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Show By ROSELYN KIRK Providing jobs for economically disadvantaged disad-vantaged youth from ages 14 to 21 is the responsibility of CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) workers administered ad-ministered through CAP (Community action ac-tion Program). DIANNE WILLIAMS, who administers the program for CAP, said although most of the summer hiring is complete, some positions are still open. At present 170 part time youth are employed in a variety of jobs earning the minimum wage of $2.30 an hour. The CETA CE-TA program administered under Title I is a work experience program which provides for the youth to learn an on-the-job skill. SHE SAID while some students work to buy school clothes or eye glasses, others must help out with the family income. In some cases the father is not in the home and the youth helps to support the family. Mrs. Williams said she can recount several success stories. One boy was just out of the service and employed by one of the cities in Davis County for the summer - last year and was picked up at the end of the summer as a permanent city employee. One who worked at the Davis Golf Course was picked up by the county as a semi-permanent employee until the weather forced the closing of the course. ANOTHER CETA employee was trained in the work-study program at the vocational voca-tional school in the auto body trade and later was employed by a business using his skill. Outdoor jobs, available in the summer, which are most popular are yardwork for Senior Citizens and crews work with the State Forest Service, which involves cleaning campgrounds, clearing trails and repairing equipment. Mrs. Williams said the 20 positions available through the forest service are most in demand and those slots fill first. Mrs. Williams allows applicants to pick from the jobs that are available when they apply: IN ADDITION, summer jobs are available through city and county governments where youth are hired to clean up parks or roads, work as recreation recrea-tion assistants in summer recreation programs or do clerical work in city offices. of-fices. Some work at painting football helmets for the recreation programs, while others work as swimming instructors in city pools or teach cheerleading recreatior classes. SOME CETA students are employed by the school district as clerks, custodians or groundsmen. Others have positions at Hill Air Force Base where the seven girls work as sales clerks in the post exchange and the two boys are warehousemen. In order to obtain the positions at the base, the youth must be 16 years or older. Youth who meet the CETA guideline are also eligible for training. Twelve are enrolled in a typing, filing and business machine class at the Davis County Vocational Voca-tional School in Layton. Three boys are signed up for the auto-body class at the vocational school. Mrs. Williams said nine of the slots in that program are still to be filled. IN MOST cases the young employees, who are from 14-15, work 250 hours during the summer or 25 hours a week for 10 weeks. Those age 16-21 are employed 320 hours during the summer32 hours a week for a 10 week period. The forest service or vocational programs may vary from this set standard. Youth qualify for the progran by meeting the CSA poverty guideline and may come from low income families, be on public assistance, or qualify as foster children or wards of the state, Mrs. Williams said. Although CAP does not screen each of the applicants by checking their income, they pull every ten names and verify the income information. ABOUT 90 CETA positions are available availa-ble during the winter, but youth can't qualify unless they are in school. Mrs. Williams said this regulation does not apply during the summer when dropouts may apply for the positions. The winter positions are provided for by Title 3 of the Comprehensive Education and Training Train-ing Act. When the youth work for the cities or county, they are supervised by their employees, but those who work in the yardwork program and on forest service crews are supervised by crew foremen. The two yard crews, with five workers each, are supervised by George Simpson, a retired service man, and Zelda Marie Bills, who is a college student. THE YARD crews travel around the county doing yard work for the aging who have been screened to determine that they don't have any other source of help. The crews cut grass, trim bushes and weed flower beds. The four forest service crews also work in 5-person units. All forest service crews receive training from the state forest service, Mrs. Williams said. One of the projects undertaken by the mixed male and female crews in Farmington Canyon PHOTOS BY FRED WRIGHT this summer is to build a four mile trail at Sunset Camp. THE FOREST service crews are supervised super-vised by high school instructors Jack Beck and Jeffrey Butler and two University Univer-sity of Utah students Ann Nolan and Niels Abramson. In addition to the supervisors, four aides help Mrs. Williams to oversee the program. If the CETA employee is not happy with his job, he confers with one of the four project aides. If there is a reason the employee is unhappy, the worker is transferred. IF THE CETA enrollee terminates his position for a non-positive reason, he is not eligible for CETA employment for one year after the termination date. Mrs. Williams said non-positive terminations include: health-pregnancy, family care, transportation, leaving the area, inability to locate or refusal to continue. The project aides who supervise the CETA employees in different areas of the county are: Truman Carver, Michael Duckworth, John Adams and Connie Papineau. ONE OF THE employees, Mark Hoskins, works on the grounds at the county court house, under the direction of Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Joe Wilcox. Mark said his duties are to water the yard, weed the plants and flowers and generally keep up the yards. , Mike, who will be 16 later this summer, says he may have to cut down his hours later in the summer if he decides to work out with the football team. Mrs. Williams said that arrangements are made to work around the schedules of the CETA workers when setting up the work hours. THE SUMMER CETA program for the most part is organized in two sessions. The first began on June 6. The second section will begin on July 18. Some positions posi-tions are still available for the summer session, Mrs. Williams said. Some of the students who work during the summer will re-apply for the winter program as well. "I feel real success when we keep the same kids and hire them from year to year." Mrs. Williams said she does not offer counseling to the employees. That function is performed by the project aides. At times, if requested, she does go out to the work site after the trainees are hired and observe them at work. "SO FAR we have been able to hire every applicant who qualifies. She said kids learn about the program through school counselors, CAP Outreach aides and through the Division of Family Services. |