Two hundred representatives from the community, special interest groups, and the educational field cooperated in writing a preliminary state plan for career education focusing on the following problems: high unemployment rate of society's untrained youth, the diminished ability of the job market to absorb unskilled workers, lack of trained persons to fill industrial jobs, and the need for career and vocational counseling to reach adults as well as students. This document outlines these and other problems and seeks to suggest ways to solve them. The first five sections cover final development of the state plan (advisory committee, employment of staff, operational funds), statewide orientation to career education, state training for career education (inservice and preservice for educators and guidance personnel and inservice for parents and community), program development, interstate and intrastate communication and resource exchange, and the steps involved in program assessment and evaluation. The major portion of the document consists of summary reports of career educational goals developed by working committees in the following subareas: community (small business, large business, human services, fraternal organizations, media/public relations, humanities and arts, environment/energy, military and government, manpower/labor); special interests (special needs and disadvantaged, sex role stereotyping, urban/rural exchange, adult information services, bilingual/bicultural); education (preschool/day care/kindergarten, elementary/secondary, postsecondary/junior college, higher education, teacher education, and counselor education). (SH)