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...Martin Gopen, the House's Employment Counselor, personifies its style. Short, moustachioed, he covers his genuine feeling for social work with the air of a fast-talking, hard-hitting businessman. As he yells at a group leader for bothering him, Gopen carefully takes down the name of a crippled Puerto Rican who cannot find satisfactory employment. Gopen will see him tomorrow...
...mostly concerned with electronics, computers and light machinery, have moved into sites along Route 128 on the outskirts of Boston. But the Boston school system has not been sensitive to this expansion of the job market. "While companies along Route 128 are crying out for skilled machinists and engineers," Gopen says, "Boston schools are still teaching woodworking and cabinet-making. Mel King, now head of Congress of Racial Equality, ran for the school board a few years ago on a platform of connecting Boston vocational schools with Route 128. But he was defeated...
Federal subsidies for on-the-job training programs (OJT), especially since the cutbacks due to the Vietnam War, do not fill the training gap. Gopen points out that there are now only 380 individual contracts for OJT available...
...Gopen has personally established contacts with private training programs and 128 industries. And, at the same time, he has introduced a brilliant new idea in employment counseling. Instead of sitting in his office waiting for people to ask for information, Gopen goes out into the neighborhood in a panel truck covered with signs. These signs advertise job opportunities, training programs, and night school, as well as free legal advice and marriage counseling. Gopen says, "When a strange thing like this truck comes on the street, people just come to look. They feel much more at ease here when...
...Gopen's truck has a room for consultations, a table to fill out applications, and even a phone so people can call immediately to check job openings. In seventeen months of operation, Gopen's mobile employment center has over seven hundred part-time and four hundred full-time job placements to its credit. And poverty programs in New Haven and New York have begun to copy Gopen's idea...