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Download full textWallace, Teri, Ed.; And Others – IMPACT, 1993
This theme issue addresses current trends and new developments in ensuring that individuals with disabilities have meaningful employment opportunities, especially in the context of recent federal legislation. Stressed throughout is the importance of collaboration among professionals, individuals with disabilities, and family members in achieving…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1983
This handbook illustrates and discusses organizational options for the delivery of employment and training services within service delivery areas (SDAs) mandated by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. Addressed primarily to members of private industry councils (PICs), representatives of local governments, and employment and training…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged
Dubravcic, Elizabeth V.; And Others – 1986
This guidebook for vocational planners and evaluators describes the many possibilities in evaluating short-term programs. It is intended for use by educators in postsecondary institutions developing and implementing short-term programs, those providing service under the Job Training Partnership Act, and employers who provide in-house skill…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1981
As a result of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) laxness in improving management of programs and services for Indians, the Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs requested the General Accounting Office (GAO) to review the accountability of federal funds and property involving contracts and grants totaling about $726…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, American Indian Education, American Indians
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
This guide is the first in a series of interpretive explanations of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). It is designed to provide practitioners and business leaders involved in state and local employment and training programs with an understanding of how to implement the public-private partnership of JTPA. This first edition does the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Business Responsibility, Disabilities
Spill, Rick – 1986
This guide is intended to assist local providers of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth employment training in responding to new Department of Labor reporting definitions calling for a sufficiently developed youth employment competency system. The first two sections discuss the concept of sufficiently developed systems in generic terms.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Employment Programs
Ott, Joyce A. – 2001
This document introduces community leaders and practitioners to innovative approaches to improving workforce literacy by building accessible lifelong learning systems to prepare adults with the array of skills needed to prosper in the new economy. The introduction defines literacy and workforce literacy and outlines the challenges that education,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
