Education programs have been discontinued in the

University Year for ACTION in favor of stressing

technical assistance and development of other servicelearning models. Our judgment and the judgment of our citizen review panel is that the UYA program was

not succeeding primarily because institutions sponsoring UYA programs had inadequate plans to continue the programs after withdrawal of funds and that it failed to attract the participation of low income and minority students. The Youth Challenge Program is being merged with the National Student Volunteer Program to allow it to operate more effectively. Total expenditures in Service Learning programs projected in Fiscal 1979 are $605,000.

We will strengthen ACTION's volunteer program

for Older Americans during Fiscal 1979. This is a major undertaking and one that will require a great deal of my time and that of the staff of those programs. During that period we have asked for funds totalling nearly $58 million for Older American Volunteer Programs which include small increases in the Foster Grandparent Program and the Senior Companion Program and a decrease in funds for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program.

I am concerned that ACTION's largest program

for older volunteers (RSVP) incorporate into

its mission that RSVP volunteers should serve those most in need and more of the volunteers themselves should be drawn from low income and minority groups. These views were shared by our citizen review committees. RSVP should provide new kinds of and new opportunities for service. The decrease in the request for funds for RSVP recognizes that this needed redirection will result in starting new projects and in continuing only those current RSVP programs which are serving those whose needs are greatest and most immediate.

We intend RSVP to become a model program that is run by as well as for older Americans. We intend to work with and provide assistance to our current project sponsors to target on programs designed to meet basic human needs. We must increase our commitment to project sponsors so they will know that resources are available to them for designing and operating

volunteer programs on the basis of their impact within the community. These goals, I believe, best serve the

interests both of volunteers and those with whom they work.

The modest increases requested for Foster Grandparents and Senior Companions reflect our judgment that these two programs are already providng these opportunities and can continue to do so. The continuing emphasis of both the Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion Programs will primarily be to work to keep people out of institutions while simultaneously finding new ways to aid people within institutions.

In these and ACTION's other programs this coming year, we will apply broad common criteria that stem from our desire to meet the basic human needs of

people needs for adquate health, nutrition and skills.

Overall, our budget is designed to strengthen recruitment, selection, training, management and evaluation in order to insure support to staff and volunteers in meeting the awesome challenges that face our people.

When Mary King and I came to ACTION, our goal was to strengthen the Agency's capacity to help people in their efforts to build and rebuild the institutions of community, to bring to bear the enormous talents and energies of willing Americans as we all seek to redeem our promises to our own people.

I believe that we have still a great deal of work to do in that effort and I continue to believe

that it is as valuable as any effort in government.

Sam Brown, 34, former state treasurer of Colorado, was appointed director of ACTION, the federal volunteer service agency, by President Jimmy Carter in February, 1977.

Brown directs the activities of more than 269,000

volunteers serving throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam, and in 64 developing countries abroad. ACTION programs include the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Foster Grandparent Program, Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Companion Program and University Year for ACTION.

Brown, who was elected as Colorado treasurer in 1974, was born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Brown, Sr., still live today.

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