| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 2 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V2 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1105 |
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I'm helping out a friend to start a hot line for women. It is different from rape crisis hot line or other types of hot line. This particular hot line is intended for any woman who wants to have someone to talk to, and about any topic that she wants to talk about. It is still in a conceptual stage. Neither my friend nor I have any experience with starting a hot line. We are not quite sure what procedure to go through to get government funding. I would appreciate it if someone can give me suggestions on where to start, and point me in the right direction. -ml
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| 143.1 | Try another hotline... | AKOV12::MILLIOS | I grok. Share water? | Mon Aug 29 1988 14:28 | 13 |
One good way would be to call up on one of the existing hotlines,
and ask how they got established...
You could call up one, apologize for using the hotline, but explain
that you had no other way to contact the hotline itself, and is
there a standard number that you could call back on, so as to not
tie up the hotline with non-crucial conversation...
One of the better known hotlines (or, the one with the easiest jingle
to remember) saw it on T.V.: 1-800-COCAINE
Best of luck,
Bill
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| 143.3 | Former volunteer. | PERFCT::NOVELLO | Tue Aug 30 1988 18:00 | 20 | |
I was a hotline volunteer in the early 70s for the Waltham (MA)
hotline. We were located in an unused part of the Hospital.
We had a Doctor and a Psychiatrist heading up the staff. All
volunteers were screened and trained.
We were funded by the city as part of their drug program. People
could call us to bring incapiciated friends to the hospital.
This was not a job for the meek (in the 70s). I had a few suicide
calls, a few sexual proposals and LOTs of drug questions.
We always had on male and one female volunteer on duty and were
open 7 nights a week all year (My girlfriend at the time and
I worked one New Years Eve!).
I feel we did a service to the community. The hotline was closed
down in 1975. We began getting fewer and fewer calls.
Guy Novello
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| 143.4 | is training required? | CADSE::FRANK | alias CADSE::HONEST | Wed Aug 31 1988 15:20 | 11 |
If you need any encouragement, I think this hotline sounds like
a great idea.
You might want to check into the legal aspect of who can and who cannot
give advice through your hotline. Federal or state laws may require
certain types of training for the people on your end of the phone
line.
- Lesley
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