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A program that Tucson poverty war chiefs hope will
become a "roving area council" for use by
rural residents begins tomorrow.
The official name is Portable Practical Educational
Preparation - or, more simply, Project PPEP.
PPEP is a school's converted to classroom use and staffed
by a full-time coordinator and social worker and four
part-time aides. It has been financed for six months
of operation through $20,822 in federal money form the
Western Region Office of Economic Opportunity.
Money left over at the regional level after local programs
were budgeted and approved has been distributed to local
offices for special, short-term programs - such as PPEP.
The local contribution amounts to $5,420 worth of services-in-kind.
John D. Arnold has been hired as coordinator.
The roving classroom will spend about one day a week
in each of several rural communities such as Sahuarita,
Continental and Tubac.
Classes such as driver training, citizenship, nutrition,
health, sanitation, literacy (basic English and math)
and household vocational (do-it-yourself) skills will
be conducted in the evenings.
During each day the PPEP staff will attend to other
needs of the Pima County farm labor family such as referring
them to other active private and public agencies that
can help and following up on action taken in those cases.
Its function is essentially that of seven permanent
area councils located within the city of Tucson and
operated through the nonprofit Committee for Economic
Opportunity, Inc., here.
CEO Director Reuben Romero said yesterday that the
PPEP program will dovetail with another new program
- the emergency food and medical program - also to begin
next week.
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