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chance for job training, education
BY HEATHER JERNIGAN
STAFF WRITER
Help is on the way for Orange County
residents in search of job training or em
ployment.
Five community agencies are joining
together to offer their job training ser
vices by establishing the Orange County
Skill Development Center, which will be
located at 503 W. Franklin St.
The Employment Security Commis
sion, Durham Technical Community
College, the Job-Training Partnership
Act, North Carolina’s Work First Pro
gram, and the Orange County Literacy
Council came together to establish the
Skill Development Center, set to open in
1997.
The purpose of the Skill Development
Center is to give all county residents
access to job training and employment
placement no matter what their field of
Personality study given $20,000 grant
■ The study could establish
a link between personality
types and substance abuse.
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
A UNC psychiatric study that exam
ines the personality types of substance
abusers and people with mood disorders
in order to better diagnose and treat pa
tients was awarded a $20,000 grant from
the R.K. Mellon Family Foundation.
Dr. David Janowsky,professor ofpsy
chiatry at the UNC School of Medicine,
said Tuesday that the study could help to
determine if people with certain person
ality types are more likely to be substance
abusers or mentally ill.
“There’s evidence that these person
alities can predict a predisposition for
certain illnesses,” he said. “If we could
know ahead of time who fits a profile for
depression, then we can watch that per
DEVELOPMENT
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Gurlitz said. Some of the residential suites have been purchased
by young families, including one from Alaska that wanted to
enjoy its summers in Chapel Hill.
Office space has already been sold to a group of psycholo
gists and a computer application firm.
The name of the budding will be “The Fountains, ” because
of the water fountain planned for the front of the building.
Rooms will range in size from 1,000 to 1,700 square feet, and
most residential suites will include terraces.
Residents will also have one and one-half stories of secured
underground parking.
The penthouses on the fourth floor cost $225,000, while the
least expensive rooms run for $160,000.
Brock and Hall Real Estate, which is handling marketing for
the project, has advertised extensively, including promotions
on the Internet. The group’s president, Tony Hall, said their
marketing strategies for the building were geared toward pro
fessional couples and younger retirees.
“We are very excited about the project and expect the
remaining units to sell out immediately,” he said.
Construction is scheduled to begin in late fall or early spring.
Gurlitz estimated it would take about a year for the work to be
completed. He said the project had received “tremendous
support” from residents and businesses.
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interest is, Assistant County Manager
Albert Kittrell said.
Education level is not a factor in the
process, Kittrell said. He said the pro
gram would be open to high school gradu
ates, high school dropouts, people who
had been laid off or anyone who just
wanted to upgrade their education.
“It is a center for all residents regard
less of their income and skill level,"
Kittrell said.
“Anyone seeking training andemploy
ment can receive help at the Skill Devel
opment Center,” he said. “That’s the
beauty of it.”
Kittrell said the center would be staffed
by employees of the separate agencies
involved, with salaries paid by their indi
vidual organizations.
Ted Abernathy, Director of the Or
ange County Economic Development
Commission, said, “I believe that the
center will be a simple place where all
son carefully for suicide."
Shirley Morter, the administrative
coordinator and research assistant on the
study, said two questionnaires were be
ing used to study patients’ personalities.
The first, a tri-dimensional personal
ity questionnaire, gives a high or low
grade on novelty seeking, reward depen
dence and harm avoidance.
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, a
test often used in management and ca
reer counseling, divides personality into
categories: extrovert vs. introvert, sens
ing vs. intuitive, thinking vs. feeling and
judging vs. perceiving.
This test results in 16 possible person
ality combinations, and Janowsky said
three of those account for 70 percent of
psychiatric patients who are depressed or
suicidal.
“Take the introvert, sensing, feeling,
perceiving combination 5 percent of
the normal population fits this type, but
25 percent of suicidal or depressed people
fit it.
“With some of the other combina-
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citizens needing ajob, orabetterone, can
go.”
Abernathy said the center would also
be a service for employers. “Employers
can come to the center looking for em
ployees or they can upgrade the skills for
their workers.”
Kathy Alberter, program coordinator
of the Orange County Literacy Council,
said she hoped people would connect
literacy with job skills and lose some of
the stigma attached to getting literacy
education.
“One of our main concerns is that (the
Literacy Council’s) individual identity
will remain and not just fade into the
large group with the other groups in
volved,” she said.
Several other counties in the state are
opening centers similar to the Skill De
velopment Center, but this is the first
time Orange County has been involved
with a project of this sort, Kittrell said.
tions, it’s almost like a person is pro
tected from depression,” he said.
Through the study, Janowsky said he
hoped not only to use personality types
to predict illnesses but also to match both
doctors and treatments that better fit the
patient’s profile.
“It makes intuitive sense to have a
deeper understanding of the patient so
you can then tailor your reaction and
treatment,” said Robert Golden, chair
man of the Department of Psychiatry at
the medical school.
Golden said his one concern for the
study was that with the emergence of
managed health care there was less flex
ibility to provide such intensive and pa
tient-specific care.
“This research is important, and it
would be a shame that as it yields more
clues, certain HMOs prevent us from
using it,” he said.
Janowsky said he had openings for a
limited number of graduate students
working on related topics or students
interested in the study for a senior thesis.
NEWS
Black Caucus feels redistricting threat
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The Congres
sional Black Caucus opened its annual
legislative conference Wednesday amid
concerns that “the legacy is being laid for
us to be diminished” because of court
decisions on redistricting.
On the dais with caucus chairman
Rep. Donald Payne, D-Newark, were
several black lawmakers from districts
that the Supreme Court has ruled were
improperly drawn to create black majori
ties.
Payne said the 40-member caucus can
retain many of those seats by stepping up
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in districts that will be ultimately re
drawn to reduce the percentage of minor
ity voters do not appear bright.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas
Democrat whose district was ordered
redrawn, said she believes she will win
her election but she is worried that fewer
black lawmakers will return.
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dwindle,” said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-
Hl. “If in fact the Supreme Court is suc
cessful in its efforts to gut the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, we will see a signifi
cant reduction of Congressional Black
Caucus members.”
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