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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.
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, beginnning 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.
Education for Freedom of Choico 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.
The Feminist Writers Guild meets the first 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).
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 tó address clubs and professional organizations. For more information, contact the GEAR Foundation, P.0. 8ox 6177, Cleveland, Ohio 44101, or call 621-6546.
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 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.
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 Ger Braun, 1636 Victoria, Lakewood, Ohio 44107. For more information, call Amy Schuman at 696-6967.
Home Orionted Maternity Experience (H.O.M.E.) is a national organization to support and assist couples who wish to give birth at home. Dur aim is to help couples achieve the optimum experience of a safe home birth. Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m., 1888 South Compton, Cleveland Heights. Any couple who wants to learn more about all the options available in childbirth in home, home-like or hospital settings are welcome to attend. For more information, call 651-5227 or 881-6921.
The Cleveland Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT) is stepping up its activities to better inform the public of the boycott against the Nestle Corporation and its subsidiary.. Stouffer's. Actions will include picketing, media exposure and the distribution and sale of informational pieces, buttons and bumper stickers. Those wishing to support the boycott 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.
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Cleveland Pro-Choice Action Committee is an ongoing activist organiza-. tion 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 causes. For more information as to the address, availability of childcare and other agenda items, call Barbara at 321-6143 or Deborah/Linda at 932-9344. 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.
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.
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.
Services and Resources
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.
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 womer tcome "job ready" and self-supporting. No fees are charged. To be Agible, a woman must have worked without pay as a homemaker for her family. not been gainfully employed, and be at least 35 years did 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.
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.
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.
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