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2,000 Children Expected
For Clothing Drive
Giveaway August 27
Candidates Needed For Contact Lens Studies
The Pacific University College
of Optometry is in need of candidates
for a variety of contact lens research
studies offered at the Pacific Univer
sity Family Vision Centers in down
town Portland and Forest Grove.
Candidates will help researchers
evaluate a number o f criteria includ
ing the fit and comfort of new types of
contact lenses, new contact lens solu
tions, and various contact lens fitting
techniques. Those who are currently
wearing soft or hard contact lenses
are needed as well as person who have
never worn contact lenses. Candi
dates of all ages are needed, depend
ing on the specific subject of each
study.
Those accepted for study may
receive free contact lens materials
such as a pair o f contact lenses and/or
supplies of contact lens solutions.
Subjects will be required to pay a fee
covering contact lens care rendered
during studies.
For more information, please call
the Pacific University Portland Fam
ily Vision Center at 224-2323, Ext.
402.
The Low Income Fam ilies Metro Young Life representative
Emergency (L.LF. E.) Center expects Chrism Rock, who tutors children;
to supply clothing and immuniza Radical Women, a equal-rights
tions to more than 2,000 children on group; Cliff Walker from Negus
Saturday, Aug. 27 at Peninsula Park Studio; and the Golden Eagles Gos
Community Center in North Port pel Singers will entertain during the
land at 10 a.m. at the ninth annual event.
L I F E. Center staff and vol
event.
Parents or guardians will need unteers have spent the past two
to bring proof of each child’s enroll months collecting, sorting, mend
ment in school for the clothing give ing and washing clothing.
L I F E. Center has been serv
away.
ing the emergency food and cloth
This year the M ultnom ah
County Health Department will have ing needs of individuals from Clark
an clinic on site for immunizations County in Washington and Mult
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., which pro nomah, Clackamas and Washing
vides a great opportunity for chil ton Counties since 1966.
For more information about the
dren and adults to get required shots.
Back-To-School
Giveaway, contact
Additional booths will include
Charles
Carter
at
284-6878.
Habitat for Humanity; Portland
Steve Fletcher of Pacific University's Family Vision Center in downtown Portland works with a contact
lens. The center provides eye examinations and affordable vision care to area residents. Charges for
the entire family are priced on the ability to pay. The center is located at 511 S.W. 10th.
Advocates Hail New Oregon Child Care Law
Oregon child care advocates
praised the implementation today o f a
new law to build safe, quality care for
young children.
The law requires most family
child care providers to register with
the Child Care Division of the Oregon
Department o f Employment and to
receive training in child abuse pre
vention and detection. The standards
include lim itations in safety and group
size and require criminal background
checks for adults in the provider’s
household.
“ If this protects just one child, it
will be worth the effort,” proclaimed
Rep. Lisa Naito o f Portland, speaking
about the bill she introduced that be
came law in the 1993 legislative ses
sion. “We know the early childhood
years before kindergarten are critical
to the developmental successofyoung
children. All o f our children need
safe, high quality child care.”
According to Bonnie Heitsch, a
parent serving on the Commission tor
Child Care, “ Parents rely on basic
protections and guidelines for the care
of their children. Requiring providers
to register won’t guarantee quality,
but it serves as a platform on which
parents and providers can work to-
gether to improve child care.”
Proponents of mandatory regis
tration cite several developmental
studies, including the 1994 Report of
the Carnegie Task Force on Meeting
the Needs o f the Young Child and the
Families and Work Institute's 1994
findings on family child care, that
group size, adult to child ratios, and
the health and safety o f the care envi
ronment each have an important ef
fect on the quality o f care.
“There is a lot o f quality care out
there already, but it’s too important to
leave it to potluck. Children deserve
quality, and they deserve standards,”
said Pat Conover Mickiewicz, a Port
land Lawyer on the Commission for
Child Care, who also advocates for
improving compensation for child
care providers.
Mickiewicz saw a link between
the quality o f child care and the qual
ity o f the adult caregiver’s environ
ment. She cited registration asam eans
to bring all providers into the profes
sional child care community so that
efforts to improve provider compen
sation can move forward. Registered
providers gain access to opportuni
ties in training, networks, and support
groups.
Judy Cooper runs a successful
family child care business in her home
and serves on the Commission for
Child Care. She said, “In order to
receive recognition for what we do
for working families and employers,
we need standards o f professionalism
in our work.”
Created in 1985, the Commis
sion for Child Care advocates for
affordable, quality child care for all
Oregon children. Its membership in
cludes three representatives o f the
Oregon Legislative Assembly and 12
volunteers serving three year terms
representing providers, parents, medi
cal and legal professions, labor, busi
ness, state and local government, re
source and referral services, and the
public at large. Mandatory registra
tion of family child care providers
was the Commission’s 1993 legisla
tive priority with support form orga
nizations o f child care providers, cen
ter directors, parents, educators, re
source and referral services, medical
professionals and other children’s
advocates.
A Group For Women
Drinking Problems
A group for women with drinking problems is meeting at Town Hall,
3704 N. Interstate, Conf. Room D on Tuesdays 5;30-6:45pm. This group
learns, and practices, the “New Life" program from women for sobriety,
a national Self-Help Program for Women.
The “New Life” program teaches women ways in which to cope with
life’s problems. Women learn ways in which to feel good about self. This
program recognizes that women alcoholics biggest need in recovery is to
find Self-Worth and Self-Esteem to overcome the debilitating feelings of
guilt.
Women for sobriety has some 300 Self-Help Groups all across the
country, helping women to recover from the devastation of alcoholism. To
join, contact Karen at 235-0647.
To receive literature and general information, contact National Head
quarters at WFS, PO Box 618, Quakertown, PA 18951.
(Please enclose a double stamped self-addressed envelope.)
Alliance For The Mentally III
The Alliance for the mentally 111
of Multnomah County will present
the.“Joumey of Hope" a family edu
cation course, specially designed for
parents, siblings, spouses, and adult
children of persons specifically diag
nosed with serious mental illness.
The twelve week free course will
be in two locations. The evening class
will begin on Wednesday. September
14, from 7-9:30 at St. John the Baptist
Episcopal Church on the campus of
Oregon Episcopal School, 6300 S.
W. Nicol Road. The daytime class
will be held on Thursdays from 10 am
to 12:45 pm starting Thursday, Sep
tember 15, at the Rose City Park
United Methodist Church, 5830 N. E.
Black Men Can
Get Relief From
Shaving
“Bumps”
A morning shave does not have
to be a grueling task for black men.
One in three black men suffer
from the condition, pseudofolliculitis
barbae.
“Pseudofolliculitis develops as
a result of the repeated trauma of
shaving," said Dr. Ted Rosen, a der
matologist at the college “ If you
shave too closely, the hair doubles
back into the skin."
Rosen said the problem can be
minimized by shaving in only one
direction with a single-edged razor,
by using a moisturizing shaving
cream and by avoiding electric shav
ers.
For some men. the only way to
manage the problem is to grow a
beard, Rosen said.
A lameda. For information or to regis
ter call 281 -8112 or leave a message
at the office o f AMI of Multnomah
County, 228-5692. Please do not call
the churches or the school.
The course will cover informa
tion about schizophrenia, bi-polar dis
order (manic-depression) and major
depression; as well as coping skills
such as handling crisis and relapse;
basic information about medications;
problem solving skills; recovery and
rehabilitation; and self-care. The
course is offered nationwide through
the national, state, and local Alliance
for family members. Four local Alli
ance members with intensive training
as instructors will lead the two classes.
Drug Being
Tested For Eye
Disorder
A drug used to treat genital
herpes is being tested for use in
battling a common eye disorder.
Researchers at Baylor Col
lege of Medicine and seven other
U S. sites are testing the antiviral
drug acyclovir as a treatment tor
ocular herpes.
C urrent treatm ent for ocu
lar herpes does not prevent it
from attacking the eye again
moths and even years later, said
Dr. Kirk W ilhelm us, an o p h
thalm ologist and d irec to ro fth e
study at Baylor.
“The use o f acyclovir to treat
genital herpes has proven effec
tive in preventing a recurrence ot
disease, and we hope this study
will prove the same thing for ocu
lar herpes," Wilhelmus said.
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