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Williams, Patti – 1987
The Indian River Community College (Florida) program prepares people who qualify as displaced homemakers and single parents to enter or reenter the work force and vocational training. The program is designed to meet the needs of the target population by offering pre-employment information and skills, guidance, community referral, and vocational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Potential
Gaudy, Teresita E. – 1987
A program was designed at Miami-Dade Community College (South Campus) to meet the educational needs and interests of single parents/displaced homemakers by providing recruitment, counseling, financial aid referrals, job placement referrals, and career selection assistance. Nontraditional vocational and occupational programs were emphasized. During…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Attitude Change, Career Education
Download full textSouth Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Occupational Education. – 1995
South Carolina's Occupational Education delivery system made progress in achieving the 3-year goals contained in the Two-Year State Plan for Vocational-Technical Education, FY 1995-96, especially through its continued implementation of tech prep. Workshops provided technical assistance related to standards and measures. The system consisted of 242…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Correctional Education, Disabilities
Jackson County Adult Education Center, Marianna, FL. – 1987
The goal of the single parent/homemaker project was to integrate participants into society as competent members of a comfortable and self-supporting family unit. The targeted population consisted largely of younger single parents and/or homemakers (primarily female) who lacked education and skills to function effectively as contributing citizens.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Education
Luttrell, Wendy – 1982
The Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program has offered many different avenues of personal exploration for more than 5,000 women in its Philadelphia neighborhood for 6 years. The women's program components include adult basic education classes, self-development workshops, a community-based degree-oriented college program, a bilingual crisis…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Associated Educational Consultants, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA. – 1980
This document provides descriptions of 32 model adult vocational education programs to assist Connecticut vocational education administrators in planning programs to strengthen the basic skills aspect of employment training for adults. The model programs represent the result of a search of the Educational Resources Information Center indexing…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Day Care
