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Clarke, James Y.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1980
The article describes a program providing summer jobs for the vocational preparation of nine moderately and severely retarded adolescents. The program combined an emphasis on realistic instruction in skills directly applicable to employment situations with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to provide fully paid community…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Effectiveness, Severe Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedDickson, Mary B. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1978
A Comprehensive Employment Training Act funded program of prevocational summer work experience for young blind adults was established to teach job-seeking skills, to develop decision-making processes, and to explore interests and capabilities for potential future employment. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills, Informal Assessment
Rouson, William E. – 1980
A Peer Group Counseling program, set up in accordance with the Summer Youth Employment Program during 1980-81 in Riverside, California, is presented as a model. The program objectives focus on improving enrollees' feelings of self-worth and self-confidence; enhancing learning skills; supplying job-seeking skills; and stimulating a desire for…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Employment Potential, Guidance Centers
Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1986
This document summarizes the findings of currently available evaluation studies of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and other related reports and data. Data from 26 studies conducted between 1980 and 1986 are presented under the following subject headings: the state role (monitoring and oversight, policy interpretation and leadership,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
A review of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) results, strengths, and weaknesses, and future role in light of expected economic and technological changes indicates that it is time to strengthen--though not necessarily enlarge--America's only available second-chance training system. Cost-benefit analysis of the major CETA…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
