women

By PAT RICH

Wilma Douglas-Dungey,
employment coordinator at
the North Vancouver
probation office is just one
of many people who are
striving hard to build a better
community on the North
Shore.

But unlike many people
Dungey is working with the
outcasts of the very com-
munity she is trying to
improve - those that have
broken the community's
laws and are on probation.

“They live here, they've

grown up here, they've gone
to school here, they have a
right to work here,” Dungey
says.
“And if they’re creating
some problems in our
community we can't be
expecting somebody to run
in and save us all] the time.
We have to get involved in
doing it.”

Dungey has been working

North
told to

Approximately {00 en-
thusiastic women gathcred
at the ‘North Shore Now!’
luncheon held at Capilano
College in late may. Former
West Van Alderman Ann
Arnott was guest speaker at

the celebratory luncheon
planned by a number of
organizations and in-
dividuals.

North Shore women met
at a wine reception before
lunch to exchange in
formation about issues
which interest them and to
familiarize themselves with
the services offered by North
Shore organizations.

At the buffet lunch they
listened to Ms. Arnott
remind her audience that the
decisions affecting the

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in the corrections field for 11
years and for the last two
years she has, been the job
placement officer in North
Vancouver.

When Dungey started the
job on a part-time basis, she
said she didn’t like her
mandate at all.

“The mandate of the job
was to get jobs for job ready
people. Well, I was here an
hour and found that | didn't
have anybody who was job
ready. And what is job ready
anyway.”

Dungey was given the
freedom to change her
mandate and the job has
evolved to the point that
Dungey is now finding jobs
for “special needs” clients.

“I've had to go into this
community and build up a
reputation for myself and
this program,” Dungey says.

She now feels that this
reputation has been
established.

“This office is quite

hore women
be political

various service groups and
organizations are made by
pohtical bodies.

“Women have returned to

colleges and universities,
have moved out tnto the
community, and the com-
munity = has benefitted

greatly from this,” she sand.
But I'd hke to urge more
women to become involved
in the pobtrcal forum where

we can help to make the
decisions that affect us ”
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unique,” Dungey says
“because everybody is in-
volved with volunteer work
to help us do better work
from nine to five.”

“There are literally weeks
on end when I don't think I
ever quit work. Just because
it’s five o’clock doesn’t mean
I've finished for the day.”

Dungey says a number of
her clients just need
somebody to talk to and she
considers this part of her
job, even if she is doing the
talking on her own time.

“Sometimes I have to take
these guys down to their
Alcoholics Anonymous
meetings and make sure they
are staying sober,” she says
as an example.

“That's the way I prefer to
do it.”

“I believe so strongly in
community involvement that
I don't even think of this as a
job sometimes - it’s a way of
life.”

But often she feels as if she

“We had a good look at
how much we had done, and
how much we had enjoyed
working together, and we
decided to celebrate that
and at the same time to
make sure we were all aware
of cach other, and what we
had accomplished, and what
we were going to ac-
complish We're very
pleased with the results ”

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is working in a community
which refuses to admit it has
people who need help and
has no resources with which
to help them.

For Dungey this is more
than balanced when the
community comes through
and an employer agrees to
join the program.

Then Dungey feels she is
getting somewhere and the
community is benefiting.

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