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Thursday, August 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Federally-Funded Programs Offer Money, Jobs for Young and Old
By DAGMAR R. PADEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Federally-funded job training programs for youths and adults are part of the Lawrence scene, according to Richard Jackson, Manpower director for the East-Central Kansas Community Action Program. Jackson lives and works in Ottawa.
Trainees in the job training programs administered by Jackson are placed in nonprofit agencies and are paid $1,600 workers $1,600 an hour, minimum wage. Though it is hoped the non-profit agencies can hire the workers they train, they are not always able to do so,
Efforts are made to match a trainee's
international interests with his training
program.
THE PROGRAMS under Jackson's direction are divided into two main categories. One is the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) for those aged 14 through 17. The other is Mainstream, a program for adults 23 and older.
NYC is further divided into three sections. WITHIN NYC there is a program for 16 and 17-year-old high-school dropouts. Youth in this program work up to 40 hours a week in the summer and 28 hours a week during the rest of the year. They must also take six years of college education and a academic year. Through night school, and remedial education when it is needed, youths are encouraged to earn a high-school equivalent diploma.
Ballard Center in Lawrence is training one youth in the high-school dropout program. Alice Tsoe, a Mainstream office manager at Ballard University that he usually came to work regularly.
A SECOND division of NYC is the summer program for high school students aged 16 and up. Students are graduated. This program is set up to run for 10 weeks. During this time, the students work 28 hours a week. Counseling about job requirements is part of this program, Jackson
This program got off to a late start this year, July 11. This was because President Nixon had impounded the money granted the program by Congress.
Jackson said the purpose of this program was not to give thorough training on any job duties, but to provide a foundation for employment.
give the youths exposure to the work world
to give them a chance to earn some money
ON JUNE 28, the U.S. District Court in Washington, D. C., ruled that the impoundment of funds for this program was illegal.
Partially because of the impoundment of federal funds, communities made various other arrangements to employ youths during the summer. Some of Lawrence's revenue-sharing money was funnelled into NVC hands, according to Hette Blurton, a senior financial consultant for Penn House youths have been working since after the end of school, she said.
OCOE MILLER, secretary at Penn House, had several thoughts on the efficiency of the NYC program that Penn House has used for the past three years. On the whole, she said she had been happy with the program.
Penn House employed six youths in the summer of 1971, seven youths in the summer of 1972, and had three youths employed this summer. Miller said three or four youths was an ideal number for Penn House to employ.
Miller said most of the youths had been a "real help." Some, she added, had required more training than Penn House could provide. At Penn House, adult employees stress the development of a cooperative attitude with the youths they train. she said.
THE DUTIES of the youths employed at Penn House vary according to how many adults are in the building, Miller said. When only a few adults are around, the youngsters have increased telephone and reception duty.
Miller said because Penn House ran a cooperative grocery store, duties of the youngsters were mainly the marking of their work, and they were neatly on the shelves and similar duties.
The three youths who worked at Penn House this summer were Dean Johnson, 15; Glenda Blurton, 15; and Verna Mae Austin, 14.
Johnson and Blurton found out about the program from their mothers, who work at Pem House. Jackson said that NYC northern workers are the members of the same family work at one place.
Austin heard about the program from Blurton.
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EACH OF THE three youngsters said he gave some of his earnings to his family to help out with family bills and spent some of his money on clothing.
Johnson said he had no plans for what he would do after graduation from high school. Blurton said she would go to work after graduation and the students wanted to go to college and to major in voice.
A THIRD program under the NCYC umbrella is one that provides job training all through the year for high school students, Jackson said. Students on this program work 40 hours a week during the summer two hours a day during the academic year.
Training periods last 13 weeks, although a maximum of 26 weeks on a training program is possible. Counseling, as well as training programs, is available to 17 people in eight counties on this program.
At least 40 per cent of the traines must be 55 years of age, according to Jackson.
Jackson said the school system was the major employer of NYC youth during the academic year. During the summer, these youth work at the Lawrence Public Library, Penn House, Ballard Center, Haskell and other such places.
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MAINSTREAM is the program for adults that Jackson supervises. It is for adults, 22 years old or older, who are chronically unemployed or underemployed.
(Dr. Pohl) Malls
Four of the 17 people in the Mainstream program work in Lawrence at the Ballard College.
Alice Fuel, 58, one of the Mainstream people at Ballard, said her biggest problem was a lack of money. She learned about the balloon system to come to Ballard Center to see the doctor.
Charles Watson, 49, works a 40-hour hour at Ballard, as do Brown and Fuel. A gardener at Ballard, Watson learned of the plant's turning, one of Ballard's co-directors.
FAYETTA BROWN, 88, heard about the Mainstream program from Fuel, her sister-in-law. She is also an office aide at Ballard. Brown is on call with the dietary department at Lawrence Memorial Hospital as a cook, but she said she hoped to be able to take advantage of the training she was getting at Ballard.
FUEL WAS was on welfare when she started working for Mainstream. In early July, she was thinking of quitting the program to return to welfare. Part of the reason she wanted to quit was that her mother advised her she needed to take things over.
Under these conditions, she decided to
say with the Mainstream program as an
example.
Another reason she wanted to quit was, it is worse than that and report one's anarchic beliefs.
Fuel's earnings were deducted from her welfare check. Recently, however, she was able to get Aid to the Disabled. Now she is allowed to make a certain amount of money a month without its being deducted from her check from the government.
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Watson said he would like to be a landscape gardener in Lawrence. He used to be an auto mechanic, but his fingers got stiff. A middle-aged furre was not good for his health.
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