University Daily Kansan, October 9, 1981
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Agencies unite to fight budget cut effects
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
Lawrence social service agencies must organize to fight President Reagan's budget cuts and their effects on disadvantaged people, members of the Lawrence Interagency Council said yesterday.
"We need to do as much as we can to have a streamlined and swele a service organization as we can," said Patty Doria, director of Women's Service Center who led yesterday's meeting in the Lawrence Public Library.
THE INTERAGENCY Council was formed last May. It is made up of several social agencies, including the East Central Kansas Community Activity Center and the Transitional Services, Independents Inc., Project Awareness and others.
The council does not have an organized structure yet, but it is working on getting together with the councilors to give direction to the councilors.
"We need to come up with a purpose, bylaws and directives so that we can have a real thrust for the council to get things accomplished," Doria said.
Doria and Mona McCoy, director of Independence Inc., an agency that helps disabled people, meet Tuesday with Mayor Marci Francisco to find a place for the council in city government, Doria said.
"Marci was very supportive of the idea," Doria said. "She was talking about having someone to head the council by the first of the year."
DORIA AND MCOY tentatively scheduled a study session with representatives of the Interagency and the commission members November 15.
"We'll give them ideas of what we need and what we want." Dori said.
However, the council needs to outline its goals before the study session and has scheduled a workshop for council members Oct. 30.
"We'll get together a workshop of "Interagency Council members for a long hard day to design a purpose, laws and a constitution," Doria said.
BUT SOME MEMBERS said that because the council represented so many different organizations, it might be difficult to find a single purpose.
"We need to find out who we are personally and as different agencies," said Dutton, director of Project Assist, a mental patient support group, said.
"We need to begin to know each other, out of which will come an understanding of our relationship," Dutton said.
The main problem with the lack of structure in the council is the issues it wants to work on are happening right now, members said.
Tim Lewis, coordinator of the East Central Kansas Community Action Program, a group that channels local funds to charities in Douglas County, and staff members at the office in tears. These things are happening now, and two weeks is too long."
McCOY SAID that the changes in Social Security guidelines for the disabled had caused problems in her office also.
"Social Security is evaluating and redefining disabilities," McCoy said.
Four people under her agency who are receiving Social Security are no longer under the jurisdiction.
"Which in effect is saying these people aren't disabled anymore," she said.
Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., will speak on U.S.-Soviet arms control in a keynote address for the Second Annual Conference on Relations at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Kassebaum to discuss U.S.-Soviet arms race
Internationally known experts on U.S.-Soviet relations from the University of Kansas, Harvard University, the Brookings Institute or International Communication Agency will speak at the conference.
After Kassebaum's address, conference sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday and end at 4 p.m.
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Speakers at the conference, which is open to anyone interested in international affairs, will be Helmut
Sonnenfeld, foreign policy expert and guest scholar at the Brookings Institute; Adam Ulam, Gurney Professor of history and political science and director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard; Gregory Guroff, chief for Soviet and East European research for the French communication Agency; and faculty from the KU Center for Soviet and East European Studies and the department of Slavic languages and literature.
The conference fee is $25 a person, and it includes all materials, refreshments and meals. KU students and students receive special rates.
Those who want more information may contact Marilyn Long, program manager, at 864-3284.
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