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Show Pag 34 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, April 28, 1984 Timely issues, news, features, including family, food, fashion OuUY Solving Family Problems Foster Care Workers Struggle to Help ByOOUGWILKS Herald Staff Writer It was early Saturday mornthe phone interrupted the stillness of the woman's ing when home. She was used to such but it didn't interruptions make it any easier to reach for the phone. On the other end of the receiver was the frustrated sound of a mother. Her young daughter had just won the battle of wills for the second time and she wanted her out of the house; no longer willing and able to handle the burden of caring for the child. Eater the Foster Care Worker. The awakened woman is just one of thousands of foster care workers struggling to help so- ciety with growing family She is poorly paid, on call a day, and plays the role of counselor, problems. rs interpreter, mediator and placement officer. She is the recipient of verbal abuse, she cares for ungrateful clients and receives little support from within the very system she works for. Yet foster care workers are a vital part' of a community. They are car ing individuals brave enough to take on other people's problems in an effort to help a troubled society. Sometimes parents just need a breather from an angry teenager. Sometimes its more serious: babies are neglected, children are beaten, parents run out of money, fathers sexually attack daughters; it can be anything at anytime and the foster care worker has to be there to help. "This is not happy valley. There are problems here and they won't go away by ignor- ing , them," said Meredith Johnson, foster care worker at Utah Division of Family Services, Provo. She is one of six local workers struggling to help parents and their kids stay together. Each has responsibility for 0 children with a goal to get the kids and the parents back together in a caring environment. The use of foster parents is part of that process. "We have teenagers who are ungovernable and out of control. Some kids go through a (parent's) divorce and it upsets them. An abusive step parent steps in and the child 25-4- work at correcting the problems in the home. When a child is brought out Baumgarten, local foster care worker. Some teenagers feel rejection. Whether they are actually rejected or not is irrelevant if the child believes his parents don't love him. The foster care worker counsels and places the children in foster care homes. Unfortunately, this doesn't it's one of the always work realities of social work that makes the job stressful and at times, heartbreaking. "Foster care' is no panacea. It has limitations. When you take a kid who resents authority and put him in another home with authority, he is still going to be angry," said Baumgarten. Parents look for an easy answer to solve the problems between themselves and their children. Parents often blame a rebellious teenager for problems in the home and send their children away thinking the problems will be solved. "Lots of times they just drop their kids on our agencies," said Louise Stevenson, another foster care worker in Provo. Some parents don't understand that they need to of his home and placed in a Annette Wilson, the reigning Miss dance and instrumental talents will highlight the Miss Springville Pageant scheduled for Song, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 28 at Springville High Auditorium. Eighteen applicants from the Ma pie ton and Springville area will participate. . "America" is the 1984 pageant's theme. J. Robert Howe, disc jockey at Keyy Radio, will be master of ceremonies. He will introduce the contestants and events along with Films Are Springville-- . Carol Gadd is judges chairman for the pageant. Judges will be Cindy Quinn Murdock, Chad Mur-docDennis Wayne Hill, Mar-gen- e Luke Flygare, and Jilean Abegg. Auditors will be Mike and Dixie Davis. Tickets will be sold at the door. k, Miss Orem Thirteen girls will compete for a scholarship and crown during the Miss Orem Scholarship Pag a Maor eant to be held Saturday, April 28th, 7 p.m.. at Orem High. Tickets will go on sale at 6:30 p.m. that evening at Orem High ticket booth. Cost is $3 per person. All seats are general admission. ticket sales are now underway by contestants. The Orem Boosters, Inc. and the Orem City Council are pageant sponsors. . Gene Parrish, who has been involved in performing arts and as a judge of other contests and pageants has been selected as Master of Ceremonies for the state budgeting concerns. By BELLE VAN WAGENEN Special to The Herald Films are not just entertainment or escape from our problems. We leave the theater as . changed individuals from those who entered.- More often than not our total perspective and whole lives are influenced. The big movie screen and the people who sit in front of it have a special relationship. That screen portrays aspects of life that inevitably become part of our own experience. These ideas were expressed by Sharon Swenson, Coordinator of Film Exhibition for the Utah Media Center in Salt Lake City. In her lecture to the Reynolds Forum last week in the Provo City Centc;', she challenged her audience to support good films. "Our dollars should show the movie producers that we want excellence," she stated. However she feels that even poor films our have something to offer personal values are clarified and our understanding of life is in- creased. "Even pronography shows aspects of life that we might never see or understand. One of the positive effects is that we can see dirt and degradation without personally being invovled in it. We need to experience some of the negative aspects of humanity in order to choose the higher course we elect to follow." Ms. Swenson has a fascinating job in which she sees hundreds of films each year for fun and profit her own profit and ours as citizens of this state. The Utah Media Center is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, and Ms. Swenson is available to review films, criticize them and track down old or discarded movies and documentaries. She teaches classes in fiolm analysis at the University of Utah, and serves as the film reviewer of "Network" Magazine. Ms. Swenson, whose husband Paul Swenson is editor of "Utah Holiday," recalled for her audience how the old film "Tammy" with Debbie Reynolds influenced her own youthful outlook. Young, fresh-face- d Debbie with her pigtails and bib overalls sat on a bale of hay snuggling her pet goat, and singing "Tammy's in Love." That scene presented such wholesome romatnic possibilities that Ms. Swenson can still recall how enthralled she was. Young people today see "Flashdance" in which the lead is but a much more sexual person still fresh, vital, and particularly energetic. This modern yung girl is comfortable with herself and exemplifies the "Pepsi genera- - and they are forced to understand what is in his mind as they see a rationalization for vigilante jus- tice. "Terms of Endearment" al- lowed viewers to identify with a grandmother who was desperately hanging on to her youth. "It showed a mother who had come to terms with herself and realized that there is Hie and love between the sizzling teen-ag- e years and the "where's the beef" stage of life, according to Ms. Swenson. "Yentl" showed a young girl who was struggling to grow up in her limiting culture and meet the intellectual, emotional, and physical needs of a woman. "Fannie and Alexander" is a gripping foreign film in which viewers could eaisly identify with any character. Ms. Swenson explained that Ingmar Bergman always does well by women. He seems to value their tenderness and intuitive approach to life. Even with sub titles this film ;' ' scholarships for each entrant, Is 12:10--1 5:10-- 6 PM PM on "Eliminating Self-defeati- Behaviors," at the Wednesday Orem Women's Club meeting. The May luncheon was also announced, at which time Virginia Washburn will be installed as Orem Women's Club president. At the Wednesday meeting Chamberlain described negative behavior as thoughts, feelings and actions that keep people from achieving. "They stop us from being our best," he .said. . "Say 'yes' to things you want to do, and say no' to things you don't want to do. Remember that pity makes everything hurt doubly." He pointed out that loneliness doesn't mean being alone. "Nobody else cause! depression but yourself. You dp a depression," he said. "It is necessary to find out how, when and why we become depressed and then to avoid those situations if possible. He observed that everyone suffers the consequences of his behavior problems. "We label ourselves and carry our established non-cred- it er f patterns with us sometimes from childhood to adulthood." j He outlined several techniques for changing patterns, such as keeping a diary of events and consequent emotions; of studying what effects follow certain behaviors and of vitalizing situations and determining in advance how to react. In addition to Mrs. Washburn, other officers are Angie Cameron, president-elect- , Pat Poojle, recording secretary; Mina Brown, SALE ,' corresponding secretary; June Kendall, treasurer (two-yeterm); Edith Manning, parliamentarian, and Lillian Bertett, past president director. 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He spent three years traveling with Sounds of Freedom, Young Ambassadors and the Lamanite Geni eration, all of BYU. Paulina Jolley is general chapman of the event. jj . j Jim Baumgarten is a Utah Valley foster care worker. event. He is a graduate of completely enfolds the viewer into that mystical realm between reality and the spirit world. In conclusion, Ms. Swenson urged her listeners to see more films. "Don't delegate the movies to be entertainment for just teen agers," she pleaded. "Just as dreams can tell us important offers a 2, and 3. '".. Self-Defeati- ng peri-fera- l. BYU ' 1 Orem Women 's Club tion" or a combination of "yogurt and granola," but is not complete as a role model for youthful admirers. In films like "Rocky" or "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" women are entirely In "Sudden Impact" even women are compelled to identify with the main male character, at mi .. r, - t.-- State foster care workers received no pay increase during the 1982-8- 3 year. A freeze on hiring has also forced foster care workers to pick up the case loads and responsibilities of other workers who have left the organization. "If we had smaller case loads, 1 think we could get the kids back home quicker," said Johnson. Pre-pagea- nt Influence on Life ii "Our biggest problem is Area Women Will Compete in Pageants Mist Springville ' they (the parents) are so relieved to have the kid gone that they don't want to get involved," said Stevenson. "You work with the child but unless there is a change in the family you can't send the child back into that environment. If you change one aspect of a troubled system, you have to change the whole system," said Stevenson. The frustrations of foster care work are increased by said Jim gets resentful," - foster home, a master plan is' developed to work with both the parents and the child. 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