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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 6. 1992
Students counsel abused women at center
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Curiosity got Laura Leonard interested in working with battered women in Lawrence.
Seeing some of her friends in desperate, threatening situations, Leonard wondered what was being done in the community for battered women.
"I saw that there was a need in the community and thought it was not being met," said Leonard, Lawrence graduate student.
Then she saw a flier for Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services and realized that people were addressing the issue of battery.
"I went into training curious, and I been at WTCS ever since," she said.
That was in January 1991.
Today, Leonard is one of about 25 KU students volunteering at WTCS, a battered women's and children's shelter in Lawrence.
Laura Farha, community facilitator, said that about 12 KU students were training to be shelter volunteers
She said students trained three days a week for about three weeks. After that, Farha said, each volunteer will do three on-the-job training sessions before beginning work at the shelter.
The initial training includes a series of workshops that cover topics range from
to the effects of domestic violence on children, Farha said.
"By around the first week of March, we hope to have a bunch of new, energetic volunteers," she said.
Farha said the students who volunteered would work as women's or children's advocates. She said that about two-thirds of the trainees would be women's advocates and the other third children's.
Female advocates work with women and children within the shelter, but male advocates, who are not trained to administer medicine outside the shelter, she said.
Farha said that advocates also ran the children's support group but that only formerly battered women could run the women's support group.
Shonna Terry, Gallatin, Mo., junior, who has worked as a women's advocate since her training in November, said her work involved answering calls on the crisis hotline, counseling women and getting them out of their homes and into the shelter.
She said she worked four to eight
workdays. Each volunteer must
work at least 10 hours.
"You get more out of volunteering than you put in." Terry said. "But it's trying when women go back and do things you wouldn't advise. Still, there are more positive experiences than negative ones."
Although one becomes emotionally
About domestic abuse
Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services offers the following services.
Shelter
- A safe residence for women in transition, particularly for battered and abused women and their children
- A supportive atmosphere where residents may make informed decisions and positive changes in their lives
- Practical assistance with housing, employment, welfare, emergency clothing, food and parenting skills
The Shelter House has a 30 day limit on Emergency Housing
24 hour crisis line----841-6887
- Crisis intervention for victims of violence in the home
- Information about woman battering
- Emotional support for women experiencing distress due to violence in the
- Emotional support for women experiencing distress due to violence in the home, divorce or separation, bereavement or other serious lifestyle changes
- Peer support for women and their dependent children who are from battered
Peer support advocacy
- One-to-one advocacy for resident women and children
involved in volunteering, Terry said, it is sometimes difficult to identify personally with the battered women.
- Women-in-transition weekly support group
Terry said she thought more students would do volunteer work if they knew the good they could do.
"Some cases are so extreme," she said. "From training, I can relate, but I'm still not a battered woman."
"It is hard to take the first step," she said. "Most students don't think they have the time, but once they started learning benefits, they would make time."
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