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Wednesday, September 6,1995
Work First Program Changes Focus of JOBS
BY ALIA SMITH
STAFF WRITER
Job Opportunity Basic Skills Training,
the state program to help welfare recipients
find jobs, was renamed Work First in Au
gust and has anew emphasis on job train
ing for mothers with school-age children,
officials said.
The shift comes as part of a nationwide
trend in welfare reform with the program’s
primary goal being job placement rather
than education.
“Work First is more aggressive on job
training and placement," said Pheon Beal,
associate director of employment programs
with the N.C. Department of Human
Services.“We concentrate on job readi
ness, ’’ she said, adding that other aspects of
JOBS, including education, transportation
and child care would not receive as much
attention.
Campus Calendar
WEDNESDAY
1:10 p.m. MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIA
TION will have Juma’a Prayer on Friday in Union
208 and 209. For more information contact
Mohammad Banawan at 914-2402.
3 p.m. DISSERTATION SUPPORT GROUP:
Help solve problems with support and specific strat
egies in Nash Hall. For more information contact
Glen Martin at 962-2175.
5 p.m. SIGN LANGUAGE CLASS: those who
have signed up for this class should meet outside
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5 p.m. YOUTH ANGST SOCIETY: first in a
senes of student writers reading their own work at the
Bull's Head Bookshop. Mac Rogers, Jonathan
Fanner, Jeanne Fugate and Thanassis Camhank
will present their poetry, prose and drama.
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Gwen Price, Orange County’s JOBS
supervisor, echoed Beal’s sentiments, and
said that Work First would be able to help
more families than the JOBS program in
Orange County.
“The plan is that more people will be
placed injobs. We’ll be able to target more
people because you won’t have the the
same level of service,” she said. Mothers
with school-age children do not have the
same child care burden as mothers of
young children.
Work First, like JOBS, will meet all the
guidelines set by the federal government
for families that receive Aid to Families
with Dependent Children, Beal said. All
recipients are required to sign a personal
responsibility agreement promising to look
for work.
“JOBS’ focus was on education which
is a long process,” Price said. “Work First
should provide quicker results.”
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Price said it was too early to gauge the
success of the program transition in Or
ange County, especially since certain as
pects of the program are still being consid
ered by the General Assembly.
Price said she was optimistic that Work
First would be able to serve more Orange
County families, but said Orange County
Social Services would continue to make
teen-age mothers a priority despite the new
program. “We want to find a way to serve
them,” she said.
The new focus on older mothers has
prompted criticism that N.C. is abandon
ing its responsibility to young mothers and
other mothers with very young children.
In response to this criticism, Patricia
Yancey, director of the Adolescent Preg
nancy Coalition of North Carolina, has
coordinated a panel discussion to be held
Sept. 20. Members of the panel include
Beal and Terry Keene, a JOBS supervisor
BOSNIA
FROM PAGE 1
were wounded when NATO planes
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There was no confirmation.
The Westem allies also have demanded
that the rebel Serbs reopen Sarajevo’s air
port and land routes into the city, and end
attacks on the three other U.N.-declared
“safe areas. ” The airstrikes also were meant
to emphasize the West’s seriousness be
fore peace talks resume Friday.
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Yancey said the goal of the panel would
be to determine what effect, if any, Work
First would have on teen moms.
Beal maintains that Work First will have
no detrimental effect on young mothers
and said she hoped to use the panel to allay
such fears. Yancey and Price agreed that
the program was too new to tell what
effects there might be.
“Other resources will still be available
to (teen-age mothers),” Beal said. “We
want to encourage them to go back to
school and Work First is, first and fore
most, a job development program.”
Beal said that mothers with younger
children still would be eligible for family
and educational support services. She em
phasized thatwith the reorganization, more
N.C. families would be able to receive job
training and support.
“They cannot win this war through an
escalation of a military conflict,” Gunness
said in Zagreb, Croatia. “They have to sit
nowatthe negotiatingtable and talk peace. ”
President Clinton said the NATO
airstrikes Tuesday were an “appropriate”
response to the Serbs’ refusal to end their 3
1 /2-year-old siege of Sarajevo. Russia, tra
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were preparing to pull back when the at
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with Bosnia’s Muslim-led government.
The peace talks are to begin in Geneva
on Friday. The three days ofNATO strikes
began last Wednesday, two days after a
Serb mortar shell exploded in a crowded
Sarajevo market, killing 38 people. The
pause in air attacks was meant to give the
Serbs time to accept the U.N. demands.
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Day-Care Center Asks For
Former Library Space
■ UNC’s Victory Village Day
Care wants the town to give
it the old public library
building on East Franklin.
BY SUSAN SANFORD
STAFF WRITER
Victory Village Day Care, the only
University-associated child-care service,
submitted a letter of interest in the former
Chapel Hill Public Library space on East
Franklin Street to the Chapel Hill Town
Council last week.
Chapel Hill Day Care Center is moving
out of the location, and as of yet, it is
uncertain who will take its place. The day
care center, which currently shares the
building with the Chapel Hill Preservation
Society, will be moving out in February.
“We’re all looking for a solution that
will make everyone happy,” said Chapel
Hill Town Council member Jim Protzman.
Leigh Zaleon, the director of Victory
Village, said the building had already been
proven a good area to keep children be
cause ofthe work put into it and the amount
of open space there.
“We are committed to serving the Uni
versity, and there is such a limited amount
of space we thought this would be a good
place,” she said. “It is already a proven
entity with the Chapel Hill Day Care being
there.”
Dave Worster, a member of Victory
Village’s board of directors, said the day
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cil. The day care is presently housed in a
University-allotted surplus military build
ing on Mason Farm Road across from
Odum Village.
Worster said the day care had a wonder
ful relationship with the University, but
the site “was never intended to be our
permanent home.” Victoiy Village has
been there for several years, but the build
ing is getting too old to warrant more
capital investment, he said.
Zaleon said she agreed that the condi
tion of the building was a concern.
“The building is old, and we shouldn’t
wait for things to happen and then have no
place to go,” Zaleon said.
A number of other organizations, in
cluding several day-care centers, also have
submitted preliminary inquiries into the
site, said Sonna Loewenthal, Chapel Hill
assistant town manager. They include
Head Start, Kid Scope and alternative sen
tencing (to imprisonment).
The Chapel Hill museum study com
mittee also has submitted a plan for creat
ing a town museum in the space. The East
Franklin Street building could be sharedby
more than one organization as it is now,
said Loewenthal.
“We do not have a process in place to
decide what to do with the building,”
Loewenthal said.
Chapel Hill Day Care’s lease ends Jan.
31, and they have the option to renew a
month at a time.
The Chapel Hill Town Council will
meet Sept. 27 to discuss the requests.
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