To assist CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) prime sponsors, vocational educators, planning councils, and service deliverers in coordinating resources, this guide is offered as a help in meeting the needs of displaced homemakers who are eligible for services. It furnishes an overview of federal legislation covering displaced…

The report discusses financing respite care (short term care of the handicapped to provide family relief) services for the developmentally disabled (DD). Respite care is examined as a component of a comprehensive service delivery system for the DD, and the scope of respite care services as conceptualized by its advocates is reviewed. Nationally…

The Arizona Center for Vocational Education, Northern Arizona University, developed a program to train women in nontraditional careers. Since jobs were plentiful in the field, the program aimed to train 25 women in building maintenance. Project leaders established linkages with union apprenticeship programs and local business and industry…

This report describes a project that surveyed approximately 400 single parents about their needs as parents and developed a handbook of activities based on responses received from 100 of those survyed (a 25% return rate). The manual that was developed was designed for single parents to use with their children in their homes. Following a project…

This employer's guide is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. The main purpose of this guide is to help employers who are interested in hiring women returning to paid…

Because older women have been conspicuously absent from Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) employment and training programs, this advocacy manual focuses on the employment needs of middle-aged and older women. The manual is divided into nine sections. The first section examines CETA itself, both in law and regulations, and discusses…

This manual examines problems the displaced homemaker encounters on the job and offers strategies which vocational educators, counselors, and other service providers can suggest to nontraditional students for overcoming these problems. A brief overview of the displaced homemaker is provided and the term "nontraditional occupation" is defined. An…

This guide, which was developed with input from more than 120 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs across the United States, is designed to give JTPA program staff new ideas for conducting their targeting, outreach, and recruitment efforts. Presented first are an overview of the guide's contents and suggestions for using it. The first five…

Developed for women in Omaha who are preparing to reenter the labor market or further their education, this guide provides information on where to go, to whom to talk, what support services are available, and what actions these women can take. The guide is organized by the following three broad categories: getting ready, education and training,…

Based on the experiences of the Women's Bureau projects, this program guide is intended to help community-based organizations develop and implement an entrepreneurship training program for their clients. The program, as described in this document, is aimed at helping homemakers and other women to explore entrepreneurship as a career option and to…

This handbook, to be used in literacy instruction programs, particularly with women, contains six articles concerning women and literacy written by women in Ontario. The articles are the following: "Feminism and Literacy" (Naomi Garber, Jenny Horsman, and Tracy Westell); "Looking at 'Ism's': Visible Minority Women and Literacy"…

This guide was written for displaced homemakers and other women in transition who are concerned about finding employment or additional education, or who need help with child care, legal matters, financial planning, personal counseling, or other special issues. It provides an outline of some of the resources available in Connecticut to help these…

This workshop guide is designed for facilitators of programs that assist women in coping with their newly independent status as a result of divorce, widowhood, or other life transitions. The guide reviews the leadership skills needed for organizing a workshop, planning tips, recruitment, resources and other preparations. A format for the workshop…

This listing of federally produced curriculum and instructional materials for special needs groups is one of eight annotated bibliographies that provide information for vocational educators at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels. Introductory information given includes a description of how to use the listing and sources and ordering…

This guide is intended to assist developers and providers of programs for single parents and homemakers. The first section discusses the special needs of single parents and homemakers, the provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984, and Ohio's single parent and homemaker projects. Section 2 covers the the following aspects…