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Some corporations, through employee assistance and coun seling services, want to help such parents stay on the job, says Dr. Sheila Akabas, director of the Industrial Social Welfare Center of Columbia Universi ty’s School of Social Work. Eight percent of the esti mated 3.6 million infants horn in the United States each year lave a disability. To help firms aid parents of disabled children, Dr. Akabas and associates have launched a project funded by the U.S. De partment of Health and Hu man Services. It is titled Families with Dis abled Children: Help from the Workplace. “Were going to develop a guide for the corporation,” she In the process, Dr. Akabas and associates will work with three trade unions to identify workers with disabled children under two and a half years of age and assess family needs. The project also will develop new programs, including one in which retired union members would be trained to look after- disabled children whose parents have jobs. “Information has a monetary value when it is in the right place at the right time,” the so cial scientist said, noting the guide will contain information about resources for both mar ried and single working parents of disabled children. Dr. Akabas said employee as sistance programs at many cor porations already are helping workers with health and per sonal problems, including alco holism, money management, and sources of crises that affect mental, physical and emotional health. “Helping parents of the dis abled would he making use of this existing structure,” she said. Management isn’t just being humanitarian. Corporation leaders know that an employee with problems is not happy or necessarily productive. Management also knows, the professor said, that if a worker must quit a job to take care of a disabled dependent it usually is not the best for any of the par- lies. Further, in the instance of the birth of a disabled child to a worker, the corporation insur ance plan will pick up a lot of the expenses until the child is 21. Seeing that the disabled child gets proper medical treat ment, rehabilitation services and training is good business. “Disability and poverty,” Dr. Akabas said, “all too often go hand in hand. “If a parent has to stop work ing to care for a disabled child it “Confident that their youngsters are receiv ing good care, parents would not only be able to keep their jobs, but would retain the net work of social sup port, ” Dr. Akabas said. can push him or her over the brink into poverty. “Confident that their young sters are receiving good care, parents would not only be able to keep their jobs, but would re tain the network of social sup port and a sense of personal ac- complishment that an employed person enjoys.” Dr. Akabas described her project as “an innovative pull ing together of public, private and educational resources that is very much in keeping with the Reagan administration’s promotion of shared responsi bility.” A workshop connected with the project was attended by rep resentatives of major corpora tions, unions and social welfare agencies. “The financial issue was ut most to all,” Dr. Akabas said. It was felt money could be saved if the diagnosis was proper, and suitable treatment and training given. The goal of training would be to help the disabled function indepen dently, if possible, as an adult. At the forum there was gen eral agreement that companies and workers may want to ar range work so the parent of the disabled could be at home when other help was not availble. “Companies allowing the em ployee to take vacation time a day at a time or using sick time on the same basis was one idea,” Dr. Akabas said. Flex-lime came up, too — alowing parents of a disabled child to share a job so one or the other would be at home with child, reducing the need for help from a paid home aide. There also was agreement at the forum that people should go to the corporation employee assistance office for counseling when a child is born disabled. “The corporation people said some people feel ashamed but they shouldn’t,” Dr. Akabas said. “And the corporation peo ple need to say to the worker, ’We understand and we have the capacity to help you find help.’” i,' 1 1, > pi; :lk r lx »< ei r) i < THE UNDERGROUND Sbisa Basement Popcorn Special Friday 3/30/84 - Thursday 4/5/84 45c for a 16oz. bag OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST BAG “The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” Romantic trying to help others put romance into relationships United Press International BOSTON — “When was the last time you wrote ‘I love you’ the bathroom mirror with a piece of soap?” the instructor asked his bewildered class. “How about running a bub ble bath for your wife or girlf riend?" he asked when the first ijtiery failed to awaken a single memory. The blank expressions con firmed what Greg Godek sus pected all along, that “there just isn’t enough romance” in to y’s relationships. Godek, a romantic since his leens, is helping men and »omen put the spark back into comfortable but boring mar riages and affairs, and even adding zest to first dates. Single, divorced and even ng-married men, confused by the attitudes of liberated women, are signing up for Go ’s evening adult education class, seeking to resolve such ba as "whether it’s still all right loopen her car door.” “With women’s liberation, roles are no longer sharply de- ,” Godek said, “and men wonder if all that old-fashioned romance is offensive to the modern woman. “In learning that romance ac- ally improves the quality of e, men also are opening up and expressing their desires for some spontaneous gesture, even a bouquet of flowers.” Godek, 28, an account exec utive with a public relations firm, said the course was the outcome of years of accumulat- g information and experience with romance. His files are packed with lists of gift suggestions, restaurants, romantic ideas, poetry, songs even comic strips depicting the dilemmas of love. Godek, still single after a bro ken engagement, said, “I’m just a romantic person. I’m inter ested in romance the way some men are into cars or sports.” He was skeptical a year ago when a friend running the adult school suggested he offer a course, but now the enthu siasm it has generated has inspired Godek to offer coed classes in addition to the ones for men only. “This class is about showing you care,” Godek said. “Being “With women’s liber ation, roles are no longer sharply de fined, ” Godek said, “and men wonder if all that old-fashioned ro mance is offensive to the modern woman. more romantic improves the quality of life.” He quickly cautions that “ro mance is not going to save a bad relationship, resolve major faults or improve your sex life in the long run. Women typ ically complain that a man just doesn’t show he cares, while men respond defensively, ‘she knows I love her.’” The feminist movement had not resolved “the gap between what women expect and what men think is OK, remember to do and feel comfortable doing,” Godek said. “Be a little bit outrageous,” he advises aspiring romantics, male and female. “Here is a part of life that most of you haven’t focused on as much as you could. The smallest little things can be romantic.” His suggestions include a note in a plastic bag under the windshield in case it rains, mail ing a card with a LOVE postage stamp every day for a week, packing a “trip kit” for the trav eler filled with “corny things like a roll of dimes and a note saying ‘Gall Me,”’ and giving one another $5 to spend on a shopping spree. “The coed classes are partic ularly effective because the par ticipants don’t need to just take my word on something,” Godek said. Women tend to doubt that men really want romantic ex pressions, he said, but their male counterparts in the class shatter any misconceptions. Roy Anderson, 27, a busi nessman who signed up for Go- dek’s course “because my girlf riend accused me of not being romantic enough,” said, “I’d love it if a girl sent me flowers. There’s nothing unmasculine about enjoying what’s beautiful in life.” Anderson has not only writ ten “I love you” in soap on the mirror but on the bathtub bot tom as well. He’s even taken his girlfriend on a surprise trip to Bermuda in the hope that she’ll eventually “pick up the hint and realize I would love a romantic surprise, too.” While the breakdown of the classes includes single, married and divorced men and women in their early 20s to 50s, Godek said many of the males are en rolled by wives or girlfriends seeking a cure to insensitivity. “Sometimes guys are just dropped off by their wives or girlfriends without even know ing where they are going ahead of time,” Godek said. Carol Cone is delighted with the change in her finacee, Hank Shafron, who took the class out of curiosity. “He’s wonderful about keep ing my favorite wine in the re- i The haircut you want is the haircut you get. We guarantee it. At Supercuts, wdve been trained to cut hair perfectly So no matter how you like your hair cut, you’re going to get the cut you like. Every time. We guarantee it, or your money back. 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