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stbuffville suntribune thursday may 5 2005 11 tr designed to f- by roy green staff writer more than 140 health and social service workers learned a new pro tocol this week to identify victims of domestic violence but for janet menezes it came about 10 years too late i wish the panel here today had been part of my story ms menezes told an audience often moved to tears by her tale of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of a violent husband ms menezes was the final speak er at a daylong workshop monday in richmond mil to introduce rou tine universal comprehensive screening rucs which calls on health care workers to automatically ask every woman older than 12 if she has ever experienced physical sexu al or emotional abuse no one ever asked me any ques tions wish they had ms menezes said relating a series of incidents thatbegan in 1994 in toronto where she lived with her husband and two children in fact i told my doctor thatmy husband was abusing me and asked him to help me he said hed give me a prescription for an antidepres sant the doctor assured her he would call her husband and get him in for a talk but he failed to do so she said the next time i saw that doc tor it was with the police and childrens aid after my husband choked my daughter routine screening should be done when women come in contact with health care professionals whether or not indicators of abuse are identified said marion boyd chairperson of a task force on the effects of domestic abuse rucs avoids any stigmatiza- tion as every woman is routinely asked ms boyd the former health minister in bob raes ndp govern ment told workshop participants more than 54 per cent of women had- experienced some form of unwanted or intrusive sexual experi ence before reaching the age of 16 she said citing a study from the canadian panel on violence against women more than 40 per cent reported at least one experience of incest andor extrafamilial sexual abuse before age 16 its a serious problem said det wendy heaver cdordihator of the domestic- violence unit of york regional police i like to call it the homicide prevention unit she said mondays workshop was the first step in a plan to have public health workers begin usingthe protocol according to pam youssef of york region health services public health is the best place to do this and it will be done by every one who in contact with women or families ms youssef said were hurting women by riot asking these questions weremoving the staff of the stoiiffyille medical centre are pleased to announce the relocation of their practice to 34 civic ave 2nd floor as of may 9 2005 flefch it furidafnentaf l t cl camp 1 basketball ages 814 coed july 11 15 900 am 1200 pm cost- 11000 camp 3 basketball volleyball ages 814 coed july 25 29 900 am 12 am cost- 11000 camp 2 basketball ages 10 14 boys july 1822 900 am 1200 pm cost- 11000 camp 4 volleyball ages 8 14 aug 25 900 am 12 pm cost- 10000 all camps held at stouffville dss vegetables check out our selection of vegetables vegetable soups and vegetablebased entrees vegetable lasagnabroccoli carrots three cheeses carrot barley soup three beari vegetarian chili broccoli cheddar quiche cabbage saladlentil feta salad mexican bean salad frozen baby peas supersweet corn peas and carrots its good to know your food reesor iity baking tvt monday friday 9am630pm saturday 9am5pm sunday closed now open monday to saturday 100 ringwood dr stouffville 200 metres past randys appliances on the south side of ringwood dr 9056402270 wwwreesorfarmkitchencom bring inthis coupon bymayl4 and receive 200 off a 32 ozsize of frozen three bean vegetarian chili regulariy5255 7ja j i i vxrs vy