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NOW NEWSFROM VI C E PRESJDEMT SPIRO T . AGMEW, CHAIRMAM VOL. II, NO. 40 ON YOUTH OPPORTUNI 801 • 19th STREET, H.W., WASHIHGTOM, D.C. Tel : 202/382-1534 DECEMBER 12, 1969 36 VO LUNT ARY AGENCIES IN CLEVELAND PROVIDE J O BS FOR DISADVANT A GED YOU T H For the s econd consecut i ve y e ar, member voluntary a g encies of Cleve land' s Welfar e F e deration participate d durin g 19 6 9 in a summer jobs pro g ram for n e arly 500 disadvantag ed youth. The 36 participating a gencies pro v id e d w ork s tation s and super v 1s 10n for youth w ho w ork e d as day and m u si c cam p aid es , phys ical therapy assistants, and outreach workers. One hundr e d a nd thirty - e ig ht of the j obs we re financ e d directly fro m a ge ncy bud get s, an inc r e as e o f n early 100 per c e nt fro m 196 8. The program was c oor dinate d b y C l eveland I s Manpower P lanning and D e velopm ent Commi s sion . Additional information is available fr o m the We lfare Federation, 1001 H u ron Road, Cl e v e land , Ohio, 44115. 3 1 DE TR O IT HIG H SCHOO L ST UDE N TS PROVIDED P U BLIC RELATIO NS T RAININ G Thirt y- a n e D etr o it high s c h ool stu d ents parti c ipate d this s pr ing m a four- week tr a ini n g pr o gr a m in public re 1 a t ions. H eld at Way ne St a te University, the project was designe d to trai n youth for s u mmer jobs as c ommunication aides at 17 n e ighbo r hood centers. Students received instruction in n e ws release writing, interviewing, poster and handbill design, and l ettering. To suppl ement classr o om ses sions, field trip s were made to anew spa per, radio and television s tations, an advertising firm, and a printing company. Professional public relations p ersons w orke d w ith e ach student m an advi sory capacity dur ing the training program and made periodic vis its to the job sites dur ing the summer. The project was funded by the D e troit Pub 1 i c Schools In -School Neighborhood Youth Project and United Community Services. C ITY BRIEFS -- Alfred Collins, a second-year participant in a photographic workshop sponsored by the Chicago Co mm i tt e e on Urban Opportunity in conjunction with t h e President 's Council on Youth Opportunity, recent 1 y received an award for being one of the winner s in a national photography contest. -- A group of inner-city students in Washington, D.C., has organized a 11 Teen Corps 11 which will sponsor employment clinics to help youth learn how to obtain and hold a j ob. �-2POST OFFICE I BIG BROTHER I PROJECT CUTS JOB DROPOUT RATE A "big brother" program to help young employees in the summer jobs program of the U.S. Post Office Department cut the job dropout rate from more than 20 per cent in 1968 to less than 10 per cent nation w ide this past summer. More than 1, 800 fu 11-t i me employees volunteered to act as co u n s e 1 ors to the approximately 7,900 disadvantaged youth hired this summer, a ratio of almost one to five. In Washington, 53 v o 1 un teer s worked with 253 youth and k ept all but nine on the job from June to September - - a loss of about 3 . 5 per cent. Encouraged to solicit potential s ummer employees from dis advantaged communities, volunteers helped youth through the ce r tification process and arranged for adv ance vouchers for those youth who ne e ded money for car fa r e, lunches , and clothes for work . Counselors also organized a ft e r - work activities and helped youth deal w ith personal difficulties as necessary. The Post Office r e laxe d work pressures upon counselor s so they could spend more time w ith the four or five youth working along side them . JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH AIDED BY DES MOINES 'NEW HORIZON' PROGRAM A w o rk pr o gr am d e si g ned to encour age 14 and 15- year-o ld youth to remain in scho ol ha s been developed in Des Moines b y C ommun i ty Improve ment, In c. , in c ooperat io n w it h the public s c hool s . The "New Horiz o n s" w o rk-stu dy program b egan as a thre e -year demonstration pr oj ect with y o uth enro lle d from the seventh thr ough the n i nth gr ade in two targ et area junio r h igh s chools. The p r o gram now operates int hr e e hig h s c ho o ls and serve s m o re t h a n 40 0 youth . Students enro lled i n 11 N ew Hori z ons II a ttend s chool in the morni n gs and hold part-time job s i n the a fternoon for up to t h ree hours a day. Northwestern B ell T elephone, Equitable L ife Insurance Company, and several city offi c es provide work sites , supervision, and s alar ies f or the youth. 51 STUDENTS ENR O L L ED IN MINNEA P OLIS URBAN CORPS Du r in g the summer of 19 69, 51 student inte rns re p rese nting 23 co 11 e g e s a nd univers iti es in nine states, participated in the Minneapo l is Urban Corps program . Students performed a variety of tasks during the summer including writing technical articles for the Wate r Works Departme n t, researching robbery t re nds fo r the Poli ce "D e pa r tme nt, an d surve ying all Minneapolis b o a r d in g homes in an e ffo r t to he 1 p rev ise ordinances governing t h em. In addition to the ir regula r dut i es, students als o attended a weekly "Sympo sium on Urban Affa irs II w hich focused on critic al urban problems. A report on the Minneapolis project, including an e v a 1 u at ion by interns and city pe r son n e 1, is av a i 1 ab 1 e from Michael B . Goldstein, Director, Urban Corps National Development Office, 250 Broadway, New York, New York, 10007. �- 3C A R E ER DEVELO PME N T A W ARDS ENCOURA GE VO C A T IONAL TRAINING An educat i o n a l a s s is tanc e pro g r am to encourage and help stud e nts wit h inte r ests and t a lents in n on - academic fields is e nterin g it s second ye a r in Princet o n , N. J . The Career D e ve l opmen t Aw ards Pro g ram (CDA) is designed to p r o v ide s chola r s hips for ta lente d yout h w ho r e qu i r e fin an c ial a s sistance fo r furt h er voca t io n a 1 tr ainin g. It is al s o conc e rn e d w ith t h e stud e nt who pl ans t o a t t en d co llege a nd has t h e r e source s to do so , b ut whose ca re e r g oa l s might best be served by t e chnical-vocational t ra i n ing after s e c ondary school. L a un c he d b y a n ad v isory c o mmitt ee fr o m the P r inc e ton ar e a ; the progr a m i s s p o ns or ed b y t h e Educat i on a 1 Testing S ervi c e, a n d is privately finan c ed through l ocal fund - r ais in g. Student s inter e ste d in the a w ard s program w e re r equ ir e d to submit application s a nd b e inte rv ie we d by an eig h t - membe r se l e ction committee made up of l o cal b us in e s s people . During the first ye a r of t h e pr oj e c t, 15 · s t u d ent s receive d the career awards and their plans r a nged from tw o - y e ar s e c r etaria l course s to a six-month computer programming cou r s e . Additional information on the Career D evelopm ent Awards P ro gram is available from the Education al Tes ting Servic e , Princeto n, N. J., 08540. TITLE ONE TASK FORCE LAUNCHED BY U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION A 15-member intradepartmental task force to l ook into the operations of Title I of the Elementary and Se cond a ry Educati on Act ha s been named by Dr . Jame s E. Allen, Jr. , Commissioner of Edu c ation in the U.S . Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Among the i ssues the task force will examine a re in ternal management of Title I in the U.S. Office of Education, criter i a and guidelines, technical assistance and evaluation, and T itle I relationship s with other U .S. Offic e of Education programs and how they can work together to serve disadvantaged children . T it 1 e I, ESEA, is the largest Fed er al aid-to-education program. _ It is specifically des i g n e d for education a 11 y dis advantaged children. During the last school ye ar, Title I served nearly eight mi 11 ion children in about 16,000 school districts across the Nation. NOW - - AND THEN .... "Strengthening the Neighborhood Youth Corps," a report on a study of spec i a 1 services provided NYC enrollees, is available from the United Neighborhood Houses, 114 East 32nd Street, New York, N . Y., 10016 (75¢). �- -4SUMMER HIGHWAY JOBS FOR GHETTO YOUTH REACH NEW HIGH IN 1969 A 127.4 per cent increase over 1968 in the number of dis advantaged youth hired to work on the Federal-State highway program has been reported for th e 1969 Summer Youth Opportunity Campaign of the Department of Transportation I s Federal Highway Administration. Now in its fourth ye a r, the Federal Highway Administration program is designed to obtain summer employment for youth with both private contractors and State highway d e partments. A total of 44, 596 youth were reported hired across the Nation last summer, a 45 per cent increase over the 30, 57 3 hired in 1968. Of · these, 27,260 were disadvantaged youth. The District of Columbia ranked first in providing jobs to the dis advantaged, hiring 4, 700 youth. Other states int he top five were Illinois, 2,151; Texas, 1,845; Ohio, 1,603; and Kansas, 1,548. In most instances, the youth were hired as laborers. However, a wide range of jobs was provided. Among the developments in the prog ram were:

The N e w Mexico State High w a y Commission assi gned youth to

materials and testin g jobs, photogrammetry, brid ge design, and spe cial services.

In Wyoming, various unions waived initiation fees as inducement to youth who wanted to work in hi ghway construction.

,:, In T e nnessee, disadvantaged youth worked on landscaping and maintaining the trees and shrubs planted alon g the highway . They re ceived training and close supervision in tree - trimming, mulching, planting, fertilizing, and pest control. ,:, New J er sey carried on are c r u it men t campai gn int he g hetto areas of Newa r k and Trenton . For most of the youth re cr uite d , it w as the first job they had ever had. GSA oc 10 . s9e s PRESIDENT 'S COUNCIL ON YOUTH OPPORTUNITY WASHINGTON, D. C. '. 20006 OFF ICIAL BUS l ·N ESS PRINTED MATTER POSTAGE AND PR ES I DE NT' S F EES PAID COUNCIL ON YOUTH OPPORTUNITY D OF F �