European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The staffs Anc stripes August on loan loan closets Sill Are an important part of army Community service contribution to military Carol Krem checks dish fare in Mannheim As Grey Walsh checks Ibe hems Oil on an inventory ill photo by Jim Cole  staff writer army Community service is striving to become a social services Agency rather than just a loan want acs to become us byword for people with we want to be Alt Emblem of service of people who said Samuel usar eur acs officer and Holder of a masters degree in social we want get away from the idea that we Are just a pots and Pom place and help poop when that  been in acs Silica Laid the service has made tremendous inroads towards becoming More social services Agency Tate last acs is becoming More involved in counselling particularly in budget consumer Domestic crisis intervention and child and we Are getting More qualified people with background sin social work into Duggons pointed we still have a Long Way to but the Mure looks expertise he said that v Vii corps and the 21st support come acs offices Are All directed by army officers with masters de Drees in social three of our Community offices Are staffed by army of Nabach and Baumhauer have professional social work officers directing their acs we a asking for civilian hire positions for Community acs office coordinators who have degrees in social work or an equivalent Duggons sex particularly in needs to become More involved nth the Siddal welfare of the army Dua Girs the army people can receive help from county and state to Europe there i no place for plugging said that acs has some paid civilian staff members working in Community offices and of our volunteers Are qualified Vilh social welfare we train volunteers to be Able to provide Duggons said the army has a behavioural science career held and Many of the enlisted people in the held Are also qualified to do some counselling and Hie thing we Are trying to do to show people that there if some place the can go when they have a Duggins no matter wha the people should come to we Arent going to be Able to solve All Ibe nor will we have All the but we can refer a ranks of helpers grow 33 per cent acs volunteers get As they give the army is placing increased emphasis on it is increasing services provided by its army Community centers throughout acs centers have mane Money than they dreamed they would Ana with that Money they arc becoming More efficient and providing More services than Ever acs staff Era How Bright a future acs can help Mem Bers of the military Community look for Ward to depends in Large part on acs during the past year we have Learned More about our said Joe v corps chief of Community of we Are taking new approaches to Volunteer help and understanding More what it Means to them rather than just for volunteers Are probably us most important part of our he and we were losing them in big numbers a Louie Over a year in v corps at to Are up by 33 Samuel Usa eur acs said there Are about Volun Teers working in uie 70 usar Euit acs the Volunteer program is changing in Wilson we Are More aware of the fact that volunteers who come to help us want to enhance themselves As Well As our we Are trying to find ways to offer them jobs that jul be beneficial to them As Well As to he said acs officers Are trying to offer volunteers basically we Are realizing we dont get something for Noth its a something for something we Are trying to tailor the jobs to their needs and desires As Well As other forms of inducement include re wards for hours in v volunteers receive uniforms and letters of appreciation based on the number of hours they after v corps volunteers receive a Silver tray and a letter from us a sergeant Earl administrative supervisor for v corps Community of added that v corps held a three Day seminar last january and tries to hold quarterly basically we offer raining programs so that the volunteers will be Able to letter unction in their he apparently the efforts Are paying in where acs director Jan Martin said the doors were about to dose a year ago because of u Lack of there Are now an estimated 40 people volunteering at the acs most of them dont come in every Day and Martin but we have a in of people working with bad Hersfeldt Volunteer program has grown from four or five volunteers two years ago to about i think we Are get Ting More enthusiastic people in our pro Gram because the program is More Loman a Volunteer like Joe Ybarra is a we Bird in said first of we dont get Many men involved in acs and As far As we Joe is the Only mate supervisor of volunteers in usar he and Ybarra i a a private Busi Nessman outside of the military commune j used to do some financial counselling when 1 was in the said when i found out theaus centers la Europe were doing budget by timing volunteered to one thins led to another and after a while i was asked to be the Volunteer i still a some coun it eau Sutherland also is a Volunteer worker at bad hers Eli 1 started about five months i needed some help when we first gut Here and borrowed some things from the loan closet i was talking to the Coic John Meerut and he Stafij the acs needed More its really get Ting better Al the they asked me what i wanted to said Betty also of bad and 1 am doing a Little of it is and i think the reason More volunteers Are coming into acs is because there is More Vou feel like you can really do mainly because we Are doing More often that will be our appropriated Lurdi to outline die services acs can appropriated finds an being authorised and used More and More in acs opera but still there is much that depends on command dug Gina that emphasis was highlighted in Ary of this year when former v corps com Mander Doon starry sent a Tetter to commanders in the nine v corps emphasizing  of the acs he listed five Central goals and objectives Tor the acs program within v they included Quali fied staffing of the ii acs centers in the corps pedal item services to meet the unique needs of each Community an effective Volunteer service program centrally functional and Welt supplied centers and a fully integrated and responsive program of Community Stet not Joe chief of v corps Community said the result is hat unters have increased 33 percent to about the Profe orinal staffing now eight social which Only one is military u enlisted persons in four behavioural science specialists and seven civilian last year Only one social worker was in the v corps acs weve come a Long Way in eight Wilson we Are expecting two More soda workers in the near which will mean we will Hare one qualified social worker or other behavioural specialist with a masters degree at every one of our communities Rugato said not acs centers in u5aheuh a the picture be wants to paint Many ire Lack Volun Teers and Are not Able to provide he new regulations have Cork out and More new ones Are coming out that will a bring up the Stan Darda of Many of the Wilson said acs centers in v corps Are included in newcomers and volunteers give orientation briefings to we Uke to think that we Are in the Busi Ness of prevent Auve we want to help the person before his pro tens Are too great and become a Wilson we can do this through our information pamphlets that help a person become quaint to will Ibe Community and Bis for eign environment just lending household necessities to new families is helpful it eases some of the discomfort a person feels coming Sato a new environment Wilson said the loan closet is greatly improved at acs instead of getting donated pots and pans and old we an now Aith Orizada to Purchase these continued m cat i