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Show Workshop on human services scheduled The relationships between the law, the professional dealing with human services, ser-vices, and the human services ser-vices consumer will be explored in a three-day workshop being offered by Southern Utah State College. "The purpose of the intensive in-tensive workshop is to aid those engaged in providing human services with a basic knowledge of the rights of the social service consumer," con-sumer," Craig Jones, SUSC political science professor and workshop co-coordinator, co-coordinator, says. Workshop registration will be June 5 at 7:45 a.m. in room 121 of the Science Building on the SUSC campus. Sessions will be June 5 through June 7. A registration fee of $40 will be charged to those who are taking only the workshop. Those taking other SUSC summer school courses may apply their regular summer school tuition and fee costs toward the workshop. Two credit hours will be awarded upon course completion. "There are many people who can benefit from the workshop," Jack L. Stokes, SUSC professor of behavioral science and workshop co-coordinator, indicates. "Among them are counselors, probation officers, of-ficers, family service workers, attorneys, child care workers, private practitioners, psychologists, psychiatrists, students, educators, and human services consumers." William B. Mooney, assistant professor of family law at the University of Iowa and a law practitioner for 25 years, and Regnal W. Garff, Jr., presiding judge for Utah juvenile courts, will take part in the workshop. Also assisting will be local attorneys, including Hans Chamberlain, Michael Park and James Shumate. Among the workshop topics will be dependency, neglect and child abuse; rights of children and their parents; the general court system--structure and procedure; legal rights of social service consumers; legal processes in institutional in-stitutional commitment; and the art of testifying in court. Other topics will also be -covered. "We would like to assist human service workers in being more effective as court witnesses, to be aware of times when their clients are in need of legal aid, and to improve cooperative measures between social service workers and lawyers when providing assistance to clients," Jones said. !'- ". .nr- - .& 1 K : I EDWYNN S. WEAVER |