This document briefly discusses the planning and implementation of a Child Development Associate (CDA) program developed to fulfill the requirements of a Head Start Supplementary Training (HSST) grant at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. One of the first steps in organizing the CDA program was to convince potential candidates for 51 Head…

Selected state and local experiments in developing/supporting workplace-centered training programs were analyzed to identify issues relevant to developing a national policy for workplace training. Intensive case studies of state economic development/training programs in California and Illinois and the employment and training programs provided by…