"Sympathetic . . . yet calm"
Mid-Cape area to get help of Homemaker Service
Dennis-Yarmouth Register, April 16, 1965
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Cape Cod Homemaker Service is Increasing efforts to oiler the services of trained Homemakers to every family on Cape Cod in 1965.
Announcement was made recently by Executive Director Harriet Cameron of an eight session evening training course for mid-Cape Homemaker candidates.
The course was to begin April 5 at Cape Cod Hospital.
On completion of their training, the women selected from among interested applicants will serve families in Barnstable, Brewster, Dennis, Harwich and Yarmouth.
The job of Cape Cod Homemaker, Mrs. Cameron explained, is ideal for mature, healthy women who have been good managers of their own homes, who are sympathetic toward people in difficulties, yet who manage to keep calm, thanks to their own experience in handling the ups and downs of family life.
Often these capable women, when their own families have be- I come more independent, find them- ' selves with time on their hands. '
Many express the wish that there were just such an outlet for their energies and talents as Cape Cod Homemaker Service is providing.
Such mature women who want to be of service in their communities, who could use additional income, and who enjoy helping people in stressful circumstances, are the candidates Mrs. Cameron has looked for.
A first group of Homemakers was trained in February to serve the Outer Cape.
Several of them are already at work in families living In the area from Chatham to Provlncetown.
They are making it possible for the elderly to remain in their homes, - for young children to remain in their homes during hospitalization of a parent, and in many cases providing the help and the reassurance sorely needed when the natural homemaker is temporarily or permanently unable to function.
Homemakers work under guidance of a superviser, and in close contact with the entire staff of Cape Cod Homemaker Service.
At the outset, hours of work for mid-Cape Homemakers will . be daytime hours, adjusted to the particular needs of the families
Cape Cod Homemaker Service is geared to help.
If a Homemaker prefers work with elderly persons, or with families with young children, such preferences and special talents will be taken into account.
Part time and full time jobs are available. »
The sponsoring agency of the new service is Barnstable County Public Health Association.
To potential clients Cape Cod Homemaker Service offers the reassurance that there is now somewhere to turn for help when the natural Homemaker is 111 or absent.
The service is planned for all - for families comfortably situated, fi-y» nancially and for those who liave the additional distress of,money worries, .• "'- '*
Following organization of the mid-Cape branch, a third branch, of the service is planned for the . Upper Cape, to get underway in," the earlyFall.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
