tension/stress syndromes, confusion and ambivalence (self-identify crises, role
dysfunction and identification crises for adolescents and adultd); and fear of

the unknown and of the future.
Current Service Programs Established to Meet Changing Needs and §ocial Problems

In an attempt to meet the needs of the Marshallese peoplP, a number of
service agencies and programs are sponsored by the Governemnts
Islands

and

the

United

States,

church

groups

and

church

@f the Marshall
Iq@aders,

outside

professionals and consultants, and local volunteers in special p
The Department of Social Services has five divisions of se vices that are
available, to one degree or another, to all of the Marshall

lands.

These

divisions include:

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1) Food Services Division which provides

programs for 88 schools throughout the Islands; and the Needy Fami y Distribution
Program which hires clerical persons, cooks, and a nutritionist
families with low (or, no) income.

2) Housing Services provid

cost housing and assistance with house construction.

This servicq

or services to
funds for low
also maintains

Grant-in-Aid financial assistance programs for the outer islands fand a Community
Development Disaster fund.

3)

People Division which

serves

fenior Citizens

through Community Center activities (exercise classes, employment counseling,
socialization groups, health classes, and group meetings to

Ip the Elders

preserve traditional customs such as local navigation, building

danoes, fishing,

story telling, local foods and folk medicines, and handicrafts)k

has offered nutrition programs (feeding of the Elders) in the

This program

gast.

4) Adult

Service Division sponsors 117 women's educational groups throughqut the Islands.
Flying Workshops and Ship Workshops, in an outreach project for

all isladns, use

volunteer and women's groups to present educational group sessiogs on parenting,
budgeting, nutrition (for balanced meals), First Aid, leadershig
life, and family planning, etc.

skills, family

5) Youth Services Division spons@rs programs for

recreation and sports with the assistance of several Peace Cbrp volunteers,
handicradft classes, music groups, Youth Conservation Corp, Boy [Scouts and Girl

Scouts organizations, and dances for the teenagers and young addlts.
The Department of Social Services also sponsors a local r

io program for

information and educational purposes.

Church leaders and congregations have developed volunteer-qriented service
projects for a limited number of Marshallese of all
projects

(they feed people;

recreational

activities;

age grogps.

Nutrition

these are not specifically “how] to"

sessions),

programs

that

resemble

Alcohol—cs

(Kwajalein) and amen's group called F.A.I.M. (Fighting Alcohol If

Anonoymous

the Marshalls)

on Majuro, and Alanon (Ebeye), socialization and educational grofps, handicrafts

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