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For the first time since Oregon instituted its affirmative action policy, representatives of a state agency called a public meeting in the Black community to get the word out that they are seeking minority recruits.
More than 20 placement agencies and community organizations sent delegates to the presentation at the King Facility on Thursday, June 18, to hear about employment opportunities with the Educational Services section of the Oregon Corrections Division. According to Kay Toran, state affirmative action officer, the meeting was the first of its kind and signaled the beginning of an improved employment relationship with the division.
Among the organizations represented at the meeting were the American Muslim Mission Center, the Northeast Youth Service Center, the Urban League, Image de Oregon, Aquila, Hispanic Political Action Committee, Multnomah County Commissioner Gladys McCoy's office, the Oregon Human Development Corporation, Metropolitan Human Relations Commission, Albina Human Resources, the State Employment Division, the city of Portland affirmative action office, Humboldt, Concordia and Boise neighborhood associations, the Albina Ministerial Alliance, Multnomah County Corrections, THE CRIB, the Black United Front, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods and the Northwest Race and Sex Desegregation Center.
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