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Twenty-two county youths have found jobs through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act’s summer program in Rappahannock. The purpose of CETA is “sorta to keep us kids off the street,” CETA worker Roger Smoot told the Rappahannock Planning Commissioners during his presentation before them at last week’s meeting. Jane Bowser, program director in Rappahannock, stated CETA’s first priority a little differently. It’s “giving low income kids jobs and money,” she said. Most of the youths working under her supervision plan on using their summer wages for books and school clothes, she noted. “If we can get them the kind of job that can give them training they can use (for future employment), that’s second priority,” said Miss Bowser.
“Keeping kids off the streets and out of mischief is another secondary need filled by< CETA,” she continued. “We had a couple of boys referred to us who were on the verge of getting into trouble. Now that the youths are employed and no longer idle, there have been no further difficulties,” she said.
Group Counseling
In addition to arranging employment, Miss Bowser also schedules several group counseling meetings during the summer and invites an outside speaker to address the group on job opportunities.
Miss Bowser said that youths working under CETA must either fall below poverty guidelines in order to meet income eligibility re
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