Page 67 The Herald Welnesday; March 2%, ‘we VANCOUVER: (CP) — Nona’ ‘Thompson ‘wipes a teat away as she recounts the fate of her firat atudent, “The firat kid I ever taught to read was Grace. She had OTTAWA (CP) — A dark side of alcoholism laigely unrecognized is appearing in treatment programs for alcoholics at Rideauwood Institute. Staff members are finding a pattern of social and emotional behavior problems among adults whose parents were alcoholics, says Bob Graham, the institute's executive director. They have difficulties with intimate relationships, they Ile a lot and they can't cope with criticism at work or at home. Graham's findings come from research of case histories of adults treated at the centre since it opened In 1976, many of whom had alecholic parents. “J's hard ta believe, but we're also finding about 60 per cent of non-drinking women with alcoholle spouses are the children of alcoholics.” Often problems are discovered during treatment which Involves the entire family, although & growing number of clients seek counselling and advice on their own “It's a new -ball game, where personal: drinking isn't the problem, but dealing with anger and sensitivity at home and on the job is") - Adilts see that behavior patterns learned in childhood with an alcoholic parent to gain approval, love and trust don't work in & different environment, a new relationship. In general, adults whose parents were alcoholics overreact to changes over which they have no control, Graham says, They tend to lock themselves into a course of action without . serious consideration of alternative behavior or possible consequences, “These adult kids of a parent or parents wha drank have a really hard time following through on a project. “They've never had any consistency to life, seldom received encouragement or reward for what they attempted during their schoo) years, Plans and promises made threngh bearning disabilities, We were re going to Kamloops ahe didn’t have the right clothes to wear. The night before she would have gohe to start school, she comnmitted sulelde. ‘Dark side of alcoholism. early years were constantly broken, so they never learned the final steps to finish a job, a project or a game,” ; - The lies they’ tell are almost automatic, says Graham, relating to a fantasy world they created for themselves as a kid, never telling the truth to friends or themselves, ‘ “When they didn’t feel - good about the way things were golng, they covered unpleasant realities - with imaginative stories, Once karned, the habit was quite naturally carried into adulthood.” Leasora in lying also data back to stories an aleohallc parent told to cover up his ac her behavior, SIMPLER TO LIE “Tt doesn't take long for a kid to figure ‘If mom or dad lies, so can I," says Graham, “So ‘over a number of years, it becomes q lot simpler. to He than to fell the truth, © “Intime... les tend to get bigger and bigger, as the - child builds . up accomplishments from his fanciful world, actions that ‘are can’t be ‘matched in everyday, real life,” At that point, Graham's findings show more than 50 per cent of adults-‘who had alcoholic parents turn to drink themselves, perpetuating the cycle of alcoholism, into. another generation. - Institute research also - : shows that on the job, the adult children of alcoholics very harsh.“ on themselves, reacting differently to criticiam than adults who grew up in what “Js generally referred to aa a normal home, . ‘They couldn never tras, the: alcoholic parent, * he explains. “How ean they now trust themselves’ or their own feelings?” _ At Rideauwood, staif say their greatest ‘challenge is retuming adults to reality. “The. breakthrough ustally comes when the * client confronts. the problem and recognizes the reasons for his or her response, bringing visible improvement in both job performance and self image. " Preschoolers molested in game LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cameras rolled = and teachers preschool children were sexually molested by adult strangers in a game called Naked Movie Star, say prosecutors seeking to have three of seven defendants held without bail, “It appears that the primary purpose of the McMartin preschool was to solicit young children for pornographic —_ purposes,"* deputy district attorney Eleanor Sarrett satd Tuesday, “It is my. belief that thege photographs and movies were taken for commercial purposes.’ Barrett said 125 children who attended the Virginia McMartin preschool between 1979 and 1903 may have been involved. No photographs or films have been recovered, authorities said. Seven school ataff members have been charged with 115 felony. counts involving 13 children who testified before a county grand jury, One unidentified parent was quoted in today’s Los Angeles Times as saying that his four-year-old daughter told investigators that she and two other children were driven to a horse stable where sex acts were filmed, . “Ropes were placed around her waist and her hands were tied behind her back," the father said. Barrett said because the children were touched by Oddities in the news HAMBURG (AB) — Dogs, cate, birds and ever horses now have a fleet.of specially equipped taxis at their disposal in this northern West German city. Fourteen "animal taxls* respond to calls from pet owner without cars who have trouble shepherding their animals on public transportation or getting rides in regular taxia, The pet vans are equipped with rubber mata, plastic tubs, amall cages and even firat-ald kits. “The animals are always very quiet; and not one of our drivers has been bitten yet,” sald Berad Grundmann, 46, who launched the service last June. Animal taxis transport pels to veterinarians, kermels, beauty. shopa or wherever directed. for the price of a normal cab ride — 6 cents a kilomatre. Owners can ride along for free to soothe their pets. So far, the animal texi business is "not very profitable," Grundmann said, with only 10 to 20 calls aday toa dispatcher. But he hopes business will pick up as word of the service spreads, watched as strangers not connected with the school, they may have been “victims of child prostitution.” Prosecutors allege chilren were kept ailent by threats to themselves and their parents, Brad Sales, an assistant to therapist Kee McFarlane who interviewed the children, was quoled in court documents as saying that rabbits, turtles, dogs and cats were mutilated, amd birds and fish were tortured in front of the :The youngsters allegedly were told they and their parents would be similarly ‘ trealed if they revealed the molestations, he said. Barrett's findings, released Tuesday, were contained in the district attorney's response filed in Les Angeles Superior Court to defence motions to Teduce the defendants’ bail, “We want the court to set no ball fo three of the seven defendants because of the substantial likelihood that great bodily harm to some children will result if the defendants are relessed,’’ STANDING COMMITTEE : ON a JUSTICE AND LEGAL AFFAIRS district attorney Robert Philibosian sald in ‘a atatement, ‘ The no-bail motion names Raymond Buckey, 2%, who is charged with 75 counts ~- the bulk of the charges; his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 57, who is charged with 15 counts; and teacher Betty Raidor, 64, 12 counts. The other four defendants are free on bail, They are Peggy Ann Buckey, 28, charged with one count; Babette Spitler, 36, alx counts; Marty Ann Jackson, 58, five counts; and Virginia McMartin, . the : 76-year-old grandmother who founded the school, charged with a single count All seven were arrested March 22, Indictments allege children were raped, sodomized, forced to submit to oral copulation or fondling. McMartin, who was cited ‘for her ‘‘oulstanding community service" in 1977, has called the allegntiona a “bunch of Hes” and relatives of some of the other defendants have rallied to support the school, ‘which, closed in January HOUSE OF COMMONS because. so many: parents pulled their students. out, _ The pornography question arose when several children tald. McFarland, .a social worker at -Children’s Institute Interna tonal,’ that they ‘hadbeen — photographed. McFarland = said - students at the school icta her of playing a. game involving picture taking, says Barrett's report, Barrett said 31° of the children described a game called Naked Movie Star which . “‘antailed the children reinevliig’ thei . clothes and - being photographed by one or more of. the teachers present,” “Raymond Buckey is identified by almost all of the children as taking the majority — of the photographs,”' Barrett's - report sald, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisora,responding - to the allegations, created’ ‘a i5-member task force Tuesday to review laws Boverning preachool licensing procedures, The Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs of the House of Commons will be holding meetings on Bill C-9, An Act to establish the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, to enact An Act respecting en- forcement in relation to certain security and related — offences and to amend certain Acts in consequence thereof or in relation thereto, Individuals and organizations who wish to make written submissions to the Committee relating to Bili C-9 may — do so in English, French or both official. languages. If possible, submissions should be typed-on 28'cm by : 22 cm paper with margins of 3 cm by 2 cm, Public distribution of all submissions is left to the dis- cretion of the Committee, unless otherwise requested. "All written submisstons should be. submitied by 5:00 pm. ey April 16, 1984, Submissions should be addressed to: Clerk, and Legal Affairs, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario KIA 0A6 ‘Standing Committee on Justice : —_ : Claude-André- Lachance; M.P. Chairman High and 7 uf guess fron. that day Bald my y thing" A trim, energetic middle-age woman, Thompson's teaching é¢areer has‘taken her from the public ‘school ’ system and tutoriig learning-disabled children at home while raising her-two'sons to running a unique schoo} for children “no te else can deal with". ompson is the force behind Step-up school—a program ‘anthmet Juvenlte delinquents reading, writing. and etic a BEGAN IN WAGER Siep-up had its beginnings in a wager with then oper-line radio show moderator Jack Webster in 1972, °° Street children had become a highly visible preblem in Vancouver after provincial juvenile contalnment facilities a training schools were closed in 1963, |... “T said; Jack, those kids you're talking about, the child , prvatitutes, they’re‘kids who want to be in school, They want tobe like everyone else. They want a school that looks ikea school, they wanta teacher who looks like a teacher," Webster challenged her and the wager was on, '"] said 500 bucks, Jack, and a bottle of scotch, And T went oa to prove it” When Thompson gave a talk on learning-disabled children, probation officer Bernie Agg was in the audience, He was slarting a program for juvenile delinquents, asked Thompson for her help, and that led to her firat “hard-core” . British Cokmbians need training VANCOUVER (CP) — It British Columbia wants to jon the rush into the field of high technology it has to start tralning petple to work it it, says Robert Church, assistant dean of medical researchat the Unlveralty of Calgary. : Government must provide universities with a positive environment for research and offer more long-raige, large- scale basic research programs, Church told about 280 delegates toa high tech conference Tuesday. Most universities “are go static It's unbelievable,” but should “‘protect, enhance and nurture an atmosphere for . basic research,” he said. John MacDonald, chairman of MacDonald, Dettwller and Associates Ltd, called high-technology “g people industry." * British Columbla must reach “critical mass” — having at least five high-technology firms each employing more than 250 people along .with strong science and engineering schools, he said, and although it hasn’t reached that point, It is headed in the right direction. Pat MeGeer, universities, science and communications minister, sald outside the conference he expects the province will reach critical mass “within five years.” Donald George, dean of engineering science at Simon * - Fraser University, called for the development of people as & resource. Untit now the focus has been on exporting natural resources, not on developing people, George said. For every engineering student per capita in British Columbla there are six or seven in Japan, hesaid, . George lauded government-funded research centres and called for improved and new engineering programs, but sald that ‘‘given the pressures. on the provincial budget, -‘nouch.of the- funding for. these" endeavors & ‘modest and Insulficient, McGeer said until now there was ‘no precaure to push : high-technolgy eshucation because there was no job market, From those beginnings, what Thompson calls the most ’ g@uccessful program in North America evolved. From 1975 to April 1039, Step-up graduated 253 students. “We're the one place kids can come where they feel accepted, You never get kicked out of this program, We make no judgments on you or your family or whatever's happened to you. We're just normal, ordinary pedple doing normal, ordinary things, “We're not soclal workers, child care e workers, anything elee~- we're teachers. We leach kids how to read, write and do arithmetic.” Sarah, 16, had been out of school for most of the previous’ three years when she began the ‘Stepup program in September, ’ “Actually, 1 really enjoyed it because for three years I was doing nothing, T had the oceasional waitressing job and stuff like that, I really liked writing and I used to do a Jet, When I got back I had pages that I could actually fill with words* IN FOSTER ROME Sarah, who livea in a foater home, is one of about 20 students who attends the p a.m, lo 11 a.m, program ina portable building owned hy the Vancouver achook board. Each student works at his own speed, in a high-eided study area which affords some privacy. There Is no high-priced computer equipment, no sclence “labs and no gymnasium, although students do take part In sporting ovents organized by other schools. There is one teacher to every four students and they ignore the uncontrollable things in the children’s privale lives. “All I can control is what happens here,” says Thompson, ‘And it better be the best two hours that kid ever had in his life." SEVEN ON STAFF . . In addition to managing a. staff of seven two teachers, two teaching assistanta, two probation assistants and a secre tary Thompson gr greets anaverage cf three visitors a day. Brimming with enthusiaem, she says ehe is working up to 20 hours a day, - To get into Step-up, children have to be referred by a proba ton officer. There is a waiting Lat of about200, The students, ranging in age from 19 to17, are teated and an individual teaching program is designed for them, Step-up has a morning and an afternoon session, each lasting two hours, and it takes 180 days for a student to complete a grade. Cutoff level ls Grade 10. During the eight-year period ended April 1963, 88 per cent af the students were considered learning disabled. OF those, ot per centhad failed atleast one grade, LAST HOPE Thompson says Step-up is the last hope for many children who have been assessed as learning disabled-but never got ’ the kind of help they needed. Without it, they tend to end up - on the streets, “These are the kids thatelip through the cracks, “You've got social perception problems because you're learning disabled. You don’t read people correctly, A lot of these kids are always the ones that getcaught,"" ' Step-up's statistics seem to prove ita success. The 333 graduates, who had an average of 4,7. offences prior to enrolment, had a delinquency rate of a7, per cent alter leaving the program. . The Vanconver schoo) board covers 67 per. cent of Step- “up's costs with the remainder paid by the Attorney Geileral’s Ministry, ‘It costs about 4a 4 day“for: . eudennt, cofipardd with about $14 fora regular school, well below the 7 for each juvenile in a contsinrtent centre. - “Inthe next year, the Government of Canada will spend more than 24 million on the Career-Access Program in British £2 Columbia and the Yukon, a. program. providing employers’ . witha wage subsidy for people who face severe difficulties i in. finding work. ' Here’s How . It Works Career-Access émploy- © ment must be full-time. Career-Access for." Youth provides employers, Employment and Emplol et Immigration Canada a hs dohn Roberts, Minister Immigration Canada John Roberts, Ministre =} of up to 50 percent for up to six months. For employers - hiring disabled - fA people, Career-Access can offer wage assistince at higher rates for longer periods. As ain employer, you may be eligible for the Career-Access - Program, For more infot- mation, contict your nearest Camida Employment Centre.