Job advice now offered to Viet vets
Cedar Rapids Vet Center teams with Job Service of Iowa to provide vocational counseling for Vietnam-era veterans. Counselors will offer one on one sessions Wednesdays 8 to 11 45 a m and Thursdays 1 to 4 p m at 346 Second Ave SW. They will explain the Emergency Veterans Job Training Act and invite local employers to participate. Vet veterans may visit or call 398 2424 for appointments.
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Cedar Rapids’ Vet Center
Job Service of
Iowa
Greg Clark
Cedar Rapids
Vet Center
Educational Services Center
Second Ave
Clark
Cedar Rapids student photographer earns state honor
Mark Bohounek of Cedar Rapids and Hawkeye Institute of Technology in Waterloo placed among the top five student photographers in Iowa at the Professional Photographers of Iowa Convention.
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Waterloo
Mark Bohounek
Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Institute of Technology
Professional Photographers of
Iowa
Economic squeeze cuts Eastern Iowa family counseling
Five months into counseling for Helen and her children the program faces funding shortages. State funds are down while demand rises, forcing Linn County and other agencies to cut back services and restrict new cases. Limited free sessions and staff pay cuts hit in home counseling for troubled families with abused and delinquent children.
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Vanessa Shelton
Ette
Helen
Cedar Rapids
Families Inc
Iowa
Iowa Department of Human Services
Linn County
Linn
Families of
Northeast Iowa
DHS
Davenport
Roger Reid
Northeast
Dubuque
Delaware
Jackson
Clinton
Dixie Clark
Linn Juvenile Court
Sylvia Lewis
Lewis
Counties tap state fund for juvenile in home counseling
Eastern Iowa counties Johnson Delaware and Dubuque use county based funding to reimburse in home juvenile counseling through a state mechanism. Linn County already seeks state reimbursement for base costs while not including in home counseling, citing DHS funds and a potential shortfall.
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Iowa
Linn County
DHS
Linn
Jean Oxley
Johnson County
Carol Thompson
Jay Bartels
Davenport
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