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Show (( TurSli Oci',('c Lakeside M Jjcr6i f$c !t$ Utah nurses Star opening : take resources to Ukraine PAVSON - WouUn'i you when nine purses with 400 epidural jinevthevy ku arrive, no one in thenmui. Ukraine, wa having a baby. And during th. enure ID days that the medical team from Columbia Mountain View Ho pnal in Pay son stayed, only one til know ectopie $ - nv'x .- f V , -am '?? . y- - 4 X, ,4 ;;; e ttwvvCHOtSO$aNtw( AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: Former Uum Jaa skv Mark Dun sqr.s a baii for Bob Means at Super Target in Layton Saturday morning as part of the store s grand opening Building still sought for Tf'O r. AbMXVO SALT LAKE CITY - Snow hux dusted ; ilie mountains and mhui w ill blanket the Salt shelter Lake Valley, but a new Tor homeless men has yet to be found. ; Palmer Dclauhs and Pamela Aikinson have looked at 5t buildings, but none is suitable for an emergency overflow shelter site to replace one that housed 240 men last winter. colJ-wcnth- mens shelter "This is the worst crisis we've ever been in." Atkinson said. Atkinson, vice president of mission services for Intemioumain Health Care and a longtime homeless advocate, says time is short, but it is not too late to get a building ready if one is found. Homeless women and families will have shelter. An emergency overflow facility for families was secureJ when Salt Lake City do nated the downtown Silver State Building. The family community winter shelter will open Nov. I and serve 120 parents and children. Aikinson anJ DePaulis. of a e planning committee for homeless issues, ran into a number of stumbling blocks when they began the search for a new men's overflow shelter. They included zoning problems and locations loo close to schools or churches. long-rang- Poverty activists told to prepare for cuts fra Ascoati P."S .; SALT LAKL CU V - Federal cuts in the fqod stamp program will mean less on the dinner plates of Utah's poor over the next five years. Between now and 2002. the program is to be cut $90 million. That w ill mean 50 million pounds of food a year will no longer be available, about 700 delegates to the 22nd annual Utah Issues conference were told last week. Steve Johnson, executive director of Utahns Against Hunger, said that S89 million in food stamps were passed out in Utah last year. "In Utah, no other proghim provides that kind of food assistance. The Utah Food Bank handled 12 million pounds of food last year, so it would have to increase that four times to make up the deficit,'' Johnson said. Court: Government responsibility 2 SALT LAKE CITY -A fed- eral appeals court last Tuesday came down on the side of government in a Utah case that pitted parental rights against the responsibility of government to investigate child abuse. . Applying terms of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the court said that Washington County had a "traditional" and "transcendent interest" in protecting children within the county from abuse. The case stems from an eyewitness's allegations of sexual child. abuse of a The county had adopted a policy to question alleged victims of child abuse at school outside the presence of parents. But in this ease, the child was home-schoole- d. f; So, Washington County officials received a court order to re- move the child from her home and uniformed officers took her to a shelter home for questioning. After 18 hours away from home, the child was returned to her home after the investigation Leavitt: 32-pa- separating the family in error, the judges said there was also an enormous risk of tainting the interview with the child or leaving the child in an abusive situation. They noted that the mother, J.B., admitted that if officers had simply asked to interview her daughter the mother "wouldn't say yes." That belies her claim that officials should have requested permission to conduct the interview in the home, the judges said. They also rejected J.B.s assertion that the county lacked probable cause to seize her child because the informant's statement contained inaccurate information. The judges said the Supreme Court has not yet decided whether the temporary removal of children in cases of suspected abuse or neglect is governed by the probable cause standard. But, they said, "It could be r SALT LAKE CITY - Gov. Mike Leavitt and Robin Amold- - Williams, head of Utah's fnent of Human Services, want to .fcreate a Child Welfare Foundation to recruit, train and support foster parents. ; "These are all our kids. They, ate Utah children, and it's vital that we make the best possible s situation for them, said. We need to have a ' larger pool of families ready. Arnold-William- s and Leavitt introduced their idea last week in Columbus, Ohio, at a meeting of the National Governors Association. - - The conference, designed to concerns, address child-welfagathered health and human service officials and governors to discuss how learning, foster care. Arnold-Wil-liam- welfare reform and science affect children in the state's care. They will bring the idea to Utah's lawmakers during the next session of the Legislature, s said. The foundation is part of a bigger plan by Leavitt to boost voluntarism in the foster care system. He has pledged to attract 3.000 foster care parents into the system by the year 2000. Training is critical, Arnold-William- s Arnold-William- said. When years of abuse, trauma and conflict boil out of a foster child, the foster parents need to know how to handle the crisis. What must happen at any cost, she said, is to quell the conflict and stem further trauma to the child. "We need more options ready for that child, and we need to be able to offer support so at 2 in patient ek in tlie Top University sports are really bouncing in the Top of Utah! Score big ,, with the fun and fast action our local athletes have to offer. V ; Weber State Wildcats in Ogden Men's Basketball Women's Volleyball Football Women's Basketball Women's Soccer ar- gued that such removal is based on special needs beyond the normal need for law enforcement and therefore permissible in the absence of probable cause." 4 !h. J..t a - A for information Call WU.tr Utah State Aggies in Logan Football Men's Basketball Lets train foster parents The Associated Press re revealed no evidence of child abuse. The mother, identified only as J.B.. then filed a lawsuit against Washington County, alleging violations of her and her daughters rights to procedural due process and equal protection and interference with their familial association rights. A U.S. District Court judge rejected the claims. With help from the Rutherford Institute (a national conservative, nonprofit civil liberties organization), the mother appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The opinion indicates the three-judg- e appeals panel clearly struggled with the issues raised by the case. , Writing for the court. Judge Robert Henry said, "This is a difficult case, pitting the fundamental rights of parents and families - rights that are ... consonant with the right of privacy -against the awesome responsibilities of a county to investigate child abuse, a most reprehensible and problem. But, while conceding a risk of pregnancy needed ihcir care, Thai desn'i mean iheeffons f regotereJ nurse Jo Burt, who the two maternity houses. is chief clinical oiilccr at MounUkraine's bmhraie is declining tain View, were wasted, the infant monalny rate is and Quite the comrjry. Bun believes che's convinced rising "Women there are afraid. at least eight more Americans of Ukraine's need for assistance Birth is more difficult for them - the group she took along (without anesihesiai and consequently they have a fair amount with her to help leach pain-fre- e of birth iruunu. Our hope was hinhmg to Ukrainian dictors. to improve "When the Ukraine became we would be able T his is the first care there. their a sovereign state, the Soviet Union cut them oil." sjid Bun. little step." Accompanying Burt were "Lvery body's money became gcncrjl surgeon Dr. Jay Old-roy- d the government's money. They and his wife I habeih. andepend almost completely on Dr. Clisio Beaty, esthesiologist medihumanitarian aid for their obstetrics nurse Susjn Hales cal equipment anJ supplies." Burt became aware of the and her husband Blame, critical critical needs when she served care nurse Jeannette Durfee. mcdicalAurgical nurse Bradley dunng the Persian Gulf War in Gamer and respiratory ihcrjpisi Germany. Because she was a veteran Jerri Anne Lake. Ronun Plachinta. a graduate and a nurse, she's been allowed student from Ukraine who into Ukraine on several mishopes one day to be an anesthesions with the Veterans Associhelped set up the exsiologist. ation for Service Activities cursion. . Abroad. "Were trying to encourage She got to know the people in Chcrnivtsi in 1994 and people like Roman to come and learn and return to their own worked in the region hospital country where the needs are there for two weeks - just long enough to watch nurses caring great." said Burt. Chemivtsi. with a population up to 40 patients at a time, relyof more than 300.000. has ing on outdated and unreliable 20.000 physicians, said Burt. equipment and try ing to help laThey average S80 a month in boring mothers give birth without the benefit of modem anes--. take-hom- e pay. There arc far fewer nurses. thctics. The medical stalTs work U iih "That's how it started, bulan antiquated water system and k's become a grassroots movefew resources. ment to build relationships, ascertain their needs, teach epiduTheir surgical drapes .and ral anesthesia and work with the gowns, for instance, are brown medical university," said Burt, from constant disinfection in who just returned from a two-weautoclaves. On their wish Vm from America are blood gas ait-- y trip with eight All, including Burt, paid for alyzers andJjV'guipment. Have a outweighs parents rights in abuse case The Associated Press Jui their own air Loc to I kraine and PUH1 weak ta g.t ; I M all iok evtra hagtr-igfilled with epidural kit. I.vt.. whiol Luc, mother and baby patke and medical supplies including scissors, stethoscopes and vitamins. They went at the invitation of the Ukrainian government, which is interested in opening a scfmol of nursing in Cliernivist, Hurt went specifically to try to help holster mothers-uub- e in . the morning that situation doesnt get out of hand. Utahs system has been under close scrutiny since 1992, when the state was sued by the National Center for Youth Law in San Francisco for neglecting children in foster care. The case was settled out of court, but the state has struggled to comply with the settlement. Leavitt said this week that fixing the system has been excrucbut Utah is iatingly difficult, making progress. "We're working not just toward the system being repaired, but to being the best in the country." The state is complying with 94 percent of required standards. Retraining and reinvestment are under way. "It's a bottom-u- p transition, he said. 1801EDT child-welfa- re x fr' : I; i & ,3 y y "t .Sr, - i rw c. 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