Hotlines & Support Groups
The State of Ohie Women's information Center now has a toll-free umber so persons outside the Columbus area can call free of charge for information on women's issues and legislation. Call 800-282-3040 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For advice on how to prevent crime (how to secure yourself and your property or how to do community organizing on the issue), call the SelfHelp Anti-Crime Hotline toll-free at 1-800-368-5664 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The hotline is a program of the privately-funded Eisenhower Foundation for the Prevention of Violence.
People United Against Repression (PUAR) operates a Hotline to receive complaints of police brutality. The Hotline operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you have a complaint, dial 851-9842 and leave your name and telephone number. Your call will be returned within 24 hours and an appointment for follow-up will be made at that time. The identity of callers to the Hotline is completely confidential.
If you are a woman with a problem and don't know where to turn, WomenSpace's Help Line, 696-3100, may be able to put you in touch with helpful community resources. The Help Line's hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday. Women who call for assistance are provided with information and referrals by a staff of trained women specialists who can assess the caller's needs and refer her to vocational/career resources, social service agencies, physicians, therapists, attorneys and self-help groups. The staff regularly researches and updates a resource bank to insure that current information is available.
The Men's Center is developing a Man-To-Man Hotline to offer men the opportunity to talk anonymously with another male about their concerns and feel secure that the feedback will be sincere, objective and well versed. The Center is located at 1990'Ford Drive, Cleveland, 721-0003. For more information on training sessions, call Terry Drake, Hotline Coordinator, 391-9100, Ext. 442 days, or 361-7762 evenings.
Services & Resources-
Domestic Workers of America, a non-profit organiztion, can put interested persons in touch with workers available for cleaning, home sitting, childcare, party assistance and convalescent care. Special rates are available for senior citizens. DWA is also seeking persons interested in being placed on its job list. Call 361-0373.
Hard Hatted Women 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 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at WomenSpace. To receive their bi-monthly newsletter and announcement of special events, please send $3 (more if you can) to Geri Braun, 1636 Victoria, Lakewood, Ohio 44107. For more information, call Amy Schuman at 696-6967.
Pamphlets & Books
Working Women, a 128-page handbook of resources, rights and remedies for working women everywhere, can be ordered from Southern Exposure, P.O. Box 531, Durham, NC 27702. Single copies, $4; bulk order discounts avallable.
More than 1/3 of your federal taxes goes to military spending. Redirect your tax money through tax-deductible contributions to organizations working to end militarism and promote peace, or to any number of taxexempt projects doing what our tax dollars should be doing. A new book, the Gift-Giving Guide, tells you everything you need to know about charitable giving. To order, send $7.50, plus your name and address, to Funding Exchange, 80 Fifth Ave., Room 1204-J, New York, NY 10011.
Wemanpower is a free semi-annual newsletter focussing on issues of concern to professional social workers and the women they serve. Available on request from Womanpower, The National Association of Social Workers, 1425 H St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20005.
The Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE) reproduces published and unpublished accounts and analyses by and about women In the Third World, for feminist groups, church-based women's groups, union-affiliated women, women's studies departments, and human rights, Third World support and anti-imperialist solidarity groups. For a bibliography, write WIRE Service, 2700 Broadway, Room 7, New York,
NY 10025.
The Cleveland Women's Handbook is a collection of thoughts by women on women and their lives, and a comprehensive listing of services and agencies which serve women. It includes consumer information and questions to help us choose, use and influence those services and agencies. The Handbook is sponsored by Cleveland Women's Counsel, the Rape Crisis Center, Women Together and WomenSpace. Individual coples are $5 each plus $1 postage and handling. Orders of 5 or more are $4 each, plus postage and handling. The Handbook is available to lowincome women through social service agencies. Call CWC, 321-8587, for Information. Also, call CWC if you are interested in distributing the Handbook through your social service agency. Copies can be ordered from Cleveland Women's Counsel, P.O. Box 18472, Cleveland Hts., Ohio
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Women USA was founded in 1979 as a national communications network for women. In additon to operating a hotline, it monitors legislative and executive actions in Washington affecting women, publishes a newsletter and organizes lobbies and other mass activities for women. It is currently conducting a nationwide campaign to collect signatures on a People's Petition for Reproductive Freedom, co-sponsored by women's and civil rights groups. The toll-free hotline number, 800-221-4945, operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in every state except Alaska and Hawaii. New York State has its own number, 212-344-2531. For more information, call or write Mim Kelber, Women USA, 76 Beaver Street, New York N.Y: 10005.
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 the Gay Educational Awareness Resources (GEAR) Foundation have formed a chapter of Parents of Gays. 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, or call 621-6546.
Women for Sobriety is an organization that helps women overcome drinking problems by sharing feelings and setting goals in a supportive group setting. The Cleveland chapter meets on alternate Mondays at 6:30 p.m. at WomenSpace. For meeting dates and information, call Paulette Zaryczny, 531-4518, or Ruth Schultz, 235-4126, or the WomenSpace Helpline, 696-3100.
Hape for the gay alcoholic. Call the Gay Hotline at 621-3380, Alcoholism Services of Cleveland at 391-2300, or Alcohlics Anonymous, 241-7387.
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. 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 Women Against Pornography slide show is now available in Cleveland, presented by Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW). For information, write WAVAW, P.O. Box 5624, Cleveland, OH 44101.
Information on tax resistance (with a feminist/pacifist perspective): protesting income taxes; resisting income taxes; telephone tax resistance; information about IAS; a critical look at right-wing tax evasion; statements from tax resisters; resources. $.60 to cover printing/postage. Write: Tax Resistance, 331 17th Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98112.
The 1982 Index/Directory of Women's Media provides a network of existing women's media as well as ideas women have on the overall issue of restructuring the communications system. The Directory, with 351 women's periodicals (over 100 outside the U.S.), is an aid to networking and is published to increase communication among women nationally and internationally. The 1982 volume also includes a five-year (1977-1981) Index to Media Report to Women. To order a copy. send $8 to Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 3306 Ross Place, NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 966-7783.
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The National Woman's Political Caucus has released a handy directory of women officials in the Federal government, major political parties, state legislatures and major cities. According to Iris Mitgang, Chair of the bipartisan women's organization, the number of women in political office in the U.S. has tripled since 1974, with women now representing 12 percent of all elected officials. The directory can be obtained free by writing to Jeannine Dowling, Corporate Public Affairs, Philip Morris, Inc., 100 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.
Women who are blind can now have access to feminist literature through the Womyn's Braille Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. WBP has launched a service offering feminist books, periodicals and other information on women's issues, both in Braille and on tape. WBP also produces a quarterly newsletter for women, offered in Braille, in print and on tape. For further information, contact Womyn's Braille Press, Inc., P.O. Box 8475, Minneapolis, MN 55408.
Jane Doe, an anthology of Northern Ohio women's poetry, is now available at Coventry Books and Six Steps Down. Price is $2.00, or call Laura at 238-6410 after 6 p.m. for mall order. Proceeds will go toward women's relief fund and a battered women's shelter.
Ongoing-
Cleveland women's community has the opportunity to explore their sexual, psychological, social and political identites with the Wemen with Wemen rap groups that meet at the GEAR Foundation, 1241 West 14th Street, Cleveland. The raps are sponsored by L.I.G.H.T. (Lesbians in GEAR Hanging Together), the women's group of the GEAR Foundation, and are held every second and fourth Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The rap on the second Thursday is an open rap, and that on the fourth Thursday is a topic rap.
April 8-Topic: Relationships. Sandi Gleason, facilitating. April 22-Backgammon night.
May 13-Planning meeting. Come out and discuss ideas for the summer months. Some Ideas include mini-music festival, car repair workshop, craft demonstrations.
May 15-A Saturday. Start summer with New Games! We will meet at the Center at 10:00 a.m. and if the weather is nice, we will go to a neighboring park. See May issue for more details:
May 27-Lesbians and the Law. Alexandria R.. facilitating. Come with questions about what our rights are.
For more information, call 321-3380.
Dignity, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Mbatings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU, the second and fourth Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7:00 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8:00 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456.
Home Oriented Maternity Experience (HDME) holds meetings on the 3rd Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. on support and information for home childbirth. The meetings are held at 2067 West 44th Street, Cleveland 44113. Children are welcome. For more information, call 651-5227 or 881-6921, or call 281-9151 for directions on getting to the meetings. The Grassroots Female Leadership Coalition invites all women to meet the second Tuesday and the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00 to 11:00 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.
Cleveland East HOW meetings-the regular meeting is the second Monday of each month at 8:00 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church, Shaker Blvd. at Belvoir. Board meetings are the fourth Monday of every month at 8:00 p.m. at First English Lutheran Church, Derbyshire Road and Euclid Hts. Blvd. Both meetings are open to the public.
People United Against Repression (PUAR) has monthly meetings on the first Saturday of each month. Call our Hotline, 851-9842, for more information.
G.E.A.R. Appeal-
On Sunday, May 2, at 4:00 p.m., the Gear Foundation will hold a meeting for all interested persons, members and non-members, regarding the future of the foundation. Discussion will include our financial situation and plans for the future. There will be time for questions and answers from the community.
Since 1977, the foundation has tried to provide services to meet the special needs of the estimated 160,000 gays and Lesbians of the Greater Cleveland area. GEAR (Gay Educational Awareness Resources) currently provides a Hotline (open Monday-Saturday from 7-1 p.m., 621-3380), a counseling program with professional volunteers (by appointment by calling the Hotline), High Gear (one of the oldest regularly published gay journals), support groups including Women With Women Raps (every second and fourth Thursday at 7:30 p.m.), L.I.G.H.T. (Lesbians in Gear Hanging Together-women's steering committee), MAC (Men's Action Committee-men's steering committee). Parents of Gays, and Gay Fathers. We have the beginnings of a Gay Library with over 500 volumes of gay and lesbian titles, the beginnings of a substance abuse program, and we also provide meeting space for other groups.
ADS & BARTER
$.25/word classified ad $.20/word barter
Housemates wanted. 3-bedroom house in country. Need quiet, responsible animalloving women to share expenses. Located east just 45 minutes from downtown Cleveland. If interested, call Mary at 338-4024 or Sally at 368-1006.
Moving? Van and driver/helper available. Experienced. Reasonable rates. Lisa Gayle, 371-0483, evenings and weekends.
Divorcee with 3 young children wants to share home. Prefers eastern suburbs. Call 382-2896 before 11 a.m.; 461-0016 after 4:30 p.m. Ask for Peggy.
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