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Bloom, Dan – MDRC, 2010
The budget for the U.S. Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45 million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the transitional jobs models that are operating today, reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of this approach and other subsidized employment models, and offers some…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Welfare Services, Supported Employment, Employment Programs
Job Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Smith, Thomas J. – 1982
The development and performance, through 1981, of Private Industry Councils (PICs) in 16 study sites are described and assessed in this report. (PICs were set up under Title VII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to serve as a hub for attracting increased private sector involvement in employment and training activities for the…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Job Training
Mirengoff, William; And Others – 1980
This study analyzes the extent to which targeting objectives of the Emergency Jobs Programs Extension Act (EJPEA) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs have been achieved by federal and local officials and the effectiveness of limited-duration projects in providing useful public services. The study deals with the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This document is a transcript of hearings on evaluation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Focus of the hearing was on mismanagement and misappropriation of CETA contract funds, especially in the last days of the Carter administration. Testimony was given by various present and former officials of the Department of Labor,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Harris, E. Edward – Journal of Business Education, 1980
Research concerning accountability of distributive education and marketing educators was performed. It resulted in the development of curriculum guides for secondary, postsecondary, adult education, and CETA instructors, and in the creation of a curriculum planning guide for program development in marketing and distribution which includes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1981
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects demonstration has been the most ambitious attempt thus far to determine the feasibility of using private employers to provide a work experience in a youth employment program. In establishing this demonstration, congress authorized program operators to recruit private businesses as well as the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employer Attitudes
1980
This volume is one of the products of the "knowledge development" effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It describes the Career Advancement Voucher Demonstration, which tests whether Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-eligible youth can be effectively served by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Keppler, Mark; Juelich, Mike – 1980
This study analyzes private sector training programs that benefit economically disadvantaged (CETA-eligible) persons. Information on ten private sector training programs in seven states (Iowa, Florida, Maryland, California, Kansas, Mississippi, and New York) collected from a mailed eleven-page questionnaire, a follow-up telephone interview, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Barocci, Thomas A.; And Others – 1978
This monograph includes two reports describing the results of three years of field research on the implementation and impact of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Eastern Massachusetts. They represent a thorough and detailed study of the problems faced by prime sponsors in the initial years of CETA. The first report, CETA in…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Myers, Douglas D.; And Others – 1980
An assessment was made of the degree to which a consistent, integrated, and coordinated effort is being made to provide vocational education services in Iowa. To assess the extent of cooperative relationships between selected human service agencies, five field visits were made to meet with representatives of local agencies and service centers…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Legislation
California Employment and Training Advisory Council, Sacramento. – 1983
This report summarizes employment and employment training activities in California during 1981-82; provides a retrospective view of programs operated in California under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA); discusses the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (JTPA), the Federal Program that replaced CETA and is expected to…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Saunders, Laura W.; And Others – 1980
This guide has been prepared to illustrate the development and implementation of a program offering comprehensive employment and training services for young parents. The guide is based on the experiences of the Parent Employment Program of 735, Inc., which was launched as a demonstration project with funds from the Massachusetts Governor's Youth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Employment Programs, Family Problems
Newitt, Jane; And Others – 1984
A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Prager, Audrey; And Others – 1981
This collection of four case studies represents the conclusion of a two-phase study of a federal program to sponsor education and work councils. Following an outline of the history and concept of education and work councils as well as the findings of a study of such councils, the importance of council collaboration with selected sectors is…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Programs
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