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Since its doors opened in 1984, the Work Force has helped to provide jobs, education and counseling to more than 100 teenagers living in public housing developments, according to Steve Swanger, the city's director of tenant services...
...Cambridge program counsels disadvantaged teenagers and matches them with internship programs that give them the skills necessary to compete in the labor market. "If we can give kids exposure to the world of work, they can succeed in the world of work," said Steven J. Swanger, the housing authority's director of tenant services...
...Swanger said the program is six years old and spent $240,000 last year to help more than 130 teenagers--25 percent of those eligible--living in Cambridge public housing. He added that this program is unique because it is administered through a public housing program...
...Most cities run their housing authorities as real estate companies," Swanger said. He said Cambridge is particularly successful in using its housing department to implement social welfare programs...
...Swanger said that the program--if it is chosen--may use the award money either to establish a scholarship fund or to expand the existing program to include eleven and twelve-year-olds. Current participants must be at least thirteen years...