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The Virginia Employment Commission’s CETAsponsored Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) will put 5,500 Virginia youth to work this summer, including 66 youngsters from Rappahannock and Fauquier counties.
Federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act funds will provide $8.15 million for VEC’s CETA summer work and training projects. Fauquier Community Action, Inc., will administer the $100,000 local program in Rappahannock and Fauquier.
According to VEC’s Youth Programs Manager Harold Kretzer, SYEP is one of the few CETA programs that will be untouched by current budget cuts due to the Reagan administrations emphasis on youth employment. In fact, VEC will get approximately $600,000 more than had been allocated initially with CETA prime sponsors also receiving additional SYEP funds.
The 14-to-21-year-old SYEP trainees will earn minimum wage ($3.35 per hour) and most will work a 40-hour week. Employers will include public and private non-profit organizations, such as local governments, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, YMCAs and state and federal parks and recreation sites.
According to Kretzer, SYEP emphasizes developing good work habits and gaining work experience. He stressed that SYEP supervisors are carefully chosen and that each supervisor is responsible for a small group of trainees.
Participants also receive classroom training, mamy at community colleges where they can receive academic credit. In addition, the young people do some “job sampling,” visiting factories, private businesses and job sites in their areas.
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