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A Career Awareness Program for High School Dropouts.
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Palmo, Artis J.; And Others – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1980
Determined the effects of a concentrated vocational assessment and counseling program for high school dropouts. Approximately 60 percent of the dropouts were still employed six months after the program. Dropouts reported increased awareness of their own abilities and awareness of employers' needs. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
School to Employment Program. 1992-1993 Annual Report.
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Bennett, Barbara K.; Donnelly, Margaret – 1993
The School to Employment Program (STEP) operated during 1992-93 as an employment-oriented program served economically disadvantaged, out-of-school youth between the ages of 16-21, with special emphasis on 18- and 19-year-olds. Program participants were provided an opportunity to engage in work experience or on-the-job training, to improve academic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Alternative Education and Employment Preparation for Youth. The Eidos Program.
Boyd, Sheila; Regner, Christine – 1987
The Eidos Program, sponsored by the Idyllic Foundation, is a private community-based organization that, with schools and other cooperating agencies and sponsors, helps young people whose needs are not adequately met by existing instituions. The program, which was funded for six months by the Job Training Partnership Act, provided educational and…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
E.E.C./D.E.S. Transition to Work Project: Language, People & Work Course.
Phillimore, Peter; Ahmad, Yusuf I. – 1980
This paper describes a course of study offered by Bradford College in West Yorkshire, Great Britain, to twenty 16-19 year old students of Asian background who left school alienated from education as a process and school as an institution. The program offers English, prevocational, and vocational courses with the goal of improving the students'…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Restoring Opportunity for Dropouts: Reasons & Results.
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Crist, Kerry – Equity and Excellence, 1991
The 70001 Training & Employment Institute is currently designing a new dropout prevention program for public schools, the Work, Achievement, and Values in Education (WAVE) project. WAVE exercises will be competency based, helping demonstrate concrete learning gains and emphasizing experiential learning activities and sensitivity to local…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Dropout Prevention
Youth Chance. A Program of the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Employment and Training.
Lesser & Ogden Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1980
The San Francisco-based YMCA Youth Chance began in 1978 as a Youth Community Conservation and Improvement "sweat program"--a means of providing unemployed high school dropouts with CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act)-funded jobs. Youth Chance continues to train males and females, 16-19 years of age, who meet CETA…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Opportunities
Vocational Education Success Stories: Serving Special Populations.
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1986
This publication reports on the Illinois Council on Vocational Education's (ICoVE) recognition program. The program was designed to (1) commend achievement in vocational education; (2) collect information about vocational education and evaluate its success; (3) provide a resource guide of successful vocational education programs and activities;…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Programs, Community Programs, Dropout Programs