Women who have filed sex discrimination charges or lawsuits against their employer who are willing to fill out a confidential questionnaire about their experiences should call Mary Taggart in Kent, Ohio at (216) 672-5433 or write her at 145 Johnson Hall, Box 197, Kent State University. Kent. Ohio 44243. Questionnaires may also be picked up from Cleveland Women Working, 1224 Huron Road in Cleveland.
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.
Famulo career workers wanted (age thirties through fifties) to participate in research on women working full-time outside the home. Write for questionnaire. Responses confidential. Mary Lynn Crow, Ph.D., UTA Box 19359. The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019.
Ongoing
Dignity, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meeting 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.
Domestic Workers of America, a non-profit organiztion, can put interested persons in touch with. workers available for cleaning, home si ting, childcare, parly 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.
The Grassroots Female Leadership Coalition invites all women to meet the second Tuesday and the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00 te 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 politica problems which all women, particularly minority women, face. For further information, call Geraldine Roberts on the Job Bank Action Line. 361-0373.
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 Orop-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.
Women Tegether, Inc., operator of a shelter for battered women that houses approximately 200 women and 400 children per year, has a new volunteer program called "Sponsorship Volunteer sponsors are assigned women who call the hotline and shelter residents upon their departure. Volunteers accompany clients to groups for abused women and help provide emotional support. If you are interested in training for the sponsorship program. call Fay Grinage. 431-6267.
Hotlines & Support Groups
Hope for the gay alcoholic. Call the Gay Hotline at 621-3380. Alcoholism Services of Cleveland at 391-2300. or Alcohola S Anonymous. 241 7387
The State of Ohio Women's Information Center now has a toll-free number 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.n
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 job ready and self-supporting, No lees 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.
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.-
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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.
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.
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.
Parents of the Gay Educational Awareness Resources (GEAR) Foundation have formed a chapter of Parents of Bays. 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.
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 587-4676 or 687-4674, or stop in our office in the Corlett Building, 1935 Euclid Avenue, Room 124.
Women in Skilled Employment (WISE) is a program at WomenSpace aimed at increasing opportunities for women in non-traditional jobs. If you are interested in exploring any aspect of blue collar work for women. be it applying for a job yourself or helping other women get and keep nontraditional jobs, please call Amy at 696-6967.
Cleveland women's community has the opportunity to explore their sexual, psychological, social and political identites with the Women with Women 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 8:00 p.m. The rap on the second Thursday is an open rap, and that on the fourth Thursday is a topic rap.
Anyone interested in learning how to facilitate or lead a rap group. please contact the Gay Hotline at 321-3380, leave a message for Diana and she will get back with you (please include your phone number or where you can be reached). For more information on topics and general questions, call Sarah at 381-8179.
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.
Services and Resources
Information оп tax resistance (with a feminist/pacifist perspective): protesting income taxes. resisting income taxes: telephone tax resistance; information about IRS; 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.
Hazard Alert, published by the Council on Hazardous Materials, has published its first issue. If you are interested in receiving this hewsletter. Contact Marge Grevatt, 1223 West Sixth Street, Cleveland 44113.
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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.
People United Against Repression (PUAR), formed by familles of victims of jail hangings, has organized around the issue of police brutality and harassment. The group also addresses related societal issues such as repressive legislation. Those interested can attend PUAR's bi-weekly Saturday meetings at the Murtis H. Taylor Multi-Service Center, 13422 Kinsman, at 12:00 noon. For information or to report police brutality, call PUAR's 24-hour hotline at 851-9842.
The Cleveland Women's Handboek 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 copies 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 44118.
The 1982 fndar/Directory of Women's Medie 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.
The National Women's Pulitical 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.
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 Against Pornography slide show and presentation is now available in Cleveland to any interested women's group. For information contact Diana or Judie at 523-1875 or 631-0024.
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.
Women's Network in Akron is an informational clearinghouse for women's interests, referral service, emphasis on career development and personal growth. Annual membership, $15 and up. Contact Ann M. Gargano, Women's Network, 39 E. Market St., Suite 502, Akron, Oh'o 44308, or telephone 1-376-7852.
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 Hawail. 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.
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