Volunteerism is undergoing change

By EDIE AUSTIN

“There is now a greater diversity in both the kinds of people who become volunteers and ‘the type of work being done,” Sandra Wilking, director of. the Vancouver-based Voluntary Action Resource Centre sald in a recent in- terview with The Daily News.

In the past, she sald, volun- teers were mainly ‘‘do-gooder” members of service organizations, often housewives

with spare time and altruistic ,

mativations. Now volunteers are frequently young, single

parents, retired people, or male (according to Ms. Wilking about 40 per cent of Canadian males are involved in volunteer work).

Motivations are changlng too. Today's volunteers are working for thelr own benefit as often as out of altruism, Ms. Wilking said. A volunteer posilion is often used to gain job ex- perience, ar to try out a job possibility; il is a way of enriching one’s own life, she said, as well as samebody else's.

In addition to traditional service organizations, there are now increasing sumbers of volunteer groups concerned with specific issues such as the environment or the problems of the handicapped. Ms. Wiking San

Volunteers are sometimes used to train other volunteers said Ms, Wilking, citing two

examples. Several concerned citizens in Penticton have set up

workshops involving about sixty people to train them as volunteers for work with senior cltizens in hospitals and homes, she said,

And in Victoria professors fmm the community college were seconded to the Victoria Volunteer Bureau to teach skills to other volunteers.

Volunteers are increasingly standing up for their rights, said Ms. Wiking. “They feel they should have a say in how the organization is run, and that’s treading on a lot of people’s toes,” she said.

When asked whether any problems arose between volunieers and pald staff, Ms. Wilking replied “Volunteers are to enrich a program and provide an extra service, not to Teplace paid staff. And the Canadian Committee on Valuntecrism, a national cummiliee composed of regional representatives, has taken the pusition that yolun- teers should not work during a strike by paid employees.”

While some organizations are predominantly staffed by volunteers, no organization can uperate entirely on a volunteer basis if it is tolast for more than twa years, Ms. Wilking said. “Volunteerism does require administrative supervision, there is a need for continuity and co-ordination.”

Ms, Wilking is not herself a volunteer. Sheis a paid member of the Voluntary Action Resources Centre (VARC), a department of the Volunteer Bureau of Greater Vancouver.

VARC operates throughout B.C, acting as a resource on volunteeriam, and serving as a means of communication between volunteer groups. It also has a library in Vancouver, with 1,300 items on volun-

leerism and related subjects, ~

and publishes a newsletter for

organizations and interested -

individuals.

Among those Ms. Wilking spoke with during her recent visil to Prince Rupet was M.J. Patterson, curator of the Museum of Northern ‘B.C. Together they drew up guidelines and discussed plang for a new volunteer pragram at the museum.

Ms. Patterson told The Daily - News she would like to set up a volunteer program at the museum as help will be needed with school classes in the fall. However, Museum Board ap- proval is necessary hefore anything definite can be arranged, she said.

Two other area organizations are also in need of volunteers.

“We never turn any valun- teers away,” said Dick St, Louis, Recreation Supervisor at the Sports Centre. In winter, volunteers are used extensively in teaching sports, crafts, boxing, fencing, karate, ar- chery, and as basketball referees, he said.

“We haven't been able to recruit. volunteers,’’ Ed Kempling of Friendship House told The Daily News. “We need people with skills and patlence to work with youth,” he added.

Criminals should compensate |

OTTAWA (CP) — The con- cept that a law offender should directly pay the victim for the damage or loss he or she causes

shuuld becume a basie principle in criminal iaw, the Law .

Referm Commission said in a working paper Wednesday.

And, says the commission, compensalion irom the govern- ment fur damage or loss to a victim uf crime should only ex- isi as a supplement lo restitu- tion, in cases where the offender cannol be found or cannot pay.

“Restitution and com- pensation have been chosen for early consideration because they represent means of direct- ing more allention to the victim of crime, stressing the responsi- bility of the offender and the state tu make up for the harm done lu the greatest possible ex- tent," the cornmission Says.

The working paper is a basis for future, final recommenda- lions which will be made to the government for a policy un sen- tencing and dispositions.

FINE ONLY SOMETIMES

Under the cummission’s pro- pusal, courts could still impose fines for crimes, and restitulion would be considered a separate matler, In some cases only fines would be imposed because some crimes, such aS a parking of- fence, have na specific victim as they are public orders.

Restitution, described by the cummission as personal, could take the form of money, an apology or work aimed al re- sturing the victim's “financial physical or psychological loss.”

Under current law, there are several rarely-used provisions for ordering restitution. and even the mast widely-used pro- vision, ordering restitution as a condition of probation, is prac- tically. ignored.

Between 1967 and 1972, resti- tution was ordered for only six of 4,294 convicted appearances in court, the commission says. However, restilution is some- (imes not on record as it can be used unofficially on adjourn- ment before the offender is sen-

renced. research paper accom:

nyi the working paper, Protestor Allen Linden of York University says prison author- ities, judges and Crown lawyers all play down the potential role of restitution in criminal jus- lice,

He says it is the defence cutinsel who should be really concerned with restitution be- cause "it Is in the interest of the offender lo demonstrate to the court that he has repented and that he: wishes to’ make amends."

AFFECT SENTENCE:

“If he repays the money or property taken or If he pays damages lo his victim, his sen- {ence will probably be re-

duced.”

On the olher hand, if a person

convicted of fraud has a choice between paying back the $50,000 he embezzled or spending an extra yéar in jail, it is not likely the defence would raise the fatter of restitution.

d seldom do the cowts whieh is why the commission

-says restitution should become

a basic principle.

It recommends that consider- ation of a claim for damages or loss be made under the “more relaxed rules of procedure” at the stage where an offender is being sentenced rather than during the criminal proceed: ings. If assessment of the amount of loss is complicated or time-consuming the judge could let the court clerk or ad- ministrator doit. -

Or, existing provincial crime compensation boards could make the assessment, but the commission prefers to link restitution with sentencing which requires the control cf the court.

SAYS MANY CAN PAY

However, claims for personal injury and property loss cov- ered by such measures as in- surance, averaged about $300 in Ontario in 1966 and in Van- couver in 1973. The average

The commission says that while mony offenders are poor, most of them could affordto pay for their crimes, the most frequent crimes after traffic of- fences being assault and theft.

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Toronto police records in- dicate the average value of sto- len goods in 27 per cent of their cases is $25, in 36 per cent be- tween $26 and $100. — ' award In Ontario between 1969- 1971 through the Criminal In- juries Compensation Board was $1,900.

One major problem in order- ing criminal. restitution is unemployment in prisons, the commission adds.

No more than 20 per cent of prisoners in federal institutions work at industrial-type jobs and only recently were they granted minimum wage to replace the $3 to $4 weekly wage they were getting.

“Until imprisonment is

recognized as a deprivation of liberty, and not necessarily a deprivation of the opportunity lo work al a reasonable wage, restitution al the institutional level will remain impossible.”

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