WOMEN: COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR WOMEN DURING PUBERTY
The following services maybe useful. You’ll find them listed in your local telephone book. Most have toll-free numbers.
• Lifeline Centres provide counselling (and referral if needed) in emotional and social crises. There are Lifeline centres in all cities and many large towns.
• Other telephone counselling services such as Care-line and Centacare are listed under ‘Counselling: Marriage, Family and Personal’ in the yellow pages of the telephone book.
• The Family Planning Association provides women’s health checks (including breast checks, Pap smears, checkups for STD), contraceptive services, counselling and education about sexuality, pregnancy testing and counselling and referral for antenatal care or abortion. In some cities there are special clinics for young women.
• Sexual Health and Sexually Transmissible Diseases – there are clinics for these in all major cities. If there’s no clinic in your district, your doctor or the Family Planning Association will help. The Free AIDS Hotline listed under the index for ‘Community: Personal and Other Emergencies’ at the front of the white pages of the telephone book offers counselling and information about AIDS.
• Pregnancy Counselling and Support, Abortion Referral and Pregnancy Termination services are listed in the yellow pages of the telephone book.
Other services are listed under the indexes for ‘Community: Personal and Other Emergencies’ and ‘Community: Help and Welfare’ at the front of the white pages of the telephone book. They include:
• youth services
• alcohol and drug problems
• lads’ help-line (24 hours)
• emergency accommodation
• services for people with disabilities.
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