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M ay 7, 1997 • T he P ortland O bserver P ahe A4 ' ■ afetO» - ■ ■ _i ■ ■ RWA Kaiser helps battered women ■ »»"V In a society increasingly plagued by violence, several organizations are working with Battered W omen’s A Itemati ves (BW A ), a domestic v io- lenceagency inC ontraC ostat ounty, to help young people and their fam ily members learn appropriate con flict resolution skills. A comprehensive Violence Pre vention Education Program is slated to begin soon for all seventh graders in the Mt Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD). The 30-month project — starting in May as a pilot program at Foothill Middle School in Walnut Creek — will involve 5,000 seventh graders at the district’s FACTS ABOUT PEER RELATIONSHIP VIOLENCE . Battering is the leading cause o f injury to women. (The National Committee fo r Injury Prevention and C ontrol 1989) . Every 9 seconds a woman is battered in the U S. (W om en’s Action Coalition 1996) . One in three teens experience violence in their dating relationships. (Family Research Laboratory, University o f New Hampshire 1996) • Eighty-seven percent o f teen dating violence perpetrators are males 16 to 17 years o f age. (Education Development Center 1996) . Violent juvenile delinquents are four times more likely than other youths to come from homes in which their fathers beat their mothers (W om en’s Action Coalition 1993) • Sixty-three percent o f boys 11 to 20 years old who comm it homicide k ill a man who is abusing their mother. (Uniform Crime Reports, E BI 198.) nine middle schools over a two-year period. The Violence Prevention Educa tion Program began in 1995 when BWA and the Junior League o f Oak- land/East Bay began a partnership to create curriculum materials cen tering around the theme "You Never Win With Violence.” The content emphasizes the importance o f re spect, fairness, and teamwork in re lationships as in sports. Junior League o f the East Bay will provide a minimum o f 1500 volunteer hours through 1999. Kaiser Permanente and John Muir Medical Center each contributed $40,000, and the State o f California another $350,000 for implementa tion in the larger community, pa renting classes, and evaluation. I his is one o f 13 domestic violence pre vention programs funded by the State Department o f Human Health Ser vices, Maternal and Child Domestic Violence Section. Project leaders hope to break the cycle o f domestic violence by reach ing children before dating begins. lence is is a a growing •‘Violence growing social social and and _ tiiiu ^ hoo|isem husias. Foothill Middle School is enthusias tic about the pilot program. “Although we have tew problems with violence at ourschool, students are confused about what the real world is like,” she said. "They won der whether it’s as violent as the media and movies they see and the rap music they hear. They re testing family values and getting ready to make important choices. We believe that if we reach them early enough, Relationship violence is defined as “a pattern o f assaultive and coercive behaviors that adults and adolescents use to achieve power and control over a past or present intimate partner. Information provided by Battered Women's Alternatives and Youth Education and Support Services community health issue.’ said Bob Eisenman, Ph.D., External Atfairs Director for Kaiser Perm anente’s North East Bay Local Market. "By intervening in early adolescence, we hope to prevent many ofthe negative outcomes w e’re seeing in our hospi tals and Emergency Rooms.’ This new program is far more comprehensive than existing pro grams to promote safe and drug-lree schools, according to Ken Duckert, Assistant Director for Student Ser vices for MDUSD. Starting this spring, project orga nizers will be in the schools, on the airwaves and in the community to send a message that violence is not acceptable or “cool.” The goal is to enlist students and their peer lead ers, parents, teachers, coaches, ------- coun ers,parents, t tion o o o f f c conflict o „ n i a u is n now « « the language spoken,” said Principal Michael we can make a difference. "M ost guys think its womanish to go to a counselor and that it s more manly to duke it out," said Spike Moeser, 13, a seventh-grader at Foot hill Middle School. "You know when Roth. Turner’s dream is to "help stu dents envision a world where per sonal violence doesn't happen We want to start young people thinking, Maybe this is a possibility. JLOEB is an organization of women com m itted to promoting volunteerism, developing the poten tial o f women and improving com munities through the effective ac tion and leadership o f trained volun there’s going to be a fight. 1 he per son picking the fight brags about how he’s going to beat the other guy so hard. Kids here have mostly little fights. T hey're usually after school and off school property so they can’t selors and other community mem bers in the effort. “To improve our community, we must change attitudes at every age level,” said Sharon Turner, BWA Project Director. “ We will involve teachers and parents as significant role models in training workshops Adults and young people will work together to create youth-centered messages in expressive arts events and for media campaigns.” Each school will establish a con flict management program with up to 30 students trained to serve as peer m ediators. Students having conflicts at school could self-referto a counselor or peer mediation. Ad ministrative staff would step in only if the problem remained unresolved. Vice Principal Barbara Weil at teers. Its purpose is exclusively educa tional and charitable. JLOEB has been serving the Oakland-East Bay community since 1935. and is part ofthe Association of Junior L.eagues International, Inc. BWA’s mission is to eliminate domestic violence and help families . Wednesday. The analysis o f entertainment and a d v e rtisin g fre q u e n tly sho w ed women as intelligent and good prob lem-solvers, but focusing heavily on dating and rom ance, the survey showed. Random telephone interview s with 1,200 children aged 10-17 showed the children agreed with the conclusions, according to the groups that released the survey: Children Now, an advocacy group, and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non profit health care philanthropy, “ W hat w e 're learning is that they’regettingboth some really posi tive images and also some messages that are limiting, and there's little doubt that this is part o f the overall fabric o f expectations that girls grow up with,” said Lois Salisbury, presi dent o f Children Now. The groups looked at several top- rated television shows,movies, three weeks o f top 20 music videos and several issues o f leading teen m aga zines in fall 1996 for the study. They found that 4 1 percent o f male television characters and 60 percent o f men in the movies were shown at work, compared to 35 percent of women in the movies and 28 percent o f female television characters. Nearly two-thirds o f female char • • _ j acters on television and m ovies talked about romantic relationships, while only 38 percent o f male char acters in movies and 49 percent in television talked about romance or dating. The study will be presented at a conference entitled "Reflections of Girls in the Media” at the Los Ange les Public Library, where entertain ment executives are meeting this week. In the survey o f boys and girls conducted in the first week o f April, seven out o f 10 girls said yes when asked if they have ever wanted to look like a television character. Only four out o f 10 boys said they wanted to look like a television character. “The media is a powerful tool to Mad cow disease threatens Europe Mad cow disease may be quietly spreading across Europe because farmers and veterinarians are fail ing to report sick cows, New Scien tist magazine said Thursday. It quoted officials across Europe as saying ignorance and fear were contributing to the spread, and urg in g b e tte r c h e c k s fo r b o v in e spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease). “O f course we have had (unre ported) cases o f BSE in Belgium, the m agazine quoted Em m anuel Vanopdenbosch, head o f BSE at the N ational Institute for V eterinary Research in Brussels, as saying. He said anim als with strange sym ptom s o f the central nervous system and ICI 11 had been slaughtered o often ended up on superm arket shelves. “Frankly, 1 am worried,” he said. The European Union banned Brit ish beef exports a year ago, when sc ie n tists sa id a new form ot Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a normally rare human equivalent of BSE, had been identified. They said eating infected beef products was the likely cause But the BSE epidemic that rav aged British cattle had by then raged foradecade, with more than 167,000 cases. Many cattle or their products were exported to Europe and other countries. New Scientist quoted officials as saying the expected number o f Eu ropean cases had not turned up. They were not reported,” said Bram Schreuder, head o f BSE re search at the Dutch Institute for A nim al S cience and H ealth in Lelystad. He said 57,900 British cattle were exported to the rest ot Europe tor breeding between 1985 and 1990 and at least 1,688 o f them should have become sick. If they were not reported, “they have entered the food chain,” he said. Marc Savey, head o f animal health research at the French National Cen ter for Veterinary Studies in Lyon, said there was also a huge trade in meat and bone meal — the ground up and rendered slaughterhouse left overs that are blamed for spreading BSE in the first place. ---------_ Hormone replacement market For more than three decades, h o rm o n e re p la c e m e n t th e ra p y (H R T ) has effectiv ely relieved m en o p au sal sym ptom s and in creased both length and quality o f life in postm enopausal w om en. Research conducted over the last indicates i that decade inaicaies r u HR n r . I i also re- duces the incidence o f cardiovascu- au • lar disease and osteoporosis. A lthough HRT has many known benefits, use o f estrogen replace m ent therapy following menopause has been associated with increased incidence o f endometrial cancer and .. . ._____. ____ __ possibly breast cancer Given the recent controversy over the use o f HRT, how will the market for this regimen fare over the next ten years? Hormone Replacement Therapy rev ie ws current know ledge about the pathophysiology and epidemiology ,......- r - s of menopause and concomitant con- ditions such as cardiovascular dis ease and osteoporosis. It also de scribes the benefits, risks, and treat ment issues surrounding HR! as well as current diagnostic techniques and therapeutic agents A summary the e n o f th clinical m anagem ent of menopause in the w orld's seven major pharmaceutical markets is presented, qualified by a discus sion o f unmet needs in HRT. The study then identifies and evaluates em erging therapeutics and de scribes pharmacoeco-nomic trends and factors that will affect clinical practice. Finally, it presents a 1995- 2005 forecast of the HRT market in the seven major markets (France, Germany, Italy, Japan. Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States) While the devastation o f mas sive loading in North Dakota will be felt for months to come by flood victims, their immediate needs for safe water and foods have been aided through the expertise of di etitians and foodservice workers. Discard all wooden spoons, plus tic utensils and baby bottles and pacifiers Throw out practically every thing, including meat, poultry, fish and eggs Throw out all fresh or frozen flood-dam aged produce Toss all foods in boxes, fo il or cellophane Discard spices and seasonings including your salt and pepper Get rid o f all foods stored in canisters, including f o u r and sugar Toss any dented, leaking or rusted cans Undamaged can goods can be salvaged, according to Kramer. She suggests removing can labels and using permanent marker to iden tify the can’s contents, then scrub bing w ith a brush and strong deter gent If you have a dishwasher available, run the cans through a wash cycle similarly to how you might normally wash glasses. cal centers. 1997 GUN TURN-IN 3 B 3 o. — -1 -1 £ H Saturdays, May 10 & 17 Noon to 4 p.m. North Portland Mt. 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"Peaceful resolu- ------- t o n a t i v p « stereotypes fp re n tv n reinforce r negative or present strong role models for young girls and boys,” said Matt James, senior vice president o f the Kaiser Family Foundation. Meredith Masters, 13, said it’s difficult to find positive role models in the industry. “ I don’t want to end up like a lot o f women on TV,” she said. “ It s really confusing. Here in school they say go ou, there and be successful, but on TV we see women who have to pull their skirts up to get any thing.” The survey of boys and girls had a margin o f error o f plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. It was con ducted by Lake Sosin Snell & Asso ciates. Costa County. BWA provides a variety of ser vices including crisis intervention, emergency and transitional hous ing, counseling and prevention ser vices for women, men, children and teens. BWA has also been a leader in formulating policy at the local, state Gun violence is an epidemic • him in a gun for a $50 merchandise certificate get suspended.” Spike’s classmate Megan Harden, 13, adds that “word wars" and fights happen between girls, too. She be lieves that people-to-people efforts are especially effective with teens. “ It's helpful to talk to other kids our age who understand and have sim i lar problems,’ she said Both stu dents look forward to taking part in the program. They hope it can help defuse the messages o f violence which surround them every day. “ Maybe kids can learn to talk things out,” suggested Spike, "or they can go home and punch a pillow instead Women get mixed message from media On television, in the movies and in ads, men are more likely to be working while most women are pre occupied with romance and their looks, according to a study released flourish. 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