MATCHING DISABLED TO JOBS; PLAN TIES IN ATTRACTION WITH LOW-INCOME ZONES.Byline: Yvette Cabrera Daily News Staff Writer It has been six years since Bettye Moore last held a job. It's her diabetes, she said, that has kept her from even trying to look for work. But now, Moore and other northeast San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. residents with disabilities will get a shot at more than 700 full- and part-time jobs being offered by Universal Studios to residents of public housing and empowerment zones, areas earmarked by the federal government for economic assistance. The program would provide training, placement and support for the employees. ``Being out with people will help my image and keep my ego and everything else going,'' said Moore, 52, a resident of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Gardens applying to become an usher USHER. This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law Archb. Pr. 25. at the Universal Studios Amphitheater amphitheater (ăm`fəthē'ətər, ăm`pə–), open structure used for the exhibition of gladiatorial contests, struggles of wild beasts, sham sea battles, and similar spectacles. . Residents with physical or emotional disabilities, including those recovering from drug or alcohol addictions will be recruited from the San Fernando Gardens, the only public housing project in the Valley. It is the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Housing Authority's first site targeted for the program, called Universal Access. Residents of the one-square-mile federal empowerment zone in Pacoima also will be recruited for the program, which is being funded by a federal grant through the Department of Education. Jobs range from cashiers, ride operators and ticket sellers, to character escorts, cooks and park attendants, said Mario Matute, project director of the San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center. ``This is giving us the opportunities to really expand services to the disabled population,'' he said. The Integrated Resources Institute, which is coordinating the program, began interviewing prospective job applicants Tuesday and will continue today. The nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. institute is contracted by Universal Studios to help the disabled find jobs, said Steve Zivolich, the institute's program coordinator. ``We see this as a way of reintegrating people with disabilities into a society they have been segregated from,'' said Zivolich. Despite Universal Studios' efforts to recruit employees with disabilities, last year they hired only 15 because that is all the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Noun 1. vocational rehabilitation - providing training in a specific trade with the aim of gaining employment rehabilitation - the restoration of someone to a useful place in society referred to them, Zivolich said. With the new program, Universal Studios plans to hire 140 people a year over a five-year period, 51 percent of them coming from empowerment zones. For more information on the program, call (818) 622-5984. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Bettye Moore is interviewed Tuesday by Matt Emery emery: see corundum. emery Granular rock consisting of a mixture of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide, Al2O3) and iron oxides such as magnetite (Fe3O4) or hematite (Fe2O3). at San Fernando Gardens. John McCoy/Daily News |
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