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By PHILIPPA KIR BY
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) program which is operating out of Washington this summer promises to be very successful. The aim of the program is to find summer employment for youths between the ages of 14 and 22 in non-profit organizations, and, explains Mary Carter, Summer Counselor for the Rappahannock County program, to find a worksite “that's as career oriented as possible.”
The youths employed are selected on the basis of family income. They apply for jobs through the Virginia Employment Commission, and are then put in touch with their local office of CETA. Youngsters are asked for some indication of where their interests lie, and from this information, CETA tries to locate employment in that field, or in a field as closely related as possible.
All the jobs undertaken by the youths include a large proportion of training and counseling. There are now four on-the-site counselors working with CETA. Thirtytwo hours of each week are spent in actual work, at the minimum wage of $2.90 an hour; seven hours are used for training the employee, and one hour a week is taken up in counseling done by the job site supervisors. This summer, CETA is engaged in finding work for 25 youths in the Rappahannock area, 20 of whom are already employed. Places of employment include the local schools (where eight youths are now working), the library, county offices, and firerescue departments.
The two CETA employees at the library, says Mrs. Truman Keesey, are “very helpful.” Right now, they are taking an inventory of all the books in the library, and are typing catalogue cards for both those books which were not filed before, and gifts given to the library which wefe previously not catalogued, Two CETA youngsters are also employed at the Mental Health Ginic, and are learning to deal with most aspects of clerical work. In addition, they are doing light janatorial tasks, and are
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