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Show i YWCA Working to Agency Finds Eliminate Racism Housing Shortage The new YWCA committed to eliminating racism. This means it's taking a new look at itself end our community. Tocay, the problems facing minority women in America are great. Economically, the majority of minority women are the poorest of the poor. The rate of and unemployment is than underemployment higher among white women and white or minority men. Minority teenage women have the highest unemployment rate of any group. Politically, they still have little influence over those who decide issues that control their lives. Issues such as day care services, income maintenance, job training programs, quality education and justice are crucial to survival in today's world. Minority women work hard and with often little more than sheer determination, find an obstinateness for survival. The new YWCA cares about this struggle. It's a part of it. It's in the business of making it possible for women to share their problems and working together to get things changed . What seems like a mountain to one person can agency handles applications from nearly 150 families a month and that the shortage of housing severly limits the number of applicants that can have housing found for them. He said the is become molehill to many working together. a The YWCA, however, is not naive. It knows that people can stumble over molehills, and so it also needs those professional minority women who understand the problems, who have some techniques - who can help get the job done. The YWCA is for everyone: Those who have problems, those who have ideas, those who'd like to work on some new solutions. The YWCA of the U. S. A. has a of national membership 2,600,000 women and youth. In Salt Lake, some 2,500 women are members. It is committed to One Imperative: The Elimination of Racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary. Teens, young adults, students and women who are older are struggling together to change the present and build a new society of justice for all. The YWCA recognizes that change is hard work. Therefore, it provides facilities where the whole family can come to relax and learn new skills. Warren Wright heads Central Relocation Agency in Suite 410, Arrow Press Square, Bldg. 2 Tel: 328-157- 8 The Executive Committee of the Central City NORTHWEST COUNCIL MEETS every second Tuesday of each month, at 7:30 p.m. Northwest Multipurpose Center, 1300 W. Second North CENTRAL CITY COUNCIL meets the first and third Mondays of each month, at 7:30 p.m. at Central City Community Center, 615 So. 3rd E. PEOPLE'S Neighborhood Council will meet on the 22nd of May at the Central City Community Center, Rm. 36 at 7:30 p.m. Please make arrangements to attend! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP in order to get our Council operating properly and to build attendance. Housing Task Force FREEWAY meets Election of new Officers, Housing Task Force, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Horace Mann Jr. High every Monday evening, at 7:30 p.m. at Freeway Satellite Center, 568 So. 2nd. West. Board Meeting second Wednesday of each month. -- Block meeting -- each Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. CAPITOL HILL (CHAT) COUNCIL to meet May 20, Saturday, at 9:30 a.m. at the Horace Mann Junior High, 233 West 1st North. Chairman, Glen Lloyd f i t i CRA usually has to "scrounge" through the neighborhood, Wright said, to find the housing needed. Community Action Program volunteers, he said, do some of by Kirk Terry Warren Wright, director of CRA, said that most of the residents the agency serves are The Salt Lake Central Relocation Agency, a Model Cities project serving the residents of the model those just needing adequate housing and usually these residents are referred to CRA by other housing or social service and Salt Lake neighborhood County, locates housing for those people dislocated by government action or those residents just needing housing. Referralto other service agencies is undertaken when the Relocation Agency cannot assit. agencies. The housing agency attempts to find available housing for all applicants, but Wright said the most staggering problem is the one the agency is confronted with - - a critical housing shortage. Now For Head Start Program the ''scrounging" for CRA. When housing is located and the rent is beyond the means of the applicant the agency can, in limited cases, subsidize part of that rent. Funds for that purpose, Wright said, are limited. CRA is directed by a coordinating council representing a vast cross section of organizations and service agencies who combine their resources and expertise in providing adequate housing for the resident in need. If CRA can't find the housing, stressed Wright, other resources are contacted and referrals are made, all the action that can be done in the continuing effort to find the adequate housing needed by area residents. En roll Meetings i Bernice Bernstein, Start Coordinator, for Head Psychological Parent participation the Community Action Program, Medical and dental Meals Start enrollees began on May 4, 1972 and will continue throughout the summer for enrollees for the fall Transportation Speech in September. program beginning This is a program for children of low-incom- families. e If you are interested in enrolling your child, apply at: Salt Lake School District Matheson School 1 240 American Beauty Drive Salt Lake City, Utah or criteria (O. E.O.). For further information, call or Matheson School 328-0961 Blaine School 350-8266- , or Community Action Program 487-3641 -- and ask for Bernice Bernstein. The following services will be offered to the children and their families: Education Social services THE EDITOR TODAY! parents. Youth Program Funded (NYC), announced today that the program has recieved funding for 700 summer job slots geared for e YOUR PAPER WRITE TO activities are offered to the Neighborhood Youth Corp between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. through the social workers at the school. They must be 4 years old before October 31, low-incom- Hearing Families are encouraged to participate in the planning, budgeting and operation of the program and to work in the classrooms. Many services and LuAnn W. Pope, Director of Granite School District Blaine School 340 East 3545 South Salt Lake City, Utah 1972 and meet and employment announced today that recruitment for Head THIS IS youth from disadvantaged families. To qualify, they must range in age from 14 to 21, still be attending secondary schools and meet the OEO income criteria. They will be paid $1 .60 per hour and will work a maximum of 26 hours a week for 9 weeks. The work sites are located in Federal, local government and non-prof- organizations it thoughout the Salt Lake Valley with a wide variety of work experience available. Youth who are interested in applying for NYC summer employment should contact the sponsoring agency. Community Action Program, at one of the following places: Central City Community Center 615 South 3rd East Salt Lake City, Utah 322-243- 6 Northwest Multi-purpos- e Center 1 300 West 2nd North Salt Lake City, Utah 322-128- 1 Oquirrh - Redwood Center 2610 South Redwood Raod Salt Lake City, Utah 487-545- 6 South County CAP 51 North Main Midvale, Utah 255-351- 6 i |