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Interested in helping serve the Cleveland Gay Community? The Gay Hotline needs volunteers to help staff the operation. Training for new volunteers consists of four classes, an interview, and on-the-job training with a senior volunteer. If you can help in this important and worthwhile work, please call the Gay Hotline, 621-3380, and leave your name and phone number. One of the Hotline Coordinators will get in touch with you.

The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center needs dedicated volunteers to be hotline counselors, hospital advocates and legal advocates. Training sessions are September 15, 17, 22, 24 and 29 and October 1, 1981 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 3201 Euclid Avenue. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory. Call Marie Hasek at 391-3914 for more information and to register.

Cleveland Women's Choir. Anyone interested in singing feminist music, drop in at 3178 Meadowbrook on Thursday evenings, 7:30, or call Penny at 932-3326.

Cleveland Women's Counsel (CWC) will hold a membership meeting on Tuesday. September 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland HeightsUniversity Heights Library, 2345 Lee Road. The meeting, which is open to the public, will feature a presentation on "Divorce Awards and Outcomes: A Study of Pattern and Change in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1965-1978," a landmark study conducted by the Federation for Community Planning for CWC. The presenters are Cinthia Schuman, Executive Director of CWC, and Joe Davis, Director of Research at the Federation for Community Planning. The Board of Trustees and staff will give a history of CWC and discuss current projects and upcoming events. CWC is a research and advocacy organization dealing with divorce and its legal and economic consequences. The organization distributes materials which include a "do-it-yourself" Dissolution of Marriage Kit, and "Getting Out," a handbook with information for those considering divorce or dissolution. The organization also sponsors workshops on the economic and legal aspects of divorce.

For further information, call 321-8587.

DIGNITY, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meetings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU, the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456.

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Displaced Homemakers (women who have lost the support they were dependent upon) can get help through the Displaced Homemakers Program at all campuses of Cuyahoga Community College. The program offers services to help women become "bb ready" and self-supporting. No fees are charged. To be eligible, a woman must have worked without pay as a homemaker for her family, not been gainfully employed, and be at least 35 years old. Courses include how to find and keep a job, interviewing, community resources, and budgeting. Call the campus nearest you: Metro, 241-5966; Western, 845-4000, Ext. 250, or Eastern, 464-1450, Ext. 275.

Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (EFCO) can provide professionals from all areas to speak to your group or organization on the subject of abortion. EFCO also provides research assistance to students and professionals on reproductive issues. To arrange a speaker, contact EFCO, 439 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, or phone (216) 621-8224.

Feminist Writers Guild meets the second Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Heights Public Library, 2345 Lee Road, or you may contact Pat at 791-0311 (eves) or Jan at 475-0075 (eves).

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The Free Clinic is offering individual and group counseling for victims of incest on Tuesday evenings between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. To make an appointment, call 721-4010 and say you want an appointment with Cynthia Griggins. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic, 12201 Euclid Avenue.

Parents of members of the Gay Educational Awareness Resources (GEAR) Foundation have formed a chapter of Parents of Gays (POG). POG members are meeting to explore their feelings about gay family members, supporting GEAR Foundation activities, and inviting members of the GEAR Speakers' Bureau to address clubs and professional organizations. For more information, contact the GEAR Foundation, P.O. Box 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, 621-6546.

The Geauga Women's Center. 11984 Caves Road, Chesterland, Ohio, at the northwest corner of Wilson Mills and Caves Road (Community Church of Chesterland, downstairs), has a Drop-In Center open the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 10 p.m. Offered are support groups, self-help/health, information, and referral service on doctors, lawyers, therapists, social services and divorce, and various speakers. The group needs feedback (good or bad) to expand its referral lists. Come share your experiences. For further information, call 729-1199, or call Nancy at 729-4887, Sue at 338-8398, or Sally at 729-0481.

The Grassroots Female Leadership Coalition invites all women to meet the 2nd Tuesday and the 4th Saturday of each month from 9-11 a.m. at McDonald's Restaurant (downstairs lunchroom), 3050 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland. We are concerned with reaching grassroots women in the community as well as encouraging those interested to take on leadership roles in order to tackle domestic, economic, and political problems which all women, particularly minority women, face. For further information, call Geraldine Roberts on the Job Bank Action Line, 361-0373.

Hard Hatted Wemen is a support and information-sharing group for women working in or actively seeking non-traditional blue-collar jobs. Not all these jobs are actually "hard-hatted" or blue collar, but all are nonmanagerial. Group members work in heavy industrial, manual and skilled technical jobs that traditionally have been held by men. Hard Hatted Women meets the fourth Sunday of the month, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Women Space. To receive their bi-monthly newsletter and announcements of special events, please send $3 (more if you can) to Gerl Braun, 1636 Victoria, Lakewood, Ohio 44107. For more information call Amy Schuman, 696-6967.

Hard Hatted Women will hold its regular meeting on Sunday, September 27, at 2:00 p.m. at Women Space, 1258 Euclid Avenue.

The Cleveland chapter of HOME (Home Oriented Maternity Experience) provides information and support to expectant parents considering home or home-like childbirth. Their resources include a library, a monthly discussion serles and support group, counseling on nutrition and early pregnancy, and referrals to childbirth classes. Meetings are held on the last Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at 3280 West 54th St.. Cleveland. Phone Bonnie Kowalski, 651-5227, for more information. The September 28 meeting will discuss medical considerations; the October 26 meeting will cover breastfeeding and postpartum care.

Horizon Center offers a Family Institute on Alcoholism, which includes lectures and discussions on alcoholism and the family's role in dealing with it. For more information call Peg Huffman, 292-5900.

The Cleveland Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT) is stepping up its activities to better inform the public of the boycott against Nestle's and its subsidiary Stouffer's. Actions will include picketing, media exposure and the distribution and sale of informational pieces, buttons and bumper stickers. Nestle is the subject of an international boycott because of its unethical promotion of infant formula in developing countries.

Those who wish to participate by picketing Stouffer's restaurants near where they live or work may call Betsy Miklethun, 687-1900. For more Information call Phyllis Mucha, 771-4815.

LIGHT, the Women's Coordinating Committee of the GEAR Foundation, holds its regular meeting the first Tuesday of each month at the Gay Community Center, 2641 West 14th Street. All women GEAR members and other interested women are invited. LIGHT also coordinates Rap groups twice a month. The 2nd Thursday meeting is an Open Rap and the 4th Thursday focuses on a specific topic of interest. For further information on the LIGHT meeting, Raps, to offer suggestions, or to volunteer, call Sarah at 381-8179.

The Cleveland Pro-Choice Action Committee is an ongoing activist organization dedicated to full reproductive freedom for all women. We have monthly meetings where we discuss political issues and plan our ongoing work. We disseminate information about a woman's right to choose, about the dangers of the so-called "Human Life Amendment,' forced sterilization, contraceptive rights and other pressing issues. We are involved in defense of the clinics, and supporting other women's

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For more information as to the address, availability of childcare and other agenda items, please call Barbara at 321-6143 or Deborah/Linda at 932-9344.

The Women's Comprehensive Program at Cleveland State University has created the Re-Entry Women's Project to investigate and respond to the special needs and concerns of re-entry women students. If you are presently a returning woman student at CSU, or if you are considering returning to college, call 687-4676 or 687-4674, or stop in our office in the Corlett Building, 1935 Euclid Avenue, Room 124.