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Back in 2008, when local residents and organizers began planning a teen center, they couldn’t know that as it neared completion in 2013, the $190,000 in funding necessary to run the center and have actual programs might not be available.
When Liz Derias, from Oakland’s Leadership Excellence, led a group of West Oakland youth in the design of a community center for youth and by youth, the mission was clear: to serve and protect youth primarily in West Oakland, regardless of their backgrounds, through personal development, education, job training and the arts.
Ideas came up in 2003 by Nadel after a visit to McClymonds High School. The city had stopped investing in that part of Oakland, and McClymonds’ students started talking about what they wanted in their community.
By the time Derias and West Oakland youth began developing their survey, the focus was right on programs and architectural design. The results of the survey were promising, and opening the center met West Oakland community’s needs. With nearly 80 percent of the 108 surveyed unemployed, job training became the focus of the center’s programs. Computer labs, classrooms, offices, a stage and a kitchen were included in the Building’s design to provide a wide variety of job training possibilities designed for West Oakland’s youth.
They even recommended the church’s former parking lot be converted to a covered seating area because a majority of respondents indicated they would walk or take the bus to the center, making a parking lot unnecessary.
But although construction of the youth center is set for completion this summer, money needed to pay for the programs and the staff, estimated at $190,000 for the first year by a city report, has not been provided.
Now, without public funding, community organizations, including Attitudinal Healing Connection who helped to host the 2009 survey and Hands Helping Hands, continue to search for possibilities that would create a bridge between the youth center, other community organizations and opportunities for education.
Derrick Bulls, executive director of Hands Helping Hands, said, “We’re looking at Laney College’s Gateway to College program as well as combining General Educational Development courses and job training with counseling and support.”
And despite the funding challenge, McElhaney’s office plans to organize a grand opening ceremony if and when funding is available.
“We’re excited to have a new building that has exciting service for youth,” she said. “But it will go unfinished as long as program funding is unavailable.”
With the final vote on the city’s budget set for the end of June, public funding for the center is still possible, but not likely due to limited resources and a number of funding requests, leaving open the possibility of a beautiful but empty youth center waiting for funds.
Yet regardless of the uncertainty of the youth center’s future, former councilwoman Nadel is still holding out hope that the center’s mission will complete. She said, “It’s a problem of the way our society doesn’t fund things properly. The city hasn’t made a mistake. The city has found a need and gone little by little to meet that need, but that doesn’t mean money can’t be obtained.”
1. The teenagers in the West Oakland youth center will .
A. be treated equally B. make great efforts
C. donate more money
D. try to get more support
2. The idea of setting up a youth center first received great support from .
A. McClymonds High School
B. Oakland’s local government
C. West Oakland community
D. Oakland’s Leadership Excellence
3. It can be inferred that Oakland’s youth center may probably fight a way out by .
A. seeking support from the government
B. purchasing more land from church
C. organizing an opening ceremony
D. strengthening outer cooperation
4. The underlined word “converted” in Paragraph 5 can be best replaced by “ ”.
A. moved B. changed
C. compared D. supplied
5. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Youth Center — Exciting Service for Youth
B. A Funding Challenge for Youth Center
C. Youth Center’s Mission Is Falling
D. A Great Relief to Youth Center
【回答】
ACDBB
知识点：*经济文化类阅读
题型：阅读理解
