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Ayres, Mary Ellen – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1979
Describes the many educational and employment aid programs to assist counselors working with our fastest growing minority population, Americans of Spanish ancestry, now totalling over twelve million. Notes efforts to accommodate differences among the groups (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and others) and lists publications providing helpful data.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Communicative Competence (Languages), Counselor Role
Download full textWeinbaum, Sandy; Wirmusky, Frank – 1994
The 14 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)-funded youth employment programs to which the Academy for Educational Development (AED) has delivered technical assistance for the past 5 years illustrate several important conditions for effective programming and "best practices" in the field of youth employment and training. Four of the JTPA…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Imel, Susan – 1996
In an effort to shift the focus of employment programs from unemployment to reemployment, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is funding the development and implementation of a one-stop employment system. The DOL has largely left states free to design their one-stop systems provided programs have these features: (1) universality, (2) customer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Centers
Kagan, Sharon L.; And Others – 1993
This report provides an overview of the second year of the Family Education and Training Program, a project constructed to: (1) investigate the impact of a comprehensive child care training program on the employability of low-income mothers; and (2) assess the effect of training and support in parenting and job readiness on parenting skills and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Career Development
Erickson, Ron, Ed.; And Others – IMPACT, 1989
This "feature issue" reports on major shifts in attitudes, practices, and policies that have led to the growth of supported employment programs for people with disabilities, with special focus on the situation in Minnesota. It contains the following articles: "To the Year 2000 and Beyond: Jobs Won't Be the Problem" (David R.…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Disabilities, Economic Development
Wong, Kenneth K. – 1988
This report surveys the vocational education system, work experience programs, and job training programs for youths in Chicago. The report is organized in five sections. It begins with a brief review of the socioeconomic context that affects youth employment in the city of Chicago. Section 2 examines vocational training in the Chicago public…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Weinberg, Daniel; Germanis, Peter – 1988
Twenty years after the War on Poverty was launched, dependency on public support remains widespread. Part 1 of this report summarizes current research concerning the following issues affecting welfare programs: (1) evaluating the economic effects of welfare; (2) dynamics of dependency; (3) welfare and work; (4) welfare and family structure; (5)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Family (Sociological Unit)
Virginia State Council on Vocational Education, Blacksburg. – 1986
A survey sought information concerning the coordination of programs and services among agencies involved in job training, vocational education, and related services in Virginia. One mailing of the survey was made to 369 individuals (231 responded) in 7 groups of agencies: Job Training Partnership Act service delivery areas, dislocated worker…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Bishart, Gus; Werner, Claire – 1984
Competencies for production machine shop are provided for the first of four topic areas: principles and practice of machine shop. Each competency appears in a one-page format. It is presented as a goal statement followed by one or more "indicator" statements, which are performance objectives describing an ability that, upon attainment,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Behavioral Objectives, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Cambridge Office of Manpower Affairs, MA. – 1980
In 1979, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation was changed to remove income from the eligibility criteria for Title IIC upgrading and retraining programs. In order to assess the impact of this change upon CETA prime sponsor and private industry council (PIC) activities across the country, a telephone survey was made to all…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Case Studies, Employment Opportunities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1988
This series of hearings, the second of three on welfare reform, focuses on the following legislation: (1) the Family Security Act (S. 1511); (2) child support enforcement bills (S. 1001 and S. 869); and (3) the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Employment and Training Reorganization Act. Among the speakers and witnesses were the following:…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Support, Child Welfare, Cost Estimates
William T. Grant Foundation, Washington, DC. Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship. – 1988
This report, a product of the Commission on Youth and America's Future, addresses the problem of the approximately 20 million 16- to 24-year-olds who are not likely to attend college. Although many youth without college education are successful, a large fraction are not and need help to succeed. However, the portrait of them as troubled and in…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Kitabchi, Gloria; Petry, John R. – 1982
An evaluation of the Nuclear Skill Related Training Program at Memphis State University was conducted to identify possible motivational and attitudinal variables that may contribute to the retention-attrition rates of Job Corps students (40 percent) admitted to the program compared to non-Job Corps students who are migrant workers (2 percent). The…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Vogler, Daniel E.; Manley, Katherine K. – 1982
An overview on employment and training as it relates to higher education is presented as part of the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Attention is directed to the linkage between higher education…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Credit Courses, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Cohen, Pennie; Nance, Don W. – 1982
The way in which student services can meet the needs of a small segment of the student body who need extensive and intensive developmental work is considered as part of the American Council on Education's Higher Education/Comprehensive Employment and Training ACT (CETA) Project, which was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
