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Summer Jobs for Vocational Preparation of Moderately and Severely Retarded Adolescents.
Clarke, James Y.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1980
The article describes a program providing summer jobs for the vocational preparation of nine moderately and severely retarded adolescents. The program combined an emphasis on realistic instruction in skills directly applicable to employment situations with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to provide fully paid community…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Effectiveness, Severe Mental Retardation
SPEDY [Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth] and Career Education in Indiana's Balance-of-State.
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
CETA's Results and Their Implications. A Policy Statement by The National Council on Employment Policy.
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National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
A review of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) results, strengths, and weaknesses, and future role in light of expected economic and technological changes indicates that it is time to strengthen--though not necessarily enlarge--America's only available second-chance training system. Cost-benefit analysis of the major CETA…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economic Change, Economic Factors
The CETA Youth Employment Record. Representative Findings on the Effectiveness of Federal Strategies for Assisting Disadvantaged Youth.
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Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth