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Download full textAuspos, Patricia; And Others – 1989
The JOBSTART demonstration program addresses the employability problems of school dropouts by testing a program of basic education, occupational skills training, support services, and job placement assistance for young, economically disadvantaged dropouts who read below the eighth-grade level. The program is being offered at 13 diverse sites,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Stallings, David; McDonnell, Melinda – 1980
Designed for use in programs implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) of 1976, this guide includes guidelines and models for conducting the evaluation, research, and demonstration efforts that local youth staff are expected to carry on in their own local YEDPA programs. The evaluation, research,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Policy, Evaluation and Research. – 1979
An overview of the National Program for Selected Population Segments (NPSPS), a group of eighty-two projects funded during fiscal year 1977 by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Title III, is presented in this report. Chapter I provides an introduction to NPSPS. Chapter II reviews the administrative models used by the eighty-two…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Criminals, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Rangel, Robert N., Jr. – 1973
A 2-part developmental program consisting of a Dropout Component and a K-12 Component, this project is designed to provide a comprehensive and innovative vocational education program for the disadvantaged population of North Central Colorado as well as to provide a broad occupational orientation to increase students' awareness of the range of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Gambone, Michelle Alberti – 1993
This report is a first step in defining the direction in which the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) system should move to create programs that facilitate growth toward a socially constructive adulthood. An introduction describes the purpose and scope of a project that convened a panel of experts who generated the information, four background…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, At Risk Persons, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Forrester, Keith, Ed.; Ward, Kevin, Ed. – 1991
This book contains 12 chapters, each of which is a case study or a commentary on the unemployment of the 1980s and early 1990s and on the programs devised to retrain workers. Titles and authors are as follows: "Understanding Unemployment: A Critical Overview of Labour Market Trends, Employment, and Unemployment: (John Hughes); "A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations
Bailis, Lawrence N.; And Others – 1991
An interim evaluation analyzed the first year of operation of the Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program (JTHDP). Data were collected from quarterly progress reports and evaluation reports submitted by 32 local JTHDP projects. The projects exceeded planned levels of clients served and achieved other positive outcomes, including…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Alcohol Abuse, Cooperative Programs
Indian Hills Community Coll., Ottumwa, IA. – 1991
A program at Indian Hills Community College (Ottumwa, Iowa) consisted of a sex equity component aimed to prepare women to enter nontraditional occupations and a building trades component to enable electrical workers to upgrade their skills. Both of the targeted groups underwent assessment and upgrading coordinated through the college's SUCCESS…
Descriptors: Building Trades, College Programs, Demonstration Programs, Electrical Occupations
Northwest Educational Cooperative, Des Plaines, IL. – 1990
Project HOST (Hospitality Occupational Skills Training) provided vocational training and employment opportunities in the hotel industry to disadvantaged adult minority populations in Chicago. It demonstrated a model for successful cooperation between the business sector and a public vocational education agency and developed and piloted a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1978
Summarizing the first eight months of the planning, design, and implementation of the new federal youth programs created by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) and the efforts for expansion and enrichment of the Job Corps, this report explains the charters of the two projects and their initial successes in and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
Two Senate Subcommittees conducted joint hearings in October and November, 1981, on federal vocational education and job training programs for youth. The Committees sought answers to the question of how the federal government should participate in building an effective and efficient work force. Witnesses who spoke at the hearings included Governor…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Bohan, John F. – 1977
During the academic years 1975-1977 a model program was developed for recruiting, training, and placing technically competent community college students as teaching assistants to secondary school vocational education teachers. Students selected enrolled in a basic teaching methodology course and were placed in an area high school vocational…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs, Job Training
Kramer, Fredrica D. – Issue Notes, 1998
This publication, one of a series designed to help policymakers and TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] agency personnel, offers a baseline for understanding the challenge of serving persons who are being forced off welfare roles but who are hard to place in employment. The following topics are covered: (1) policy issues (who should be…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedLunday, Audrey Mostoller – Topics in Language Disorders, 1996
A prototype collaborative communication model was employed in vocational, academic, alternative, and Job Corps classrooms serving students with communication inadequacies. Instruments for evaluation of work-force entry-level communication skills were developed, and support services targeting weaknesses were provided. Results have been positive at…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
Gonzalez, Patricia; And Others – 1990
This annual directory describes current and newly expired projects funded under the United States Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services' (OSERS) Secondary and Transition Initiative. Project areas include family networking, secondary and transition services follow-up and follow-along projects, training and employment models for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
