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Ex-prostitutes counsel youths still on the streets
AUSTIN (AP) — The best person to convince
a 15-year-old prostitute that selling sex for
money is not fun, glamorous or safe is a 19-year-
old ex-prostitute.
At least that’s the reasoning — and the hope —
behind a fledgling program to bring former
prostitutes together with working prostitutes, es
pecially juveniles.
“We heard over and over that kids don’t listen
to social workers and counselors because we
don’t know what it’s like being out on the street,”
said Karen Knox of the Police Department’s Vic
tim Assistance Program.
“But they will listen to somebody who’s been
out there,” she said. “They will listen to an ex
prostitute. We decided also that we really
shouldn’t restrict it to juveniles. A lot are between
18 and 28, and we decided if any sincere person
wanted help, that we would help them no matter
what their age.”
The ex-prostitutes, referred to as “peer coun
selors,” are volunteers who have held legitimate
jobs for several months. They meet Thursdays at
7 p.m. at Middle Earth, an East Austin runaway
shelter, and are on call 24 hours.
They can be reached through the Austin Po
lice Vice Detail, the Victim Assistance Program,
Middle Earth, or through patrol officers carrying
cards with phone numbers to call.
The program was formed by a juvenile prosti
tution task force, which included police, prosecu
tors, social workers and juvenile court officials.
The group began meeting last month, and has
had successful, if sporadic, results, said Beth
Black, a social worker who acts as co-facilit
for the group.
“It’s like the philosophy at AA (Alcohol
Anonymous): a recovering person is thebesipt
son to talk to someone who is still sufferingv
the disease,” Black said. “We’re not heretoti)
convince them. They don’t even have to warn
quit.”
But most prostitutes want out, said one pt;
counselor during a recent group session.
“When I was working in the massage park:
saw lots of people trying to get out,” she said
never saw one girl successfully get outofi
business. Ever. It’s so hard to get out. We’reti
ing a lot of money here. We’re talking usual;
drug habit, sometimes children, sometime!
man’s drug habit.”
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ing,” he says. “I need to just dou
ble everything I’ve got.”
Douglas, who uses the hand
icapped services office for every
thing from studying to shooting
the breeze with his friends, says
he’s in favor of expanding the of
fice.
would be more of an asset to
handicapped students, Powell
says as he turns to apologize to a
student who had to stop taking a
test in a quiet room so a volunteer
reader could record a reading as
signment for a blind student.
got all kinds of needs like that
that need to be met. The com
puter is going to be one of our an
swers if we i
equipment.
can get the right
“Right now I think it’s nee
ded,” Douglas says. “If you ever
go in there during finals week or
mid-term time, you’ll see it’s
really hard on the people taking
tests and the people working in
there.
“The congestion and the peo
ple going in and out is kind of a
problem. I think expanding it
would really be to the advantage
of the students.”
After getting what funding he
can from the University, Powell
says the office will try to supple
ment the rest.
The office is supplying the
handicapped students with all the
services they need, Powell says,
but it just can’t adequately get to
everything that needs to be fin
ished.
While Powell’s immediate goals
may be to get assistance from the
University, the handicapped serv
ices office is receiving much of its
help from volunteers in the Uni
versity community.
A computer in the office, used
for minor office tasks and trans
ferring taped lectures to paper,
~ raised by
not sure what he would dowitt
out them.
And several engineering dt
partments provide mechanKi
and design services.
John Vittrup, an associate pit
fessor of engineering technolop
says, “We’ve (engineering tetk
nology) come up with a couplet
things from time to time when
people have a need for a litik
special tool or something liketk
to hook onto a zipper or tobutio:
something. If they show us wk
they want, we can construct itfe
them.”
The office gives about 100 tests
a week during midterms and fi
nals, but because only two rooms
are adapted for test-taking and
making recordings, Lane says
problems result when a test-taker
and a volunteer reader need a
room at the same time.
The first step in Powell’s plans
is to see what the University can
do for the office. Powell hopes
they will take care of the mainte
nance because he says his office
can’t afford it. If the University
won’t take care of the mainte
nance, he hopes he can relocate
somewhere that has adequate
space for his expansion.
Pointing to a stack of about five
tapes on his desk, Powell says,
“We need a computer that we can
dictate to. Those are supposed to
be put on the word processor.
There’s just no way I can do it.
It’s just terribly time-consuming.
Unfortunately, I’ve got a deaf
student that needs that service
and we just can’t keep up with it.
We have got to do something
about that so this student can get
his lectures put on paper so he
can read them.”
igli
Alpha Phi Omega, an A&M serv
ice fraternity.
Patti Le Boutillier, chairman of
APO’s handicapped student serv
ices committee, says a fundraiser
was held in Fall 1984 in which
APO members pushed 10 empty
wheelchairs from College Station
to Houston. The service frater
nity raised $1,800, all of which
was donated to Handicapped and
Veteran Services.
The office can do an adequate
job with what it has, but if his
plans are approved, the office
Powell says he is in the process
of gathering material about dif
ferent computers and visual en
largers that can be used to assist
the handicapped students on
campus. He says additions like
these will improve and expand
the services the office now has.
“I need specialized equipment,
which is out there now, but it is
going to take money to buy it and
put it together,” he says. “We’ve
The APO committee provides
volunteers who perform a variety
of services for the handicapped
students. Working with hand
icapped services, the APO volun
teers give tests to handicapped
students when tests have to be
taken outside the classroom set
ting and record book readings for
blind students.
Le Boutillier says APO also
paints curbs, curb cuts and hand
icap decals so wheelchair students
can identify them easily.
Powell says APO provides the
office with vital services and he’s
Vittrup says engineering (ecli
nology, although called on byik
of fice only a f ew times a semeslei
has been working with hand
icapped services for several vean
and helps out whenever tlif
have the time and equipment
John Grillo, a research asso
ciate for aerospace engineerint
says he has done every thing froc
tightening a loose screw on i
wheelchair to working on the hi
draulic lift in a handicapped sen
ices’ van.
Grillo, who has worked as
staff engineer with United Cert
bral Palsy, is familiar with makir.,
comfortable and functional ad
justments for handicapped equip
ment. He says he sometimes doe-
more involved repairs after worl
and on weekends.
Powell says, “None of thishap)
pened overnight. Over the yean
we have developed a workin;
relationship with almost even
body on campus in terms of whai
handicapped people need."
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