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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2019
Youth apprenticeship programs can give students access to valuable work-based learning experiences that provide insights into how their interest can connect to education and the workforce. Although these programs are often beneficial for participants, there is little data to show the programmatic landscape and impact. There are many challenges…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Apprenticeships, Accountability, Data Collection
Carrie Kathlyn Townley Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this dissertation, I examine how two major social programs in Kentucky--state-funded preK and Family Resource and Youth Service Centers--impact children's outcomes across the state, including racial, ethnic, and economic equity through elementary school. In each chapter, I will analyze how early childhood opportunities relate to outcomes…
Descriptors: State Programs, Preschool Education, Family Programs, Youth Programs
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Payne, Pamela B.; McDonald, Daniel A. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Community-based education programs must demonstrate effectiveness to various funding sources. The pilot study reported here (funded by CYFAR, NIFA, USDA award #2008-41520-04810) had the goal of determining if state level programs with varied curriculum could use a common evaluation tool to demonstrate efficacy. Results in parenting and youth…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Extension Education, State Programs, Evaluation Methods
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Marshall, Amy; Powell, Norman; Pierce, Doris; Nolan, Ronnie; Fehringer, Elaine – Child Welfare, 2012
Students, a large percentage with disabilities, are at high risk for poor post-secondary outcomes in state agency education programs. This mixed-methods study describes the understandings of student transitions in state agency education programs from the perspectives of youth and administrators. Results indicated that: transition is more narrowly…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, State Agencies, Nontraditional Education, Administrator Attitudes
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Shannon, Lisa M.; Walker, Robert; Blevins, Michele – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2009
This paper presents information on re-developing an outcome evaluation for a state-funded program providing service coordination utilizing wraparound to youth with severe emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. Originally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kentucky IMPACT program has existed statewide since 1990. Changing…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Severe Disabilities
D'Amico, Ronald; Kogan, Deborah; Kreutzer, Suzanne; Wiegand, Andrew; Baker, Alberta; Carrick, Gardner; McCarthy, Carole – 2001
Early state and local progress toward implementation of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was reviewed. Data were collected through visits to selected sites in Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Vermont and a 90-item Workforce System Information and Evaluation (WSIE) data collection form. The following aspects of WIA…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Budgeting