Project Care supports, guides traumatized people Jam is Pops ft* !*» Ot»pan Dm*, tmetaia For people fooling overwhelmed by the down side of life, an organization tailed Project Care is available in Pugene to provide support and guidance. Project (lore founded in 1986, helps individuals with problems of all kinds including grief and terminal ill* nesses The group also helps people who are feeling sui cidal "Project (.are is a group of interfaith i are givers." said Bobbie Spiedel. Projet t Care's administrative assistant. "What that means is that Project Care is made up of members of different church c ongregations We work together to provide crisis intervention “Such intervention would include taking someone to the doctor or helping someone deal with a death in the family " Spiedel also said Projet t (.are provides short-term care for people who have experienced traumas such as an sexual abuse. Alzheimer's disease, AIDS or cancer “We refer people to other volunteer organizations in tiu> community,' Speidel said “We get jieople to where they are able to sort things out. After that, we get them in touch with other organination* " Spiedol stressed < onfidentielily is always maintained between Project (are client* and Project (are volunteer* "Many of the people who mine to us often do so with a sense of shame." Speidel said "They feel ashamed of the fact that they were unable to deal with their situa tion* by themselves "They would not seek help from us or any other orga nization if they did not know they their cases would bo kept in the strictest confidence " Volunteers at Project (are are from the Eugene/Spri ngfieid area and go through an intense (Mi hour training course "Tin* course gives now volunteer* a working knowl •nigo of the various resource* m the community." said Project (are director Sakre Edison lake many non-profit organizations. Project Care has had limited financial resource* to train new volunteers and to pay staff personnel H«s atise of a neel of |j R a moderate Hispanic advocacy group in Washington "Clearly, there are people out there who find the growth of the Latino pop ulation in Americ a and in California very threatening " But, Mu nor. added. "Texas and other states don t have the same ly|w> of ret ession, and the; same type of backlash, that (ialtfor ino has seen " Cary Mounce, a University of Texas-Pan American political scientist. agreed it will tie less of an issue there: "Those political of hate or immigrant hashing, you find it here, but 1 don't think the major politicians are lending any > redeme to it " In this city shaken by racial rioting just thnw >cars ago over verdict* in the Rodney King beating rase. polit t> brat ed for student protests High school and middle school stu dents briefly shut down highways in three northern California spots early Wednesday. 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