PHASE Recognizes Graduates

April 27, 2000


The Arizona Department of Transportation and the University of Arizona's Project for Homemakers in Arizona Seeking Employment (PHASE) recognized 15 individuals who recently completed the program.

PHASE is a successful career-counseling program in the College of Agriculture's family and consumer resources. Its purpose is to assist low-income single parents, displaced homemakers, minorities and incarcerated women to enter job training and secure employment.

The recognition and awards ceremony was held April 21 at the UA for graduates of the Pre-Apprenticeship Program for Women and Minorities.

Friends and family members attended the standing-room only presentation. A representative of Congressman Jim Kolbe's office as well as Metropolitan Education Commission director June Webb Vinery, state Rep. Marion Lee Pickens and the course instructors were also in attendance.

PHASE director Diane Wilson introduced keynote speaker Lory Warren, a former PHASE graduate who is now the Superintendent of Streets in Oro Valley. She recounted how PHASE enabled her to get where she is now. Warren also serves on the PHASE's board of directors.

The Arizona Department of Transportation gives one-half of 1 percent of the state's highway construction monies to this particular segment of the program to train people for work in highway construction.

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