| Show Organization receives receive donation More single parents and displaced homemakers will be able to enroll in Salt Lake Community College classes thanks to a donation donation donation dona dona- tion from horn the George S. S and Delores Dore Eccles Ecles Ec- Ec c- c cles les Foundation The donation will be used for tuition waivers for participants in the Single Parent Displaced Homemakers Project This Wasatch Front South regional vocational vocation vocation- al education project provides single parents and displaced homemakers with pre employ ment and assertiveness training career assessment assessment assessment assess assess- ment and exploration financial aid information and referral and job or training placement Individuals dont don't need to be students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents to apply Our goal is that they'll be independent and self self sufficient and that they'll get the training that will be most rewarding ing to them said Kayne Pyatt a project counselor So many times a person feels helpless We help them feel empowered by teaching them how to find needed resources and to develop a sense of self self- responsibility During the 88 1987 fiscal the year project assisted assisted assisted as as- single parents and displaced homemakers Approximately 60 perc percent nt of the clients reported an annual income of less than 1 i. i f with an average of two children in in the household Another 25 percent reported from SIPO O income Single parent families in Utah increased by more that 88 percent in the seventies according according according accord accord- ing to the Utah Women in Economic Crisis report 1987 The r report port further delineated that 80 percent of these families are raised by single women two Forty-two percent of these single mothers are under age 18 and live below the poverty level A total of 76 percent of the clients served this year enrolled in some type of job training the majority entered while others were as assisted assisted assisted as- as at satellite sites throughout Salt Lake and Tooele Counties Forty pe percent cent of the Single Parent clients were employed 46 percent placed in employment training and arid 39 percent percent percent per per- cent of displaced homemakers were employed and 36 placed in training A Hispanic Women's project was recently implemented implemented implemented im im- im- im at the Guadalupe Church to better reach hispanic women omen Hi Hispanic p nic women may contact Janell Tafoya at Interested individuals should contact the project at College Center Salt Lake Community College Redwood Rd tl r WI i J f Ji i f I. I Z L. L J r. r n. n i |
