Minority, female training topic
The Apprenticeship Outreach Pro
gram sta ff o f the state Bureau o f
Labor will discuss the role o f women
and m in o ritie s in ap p re n tic e s h ip
Wednesday, July 11th at 7:00 p.m . at
the K in g N eig h b o rh o o d F a c ility ,
4815 N .E . 7th Avenue.
The Outreach program is a six-
m o n th , specially fu n ded p ro je c t
operated by the Bureau o f Labor and
designed to re c ru it wom en and
m inority males into apprenticeable
trades.
Recent statistics released by
Oregon Labor Commissioner M ary
Wendy Roberts show that since the
program ’s inception in March, the
number o f women in apprenticeship
has increased by almost 28 per cent.
M in o ritie s in apprenticeship p ro
grams have increased by more than
14 per cent. Figures for June show
161 female and 299 minority appren
tices and trainees in Oregon.
“ I think the marked increase in fe
male and minority enrollment in the
last three months speaks highly o f
the effectiveness o f the project, and
credit should go to the Outreach
staff and the entire Apprenticeship
and T ra in in g D iv is io n ,” C o m
missioner Roberts said. "B u t Cm not
content until women and minorities
are much more represented in ap-
prcnticeable trades. W ith more than
5,200 apprentices and trainees in the
state, we still have a long ways to
go.”
Portland Obsarvor Thursday, July B. 1979 Paga 5
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O th er programs com plem enting
the Outreach program include the
U rb an League’ s L abo r Education
Advancement Program (L E A P ), and
programs operated by M t. H ood and
Portland Com munity Colleges.
In addition to Ruiz, the Appren
ticeship Outreach Program staff in
cludes Charlye M olden, Faith M ay
hew, Jari Castle, and Audrey Par
sons, coordinator.
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Businessmen attend conference
Janice M . Foster (right) Providence Medical Center's affirmative ac
tion officer, listens to Denise High, 20, talk about her job as an instru
ment aide at the 483 bed hospital. High, a Gresham resident, and stu
dent in Mt. Hood Community College's Operating Room Technician
program is one of eight CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Train
ing Act) employees who have summer jobs at the medical center. High
will work through August and then return to collage. (Photo: Provi
dence Medical Center/Fred Lemke.,
Hospital jobs draw students
A combined effort by Providence
M edical Center and local govern
ments has produced summer jobs for
eight high school and college students.
W orking with the C E T A (C om p
rehensive Employment and Training
Act) programs o f the C ity o f Port
land and W ash in g to n and M u lt
nom ah C o u n tie s , P M C is p a r
ticipating in the summer jobs pro
gram for the second year.
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Janice Foster, a ffirm ative action
officer at the medical center, said
“ we had good experiences with our
C E T A people last year so we have
expanded o u r in v o lv e m e n t. Last
summer we accepted three students,
this year we have eight.”
The students are working in diverse
areas o f the483-bed medical facility.
One student who is studying to be an
operating room technician at M t.
H ood Com m unity College, works as
an instrum ent aide in the surgery
a rea. O th e r students w o rk as a
security assistant, a groundskeeper,
and office assistant. One participant,
under the su pervision o f the
hospital’ s chief physical therapist,
works as a physical therapy assis
tant.
The summer jobs program has a
number o f goals in addition to pro
viding meaningful work and income
to the students. The participants gain
exposure to the different jo b possi
bilities in the health care field and are
being taught work habits necessary
to holding jobs and advancing their
careers in private industry.
Joyce Jorgensen, director o f per
sonnel at P ro v id e n c e , said " t h e
program is mutually beneficial; the
student employees gain the benefits
o f the work experience and Income
and the hospital benefits from addi
tional staffing help at no cost to the
hospital. Salaries are payed for by
CETA.
Foster added that “ there are cost
savings not only to the hospital but
also to the community at large. This
type o f program promotes indepen
dence from social welfare programs
and e v e n tu a lly puts experienced
workers into the jo b m arket.”
The employees at Providence are
from C E T A programs sponsored by
the C ity o f Portland and the Wash
ington-M ultnom ah Consortium. The
students will remain at the medical
center through the end o f August
and will return to school in the fall.
Desegregation orders upheld
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V o lu n ta ry Plans
Judge John Sirica has ordered the
Chicago School District to design an
acceptable desegregation plan by
September 15th or risk prosecution
by the Justice D epartm en t. D avid
Tatel, director o f the O ffice o f C ivil
Rights, H E W , said if a satisfactory
plan is not developed, his office will
consider re fe rra l to the Justice
Departm ent fo r prosecution under
the 1964 Civil Rights A ct.
C h ic a g o is o p e ra tin g u nd er a
voluntary deseregation plan that at
tempts to attract white students to
Black schools and Black students to
w h ite schools th ro u g h m agnet
programs. The voluntary plan has at
tra c te d B lack stu d ents, but not
whites.
Last week, H E W announced that
a lth o u g h th e P o rtla n d S chool
District was found to discriminate
against Black students, it could not
be found in non-compliance under
H E W regulations because it is acting
under a voluntary desegregation plan
(not court-ordered). The official fin
dings have not yet been released.
Tw enty-four delegates from O re
gon to the C o n feren ce on Sm all
Business will be seeking in-put as to
how the g overnm ent can fu rth e r
assist small business owners in the
development o f their businesses.
Some 3,500 delegates will meet in
Washington, D .C . in January 1980
to advise the Carter Adm inistration
on the concerns o f the nation’ s small
businesses. These representatives
were selected from regional and state
conferences held recently. This will be
the first citizen conference o f the
current administration and will assist
the W hite House in the development
o f economic policies to be proposed
to Congress.
The Oregon delegation, which in
cludes small business owners from
throughout the state will be focusing
in on eight m ajor areas. These areas
include: in fla tio n , capital fo rm a -
tion and tax reform , federal pro
c u rem en t, re g u la tio n s and the
elimination o f paperwork, minority
small business development, inter
national trade, economic policy and
programs, and women in business.
The delegates are asking that local
business owners get in v o lv e d by
subm itting w ritten suggestions or
recommendations on what the gov
ernment can do to assist the small
business o w n e r. These w ritte n
suggestions should be addressed to:
Ruth Brownell, Delegate Secretary,
White House Conference on Small
Business, P .O . Box 12308, Salem,
Oregon 97309.
Delegates from Portland include:
R ob ert B oyer, Bruce B roussard,
W arren C hung, Eugene Jackson,
Robert L aug h lin , A la n C ole and
Elon Ellis.
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