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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 9. May 4 1981

Welfare Workshops

Welfare Workshops

The workshop on welfare was lead by Neil Grange, who has been involved for some years with Gay Aid, a Wellington telephone support service. Neil identified some of the difficulties presented by callers as being tennagers below the age of 18; those who find themselves isolated for geographical reasons or by virtue of the fact of not being able to make contact with other gay people; and those who find themselves caught in heterosexual type marriages.

Other areas covered by the workshop were what sort of welfare services need to be provided and the virtues or otherwise of telephone services. The group arrived at the concensus that as a first point of contact the telephone was probably indispensible because it was readily available to everyone and because of the particular anonymity it afforded the caller.

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