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Download full textFarley, Roy C.; And Others – 1991
A model for employability development is introduced to improve employability assessment and planning programs in rehabilitation and educational settings. The major components of an employability assessment and planning program are vocational choice, job acquisition, and job retention. The model offers strategies for empowering the consumer and…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment Potential, Models
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book outlines issues of concern to top decision makers in a nonprofit organization that involves volunteers, including the role of the executive staff in supporting the volunteer program. The 12 chapters in the book discuss the following topics: developing a vision for volunteer participation; questions of policy; budgeting and other resource…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
Felan, Blanche Z. – 1988
This handbook provides guidelines for designing and establishing a vocational assessment center to address the special needs of educationally disadvantaged adults. Section I contains introductory comments on the problem of undereducated and underemployed adults and SAC's efforts to develop an assessment and advisement process specifically for this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Career Counseling
Ellis, Susan J. – 1996
This book is designed to help nonprofit organizations recruit and retain volunteers. Following an introductory section covering the recruitment and use of volunteers, it contains 14 chapters organized in 3 sections. The chapters in the first section discuss what volunteer recruiters need to do before actually asking anyone to volunteer. They…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Role, Administrators, Adults
Radtke, Jean, Ed. – 1999
This document is intended to help the rehabilitation professional identify and understand current and future labor market trends and their implications for persons with disabilities. Strategies, methods, and tools are included that counselors can immediately use as they prepare persons with disabilities for the workforce. Chapter 1 examines…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling Techniques, Disabilities, Economic Factors
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1984
The manual provides an overview of legislation, policies, and guidelines pertaining to special education in Alberta, Canada. The introductory chapter presents a rationale for special education with sections on policy, guidelines, and procedures; standards; the Cascade model of service delivery; education of disabled adult students; alternative…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy
Wisconsin Div. of Vocational Rehabilitation, Madison. – 1989
The document provides a compendium of 83 "best practices" in the vocational rehabilitation of clients with learning disabilities. Practices (N=120) were originally identified by a literature search, contacts with experts on learning disabilities, contacts with learning-disabled individuals, and contacts with community-based organizations…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Counseling, Educational Practices
Resource Manual of Jointly Planned/Funded Programs/Services/Activities To Serve Special Populations.
LaBrecque, Suzanne V.; And Others – 1989
This document is intended to aid those in Texas doing joint planning of vocational and technical education programs with programs conducted under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the Adult Education Act, Chapter I of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, the Education of the Handicapped Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs
Kregel, John, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This volume discusses the effects of supported employment on persons with developmental and other severe disabilities, by assembling the results of research investigations conducted by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Supported Employment. Papers included are: "Supported Employment in Virginia: 1980-1988" (John Kregel…
Descriptors: Adults, Delivery Systems, Fringe Benefits, Head Injuries
Naylor, Michele – 1985
Various researchers, including Carl Jung, Charlotte Buhler, Erik Erikson, and Robert Havighurst, have formulated sequential models of adult development. More recent investigators, such as Daniel Levinson, Roger Gould, and Gail Sheehy have formulated age-related sequential models of adult development that view the various stages of adulthood in…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs
