assists
youth employment
Youth helping youth is the
idea of New Youth Employ
ment Service, a project of
Community Family Counseling
Service.
The service offers 14 to 18
year-olds free counseling in
looking for and acquiring jobs.
“The service is operating on a
youth-team concept. This
means youth helping youth for
the betterment of the com
munity. Our service involves
myself and another college stu
dent and the only adult involv
ed is Kathy Walter, the super
visor. We find this very effec
tive because young people
listen to their peers,” Jack Grif
fith, service member and
Clackamas Community Col
lege student, said.
“The program began in
June of ’82 and we feel it has
been successful. Most of our
youths find jobs.
“At the present we offer
two types of programs at the
youth employment center,
one-on-one counseling and
seminars. The one-on-one
counseling begins with a phone
call. We like youths to contact
us first. It shows interest and in
centive,” Griffith said. Anyone
interested in improving job
hunting skills is welcome.
“The basic counseling lasts
about four weeks. In the in
dividual counseling I meet with
each youth individually and
discuss resumes, job leads, job
research for the job they’re in
terested in and we talk over
and discuss what problems
they may have,” Griffith said.
Griffith usually keeps in touch
with people he has worked
with on the one-on-one basis
until they find a job.
The seminars that the
employment service provides
are similar to the one-on-one
counseling, but it involves 12 to
15 youths at a time and
speakers and employers from
the working world. Another
difference between the one-on-
one counseling and the
seminars are that youth in
terested in seminars must
register to become involved.
The youth service is
located at Marylhurst College.
The service is free. Anyone in
terested between the age of 14
to 18 are invited to call the ser
vice at 635-3671.
Adjustment eased by group
By Kari Gassaway
Of The Print
Each Wednesday at noon
the Women’s Support Group
meets in the Women’s
Resource Center for an hour of
group discussions.
The purpose of the group
is to discuss any problems the
women experience and give
members of the group a chance
to voice their feelings on these
problems and those of their
own. The group also focuses
on how to escape from stress
and how to relax. Sharon Hart
sell, a student from Lewis and
Clark College and a teacher
with the general education
degree program at the College,
is the group leader.
The support group con
sists of eight or more women
attending the weekly session.
“It’s growing every week,” Ida
Wolff of the Center and a
group member, said. The
group involves women of all
ages with all kinds of problems.
“There are several types of pro
blems and women in the
group. Like unmarried girls
who are encountering new
things and married women
with children who are going
crazy from sitting at home too
long,” group member Tony
Way mire said.
“When we first meet,
anyone can bring up a problem
that is bothering her and if no
one feels like doing that then
we discuss different topics.
Then we do some relaxation
exercises,” Wolff said.
The Support Group
stresses exercising. Hartsell
leads the group in such things
as self-hypnosis, auto sugges
tion, isometrics and guided im
agery to help the women learn
how to relieve stress. “It helps
you feel relaxed,” Wolff said.
The group is also working
on several new ideas. “We are
thinking of putting together a
box of toys for the Resource
Center because we get a lot of
kids in here. Also we would like
to get a bus and go to the
Saturday Market. Another idea
we are working on is a
childcare exchange program,
because the problem of
childcare affects many women
going to the College,” Wolff
said.
“I know the group is
helpful to the women involved.
It’s really been helpful to me;”
Wolff said. “This is my first year
at the College, and I am a
mother of seven who is taking
15 credit hours. It’s a real strug
gle, but I feel a sense of belong
ing at the College and it’s
because of the support group.
It has made this year positive.
Anyone who is avoiding the
group for some reason is really
cheating themselves.
Staff Photo by Wanda Percival
Ida Wolff
Garbage burner causes mixed emotions
By T. Jeffries
Of The Print
The third in a series of
four meetings between the
Metropolitan Service District
(Metro) and the community
dealing with the problem of
solid waste disposal was held
in the community center at
Clackamas Community Col
lege on Tuesday, Nov. 16.
The first two meetings
were held in Portland and the
final one at the Gresham city
hall. While many of the
citizens in attendance offered
viable alternatives, most ex-
presssed opposition to the now
stymied energy recovery facili
ty-
Suggestions by members
of the community ranged from
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reasonable to impractical and
all involved legislative action
requiring personal and com
munity recycling. The citizens
group Oregonians for Clean
Air, which successfully
defeated the energy recovery
facility on the Nov. 2 ballot,
offered a comprehensive plan
for a complete recycling pro
gram that would extend all the
way back to the manufacturer,
it included marking packages
with a symbol classifying its
recyclability from redeemable
to toxic. Manufacturers of
nonrecyclable or toxic packag
ing would be taxed, with the
money generated to be used to
encourage and develop recycl
ing industries.
Sig Jenson, representing
an alternative burning unit
company, spoke on their pro
duct, a non-polluting organic
burner, from which crude oil
and bottled vapor-gas could be
reclaimed. These would not be
large plants and each com
munity would have their own
to handle their own waste
disposal. Jensen estimated the
need for 30 of the units in the
tri-county area.
Another suggestion, from
the Gladstone City Council,
included charging com
munities in direct proportion
to how much non-recyclable
waste they send to the landfill.
This extra cost would be pass
ed on to users of that com
munity’s garbage disposal
system.
Clackamas Community College