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Four Promising Practices from a Workforce Development Partnership
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Myran, Steve; Sylvester, Paul; Williams, Mitchell R.; Myran, Gunder – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This article reports on four synthesis findings from the Credentials to Careers (C2C) initiative -- a consortium of seven community colleges working to create and implement innovative programs to train or retrain unemployed and displaced workers for STEM, advanced manufacturing and health-care-related careers. These are 1) collaborating with…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges, Unemployment
Coping with Involuntary Job Loss and Building a New Career: Workers' Problems and Career Professionals' Challenges.
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Gordus, Jeanne Prial – Journal of Career Development, 1986
Research findings are presented as potentially important program issues, and descriptions of how these issues were transformed into modules for a career-shift/job-search program are given. Preliminary data from the evaluation of this career-shift/job-search program are shown and the resemblances between this experimental, research-based program…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Dislocated Workers, Employee Attitudes
Reemployment Training for Displaced Automobile Workers: Program Description and Evaluation.
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Ramey, Luellen – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1986
Describes a reemployment training program developed by Oakland University to assist displaced automobile workers in overcoming their grief resulting from job loss and in successfully assessing and marketing their transferable skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Coping, Depression (Psychology), Dislocated Workers, Job Skills
Lessons from the Delaware Dislocated Worker Pilot Program.
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Bloom, Howard S. – Evaluation Review, 1987
This article presents lessons learned from an innovative employment and training program for dislocated workers. It provides specific information about program design and serves as a prototype for how social experimentation can be used by state and local governments. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Practices, Program Evaluation
The Employment Support Network: An Intervention to Assist Displaced Workers.
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Davies, Gwenda – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1996
Describes an employment strategy designed for displaced workers. Gives the program's background, its conceptual framework, pilot design, features, the facilitator's role, and program evaluation. Argues that as clients confront the new economy, the familiar job search model no longer applies. Program emphasizes renewing clients' hope and building…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Dislocated Workers, Employment Services
The Organizational Politics of Evaluation. A Supplement to the PROFILE Section.
Love, Lois Thiessen; And Others – Evaluation Forum, 1988
This supplemental issue deals with local and state evaluation issues and methods. It includes articles on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) follow-up, responsiveness to client needs, performance standards, training JTPA professionals in evaluation, and Private Industry Councils' selection of program deliverers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Job Performance
When a Plant Shuts down: Easing the Pain.
Eves, James H., Jr. – Personnel, 1985
The author explains how one company managed a shutdown while avoiding difficult problems. He describes a five-action plan that focused on all the following areas: severance and benefits, communication, training and development, job opportunities, and retirement planning. This plan is then evaluated and recommendations to improve the plan are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Dislocated Workers, Employee Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
The Forced Cessation of Logging and the Management of Impacts on Workers.
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McGuffog, Ingrid D.; Western, John S. – Evaluation Review, 1995
A social impact study in Queensland (Australia) was conducted to determine how structural adjustment packages mitigate the negative outcomes that can result from worker redundancy. The cessation of logging resulted in job layoffs that the government addressed with a Worker's Special Adjustment Package. (SLD)
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Evaluation Methods, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
Implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act: A Field Network Process Evaluation.
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Cook, Robert F. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1986
This two-year study is a field network evaluation of the operation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Program in 20 randomly selected states and 40 Service Delivery Areas within those states. Methodology is also discussed. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods