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Download full textManderbach, Kim; Gentry, Mary – 1988
The Women's Employment Network (WEN) is a college-based program funded by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) that provides job search and placement assistance to an average of 130 low-income women each year. Program components include an intensive job-search class, which assists participants in assessing their work skills, values, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Contract Training, Cooperative Programs
Clark, Marilyn – 1984
Five local collaborative efforts in several Northwest states addressed the problems created by worker dislocation in unique ways. Each partnership involved educational agencies and other key actors such as employers, organized labor, and government agencies. When the Department of Labor awarded a dislocated worker retraining demonstration grant to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Langan, A. Bud – 1984
A prerelease program was developed to provide job training to persons who were within 90 to 120 days of their scheduled release date from a Washington State prison. The Geiger program was sponsored and operated jointly by Spokane County and State agencies. Because it was determined that the 84-bed unit would handle approximately 30 arrivals and 30…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
K. N. Associates, Wyomissing Hills, PA. – 1983
This handbook is designed to provide a framework to assist resource persons in counseling adult students seeking a method for gaining access to employment. Presented first are an overview of the handbook and suggestions for its use. The next chapter deals with the characteristics of a traineeship and the benefits of traineeships to trainees and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Counseling Techniques
Miguel, Richard J., Ed. – 1985
These proceedings summarize the information exchanged at a teleconference involving more than 3,000 participants focusing on the following aspects of the relationship between schooling and employment: (1) what employers are looking for in employees, (2) employers' priorities in making hiring decisions, and (3) education and training on the job.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Cooperative Programs
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Branch. – 1991
This planning and instructional manual is designed to assist teachers in implementing the 20 10-credit-hour courses that make up the 26-level occupational component of the Integrated Occupational Program (IOP) in Alberta, Canada. (The IOP was developed to assist students who experience difficulties in secondary education and to help students make…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Building Trades, Career Development
