Children Can't Wait

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Children Can't Wait with host Robert Coffman kept New Yorkers informed of the services which are provided to more than 28,000 dependent, neglected, and abused children in need of care outside of their home and to give services to families and children in their home. 

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Downstate Medical Center

Robert Coffman interviews Arlene Hurwitz and Gail Madurey [sp?] of the School of Nursing at the Downstate Medical Center and Ernie Powers of the Brooklyn Family Center.
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Epilepsy Foundation

Robert Coffman interviews Betty S. Hedgeman and Reina Berner of the Epilepsy Foundation, as well as writer James Gilbert, who has epilepsy.
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Project Return: The Human Side of Drug Addiction

Robert Coffman interviews Joseph Morana and Charles Cook from Project Return's Youth Services, as well as Karen and Bobby from the Adolescent Coliseum.
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Child Abuse Volunteers

Robert Coffman interviews Nancy Fisher of the Suspected Chilad Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) program, along with a beneficiary of the program.
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Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a family problem.
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Drug Addiction

Robert Coffman interviews father Daniel Egan, the "junkie priest," along with two guests of New Hope Manor drug rehabilitation.
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