a service like this and has been funded by the church, now they need help finding funding and grants.
Jim O'Bryan
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Todd Shaw
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Jim O'Bryan
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The Chat room is located at: 16300 Detroit, and opened on Friday and Saturday. It provides a positive place for kids to ""hang out."
What makes the Chat Room near and dear to my heart is that as a teen we had a place to hang out, under adult supervision and I think it provided some nice guidance. The adults gave the kids room to run the place but were always around for when those ideas flawed by youthful thought processes popped up.
Connection was run out of the YMCA, with funding from Bonnie Bell. It ran for about 5 years, in the late 60s early 70s. Beside the gathering place their was also a crisis phone room where every night we would get calls from other teens and adults that had problems ranging from violence to drugs. The phone room was run by the kids, and was VERY effective at addressing the needs of the west side. More than once the kids would mobilize to go talk a kid down having a bad trip on acid, or ODing on some other substance.
Sadly the place got to cool, and the parents running it tried too hard to be cool, and the experiment came to a screeching halt. It was one of those weird things that cropped up, made a name for itself then crumbled under its own success and fame.
I count at least 5 people on the Observer staff that were members of the original Connection phone staff.
Today the Chat Room is geared towards issues that have meaning to today's youth. Computers, technology, teen pregnancy, etc.
A resource that should not be lost.
What makes the Chat Room near and dear to my heart is that as a teen we had a place to hang out, under adult supervision and I think it provided some nice guidance. The adults gave the kids room to run the place but were always around for when those ideas flawed by youthful thought processes popped up.
Connection was run out of the YMCA, with funding from Bonnie Bell. It ran for about 5 years, in the late 60s early 70s. Beside the gathering place their was also a crisis phone room where every night we would get calls from other teens and adults that had problems ranging from violence to drugs. The phone room was run by the kids, and was VERY effective at addressing the needs of the west side. More than once the kids would mobilize to go talk a kid down having a bad trip on acid, or ODing on some other substance.
Sadly the place got to cool, and the parents running it tried too hard to be cool, and the experiment came to a screeching halt. It was one of those weird things that cropped up, made a name for itself then crumbled under its own success and fame.
I count at least 5 people on the Observer staff that were members of the original Connection phone staff.
Today the Chat Room is geared towards issues that have meaning to today's youth. Computers, technology, teen pregnancy, etc.
A resource that should not be lost.
Jim O'Bryan
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Lakewood Resident
"The very act of observing disturbs the system."
Werner Heisenberg
"If anything I've said seems useful to you, I'm glad.
If not, don't worry. Just forget about it."
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Mike Deneen
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Update?
Can anyone provide info on what happened at the meeting?
There are many of us that would like to have helped but weren't able to be there.
How much money is needed, and how soon? What ideas are already on the table?
There are many of us that would like to have helped but weren't able to be there.
How much money is needed, and how soon? What ideas are already on the table?