University Daily Kansan, October 27,1982
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Shelter to help children exposed to family strife
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
Confusion and fear can overwhelm a child who witnesses domestic violence, or abuse.
To help those children, Women's Transitional Care Services has started a training program for advocates to counteract the effects of violence on children who are brought to the shelter, a bridge, WTCS director, said yesterday.
"It was formed because we have around 140 children come to the house each year," McCambridge said. "These children need to have ways to process their feelings and start to feel better about themselves."
The training began Oct. 14 and will continue until Nov. 7, said Beth Gorney, a WTCS advocate who organized the program.
"The program is designed so every child in the shelter will have one advocate," Gorney said. "Children who come out of domestic violence situations are in crisis themselves. We want to make them feel special."
DANIEL HARKNESS, a counselor at the Bert Nash Mental Health Center, said children who watched and heard violent arguments at home usually became hypersensitive to any expressions of anger.
1 The children either will become more aggressive and hit, bite, gouge and threaten other people frequently, or they will shrink from any kind of acknowledement of their own aggressive feelings. Harkness said.
"Some children attempt to deflect anger between their parents and draw it on themselves," Harkness said. "In general, wherever domestic violence is present, a woman's response does will be of relatively small consequence unless they're quite magical."
The youth advocates at WTCS hope to be instrumental in breaking the cycle of abuse that is the legacy of children who grow up in violent homes, McCambridge said. Many of the children who come to the shelter with their mothers are victims of abuse themselves, she said.
The chance of child abuse is 129
percent higher in homes where there is spouse abuse than in homes without it.
"A lot of times women will only come to school when violence is directed at a child."
The advocates will be friends to the children, not counselors. Gorney said.
The yard of the shelter has been fenced in and the garage is available
ALTHOUGH MEN have never been allowed to work with WTCS before, two of the 13 people in training as child advocates are male. They will not be allowed in the shelter, but can meet the children on the house premises, Gormey said.
Advocates will spend a minimum of four to six hours each week with the children, with the mother's permission, Gorney said.
"It will be a person the child can feel safe with, and share feelings with if they want," Gorney said. "It won't be to imply the kid to discuss feelings."
The child advocacy program is the only one of its kind in the state, Gorney said. She and Laura Stevenson, WTCS advocate, developed it for six months before training began. They got information about similar programs from five other shelters throughout the country.
MCCAMBRIDGE SAID she was suprised by the number of people who volunteered to be child advocates. More than 40 people volunteered, and 13 were selected to go through the training process. When WTCS seeks advocates for the women in the house, they have a smaller volunteer turnout, she said.
"I think people feel less threatened by children in crisis than by women in crisis," McCambridge said. "People don't feel threatened if they don't feel as challenged by children."
The selected volunteers were chosen because they had experience with children and a social awareness about domestic violence. Gormey said.
"We wanted people who understood why domestic violence occurs," Gorney said. "It's because of a misuse of power in a relationship. They had to understand the dynamics of the situation."
Man sentenced for stabbings
A Lawrence man has been sentenced to 10 months in the Douglas County Jail for his involvement in the Aug. 25 stabbing of two other Lawrence men.
I Fred "Doc" Wauge was sentenced Monday by District Court Judge Mike Malone for two counts of misdemeanor battery, Wauge's charge had been amended from two counts of aggravated battery.
| Aggravated battery is a class C felony carrying a maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years. Misdemeanor battery
is a class B misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of six months.
Wauge was sentenced for the stabbing of Don Bay and Pat Wiles, both of Lawrence. Bay underwent surgery after he was stabbed in the upper arm.
Wauge underwent surgery for a punctured lung he received during the
Malone sentenced Wauge to five months for each count of misdemeanor battery.
On the record
BURGLARST STOLE $1,600 worth of handcrafted leather bell buckles Mon
THEIEVS STOLE A 1971 van worth $1,800 about 8:20 p.m. Monday near the corner of Fourth and Wisconsin streets, Lawrence police said yesterday The
BURGLARS STOLE $1,280 worth of items Sunday night from a house in the 1800 block of Learnard Avenue, police said. Among the stolen items were two handguns, two men's watches and cash from the house.
day night from Frontier Designs, 844 E. 13th L., police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $600 worth of construction equipment during the weekend from the Kansas Construction Company, 201. Perry St.
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