Box 3, Folder 17, Document 17

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Several fmonths ago, Dor-
eathea R, Langley, a VISTA
volunteer from Baltimer
Maryland and now working
in the EOA | West Central
terfef ares, came up with
the idea of a Home Nurses
Association for some of the
unemployed women in the
area.

he thes called the Red
Cross Association and Hu-
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if they couH provide nurses
on a volunteer basis inorder
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ses for the women, The Red

Cross supplied a nurse and.

printed materials, and the
Director of Nursing at Hu-
ghes Spalding gave additional
assistance,

Mrs, Langley's next step
was to find a place te held
the training classes. She ap~
proached the Dixie Hills Ba-
ptist Church which offered
its facilities for the first
session, lasting 6 - Sweeks,
The second training class
was held from 6-6 p,m. on
Tuesdey and Thursday.





Trainees of Mrs, Lang-

ley’s classes become mem-
bers of the Companions and
Nurses Association which
works to develop the skills
of home companions and
home nurses, and to teach
practical home nursing sk-
iis for the low income and
the uneducated, It has also
helped te icach some low-
income Women to read and
write,

Out of all the participants,
who range in age from 16

to 67, 100 have curnpleted -





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the training and 90 are em-
ployed,

Graduate trainees have
been successful in finding
employment in private ho-
mes (Mother and Baby Care)
Piedmont Hospital, Fulton
County Medical Association
and Wesley Woods Conval-
escent Home,

Althoush almost all the
participants are women, two
males, one a lifeguard and
the other a policeman, have
completed thecourse,

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