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Friday, November 9, 1979
Stopping child abuse goal of Parent Aide
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Ita's a tough job to a parent, especially for those who abuse their children. Ms. Presley, a social worker in the department of child psychology at the University of Kansas, is one of them.
Presley is the founder and coordinator of the Parent Aide Program, a moral support project for abusive parents.
Presley's role in the program is training volunteers to counsel abusive parents in the Kansas City area.
"in the program we match volunteers with parents who are abusers or potential perpetrators of abuse, and with the parents and try to improve the parent's isolation or feelings of low self-esteem."
"We are not saying that abusive parents do not love their children, but that they are overwhelmed by frustrations in their lives and by their children."
Established in 1975, the program has helped 32 families who have had problems with child abuse, she said. It is funded by the United Way Fund and contributions from the UWay Fund.
THE PROGRAM HAS four active volunteers. Eight volunteers are enrolled in a 30-hour training session that Presbyterian Mental Health Center in Kansas City, Kan.
For two weeks, volunteers are informed
on the causes behind child abuse, what they can expect while working with abusive parents and how to handle them. Training sessions are held twice a year.
Presley developed the training program, which is now used nationwide and in Canada.
Parents from Johnson and Waydoteade through social agencies. Parent Ade accepts no court cases, Presley said, because the program does not have enough volunteers.
"MOST SITUATIONS WE deal with stem to multiple problem families, which means there are many realistic problems in the peoples' lives other than just parenting."
"Most of the parents we work with were abused themselves, and they do not have the skills that allow them to cope in stressful situations. A good way to act to turn people into instant superparents."
Presley said that many of the volunteers spent about 10 hours a week with the parents they were assigned to. Counseling continues for several months, she said.
The program is having a hard time getting volunteers, she said, because many women volunteers are going back to work.
"We're considering going to a night training session for people who work during the day. Hopefully, we will be able to get more volunteers that way."
The Lawrence branch of the In-
stitute has last night set Dec. 2 as the date for a second picket protest against alleged
membership policies at a dance club.
InCAR to picket disco
By JUDY WOODBURN Staff Renorter
Gracie Moreno, Kansas City, Kan.
member of INCAR, said the protest
outside Shenanigans, 901 Illinois St,
Iowa. The group also held a
an INCar march held on Oct. 20.
At the October demonstration, a multiractual group of marchers carried signs and shouted anti-races slogans for more than an hour.
John Sheppard, manager of Shenanigans, said he was not overly concerned about the proposed rally.
"I'm not going to lose any sleep over it this time," he said.
InCAR member Ron Kuby said the group also was co-founded with some American students" that have been displayed toward Indian students since the recent announcement of a new program.
"We plan to distribute a leaflet next week saying that although INCAR appoints himini regime and opposes U.S. aid, it is fighting racism. So it is criminal for American students to beat up Iranians because their skin is brown," he said.
Kuby said the Lawrence INCAR group would apply for registration as a student organization by the Office of Student Organizations and Activities and the Student Senate. Recognition would make it possible to receive Student Senate funding.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The Mid-America Cancer Center Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded 900 to purchase two cancer research institutes.
Med Center to use grant
The donation will be used to purchase an X-ray analytical system and a backscattered electron detector. The instruments will identify metals within human cancer cells.
The money was donated by the John W. Hathaway foundation set up to support area institutions concerned with medical research, James Ericson, special assistant to the director of the foundation.
Certain metals are present in small quantities in normal cells and are essential ingredients to metabolism, said A.L. Frost, a professor of Electron Microscopy Research Laborator
University Daily Kansan
Senate committee stalls on final allocation bids
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, after two hours of discussion last night, was no longer to completing its final budget. There were allocations to Revenue Code-funded groups.
The committee will reconvene Sunday night to discuss requests from the two groups left, KU Bands and Recreation Services.
KU Bands is requesting an increase in its block allocation from $10,962 to $28,813. The Recreation Services' request will increase its allocation from $4,950,50 to $15,791.
Each organization in the Senate Revenue Code receives a line allocation that is a certain portion of each student's $11.10
the committee voted to recommend $410.40 in supplementary funding to the KU Anthropology Club.
activity fee. The line allocation multiplied by 36,630, the full-time equivalency rate, determines a group's block allocation.
A supplementary funding request for $800 from Women in Law was tabbed by representatives of the organization, most of the funds would be used toward sponsoring a program.
However, it was noted at the meeting that at last year's national conference in San Antonio, Texas, a $1,300 debt was incurred by the sponsors.
Oil slick heads for beach
GALVESTON, Texas (AP)—A menacing, four-mile oil slick from the burning tanker Burmach Agate was a mile of the Texas beach, yesterday, edging slowly toward the beach.
Coast Guard LT. Gabe Kinney, a veteran of the ltx01 Ipsill—the world's largest—said the oil reportedly was a "heavy concentration."
And, he said, "It looks like it's heading for the beach."
by breezes from the north, but the winds shifted inland Wednesday.
The Liberian-registered tank has been burdened and burning oil since it collided with the Ukrainian tank. Three men were thought to have been killed in the crash, but only 14 bodies have been identified.
Most of the oil leaking from the grounded Burmah Axate had been shoved out to sea
A Dutch firefighting team is trying to extinguish the fire aboard the tanker, which is grounded in about 40 feet of water about five miles from this port.
Occasional explosions aboard the tanker have stymied the firefighters' efforts.
THE SOUTHPLAZA CHIROPRACTIC CENTER WELCOMES KU STUDENTS & FACULTY.
For spinal related conditions feel free to contact:
DR. WILLIAM A. MILLER
Member
Kansas Chiroptic Association
Kansas Council on Rheumatology
Kansas Council on Orthopedics
Parker Chiroptic Research Foundation
2032 West 27th St..
Lawrence, KS
Phone: 842-4114
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POETS & WRITERS SERIES
presents
WILLIAM KLOEFKORN
FOR MY WIFE'S FATHER
More and more my wife's father sleeps in his chair,
as if practicing.
But I am not deceived.
I have seen him
at the muting of a single word
revive,
his osseous hands toss off
their fitful tics.
I have watched his eyes
return from the water's edge,
become sharp as spoons.
Those who catch him in his chair,
at sleep, should not be deceived.
He is not practicing.
He is at the water's edge,
listening to the sucking of the carp,
and with them gathering.
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