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38 Prison J. 7 (1958)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl38 and id is 1 raw text is: JUVENILE PROBATION and AFTER-CARE SERVICES JOHN A. RosE, M.D., Director, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic T HERE may be many interpretations possible from the data secured by the National Probation & Parole Association group in the study of the probation picture in Pennsylvania. This commentary is Offered from a clinical as well as a social point of view. Currently, the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness is undertaking, through 13 cooperating medical schools and related institutions, a massive investigation of the origin of cerebral Palsy. The significance of this study is not to be comprehended from Its title alone. Advances in medical care have resulted in the survival of many children with severe congenital and neonatal damage. In Yesterday's era they would have died and thus would have constituted no problem to medical science or society. Today they may survive but at great cost to society. The inability of the severely crippled or handi- calped child to lead a useful and satisfying life results many times in his becoming a burden to himself, his family and his community. This phenomenon has recently been designated human wastage. The project of the cooperating medical institutions has been de- scribed as an attempt to prevent or to salvage this wastage. This is a simple aim. We should be able to change the picture of the child who is wastage to one of a potential contributor to mankind. This study will involve only 500 mothers and their infants a year in each center- Yet the problemn is so formidable that it will involve 20 or 30 Medical and other scientists in each institution. It is an enormous investment of money and time. It is also an ldex to the temper of our time that we can afford, as a society, to tackle the age-old problem of wastage. The survey data gives us the means to tackle a similar problem With respect to juvenile offenders. The current practices and per- otinnel problems indicated in the survey can only result in wastage. It is a different type of wastage but fulfills the definition of burden to self, family and community. . To arrive at this conclusion, one need only to link the current Picture of probation services to the nature of the problem involved. The survey tells us that-(1) Practices and competency vary so greatly in the state as to make it impossible to get a comprehensive Picture of the total human wastage involved; (2) The volume of 7

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