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Download full textTemple Univ., Philadelphia, PA. – 1994
This document consists of the final report and booklet developed by a project that provided individual counseling and life-coping skills workshops to recently unemployed workers lacking basic educational skills. The final report describes how individuals recruited at Philadelphia unemployment offices attended group workshop sessions where they…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Coping, Daily Living Skills, Educational Counseling
Hamilton, Gayle; Scrivener, Susan – 1999
This guide highlights issues involved in increasing participation in welfare-to-work programs and offers advice and best practices for achieving higher participation levels. Part 1, "Introduction," has three sections that discuss the importance of participation, summarize major points, and introduce the guide. The seven sections of Part…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Enrollment
Reid, Susan K. – 1989
This guide was designed to help educators expand the delivery of vocational education programs, services, and activities to single parents, homemakers, displaced homemakers, and young women. The guide promotes the development of a comprehensive program of vocational education services that is based on a model with six components: outreach;…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Counseling, Displaced Homemakers
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
Atkinson, Rhonda Holt; Cook, Frank J.; Goux, Carol – 1998
This curriculum of life skills is designed to reduce recidivism, increase post-release employment and wage rates, and successfully integrate released inmates back into families and communities. It uses a newsletter format, with newsletters arranged into eight volumes. Each volume concerns a unit of related information, including an instructor…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adult Education, Correctional Education, Curriculum Guides
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Special Educational Services Branch. – 1986
This guide was developed to help classroom teachers in Alberta, Canada, assist high school students in preparing for employment. (It was originally designed to accompany Alberta Job Search information presentations.) The guide contains 11 units covering the following topics: introduction, career planning, personal fact sheets, the job search,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Case Studies
