COMMUNITY
Program gets jobs for homeless
By Meg Dedolph
OrDQOn D&ty Eme*aki
Goodwill Industry of Lane
County is in its third month of a
new job training program
designed to help homeless fami
ly members find and keep jobs.
Working with Family Shelter
House. Goodwill employee Lyle
Lang visits the shelter twice a
week in a converted Winnebago
to offer homeless people advice
and help in finding a job.
Lang said he is most often
asked to help with resumes,
though people also ask for help
in completing applications and
practicing job interviewing skills.
Rather than working with
groups of people, having class
es in job hunting skills. Lang
said he finds himself doing
more work with individuals.
"It’s more of a one-on-one
kind of situation where they
express their needs in the urea."
he said.
Saralyn Brooks, director of
Family Shelter House, said she
believes the program is going
well so far.
"Any new program that gets
startl'd here takes a while for peo
ple to get us*sd to it." Brooks said
Brooks said the program will
be examined to see what kinds
of changes can be made to make
it more helpful for families
under stress, like when a job or
home is lost.
"For families who are trauma
tized, sometimes it's difficult to
stick with a training program;
there's no room to learn new
skills." she said.
Ijing said the biggest problem
facing homeless people looking
for jobs is unfamiliarity with the
area's job market.
"Most of the people I have
worked with are simply new to
the area and not too familiar
with the job market in the area.”
he said ”1 try to mate h up their
realities and exportations with
what is happening out there."
Lang said some of the people
he worked with were previously
carpenters or mechanics get
ting paid m the double digits'
and hod to a< cept lower paying
jobs like restaurant or janitorial
work because those were the
only jobs available.
Other problems Brooks said
homeless job seekers face
include not having an address or
telephone number where they
can lie contacted by employers
"It s difficult to find jobs in
this economy, so there's the con
stant rejection." she said "It's
also difficult, especially if you're
living in a car. to look pre
sentable when you go to do
interviews.”
HUTTON
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support of abortion rights and equality for women.
"He was walking me out to the car." she says. "I
unlocked it to get in. and that's when he reached
around and grabbed me and pulled me in. I
thought that he was going to hug me good night,
and that would have been cool, hut then it was a
big kiss with the tongue in the mouth.
"That was a little bit more than a handshake,"
she says.
Packwood also asked her to have sex with him,
she says.
"I was so embarrassed and humiliated and dis
appointed,” she says. "It was such a sense of
betrayal. I thought that he appreciated me for the
ability and talent that I was bringing (to the cam
paign). not that I was going to he someone he could
talk into going to bod with him.
Hutton told several of Packwood's campaign
leaders and her personal friends about the inci
dent, but she never telt like any of them treated her
complaint or her muddled emotions seriously.
But Hutton says she now realizes that innumer
able other women have had similar experiences
with sexual harassment.
By talking about what has happened to them
and insisting that such behavior stop. Hutton says
women are no longer helpless victims.
"It's a pretty important issue, not just tor myself
to heal, but this runs rampant (in our society)." she
says. "If by speaking out there's a chance to make
a difference and change the behavior over the long
haul, then it's well worth it "
At the University of Oregon, where Mutton
earned a bachelor's degree in recent cases
have included female students accusing a philos
ophy professor and a public safety officer of sexu
al harassment
Forms that allow students to report sexual
harassment unofficially are available on campus
The dean of students office, the Women's (.enter
and the Create a Rape Free Fnvironment class trv
to educate the University community about sexu
al harassment and prevent its occurrence.
Young women face harassment similar to pre
vious generations. Hutton says . but only in the
past decade have women t>een standing up in great
numbers to say they will not continue to ignore
and accept such behavior
By bringing t barges against I’ack wood to the
Senate Fthn s Committee. Hutton says the women
hoped to inspire other women to speak out.
"It's OK to stand up." Hutton says. "It may seem
scary, but do it anyway, even if nobody is listening
to you. Stand up and do it anyway Having some
one listen to you doesn't matter What matters is
having the courage to stand up All of us must
learn to treat each other well, with respec t and a
level of dignity
And by talking about sexual harassment people
may be learn how to treat others well, she says
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