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Peer reviewedShestakofsky, Stephen – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
The availability of trainees, service providers, private employers, and low effective costs attest to the success of the Massachusetts Supported Work model, a state-funded transitional employment program for mentally retarded persons, featuring graduated stress and performance requirements, intensive supervision, supportive services, easy…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Mental Retardation, Models
Download full textHoff, David – The Institute Brief, 1997
This report provides guidelines and a process for people with disabilities living in Massachusetts to follow to evaluate employment service options that will allow them to receive services best meeting their individual needs. Strategies for finding out information about the different programs and a checklist are given by which to evaluate…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Disabilities, Employment Programs
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, Boston. – 1987
An evaluation identified the separate effects that the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare's Employment and Training Choices Program (ET) and the healthy Massachusetts private economy have had on welfare caseloads. The analysis was limited to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) portion of the ET program. Regression equations…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors
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
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
A study examined Work Incentive (WIN) Demonstration programs in four states. The following programs were reviewed: Employment and Training Choices (in Massachusetts), Michigan Opportunity and Skills Training, the Employment Services Program (in Texas), and JOBS (in Oregon). A strict, across-the-board analysis of the programs was difficult because…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Demonstration Programs
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1994
The first and longest section of this publication is a comparative analysis summarizing the impacts of the two Unemployment Insurance (UI) Self-Employment Demonstration Projects in Washington State and Massachusetts. Based on the first wave of post-project follow-up surveys, this evaluation report provides results on the net impacts of each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Entrepreneurship
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1995
The main parameters of state self-employment assistance (SEA) programs for unemployed workers were tested in two experimental demonstrations authorized by the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. The Washington State and Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance (UI) Self-Employment Demonstrations evaluated the ability of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Marr, Barbara T.; Green, James L., Ed. – 1993
A study examined the effectiveness of Massachusetts' Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs (SYETP) funded under Title IIB of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The study methodology included the following: a review of federal JTPA legislation and pertinent state policy directives; site visits to a random sampling of 15 summer…
Descriptors: Differences, Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives, Employment Programs
Tibbitts, Felisa – 1991
The Massachusetts Council on Vocational Education surveyed private sector members of the 15 Regional Employment Boards (REBs) or Private Industry Councils regarding involvement in the Job Training Partnership Act. The survey targeted members of business and industry, but not labor representatives. The rate of return was 41 percent; findings were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Corporate Support, Disadvantaged
Scott, Gertrude M.; And Others – 1986
This guide describes the partnerships created by the Bay State Skills Corporation, which successfully united more than 100 people from government, education, and the private sector to train 332 people for jobs averaging $6.27 per hour to start; it also provides guidelines for establishing similar programs. The guide contains seven chapters. The…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Tibbitts, Felisa – 1991
The Massachusetts Council on Vocational Education surveyed 500 members of business and industry in 125 program advisory committees regarding involvement in the Job Training Partnership Act. The purpose of the survey was to document private sector perspectives on the content and value of their participation on vocational-technical education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Consultants
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
