Homemaker Program, the Rape Crisis Program,
and the Shelter for Homeless Women Program.

The Battered Spouse Program provides services
to battered spouses and their children who are
forced to leave their homes to safeguard their lives
and welfare. The Program began as a model shelter
in 1971. It was expanded in 1980 to assist commu-
nity based programs. Through a network of four-
teen community organizations, the Program offers
temporary shelter or help in obtaining shelter,
counseling, information, referral, and rehabilita-
tion (Code Family Law Article, secs. 4-513
through 4-516).

The Displaced Homemakers Program was creat-
ed as a model program in 1976. State legislation in
1979 established the model as a permanent project
with statewide focus. The Program provides ser-
vices to homemakers who are displaced due to the
death or disability of, or divorce, separation, or
abandonment by, a family member upon whom
they depended for income. A statewide network of
nine community based organizations helps dis-
placed homemakers overcome barriers to self-
sufficiency. A statewide office coordinates services
and provides technical assistance to the network
(Code Family Law Article, secs. 4-601, 4-602).

Established in 1983, the Rape Crisis Program
helps provide specialized support services to vic-
tims of rape and sexual offenses. Through this
program, the Department of Human Resources
allocates federal Preventive Health Services Block
Grant funds to eleven community based organiza-
tions, which provide hotline and counseling ser-
vices. The Program offers technical assistance to
areas of the State without such services.

The Homeless Women's Shelter Program pro-
vides shelter, meals, and counseling to homeless
women ineligible for other available housing. The
Program originated from legislation enacted in
1980 to establish a model crisis shelter for home-
less women. Funded by the Department of Human
Resources, the model shelter opened in 1981.
Currently, the Program maintains a Baltimore
City home, which provides temporary residence
and counseling for clients from the metropolitan
area.

GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON
MIGRATORY AND SEASONAL FARM
LABOR

Chairperson: Leon Johnson

Jean Adams; Nancy B. Burkheimer; Ronald E.
Friend; Father Arthur P. Gildea; Milton

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Godfrey; Terry W. Hepbum; Jan LeVeque
Houbolt; Brent M. Johnson; Lewis W. Jones;
Edwin D. Long, Jr.; John C. Miller; Sidney C.
Miller; Edward Mohler; Albert R. E. Payne;
Leigh Anne Strawn; Prank Sullivan; Maurice M.
Turner; Chester L. Wickwire; Edith L. Wilson,
R.N., Ph.D.

1123 N. Eutaw St., Suite 310
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-2248

At the request of the General Assembly, the
Governor created this Commission in 1959 as the
Governor's Committee for the Regulation and
Study of Migratory Labor in Maryland. It is
authorized to develop and recommend standards
to ensure that out-of-state farm laborers are im-
ported, maintained, and employed in Maryland
under satisfactory conditions of housing, sanita-
tion, health, and welfare (Joint Resolution no. 9,
Acts of 1959). By Executive Order, the Committee
was assigned to the Department of Social Services
in 1971 and reassigned in 1976 to the Department
of Human Resources. An Executive Order of 1981
reconstituted the Commission under its present
name within the Department of Human Resources
and expanded its mandate to include seasonal farm
workers within the State.

The Commission consists of representatives from
State agencies, labor, grower, and management
organizations, and the general public.

GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON
HISPANIC AFFAIRS

Chairperson: Emilio Perche-Rivas, 1986

Ernesto J. Laszlo, 1986; Emilia Badillo Monies,
1986; Julio Navarro, 1986; Raul Nieves, 1986;
Nuria M. Alvarez, 1987; Reynaldo Arriazola,
1987; Arturo Hemandez, 1987; Judith C. Toth,
1987; Pedro C. Vazquez, 1987; Juan Diaz, 1984;
Rev. Dalton D. Downs, 1984; David L. Duarte,
1984; Dr. Donald W. O'Connell, 1984; Michael
Trias-Fraticelli, 1984.

Ex officio: Vacancy, Secretary of Economic and
Community Development; Adele Wilzack,
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene; Ruth
Massinga, Secretary of Human Resources; David
W. Hombeck, State Superintendent of Schools;
F. David Schad, Executive Aide to the Govenor;
Antonio Suarez-Simon, Commission Chairperson
Emeritus.

Carlos E. Anzoategui, Executive Director
Globe Building, Suite 404