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Download full textGaubert, Jennifer Miller; Knox, Virginia; Alderson, Desiree Principe; Dalton, Christopher; Fletcher, Kate; McCormick, Meghan – MDRC, 2010
This report presents early implementation and operational lessons from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation. Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, SHM uses a rigorous research design to test the effectiveness of a new approach to improving outcomes for low-income children: strengthening the marriages and relationships…
Descriptors: Marriage, Low Income Groups, Parents, Family Programs
FallCreek, Stephanie, Ed.; Stam, Sue Bailey, Ed. – 1982
This monograph discusses the Wallingford Wellness Project, a 3-year Administration on Aging model project designed to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and training with older adults. (The program in the Wallingford Senior Center offered classes focusing on exercise, nutrition, stress management, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Assertiveness, Environmental Education
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1994
The Washington State Self-Employment and Enterprise Demonstration (SEED) was the first federally sponsored self-employment demonstration program for unemployed workers in the United States. Its primary purpose was to determine the viability of self-employment as a reemployment option for recipients of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits who do…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Entrepreneurship
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
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2000
The Washington State Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) as administered by the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) accomplished its goals during the 1997-99 biennium. Four multipurpose service centers provided services to displaced homemakers in urban and rural county areas; four programs provided services to displaced homemakers in rural…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Services, Information Services
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
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1994
Between July 1, 1991 and June 30, 1993, Washington State's Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) served a total of 55,363 individuals. The program's intensive instructional services component was completed by 2,496 eligible displaced homemakers, 84% of whom were aged 30-59. Of the DHP participants, 84% were white, 75% were separated or divorced, 79%…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Displaced Homemakers, Educational Cooperation
Prince, David – 1983
The Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) in Industry Project was designed to develop and implement a competency-based VESL curriculum to be used with industry-linked VESL language training. Language needs for limited-English-proficient workers in companies in the greater Seattle, Everett, and Tacoma areas were identified through a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
Hadland, Jeff; Landry, Gerald – 2002
The performance of Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) in fiscal 2000 was evaluated by matching the records of participants of the following STEP subprograms with Alaska and Washington state unemployment insurance (UI) wage records and federal military and federal civilian payroll records. Data were collected for participants of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers
O'Shea, Daniel; King, Christopher T. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was the first significant attempt to retool the nation's workforce development programs since the early 1980s. Titles I-V of the WIA do the following things: (1) establish the purposes, goals and operational framework of a workforce development system designed to increase participants' employment,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
