Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1981 — Page 5
Turning Point--a salvage station for lives wrecked by booze and drugs
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a. an oat to ratetirao and the modern ahe has a j or aieofcol probtem finds tW rood back to “normaT not nearly as smooth and rose strewn as stsfisttrians sometimos moks H look. Tree, la today’s society of shored mores, there are many organisations and institutions oat standing. helping the hooked come dean, often free. Bat oace the habit’s under control, what, where sad how doos this drained, bmp. worthloss feeling person come to gripe orith all she's Deflected daring the languishing? Education, family, job. home and personal character. They're the heaviest casual lias, and this, all too-often. is where the battle’s lost. Virginia L. Kersey's response. "We try to help theee people put their life style together in terms of employment, bousing, educa tional opportunities and self esteem." sounds resdy msde for s growing prediesment. Once s woman's over the bump with the addiction, she can he left floundering, feel tag totally without resources, because ail close and dear to her might've been estranged during the drug bout. Ms. Kersey along with Rev. Edgar L. Allen Jr.. New Life director, and Doris Grant are the corp of new Life Health Services Turning Point staff. “Turning Point is s sub stance abuse reduction program for minority fe males." Ms. Kersey, program director, outlines, "and essen tiaily what we do is provide counseling and referral services for those minority females who find themselves
addicted to drugs or alcohol, and have not been able to got it together through the formal system anenatimsa cold, impersonal programs).** It shook) he made dear "minority" in this instance doesn't apply to race, instead it’s a social economical thing. "If you’re poor and white you’re a minority." Skin color
doesn’t count.
As a degreed social worker. Ma. Kersey, and Rev. Allen, well trained in his own right, don't try to handle the problem's medical aspect. TP’s basically in the "reconstruction" business. "We stress from this point on. look up." the minister inserts. "What makes Turning Point different is we service a finishing school of sorts for persons who’ve come out of treatment. They're (need with the question of where to go. If they return to the streets recidivism is likely." The 100 or so clients streaming through "shrink ing" quarters daily at 704 North Park, better known as Bible Way Church's location, have pounded in their heads getting jobs, climbing out of addiction’s rut and re-estate lulling healthful rapport with family and acquaintances. They're directed to the right people, given valuable point ers and talked to in a positive
way.
Shrinking'* is used because TP could certainly use more, and sad but true, the program is running out of money Ft nancing is primarily from the Division of Addiction Serv
the influx, despite tbs fact most staff workers are volan-
teers.
In the way of raising mossy, a spsdal community awareness marathon is scheduled for January 17. from noon until midnight. There’ll bs a 5 pa. dinner with a $5 charge. Supportive speakers, authorities in related fields, wfil be featured and there will be a giant musical jubilee. For deUfla. call 685-7861. The program’s success rate is high. Clients lending themselves totally to it uaually wind up working, in some kind of job training or in school. Median age of partidpanta is 29. a time when meet women are accustomed to marriage and children. This might account for the large percentage of “closet drinkers”. those ashamed to admit having a drinking problem; it has been hidden in the home. “They're not attracted to the traditional program and need special assessment." director Kersey says. She accredits stark realization with her starting Turning Point in March of lari year. As a social worker for Indiana State Task Force on Women's Health Issues, she came to know that on "local, state and nationwide level, there's no special services designed for minority female addiction They’re usually thrown into traditional treatment which does not provide any long range planning after
coming out."
Even the inner-city lots
ices (State Department of -■ lion is somewhat strategic. Mental Health! and. of course. Kersey estimates over 48 per Bible Way Church helps every cent of households applying way possible. But combined, for Trustee Office aid are they’re not enough to sustain headed by a single female.
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tko ^opacity to forte||y 250 dfent TUs, of eoarna, would require a larger huOdfag. Then Mrs. Kersey sees another reason for more
spare.
"We alto intend to deal with
Main roqniremaat for potential partidpaoto is the lady in distress has "totally or partially eiimiaated usage of drugs." The age span now is 17
Boom ore court referrals, domestic viofenre or spouse arrested persons given the abuse. We’d like to provide
temporary residential facilities. We’re seeking facilities for that right now. Anyone willing to volunteer bousing for 12 residents who’re victims of domestic violence,
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option of jail or on improvement program. Others show up exasperated because they just don’t know where to tarn. "The program is growing
faster than our funds," Rev. .. Alien says. "Maybe people will we’d welcome
help."
Maya Angelou in library’s Black History salute here The Indianapoiis-Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc. is bringing Mays Angelou. author, einfer, act rose and playwright, to spook on Sunday, February fi at 2 p.m. in the Si. Peter Clover Social Center. 3110 Sutherland Avenue. Admission is
free.
Her speech is one of the Library'• programs in observance of Afro-American History Month. Angelou's autobiographical novels, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Gather Together in My Name.” were beet sellers, os were her three books of poe try. "Just Give Me s Cool Drink of Wrier fort l Die," "Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well" and "And
Still 1 Rise."
Her versatile talent* took her to Europe and Africa in the 1990s. She sang the role of Ruby and was lead dancer in the European touring com pany of "Porgy and Bess.” sponsored by the U.S. State
Department. She taught mod . /"Vo (fare* ern dance in the Rome Opera JOy y^fciJlGfO
House and in the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv. She was assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama in the University of Ghana; she was feature editor of "The African Review" in Accra, and associate editor of "The Arab Observer" in Cairo, Egypt. Since returning to the
United Slates in 1966, she has „ „ , been a writer and producer for by phone to WTLC Radio for 20th Century Fox TV, CBS tht, United Negro College
Maya Angela
national Woman's Year in 197S-79. She was named Woman of the Year in Com munications by the Ladies Home Journal in 1976 and has received honoi ary doctor ties from several universi-
ties.
and PBS.
Angelou served on the Prea idential Commission for Inter
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BYfMA .V- TO- W()\fA V relatum*htp$ alwayt s*t m to brrtd mart confidence than their maU counterpart And this three tome greet $ *nrh lady ahouing up at Turning Point, a %• n ice fin troubled u omen with alcohol and drug problems, unth all due raped and courtay. Tht ataffera are [from left\ Deloret Coe, ttatiatirian, Doris Grant, Crisis Intake receptionist, and Virginia L. Kersey. Turn
ing Point program director. At port of its "Project f,ifeline " TP it conducting a daylong program Saturday, January 17, at Central Avenue Methodist Church, $20 East 12th. Banquet speaker Dr. Benjamin Osborne, Center Township Speaker, will be discussing “Commitment to Impact Change. " [Marcell Williams photo)
Listening to women has paid off
Miss Amelia Scott was ho*
less to the Joy Crafters Club
during the Yule Season. With making plans for 1981
one of the main business issues, the ladies settled back to enjoy guests graciously received and other things affili-
ated with the holidays. Fifty dollars was donated
Fund and 1960 Secret Pals revealed themselves through their Christmas gift exchange. The president. Mrs, Mildred Wallace, received a gift of appreciation for her leader
ship during the year.
“We wish for her continued good health and enjoyment of her retirement," reporter
Amelia Scott said.
Other points of interest are the next meeting scheduled for January 10 at Mrs, Wallace’s home and the family of club chairman, Mrs. Pauline Gilbert, receiving our earn eri prayers for the recovery of her brother, Marshall War
ren "
Anne Wilson Schaef. na tionally known process therapist, lecturer and writer, will address specific issues arising in women's therapy at a oneway workshop at North United Methodist Church. 3800 N. Meridian, Indianapolis, on January 16,1981. The workshop, sponsored by the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers for professional and working women, is also open
to the public.
Cofounder and former director of the Women's Insti tute of Alternative Therapy, Ms Schaef has spent the lari 15 years listening to women sy what they could say when
they feel safe.
“I heard all different kinds
of women saying the same thing," she Mid. "There are so many commonalities in the way we see the world in which we live that I gradually began to see that women have their
own language to communi
cate our internal experience of our world and observation of
the world in which we live," “This internal experience is what 1 now call the female sys
tern," she added, "and women who trust their own system learn that they can grow
rather than merely adjust " "Nothing in my graduate
training," Mid Ms, Schaef,
who is a member of the Amer
ican Psychology Assn,, "really prepared me to work intensively with women in terms of helping them heal themselves and become whole in our culture. It is the women themselves, some 10,000 of them, who have taught me. It ts from them that I arrived at r-.«m
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my theories about the white male system and the female system," The end-product of this ex perience is Ms. Schaefs first book, ANOTHER REALITY: THE FEMALE SYSTEM, to be published in January. Ms. Schaef, a Danforth Fellow, holds a BA and PhD. less dis serial ion from Washington University. St. Louis. She has been a consultant to some 20 organizations’ workshops and committees across the VS. and Canada, including the Dt partment of Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary. NYC and to Her Majesty’s Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada. A member of Who's Who of American Women and World’s Who's Who of Women, Ms. Schaef has also served on the National Student Council for the YMCA YWCA and on the Advisory Board of Women in Leadership Project of the Presbyterian Church, USA. In addition, Ms. Schaef has been in private practice in Boulder and Denver, Colorado since 1966, Tt is so difficult for us all to not try to control Me," Ms, Schaef said. T find there is an
inverse relationship between people who are in faith and the need to control. When we live by our process, believe in our selvos and in life, we can grow, become whole. People who aren’t whole have to adjust. My goal is to make people whole." The workshop runs from 9:304:30. Persons who wish to attend my register by Jan. 9 by sending their name, phone number and checks to NASW, 1100 W. 42nd St.. Indianapo lis, 46208. The fees are; 920 for NASW members, 930 tor non members, 910 for students and retired perstms. Those who wish to also attend the noon luncheon should designate whether they prefer ‘ regular*' or "vegetarian" and add $400 to their registration fee. Patronize
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