This guide is intended to assist community-based organizations (CBOs) in developing Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs that will provide needed services to their constituents. First, the history and implications of JTPA are summarized from a CBO viewpoint. Discussed in a chapter on JTPA funding categories are such topics as allocation categories, cost principles, management requirements, and authorized activities. Performance standards, development of a strategic plan whereby a CBO can influence or provide services through JTPA, and sources of training and technical assistance are outlined. The next two chapters contain papers written with the National Association of Private Industry Councils and the National Association of Counties that offer insight into ways in which CBOs can participate in JTPA. Concluding the guide is a simulation game, NEXUS, that is intended to help private industry councils and CBOs understand the pressures, motives, and countervailing forces that influence JTPA policymakers. An appendix includes information on the services, staff, and publications of the Center for Community Futures. (MN)