we attend the pacific northwest annual two thousand and ten nation i am here at the exhibition hall downtown seattle for the two thousand and ten death nation expo and i've hijacked this lady here to kind of me out and we're at a booth all butterfly hands butterfly hands and she's going to turn it over to somebody else and then she'll be voicing what he's interpreted all right so we're going to move over find they would go on to butterfly hand dot com but how do they find out about butterflies hey i'm stuck so that's why we're here today to spread the word to let people know that we're here and we're here to help you we're here to that's there's a there's a problem sometimes was dealing with a tough expo because people don't realize are coming here too i mean if you haven't seen the program or they haven't come to this event how are they going to find you somehow getting your presence out there so and she's going to interpret what this lady has to say and and you are i mean maybe stanley in your title the transitional housing for your four for abused deaf women's advocacy service in seattle and that's the name of this and what does the group offer different kinds of services advocacy we do medical legal and just general advocacy for victims of domestic violence and or sexual abuse sexual assault and stopping all and we offer advocacy we offer therapy services for women and children we have transitional housing program advantage of our services we will help them find a permanent housing and help them become more independent and self sufficient so that we have that's another service we are and then we have all over the united states so that n t v eight which is in texas and they handle hearing calls we handle the death callers and  we would go all over the u s to help people who wanted to set up their own agency similar to add was and so we would go to different cities and train those people on how to establish that kind of any now couple  questions based on what you said ok you said about weekdays what about weekend that somebody is abused during the weekend how did they get in touch with actually they will contact n t s b in texas and they work with the operators there in texas they're hearing operators are not down and we don't have  so how many deaths people are in the seattle area that's a really good question and i can't really answer that you can get that information through the office of the deaf and hard of it's very similar to the numbers in the numbers and percentages in the hearing community there they run about the same percentages i not a big difference when you look at that through that maybe the deaf community has the experience of being a victim  have continued to hijack julia here for a moment but i'm going to do is i'm going to walk around and show a variety of the booths but i'm not going to talk  behind the camera and then if i find somebody that you know looks like you should be something you should be interviewed and i'll try to use their hijab julia again or somebody else i am now at another booth about how service waste material hijacked a couple of ladies here to help out and what is it about hazardous materials and ways that the deaf community is in need of knowing we want people to know that there are products at  is to them or their families how to use and safely and how to dispose of them we have a service the way some of you know at the auburn super bowl that people can take their household hazardous products to and you can tell those products are hazardous because they say on the label somewhere caution warning danger an event like this you're trying to do some outreach to the community of folks so that they understand more because or maybe they're not getting the message or we find  know that much about the products at their home so we're just trying to make sure that everyone knows whatever their language is you know how ever they get the information and we know that the deaf culture there's different ways information is shared and we're just trying to figure that out and this is our first step and and for those that are deaf and or for those an army even there i'm sure there's a website for more information yes we do have a all right well thank you ladies for for telling the viewers a little bit about what needs to be done and what to look for and  of looked around and variety of the foods that are here at destination expo it comes to seattle every other year so it won't be in seattle until two thousand and twelve but it will be in portland oregon in two thousand and eleven and so this this program will air a couple of different times and also hopefully promote the portland event as well as the two thousand and twelve event and i want to thank julia for helping me out and letting  everybody know what i'm saying and of course for more information about butterfly hand there's the web site and again thank you very much and have all your travel become an adventure learned more about the every other even year event for seattle and shared with portland on odd years likely returning to seattle mid october two thousand and twelve at death nation dot org thank you for watching