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Download full textIowa State Employment Security Commission, Des Moines.
The Ottumwa Experimental and Demonstration Project was initiated to develop more economical and more effective ways for delivering comprehensive manpower services to residents of rural areas. The Ottumwa Project involved a fundamental restructuring of rural employment service operations--development of more effective ways of delivering effective…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Employment Services, Federal Programs, Labor Force Development
Fulton, Richard A.; Davis, Eugene W. – Nat Bus Educ Assn Yearbook, 1969
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Legislation, Educational Philosophy, Federal Programs
WICKLAND, ROGER F. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS SURVEY WAS TO EVALUATE THE "IMPACT" MADE ON COMMUNITY AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS AT THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS BY THE EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION (E AND D) YOUTH PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF MANPOWER POLICY, EVALUATION, AND RESEARCH (OMPER). THE PROJECTS WERE DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING AND DEMONSTRATING NEW…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
JONES, JAMES A. – 1966
THE NATURE OF THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF 56 PROJECTS WAS REVIEWED TO FIND WHY USEFUL NEW KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROBLEMS WAS NOT RESULTING FROM THE PROGRAMS. ALSO ANALYZED WAS THE UTILITY OF FOLLOWUP STUDIES FOR GAINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROJECTS. BOTH SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY WERE CONSIDERED AGAINST THE…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Loyola Univ., New Orleans, LA. Inst. of Human Relations. – 1967
To provide occupational training to disadvantaged groups, a 6-month experimental program was conducted for 150 men and women to: (1) stabilize the rural community, (2) turn technological advancement into opportunity for area residents, (3) obtain information about racially related training and employment problems, and (4) stimulate other groups to…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Basic Skills, Business Education
Rogers, David J.; Silverstein, Charles – 1970
This description of "coaching" in a 4-year federally funded special manpower demonstration project, JOBS NOW, is intended especially for program administrators, industrial personnel, and guidance counselors. The project was designed to train and employ previously unemployable, disadvantaged, young black adults, provide manpower systems…
Descriptors: Black Community, Career Development, Career Guidance, Demonstration Programs
Tuskegee Inst., AL. – 1968
A project to provide basic education, counseling and occupational training to 125 unemployed or underemployed heads of families or households from rural areas of Alabama, and to secure employment for them at the conclusion of the program was conducted at Tuskegee. The four technical areas in which training was offered were brickmasonry, carpentry,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Bricklaying
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1967
Training activities authorized under Part B of Title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) of 1962, as amended, are described and evaluated and recommendations are made for continuation and improvement. The report includes sections on program innovations, experimental and demonstration programs, changing goals, teachers,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Annual Reports, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum
STEVENSON, DIANTHA – 1967
TWO PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN THE 9-COUNTY EASTERN SHORE AREA OF MARYLAND SERVED ESSENTIALLY THE SAME TARGET POPULATION, THE UNDEREMPLOYED AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THEIR OCCUPATIONAL POSITIONS. THE FIRST, SEPTEMBER 1963 TO SEPTEMBER 1964, WAS DEVOTED TO VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND GUIDANCE, AND THE SECOND, JUNE 1964 TO SEPTEMBER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, College Programs, Counseling Services
WIRTZ, W. WILLARD – 1966
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF 1965, THE PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED, AND THE NEW DIRECTIONS THE MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING ACT (MDTA) PROGRAMS ARE TAKING TO MEET THE MANPOWER CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD ARE THE SUBSTANCES OF THIS REPORT. CONTENTS INCLUDE (1) PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS, (2) EXAMPLES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Correctional Institutions, Demonstration Programs
