Historical May 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
This summer the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council is again serving as one of the host agencies for the City’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Funded from a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Summer Youth Employment Program is administered locally by the City’s agency for training and employment, SLATE. Youth between the ages of fourteen-totwenty-one are provided part-time summer jobs designed to develop marketable employment skills. Skinker-DeBaliviere’s program will be administered this year by Elise Humphreys, the Breitmayer Minister at Grace Methodist Church.
The program will extend from June 9th to August 8th and will . furnish jobs for forty-three neighborhood youth. Work sites will include Grace Methodist Church, the Community Council office, the DesPeres Branch Library, and the Hamilton Community School. Youth, who will be screened and selected for participation in the program by SLATE, will receive employment experience in office skills, child care, journalism, and food service. Program participants will work twenty hours each week and receive wages set at the minimum wage level of $3.10 per hour.
Applications for the program are available at the Gateway Center, 5647 Delmar, and SLATE, 3900 Lindell.
For additional information, call Skip Coburn, Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, 862-5122, or Elise Humphreys, Grace Methodist Church, 863-1992.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1980.
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