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Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
Written to provide business executives with examples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that successfully prepare people to be skilled workers, this guide also describes the financial incentives for hiring unemployed and economically disadvantaged persons. In an overview of CETA and Title VII programs, private industry…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Incentives
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
This publication reports on a recent study that compared the new Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study was conducted to determine how the JTPA limit on money for program administration affected the type of individual served and the training provided in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
This booklet describes specific proposed and/or implemented strategies for dealing with some of the problems encountered in the CETA program. These strategies are directed toward four goals: (1) helping those who need help most; (2) creating a jobs program that goes where the jobs are: the private sector; (3) better management, delivering more job…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs
Franklin, Paul L. – 1979
A description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) precedes an examination of the CETA network. The three fold purpose of CETA is (1) to establish a flexible and decentralized system of federal, state, and local programs; (2) provide job-training and employment opportunities for the economically disadvantaged who are unemployed,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
This monograph, one of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, is designed to make available to prime sponsor staffs the lessons some of their colleagues feel they have learned from service in CETA and previous programs. The content is in seven sections. The first discusses the philosophy and purpose of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Contracts, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were designed to test whether guaranteed part-time jobs during the school year and full-time jobs in the summer would induce economically disadvantaged youths to remain in or return to school. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found that most worksites provided adequate experiences. Others, however,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
National Child Labor Committee, New York, NY. – 1978
This report on youth employment programs is intended to help prime sponsors and program operators implement innovative youth employment efforts under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act (YEDPA). The content is in two chapters. Chapter 1 covers the introduction, meeting…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
National Manpower Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This report reviews legislatively mandated linkages between prime sponsors and local education agencies (LEAs) in providing employment, education, and training for youth. The legislation discussed includes (1) the 1977 Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), (2) the Young Adult Conservation Corps, (3) the Youth Incentive…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Coleman, Gerry – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
Describes the three major types of training programs funded under CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) in Wisconsin and discusses recent trends in CETA program funding and administration, focusing on functions of the Prime Sponsors, particularly as they operate in Wisconsin. (BM)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Job Training
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
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This is the second report concerning how Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors implemented two programs under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), specifically the Youth Community Conservation Improvement Projects (YCCIP) and Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP). The report is based on studies by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Herzog, Jane – 1981
This manual has been developed to assist prime sponsors, private industry councils, community-based organizations and other youth serving agencies in planning, designing, and implementing vocational exploration activities. The information, forms, and curriculum samples in the manual are a collection of the efforts of 14 program operators involved…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs
Rist, Ray C.; And Others – 1981
This book looks at the evolution of 16 school-to-work transition projects initiated through the Exemplary In-School Grant Program of Youthwork, Inc., funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study addresses issues raised by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977, which sought to produce changes…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation
PDF pending restorationEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1975
This report reviews the establishment and early performance of the comprehensive manpower system established by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The report is divided into two major sections. Part 1 examines the background and first year results of the CETA program. The legislative and programmatic antecedents to CETA are…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
