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...agency "tries to find out the specific needs of the individual and their particular career objective," says IOU Training Specialist Mark A. Pelletier. A former employee of the federal government's CETA office in Boston, he calls the program "the most unique and effective of its kind...
...instead of sentencing the Cambridge resident to a jail stay, the Middlesex County judge sent Ackerley to Individual Opportunities Unlimited (IOU), and he now works for Widener Library's maintenance department cleaning shelves in the stacks...
...Cambridge-based, non-profit training and counseling service for unemployed ex-convicts. IOU offers its clients--all on probation or recently released after sentences for minor offenses--an eight-week employment training program which includes sessions on interview preparation and role playing through stressful situations they might encounter...
Founded in 1979, the agency placed 34 ex-convicts in jobs last year, and 17 have been found employment this year. IOU officials and clients agree that the service's emphasis on individual attention separates it from other groups assisting ex-convicts...
...IOU Director Edward DePalma says the greatest problem facing the ex-convicts is rejection caused by general prejudice toward criminal records, both in applying for and after they land jobs. To counter this prejudice, part of the IOU program involves scenarios clients might find in interviews and job sites that allow them to practice their responses...