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Women Find Strength
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McCluskey. "Talking about that
information
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information ic
is part
program lies in its 30 volunteer in­ process.”
structors, who devote I (X) hours to
Despite the physical nature of
training for the program.
the class, and discussions about
"The WontenStrength philoso­ women in danger of violent attacks,
phy is that everybody deserves many participants report an in­
tools to be able to protect them­ creased peace of mi nd after they are
selves,” said Maile McCluskey, armed with tools to protect them­
director of the program.
selves.
WontenStrength is unique from
While there may be exceptions,
other self defense programs be­ instructors refer to attackers as men.
cause it is free, which is vital to the
spirit of the program.
"Women have more limited re­
sources and everybody has the
right to have the know ledge of dif­
ferent ways to protect themselves,
p h y sic a lly and e m o tio n a lly ,”
McCluskey said.
-Sgt. Tim Musgrave
A nother elem ent central to
WontenStrength is the idea o f em­ explaining that statistics support
powerment replacing fear.
the profile that women are typically
Linda McGuire and her daughter attacked by men, be they strangers,
Jo yce M ccarty a tte n d e d the acquaintances or intimate partners.
W ontenStrength series because
According to Sgt. Tim Musgrave
they are both victims of abuse, and with the Domestic Violence Reduc­
didn’t want to live in fear.
tion Unit, 85 percent of the 10,(XX)
“I feel brave, like I can do some­ police reports that come through
thing for somebody if they are be­ his department annually are attacks
ing attacked. T hat m akes me
happy,” said McGuire, a southeast
Portland resident.
She and other class participants
learn directed moves to affectively
incapacitate an attacker, as well as
body language cues that may pre­
vent an attack from happening in
the first place.
“When we think of danger, we
think of being in a dark parking lot
by ourselves, but in fact, it’s the
person sitting across the table from
them (that poses a danger),” said
a
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"These t/»rir»i**c
(crimes) I rw'/'iir
occur across
all kinds of lines," Musgrave
said. “It's not one social strata
that experiences this more than
another, or one race or faith or in
one part of the city. The numbers
tell us that it’s occurring across
the board.”
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Strength program helps to pro­
tect women not just in dom es­
tically violent situations, but
in all situations where women
may be vulnerable to robberies
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