Thursday, February 13. 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Telephone counseling service assists battered wives
By JAN HYATT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Lawrence women who have had their eyes blackened and their jaws broken in domestic quarrels now have someone to turn to.
A telephone referral service for women involved in fights with their husbands or boyfriends has been established by the Women's Transitional Care Center.
According to Toni Cramer, acting director of the center, professional counselors and trained volunteers help women explore such decisions as whether they should seek reconciliation or whether they should try separation or divorce.
Cramer said Tuesday that the center's sponsor, Lawrence Women United, was working together with the Lawrence branch of the Salvation Army to find a multi-family home for her. She said she would stay for up to five months after the breakup of marriages or relationships.
Counselors at the telephone referral service, which began operation two weeks ago, have become a tool about their legal rights and responsibility to tell them how to find and hire lawyers for divorce proceedings and, if necessary, to help them defend against their assaults. Craner said.
If a woman wants to try reconciliation, the mother supports her and helps her find marriage. If a woman wants to help her find marriage.
THE IDEA of establishing a transitional care center was discussed at Lawrence
Women. United's organizational meeting last July. Cramer said.
She said many of the groups' members knew about incidents of domestic violence in Lawrence. The members decided that an abused woman's most pressing need was to be heard and to be handled with violence while she reassessed her feelings and decided what to do. Cramer said,
A survey of several local social service agencies last fall indicated that about 30 women a month could use the services of a transitional center, Cramer said. However, she said, duplication of requests for assistance could have inflated the number.
Oceo Miller, a director at Penn House,
said that the number of cases of wife-bearing and child-bearing have increased during the past year.
"With most of the families we see, it can be backed back to financial problems." Miller
She said most new cases involved families who became poor last year, when rising costs for food, clothing and fuels caused what were barely sufficient incomes to be enough to pay for the working member of the family, usually the father, had lost his job, she said.
THE TENSION of deciding which bills to pay and which not to pay often leads to payoffs.
"They're just in a panic," Miller said. "In the traditional family, it is devastating to the man's ego to suddenly not be able to feed his family. The man is so ashamed of his
However, Miryam Kay, Lawrence Women United member, said that not all cases of threatened or actual domestic violence in Lawrence occurred in poor families.
failure that he beats the hell out of people
who are seen him at his worst -his wife
and kids."
Kay, a former assistant professor of history, said she knew KU faculty members and wives of faculty members who were victims of violence in their homes.
She also said she had heard of abuse of women in Stouffer Place, a University hospital.
Kala Srup, dean of women, said that she didn't have any students in Stouffer Place, but that she might not know about the cases because women often were reluctant to talk about domestic violence.
KAYSAID she taught a course last spring on Women as Clients at Social Agencies. The research reports by her students indicated that domestic physical violence is frequent and widespread in Lawrence, she said.
Stroup said that transitional centers in other American cities had received requests from women of all classes and genders who needed them, the same probably would be true here.
This dial-the-nes concept is a four-month experiment by the University's language laboratories called Project Innocent. The team will test the lab, and last next week it should be ready for use by anyone with a telephone, Garter said recently. Telephone numbers corresponding to specific foreign news podcasts also will be announced at that time.
Foreign news by phone to debut here next week
Foreign news broadcasts in their original languages should be available next week simply by dialing a telephone number, or by calling the finger, director of the language laboratories.
The foreign news is obtained from a short-wave radio within the language labs, where it is recorded and placed on the special interfacing tane records. Garrard said.
Police records don't accurately reflect the number of incidences, Kay said, because many women don't call the police and most who do won't press charges.
The procedure to hear the newscasts will
involve dialing a chosen telephone number. The impulse that ordinarily rings the phone will instead turn on a tape deck, which will play 5- to 10-minute segments of foreign radio news. The newspapers will be recorded two or three times a week, Garinger said.
So far, he said, the lab had received and recorded news in French from Radio Canada and North Africa, in Spanish from Radio Canada, and English from Radio Havana, Cuba, and in German from Deutche Welle of Germany. Voice of America, which broadcasts in several languages around the world, will be used to standby when often frequencies can't be picked up, he said.
Russian and an oriental language will be required, though receptions can be found. Garrison said,
Kansas law prohibits issuance of a restraining order to keep a husband away from his wife until a suit of separation or divorce has been filed. Kay said.
Until a house is found, the center will continue operating only as a telephone service, Cramer said. Cramer takes calls at her home and refers each client to one of 12 volunteer counselors, all of whom are women.
Some of the volunteers have experienced abuse themselves and are interested in helping others with similar problems, Cramer said.
Kay said the Women's Transitional Care center house would provide a woman a place to stay.
The volunteers recently completed 40 hours of training in crisis intervention, general counseling, rape counseling, first aid training, and the psychology of children under stress.
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The Salvation Army last October offered to share a large house at 94 Rhode Island with the women's center, according to Capt. Miles of the Salvation Army headquarters.
THEY ALSO STUDIED community services and resources and how to use them, legal information concerning women and minors and job-seeing skills.
CRAMER SAID the women's group would begin a fund-raising drive next month to get money to help restore the house on Rhode Island or to rent another facility. The group only paid $200, which came from personal donations and a benefit dinner in December.
However, a city inspector determined that the house needed $10,000 worth of renovations and standardized standards for a multifamily dwelling. That was twice as much as the Salvation Army could afford to spend, and the women's center was so popular. So the women's center was left homeless.
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The house will run on a cooperative basis, with a daily schedule for cooking, cleaning and laundry work for the residents, Cramer said.
Chase said the Salvation Army was considering buying a house next door to its headquarters and would share it free of charge with the women's center. However, he said, that house isn't as large as the one on Rhode island.
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A volunteer or a Salvation Army worker will be at the house at all times, and unidentified telephone callers won't be told who is staying there, she said. Cramer said each woman would decide whether she wanted her husband to know she was there.
applied for a $ 6,000 grant from United
Volunteer Services last fall,
Cramer said.
Both law enforcement departments support the women's conflict and resistance programs.
Cramer also said she would talk to the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County sheriff about special situations where violence from being released at the center.
HOWEVER, THE CENTER didn't receive the grant, which would have gone to pay salaries, Cramer said. However, she said, she isn't pessimistic about the center's chances for survival on a volunteer basis, at least for a few years.
"People are always volunteering," she said. "We're starting a new training session for our volunteers this month. There are enough women who've been through these kinds of situations that I don't foresee any lack of volunteers."
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WOMEN'S SELF-DEFENSE
What's Women's Self-Defense? Oh yeah — that's kicking a gun in the groin.
If that's your conception of Women's Self-Defense then you are living in a fantasy world. A woman must be able to defend herself in a wide variety of situations, and, unlike with a man, her opponent won't start his attack several feet away.
A woman must be able to defend herself from a vicious and armed assailant and also from the unwanted casual pass of someone who was not her victim. She should she wants to discourage. The first situation calls not for a superior strength, but rather for a trained mind and body. The latter situation calls for a knowledge of defensive techniques and methods of unwanted physical advances without being an overreaction.
A Woman's Self-Defense course is geared to all of the above. The class consists of ten sessions each hour, twice a week
Class Number
Class Number
1. Escapes and on counters to frontal choke holds.
2. The bar for funneling.
Escapes from wrist handle. Use the flat notches.
Escapes from rear choke handle. The front kick.
2. Escapes from rear choke holds. The front kick.
3. Escapes from and counter to being held from the
back.
3. Escapes from and counters to attacks and holds from the rear. The back kick.
from the rear, the back kick,
the back kick continued. Spinning hand strikes, Review
4. The back kick continued. Spinning hand strikes. Review
5. How to use an umbrella or short stick as a weapon.
5. How to use an umbrella of Shift stock or a Wahoo
Introduction to the Nunchaku.
6. Defenses when you are on the ground and your opponent is sitting on you, laying on you, standing at your feet, standing to either side or standing by your heart.
7. The roundhouse kick. Defenses from a seated position or in a car. Defends against a knife and gun.
8. Knife and gun defenses continued.
9. Review
10. Miscellaneous
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