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Wednesday, november 15, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
Displaced homemakers recognized
By Kim Wilt
According to the program coordinator of the Omaha
Displaced Homemakers Center, the problems of displaced
homemakers are receiving more recognition.
Holly Alexander said the President's Commission on
Women's Employment Needs has reported that one in
three women lack basic job skills, and "displaced home
makers are the hardest hit."
Last month, national legislation was passed, she said,
which makes displaced homemakers a "target group" for
Comprehensive Training and Employment Act (CETA)
groups. The Omaha CETA has already contacted the
center, she said.
"I think it's really important that it (the problem of
displaced homemakers) has gotten recognition," she said.
Alexander estimated that at least 5,200 women in
Omaha fall into the displaced homemaker category, and
that nationally nine to 10 million women fit the classifi
cation. Alexander said approximately 120 women have used
the center's programs since it opened in January, 1978.
An equal number of women have used it for information
and referral, she said.
Open to 'unpaid homemakers'
Alexander said the center is available to women 35 or
over, who are "unpaid homemakers," and who find them
selves suddenly in need of employment. This could
include women who are widowed, separated, divorced, or
have disabled husbands. In fact, she said, the only women
who would be excluded would be those married women
with a bread-winner in the home.
Alexander said the law which established the center
sets the guidelines for determining who is eligible to use
the center.
The center received a $56,800 grant from the state
when it opened, Alexander said, which will last until
June, 1980. She said the Legislature then will have to de
cide "what else can be done." Alexander said while the
center is currently not having difficulty in making ends
meet, as more women become aware of the program, and
take advantage of the services offered, "I think we'll be
stretched and overburdened."
Grand Island program
She said she hopes it will be possible to make such
services available to all women in Nebraska. Currently, be
sides the Omaha center, there is one other such program
in Grand Island. The Grand Island program started last
spring, she said, and received the same grant as did the
Omaha center.
One woman at the center, who asked not to be ident
ified, said she had been participating in the group coun
seling for a week because "I thought I needed a support
group to help me in finding a job and getting an
education."
The woman, who said she was "in the process of
getting a divorce" and had three children, said she had
worked before as a receptionist and as a clerk, but lacked
the skills to find the kind of job she wanted.
NBC Nightly News selected the Omaha center to be the
main feature of a national program about such centers and
the work they do.
NBC crews spent November 8 and 9 at the center,
which is located in the YWCA, taping the program.
Included in the program, which will air November 18 and
19, are the stories of two women who have used the
center's programs, scenes of personnel doing interviews
with women , and a group workshop.
A counselor at the center said she was "surprised and
pleased" that NBC had chosen them for the program. "I
had expected that it would be disruptive," she said, but
found that the crew "was very thoughtful-they didn't
take over."
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