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Show I NI E R V IE\v: Cue 11 a r Page 9 do you do it? You seek ways to perpetuate yourself. Most important among the strategies for survival, of course, is the acceptance of your organization by the community. Making sure, relevance, making sure that what you do is helping someone somewhere, making sure that that organization becomes an absolute necessity. And the other one is a constant convincing, the fight with the federal government because, I think the federal government bureaucrats who run this nation know th~t that's the case, they're afraid of it. They always seek ways of not, to not create this type of monster that looks for its own survival, they on purpose try to avoid that. But sometimes they can't get away from it because the community calls for it, because existing agencies that have existed for years and years cannot serve anymore; special groups, special interests, with special needs, so they sort of have to allow for a little of that. That puts them off the hook, that puts a buffer between them and the lower community. So it's us, we become a buffer, we're paying a price and we know it. But I think in the long run it is needed. GC Do you think, do you really think that SER has become something unique aside from say, like what the BIA has become for the Indian? Permanent buffer, but provided services, but never really accomplish its own aim, which was to get rid of itself; or do you see SER becoming a social worker that does not want to solve |
