ERIC Number: ED325638
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1989-Jul
Pages: 115
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Statewide Follow-up Surveys for Job Training Partnership-Ohio Program Year 1987.
Lewis, Morgan V.
Follow-up surveys were conducted of adult clients who participated under Titles IIA and III of the Job Training Partnership (JTP) Act in Ohio. Data were gathered from JTP clients 13 and 26 weeks after completion of the program and combined with data from the state management information system, and a survey of a sample of employers of JTP-Ohio services. The survey found that a little more than two-thirds of both Title IIA and Title III participants enter employment. These former clients are far more likely to be employed and to have higher weekly earnings when they are contacted after termination than clients who leave JTP-Ohio for other reasons. During the first 13 weeks after leaving JTP-Ohio, former Title IIA clients work an average of 8 weeks and Title III clients work almost 10 weeks. After 13 weeks, 59 percent of the Title IIA clients and 73 percent of the Title III clients, are employed. The Title IIA clients who are employed earn an average of $218 and the Title III clients earn $363. About the same results were found after 26 weeks. However, persons who were welfare recipients when they began the programs were working less and earning less than those not on welfare when they enrolled. About half of those on welfare at the start of the program are not on it after 13 or 26 weeks. Employers were generally favorable to the program. The study concluded that the JTP-Ohio program has been successful in helping more people with more problems than on-the-job training alone could have been, but that some individuals have more problems than the program can address. (KC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment.
Identifiers - Location: Ohio
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Job Training Partnership Act 1982
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