Word: gopen
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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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...
...notable success with one large Cambridge employer--Harvard University. Harvard has has hired more than twelve secretaries through the House. One social worker contrasted Harvard's response to that of "other Boston colleges closer to the House that practice a subtler form of discrimination." Several other Boston colleges rejected Gopen's approaches...
...Gopen also helps local residents find jobs by organizing employment nights at South End House. He brings large-scale employers to the House to talk to local residents. The results are dramatic. "More people got hired on the day the phone company came here," Gopen beamed, "than the telephone company got through a whole year of advertising." Since the passage of job discrimination laws, many firms have wanted to hire members of minority groups. But the South End residents are sometimes too scared or too apathetic to travel all the way to a firm's main offices, Gopen explained...