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"The E yes and Ears o f th e C om m u n ity
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Self Enhancement Grandparent Support
Group Has Thanksgiving Meeting
ifty-three grandparents met
at Woodlawn School,
Nevember 20th, for an SEI
G randparent
Support
Group gathering.
SEI Parent Coordinators, Ada
Reed Tellis and Antoinette Jones, have
combined their efforts to extend sup­
port and enhancement to community
seniors on an outreach for school, so­
cial and community involvement
The Self Enhancement Grand­
parent Support group is one of four
different support groups in the out­
reach component of the SEI Parent In­
volvement Program. SEI Woodlawn
support group honored an SEI Great
Grandparent who announced her
wedding at the Nov. 20th gathering
Rev. Mary Smith, an SEI Grandpar­
ent was recognized for her commu­
nity involvement and extended fam­
ily support. One senior who attended
was awarded a Thanksgiving turkey
for having had the most grandchil­
dren (64). The oldest senior attending
was 81 years old.
Grandparents as primary car­
egivers o f SEI students, as well as
community seniors joined their hands
together to affirm "W e ’re Not Re­
tired, J ust Refired. ’ ’
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The Private Industry Council Relocates Job
Training Services
Job Training services offered by
The Private Industry Council have been
relocated in the Portland and East
Multnomah County areas. During the
last two months, the council has moved
its downtown Portland administrative
office and Older Worker Training Pro­
gram, expanded services at the North­
east Employment and Training center,
and relocated its East County Employ­
ment and Training center, now open.
Plans are under way to open an office in
Southeast Portland (Southeast Employ­
ment and Training) during the first week
in December. All moves were made to
decrease operation costs while making
services more accessible to those in
need.
The following is a description of
location changes.
Administrative Office and Older
Worker Training Program:
On November 12, 1991, The Pri-
vate Industry Council’s administrative
services and Older Worker training
Program moved to smaller quarters in
the Morgan Building, 720 SW Wash­
ington, Suite 250, in Portland, Oregon.
Job Corps Helps Graduates
Achieve Dreams
The phone number is 241 -4600. Adult
GED classes, formerly offered at the
downtown location, have been moved
to the Northeast Employment and Train­
ing center.
Northeast Employment and Train­
ing:
A modular classroom has been
added to the Northeast Employment
and Training center to expand space for
pre-employment training, life skills
training and GED classes. At the same
time, this expansion allows for the
addition a job search resource room
and a computer skills training area. The
center will begin to offer evening classes
beginning in December.
Northeast Employment and Train­
ing targets services to North and North­
east Portland’s chronically unemployed
adults, especially African American men
and welfare recipients. The center is
located at 3034 NE Martin Luther King,
Jr. Blvd. in Portland, Oregon. The phone
number is 241-4644.
East County Employment and
Training:
The East County Employment and
Training (ECET) center moved its of­
fice to 55 NW Third Avenue in Gresliam,
Oregon, on October 3,1991. The phone
number is 667-7056. The larger loca­
tion offers more room to serve low-
income families who live in the East
Multnomah County area, and provides
space for on-site life skills classes. The
move also places the office closer-to
the area’s Hispanic population, which
makes up a large portion o f the center’s
clientele.
Southeast Employment and Train­
ing:
The Southeast Employment and
Training center will open on December
2, 1991, to provide low-income adults
with pre-employment and life skill train­
ing, job placement and retention serv­
ices, and referral to other job training
opportunities.
The Southeast Employment and
Training Office is housed at 3534 SE
Main, in Portland, Oregon. The phone
number is 230-8996.
For more information about The
Private Industry Council, please con­
tact Terri Haworth at 241-4600.
The Staff of the
Portland Observer
Would like to Wish you
Shannon Stewart 22, graduated
from Springdale Job Corps, located near
T r o u td a le on September 27,1991 after
completing the certified Nurses AID
program. Formerly a graduate of Grant
High School in Northeast Portland,
Shannon found that completing high
school was only the beginning.As a
little girl, Shannon wanted to be like
her mother, then a nurse at Emanuel
Hospital and dedicated to caring for
others. Her dreams seemed shattered
when in 1987 cancer took her mother’s
life and Shannon found herself preg­
nant and alone in the world.
Shannon went on welfare to sur­
vive and take care of her baby girl,
Lanise, now three years old.
In Oct. of 1990 she was referred by
welfare to a program called “ Steps to
Success” , through Mt. Hood Commu­
nity college. This wonderful program
began with the new welfare Reform
Act and is designed to access a persons
potential in the job market, provide life
skill training so that the client can cope
with the variety of issues that go with
parenting and being a single parent.
Also high school completion, GED,
classes are provided.
Job corps, a federally funded pro­
gram for low-income students between
the ages o f 16 and 24, is one of the vital
options in this assessment process and
works cooperatively with the welfare
program to offer educational and voca­
tional training oppartunities that will
help to break the cycle of poverty that
exests around us.
Shannon chose Job Corps as her
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Shannon Stewart Comforting Patient at Fernhill Manor
option because it offered her the nuses
certified training she wanted, drivers
education,counseling and center sup­
port as well as being able to keep her
housing, food stamps, medical and child
care that welfare provides.
Job corps provided additional bene­
fits during her training such as uni­
forms and clothing, dental care addi­
tional on-site medical care and a $40.00
to $60.00 per month stipend allownace.
At the end of her training, which
took Shannon ten months, she not only-
completed training as a Nurses Assis­
tant, a drivers licence, placement by
Job corps at Fernhill Manor (where her
mother began her nursing) and $900.00
readjustment to boot for sticking with
the program.-
Shannon’s supervisor at Fernhill
Manor, located off of NE 37th &
Killingsworth, Car aline Schie, com­
mented that, “ Shannon is great to work
with and her very best skill is her abil­
ity to really “ care” about the patients.
Shannon never lost sight of her
dream and soon it became reality.
Shannon recomends Job Corps to
others as an opportunity to train for the
future and change your life.
If you would like to know more
about this program, call Lana Barr or
Kim Bridwell at229-5366orl -800-344-
4349.
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U.S. Bancorp has named Patricia
B. Stanton to its new position as assis­
tant economist Stanton is based in
Portland and is responsible for re­
searching and speaking on regional
and national economics. She is in­
volved in formulating U.S. Bancorp’s
economic outlook and in responding
to customer inquiries.
Stanton began her career with U.S.
Bancorp in 1989 as a commercial ac­
count officer. Prior to joining the bank,
she served as a Peace Corps volunteer
in Honduras for two years and held
positions in the non-profit sector. Stan­
ton is a graduate of Montana State
University and earned a master’s de­
gree from Princeton University. She is
a member of the American Economic
Association and the National Asso­
ciation of Business Economists. Stan­
ton also serves on the board of REACH
Community Development, Inc. She
resides in Portland with her family.
U.S. Bancorp is the largest finan­
cial services company headquartered
in the Pacific Northwest, with assets
of $18.6 billion as of September 30,
1991. Subsidiaries include U.S. Bank
of Oregon: U.S. Bank of Washington;
and U.S. Bank of California.
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