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Open house August 20-31 — Frost Foundation for Boys — ’We try to make this a home"

By TERRI CHILCOTE About five years ago, Ray Frost, owner of Frost Antenna Service and TV Appliances of Syracuse, donated some antenna systems and color television sets to the Allen County Children's Home where he spent his childhood years. A counselor at the home told Ray how he could take foster children into his home. Now Ray and his wife, Sherry, have 10 boys under their care. Frost stressed that the Frost Foundation needs more community support. He and the boys are planning an open house. August 20-31. The boys have been busy distributing leaflets and publicizing the event. “We’d like the community to come out and meet the boys," invited Frost. He also said they need people in the community to get to know some of the boys and “establish a big brother relationship.” Although the home is funded through state agencies, the Frosts would like to do more for the boys. He would like to provide music lessons for those who want them and be able to take them on more outings. The foundation would also like to renovate the sleeping area from dormitory style to three boys per room and enlarge the game room and dining room. Donations from private individuals and organizations, are welcomed. Persons can also donate clothing and recreational equipment. He summarized, “I feel we’re helping kids everyday to be ready for the world when they turn 18. I didn’t have these things when I was growing up. I just love what I’m doing. It takes a lot of love and care.” At first Ray and Sherry had four boys in their home. As foster parents, they received $5 per day per boy to feed, clothe and pay for their medical and dental needs and recreational activities. Two years ago, Ray contacted the state Welfare Department to see

how they could get more funds for the boys. They also wanted to open their home to more boys. The Welfare Department told them they would have to go into group home status to receive more funds and kids. So the Frost Foundation for Boys, Inc. was formed —a private, non-profit group home for delinquent, neglected, abused and orphaned boys located on State Road 13 on the south side of Syracuse. As a child. Ray spent 15 years in institutional life and knows first hand the problems these boys face. “I do know what it’s like" he said. “We want to make this a home to the kids and make them feel at home.” He stressed that he tries to maintain a homelike atmosphere. The road to becoming a licensed group home was not easy or cheap. Ray spent SIO,OOO of his own money to meet safety and health requirements of the State Fire Marshal, State Board of Health, the Food Program and State Welfare Department in order to be licensed. These requirements included reinforced doors, fire alarms, ventilation devices, a selfsanitizing refrigerator, additional living space and installing additional bathrooms. He also put $17,500 from his business. Frost Antenna Service and TV Appliance, into improvements for the foundation. The Frost Foundation presently cares for 10 boys, but they are licensed for 12. The boys range in age from 12 to 17 and hail from Muncie, Elkhart, Goshen, Fort Wayne, Toledo and Cincinnati. The average length of stay is nine months to a year, but the boys can stay until they reach 18. “I have a great need to help kids out,” said Ray. The foundation attempts to do more than provide for the physical maintenance of the boys. It recognizes the need to provide for the social and educational care of its youth as well. The boys are required to attend the public school, most of them attending Wawasee High School. They are encouraged to get involved in school and community activities. Ray has tried to make the boys aware of community service, and a couple of the boys mow lawns for elderly residents. They are also permitted to have outside jobs as long as they can handle their school work too. However, if they have jobs, they are required to keep an active savings account and taught the value of saving

f *A CB Bp Y vii \ i * FROST FOUNDATION — Director Ray Frost, left, and Counselor and Administrator Dale Johnson, right, shoot a game of pool in the game room at the Frost Foundation for Boys, Inc.

money. “Some of these kids have no place to go when they turn 18. A savings account provides buffer for them to fall back on when they leave here,” Ray pointed out. Boys without jobs are given a weekly allowance. Motorcycles; mini-bikes; gocarts; pool and ping-pong tables; pinball; basketball, baseball and volleyball courts; a stereo and a five foot television screen provide entertainment at the home. The boys are given responsibilities also. Each boy is assigned chores and can not participate in recreational activities until he has finished his chores. The Welfare Department provides for the boys’ food, clothing and medical and dental needs, but Ray often uses his own money to take the boys to amusement parks, movies, restaurants and other outings. Foundation counselor Dale Johnson spends time with the boys individually and as a group and helps them with their problems and to maintain a good self-image and attitude. The boys meet collectively twice a week to identify and discuss their own and each other’s problems and to offer mutual help and moral support. Johnson has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a

master’s degree m psychology from Ball State University. He works three and a half days for Frost Foundation as counselor and administrator and three and a half days for Star Commonwealth for Boys, a group home in Ohio.

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Johnson and Frost are pioneering a new approach in dealing with troubled youth called Positive Peer Culture (PPC). This is a totally integrated system for mobilizing the youth subculture in a positive and caring way to resolve the usual behavioral problems that trouble youths. PPC is built on the assumption that the primary resource in the development of young people are the youths themselves. PPC trains the boys to use their leadership potential in a positive way to improve their community, school and personal lives. The youth are taught that they are totally responsible for themselves, and they can't blame all their problems on other people or their environment. The boys are encouraged to “police their own,” and Dale said that, in most cases, peer pressure has proven successful in dealing with behavioral problems. Caring and helping one another is instilled in the boys, and procedures have been developed to transform negative leaders or “trouble makers” into positive leaders. They are helped to see that negative influence is not as effective as positive influence. Johnson said the program has worked very well. “I think it's been super!" he related. He said the boys do a good job of policing each other and cooperating with the program. Like most homes, there are some problems. “We’ve had some problems with drugs

We’ve had some problems with kids staying out late. We've had some problems with kids at school,” explained Johnson. Frost said the drug problem is kept in check by requiring the boys to show receipts for all their purchases. Canoemissing found with equipment A Sea Nymph 17 foot white water canoe was taken from the yard of Harold Kline of North Shore Drive. Syracuse, on August 9. Mrs Brandon, 700 Medusa Street, Syracuse, had foqnd the canoe earlier and Kline claimed it. Property found in the boat that did not belong to Kline were three cushions and a paddle. Accident at Klink's causes S4OO damage An accident occurred at Klink s parking lot when Roger A. Davis r 3 Ligonier, operating a 1964 Plymouth, backed out of a parking space and struck a 1969 Oldsmobile operated by Lyda T. Ketering. 601 South Harrison. Syracuse. Estimated damage to the Ketering car was $350. Damage to the car driven by Davis owned by Rhonda R. Hickman, r 5 box 483 Syracuse, was set at SSO.

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