ERIC Number: ED280249
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Feb-22
Pages: 46
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The Mentor Project: Involving Handicapped Employees in the Transition of Handicapped Youth from School to Work. Final Report.
Patton, Sarah L.
This final report describes the goals and activities of the Mentor Project, a feasibility study involving the use of handicapped employees as mentors to assist handicapped youth to make the transition from school to work. The first section details the context of the study, including the project's conception of the mentor experience, a review of vocational programming in Massachusetts, and considerations for research. Section II briefly outlines the technical objectives, involving the development of models for using successfully employed disabled workers as mentors; integrating special education, vocational rehabilitation, and vocational education resources; and utilizing industry volunteers in inservice training of vocational rehabilitation, special education, and vocational education staff. The third section details study methods and activities, including development of selection criteria, conduct of a needs assessment, interviews with industry personnel and service providers, and decisions concerning an advisory committee. Section IV provides information on the school needs assessment conducted at two comprehensive high schools, a technical high school, and a bi-county collaborative service program. Interviews with eight companies representing the area industries are described in the fifth section, and interviews with 19 service providing agencies are discussed in the sixth section. The final section concludes that the positive findings of the feasibility study support the development of a demonstration mentor model program. Appendices provide a brief description of the proposed mentor model, the questionnaire used in interviews with schools, and lists of the companies and service agencies interviewed. (CB)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. of Handicapped Research (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Russell (Harold) and Associates, Inc., Waltham, MA.
Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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