The Alameda County Placement Project: A Final Report

Abstract

In a prefatory remark to an article that appeared in the February 1966 New Outlook I attempted to point out the relevance of the Alameda County Placement Project in the War on Poverty. It is said that the war has been reduced to a skirmish; the struggle, nevertheless, continues to find effective ways to salvage the so-called “hard core” groups who traditionally have been relegated to dismal lives of futile dependency. The ensuing article represents an accounting of the final and—happily—successful outcome of one such effort. The fact that this particular “hard core” group of citizens happens to be composed of blind persons makes this report even more pertinent to Outlook readers. Harold G. Roberts, Associate Director for Service, American Foundation for the Blind.