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Show qe rity Reporter ang oentinel Mountain Keeping Hope Alive as We Fulfill the Dream ” Serving more VOL. 1 NO. 5 August 10, 1990 Crawford graduates from BYU with doctorate in education leadership A Utah resident, Forrest C. Crawford, has received his doctorate in education leadership (Ed.D.) from ° Brigham Young University. Dr. Crawford, a Weber State ; University graduate, serves with its division of student affairs and adjunct _ faculty of African American history. Dr. Crawford is a native of Sand netenatesntota Springs, Utah Oklahoma, in 1972. and came He received masters degree (M.S.W.) to his from the University of Utah and was also an Bill Adams — S. Fitzgerald Utah Opportunities Industrialization Center ESET adjunct assistant professor of clinical supervision. | He has many varied interests — he SS has traveled extensively in speaking engagements and in this state and states such as Georgia, Arizona, Il-. linois, Colorado, and Wyoming. His busy activities include State Advisory § Committee Black for the Students, Big Education of Brothers/Big Sisters of Northern Utah, National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Black Social Workers, and National Institute SS = s SES SCoeRpeCe Lenoris Bush, executive director Rose Roones _. a Kim Mason What does OIC have to offer you? by Jerri A. Harwell Which Utah training program produced the nation’s highest achiever on the GED? Utah Opportunities Industrialization Center (UOIC). Other clients include those who — have been laid off from their job, who do possess specific job skills, or who do not posses a high school diploma or GED. UOIC’s success is established by the fact that 78 percent of the individuals who come through the door Against Prejudice and Violence. He is also a member of the Ogden branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of FORREST C. CRAWFORD Colored People). Dr. Crawford serves as affirmative action chairman of the Western Region College and Corporate Placement Council. In 1986, he was selected for the Utah Endowment for the Humanities Speakers Bureau. Jeanetta Williams elected president of — women’s association. Jeanetta Williams, a credit consul-_ tant for the US WEST Communications Small Business Service, was Utah Opportunities Industrialization recently elected. president of the Center is part of a network of com-. Wasatch Chapter of the American _ prehensive employment training proBusiness Women’s Association. This at UOIC are placed in employment. _ grams conducted across the country. is the second time she has held this That stastic alone doesn’t clearly UOIC was organized in 1973 and has prestigious office. reflect that UOIC has a higher placealways been associated with the naMs. Williams is also a member of ment rate than Job Service, the comtional OIC founded in Philadelphia, in the Salt Lake City branch of the munity colleges, and skill centers. 1964, by Dr. Leon H. Sullivan. One » NAACP, the National Association for Why has UOIC succeeded when, of the individuals instrumental in the Advancement of Colored People. other training programs such as City bringing UOIC to Utah was Alberta Jeanetta Williams. weg She recently returned home from the College, Socio, Phoenix Institute, the Henry, president of the Salt Lake national convention of the NAACP in business. women of diverse Ex-Offenders Program, co-op combranch of the NAACP. UOIC’s curLos Angeles, California. backgrounds and provides opporrent and only Chairman of the Board. munity programs, and several barber tunities for them to grow personally She is very active in the communicolleges have failed? Lenoris Bush, is the Reverend France A. Davis, Lenoris Bush ty, and is a member of the League of _and professionally through leadership, UOIC’s executive director, explains, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church of Salt education, networking, support, and Women Voters and the Toastmasters. who can qualify for UOIC’s programs ‘‘We are a human services organizaLake City. Rev. Davis is also one of The ABWA brings together national recognition. Such admitted. is income upon based tion with a United Nations concept — 21 members of the National Executive individuals are certified by the counwe serve everybody. The people we Board of Directors of OICA (OIC of specialize in are the least, the lost, the — ty, not UOIC, as qualified for the America). programs. last, the left outs, and the socially reRev. Davis noted that Dr. Sullivan At least part of UOIC’s success can jected. If they can get into any other was a counterpart to Martin Luther be attributed to its executive director, program, we don’t want them here: King’s civil rights efforts. As Rev. Young, ex-Atlanta mayor, sides Eight days before Georgia’s Lenoris Bush. Bush came up through We are here for those who have run King made sure doors were open to with the Democratic establishment, primary, a federal judge will hear the ranks at UOIC starting as a job -out of alternatives — those who canblacks, Dr. Sullivan wanted to be sure arguments today in a lawsuit conten- . saying, ‘‘I’m not interested in only developer and industrial relations blacks were prepared and had a not get into any other program.”’ ding the state’s electoral runoff winning the Democratic primary. I’m director in 1976. In 1978, the UVOIC Bush continues, ““We are a people chance at the upward mobility — a interested in being governor.”’ board of directors appointed him ex- system is racially biased. program. We are not about hand up as opposed to a hand out. The latest polls show Young and But the one candidate the suit could. ecutive director. OIC’s mission is to provide recruit- bureaucratic red-tape, or making a Lt. Gov. Zell Miller each with 30% help the most —Andrew Young, As executive director, Bush is profit. We are providing a service to ment, training, job placement, and of the vote, far ahead of three other seeking to be Georgia’s first black responsible to administer the UOIC the community and showing a return employee services to the unemployed, candidates, including former segregagovernor— hasn’t joined. black program, seek funding for the various on the investment to the community. underemployed, and unskilled. tionist Gov: Lester Maddox. legislators and civil rights officials special programs, maintain policies For every dollar put into the program, Trainees of Utah OIC are of many The campaign has been free of behind the lawsuit. = I can show where we have returned . and records assuring the integrity, cultural, ethnic, and economic racial references, but analysts think Their target is runoffs —used in philosophy, and concepts of UOIC. that dollar to the community, via backgrounds. : ais a runoff could produce racially nine Southern and border states— that To say Bush is active in the comtaxes, by a ratio of 3:1.”’ UOIC was established and design polarized voting tipping the election match the top two finishers if no one UOIC has been criticized because _ munity is an understatement. Within ed to fill specific needs. Some of those wins 50% in the primary. Georgia to Miller. “‘Racism is there. It just the last twelve years, Bush has servit seems to only be for the really-poor needs include assisting alcoholics and hasn’t been brought up,’’ says ed or is serving on at least 33 advisory passed its runoff law in 1964 in the or disadvantaged people. As a matter drug addicts released from rehabilitapollster Claibourne Darden. ‘*Asid it wake of national civil rights councils or various boards. He ts also tion programs and ex-offenders releas- of fact, UOIC’s recruitment efforts won't be brought up by any opponent a member of Calvary Baptist Church legislation. have sometimes been focused on such ed from Utah State Prison to become of Andy’s. But Andy’s black and ° Critics say minority candidates in Salt Lake City. oe individuals. Recruitment efforts have employable. In essence, these inZell’s white, and even a black-andseldom win when forced into one-on_ For more information on OIC, you included distributing flyers in the reddividuals are taught jobology — an white TV shows that. It’s inherent in can read “‘Build Brother Build’ by one runoffs with whites, although light districts, mailing flyers in welfare orientation to the world of work. the election.”’ : Democratic Senate candidate Harvey Leon H. Sullivan, the founder of OIC: checks, and knocking in doors in lowJobology includes how to get a job, Republicans, who expect to Grant did exactly that in North pubished by Macrea Smith Company income housing areas. how to keep a job, how to develop nominate state rep. Johnny Isakson, Carolina. Supporters say runofts help in Philadelphia. But what about the mainstream figure they'll have better changes motivational and attitudinal skills, and pick the stronst cuncidate in crowdFor more information about Utah community? What can UOIC do for veainst Young. fo having a hands on approach to OIC, please call (801) 486-4351. them? Bush says that any individual training. 3 Georgia suit targets runoff election law s Cis $ ; ids, nat kas |
