Growing evidence suggests that Positive Youth Development (PYD), a holistic approach to developing assets and competencies, can help prepare young people for success in adulthood, including success in the workplace. At its core, PYD focuses on creating a supportive, developmentally appropriate learning setting by emphasizing positive…

Written to provide business executives with examples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that successfully prepare people to be skilled workers, this guide also describes the financial incentives for hiring unemployed and economically disadvantaged persons. In an overview of CETA and Title VII programs, private industry…

This handbook, developed by the National Alliance of Business, is designed as a tool for Private Industry Councils (PICs) in providing a framework for planning a program of Employment Generating Services (EGS) for disadvantaged workers. Based on the experiences of many PICs, a six-step EGS-program-planning process that includes assessing needs,…

Basic principles for the establishment of a comprehensive youth education and employment system are offered in this guide, with particular focus on those youth who are at greatest risk of becoming or remaining chronically unemployed. Drawing on the knowledge generated by research and operational experience over the past decade, the guide proposes…

Program rationale, goals, and strategies are outlined in this description of Arizona-based centers which trained migrant workers in the use of microcomputers for business and clerical applications. Topics include the need to create new jobs for displaced farm workers, the assets farm workers bring to the business world, the training-related…

This guide was developed to help concerned community members, groups, and organizations learn about major federal and state funds for employment-related youth programs and to direct them to additional funding resources. The guide discusses several types of employment-related activities that help young people become healthy and productive adults.…

This guide provides Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act practitioners with information about effective strategies to serve dislocated workers under a variety of local conditions. Chapter 1 describes responsive services and explains the study methods by which examples were selected for this guide and the data collection…

The 1980s can be a great decade for the fine arts in higher education if students and administrators are offered a well-designed combination of interdisciplinary study and employment opportunities. A statement of goals for the arts should give high priority to maintaining quality, encouraging innovation and flexibility, and using resources…

The document contains the coordinator's guide, recruitment guide, practicum guide, training model, curriculum guide, bibliography, and evaluation guide for TABS, (Trained Aides as Baby Sitters), a training program that prepares individuals to be competent sitters for deaf-blind children and that provides a curriculum tailored to the needs of the…

The document presents 12 papers on the vocational training and placement of severely disabled persons based partly on Project Employability, which involves the placement and on the job training of the severely disabled. Titles and authors include: "Placement of Severely Disabled Individuals into Competitive Employment--A Two Year Progress…

This paper presents a description of the Old Dominion University's (Virginia) Reference Librarian Orientation Program designed to ease the transition of reference librarians new to the school and its reference department. The program introduces the reference librarian to the library, the reference department, and the university itself and consists…

This sourcebook describes and analyzes contracted customized training for business and industry provided by community colleges. First, "Customized Job Training: Should Your Community College Be Involved?" by Robert J. Kopecek identifies issues to be considered in program decision making and suggests an organizational model for program delivery.…

The result of a survey of editors, students, teachers, and others knowledgeable in the field, this report provides profiles of 10 quality journalism schools and 10 outstanding instructors. Following an introduction and a description of the nature of the survey, the first portion of the guide presents descriptions of the journalism programs by…

Intended to provide cable television company owners and operators, managers, supervisors, suppliers, and manufacturers with broad guidelines for the operation of and participation in a local or regional Private Industry Council (PIC), this handbook begins with a description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); a brief history…

Designed to serve as a resource to persons who work with youth and who plan activities to improve the education/work connection, this report identifies existing programs and activities that address the education-to-work connection and work to improve youth employment. It consists of three sections. The first section contains an overview of youth…