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There are no expectations of quick success, according to W. Floyd Blanton, director of the Piedmont Job Training Administration. “It may take one, two or even three years for clients to receive the benefits of training and employment.”
The experiences of programs tried in the past, Mr. Blanton said, have taught the necessity of education as a component of job training programs — particularly for the long-term unemployed. “We are finding basic skills deficiencies more evident.” The result has been a more “holistic” approach to job training, which stresses “basic educational skills.”
The impetus for the program was the Family Support Act of 1988, which mandated that welfare recipients, with certain narrow exceptions, would no longer be allowed to receive assistance without making concrete efforts toward gaining employment.
Along with that change came relaxations of the benefit limits to allow the continuation of payments while the recipients are in transition from public assistance to private employment.
Eligible individuals include any recipient of Aid to Families with Dependent Children who is less than 24 years old without a high school diploma, mothers whose youngest child is within two years of ineligibility for aid, and those who hae received ADC payments for 36 continuous months.
Residents meeting those eligibility requirements will be served first, with any ADC recipient also eligible
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