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Wurzburg, Gregory – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1980
Discusses how the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Project Act (YEDPA) communicates with local school systems. The dropout issue has been one point of conflict. CETA agencies tend to blame the school systems, and school administrators argue that CETA is a way by which people who have left the system can return. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Dropouts, Employment Programs, School Districts
Atkinson, Patricia J. – 1977
This report, including statistical data, on the Parole and Pre-Release Employment Project which has been sponsored by the California Employment Development Department and funded through LEAA, covers the history, need, and purpose of the Program in context with the special employment problems of the offender in the San Francisco Bay Area. The…
Descriptors: Business, Community Programs, Employment, Employment Programs
Salisbury, Karen, Ed. – 1990
The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) provides subsidized, part-time employment to low-income persons age 55 and older. Participants work an average of 20 hours a week and are employed in a wide variety of community service activities and facilities, including home health care, adult day care, and nutritional services. The 11…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Job Training
Clermont-Warren Employment Services Network, Lebanon, OH. – 1991
A project created linkages in Service Delivery Area 12, Clermont and Warren Counties, Ohio, to improve services for welfare recipients. During the project, the original grant seed money of $22,000 grew to more than $220,000 in grants for cooperative programs. In addition, integral, completed linkage treaties were forged between various agencies…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs
William Temple Foundation, Manchester (England). – 1989
This publication reports on Communities in Crisis, a resource and adult education program designed to encourage local community leaders and volunteers to reflect critically upon their experiences and exchange ideas across different towns, cities, and regions in the United Kingdom. Part 1 describes the program and its three aims: sharing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Programs
MARK Private Industry Council, Mansfield, OH. – 1991
The Richland County (Ohio) Welfare Coordination Project had three main goals: (1) to examine the roles, functions, and allowable service activities of each of four agencies involved in adult education, training, and job placement efforts; (2) to develop a systematic approach to the selection of service providers for clients; and (3) to develop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation
Thaxton, Louis C.; Tuthill, Dean F. – 1979
This is an illustrated report on some findings of the Citizens Education Project (CEP), a 1979 survey of the employment situation of communities in five Maryland counties. The study was conducted by the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service, University of Maryland, College Park and Eastern Shore, with funding from Extension Program 1890. The…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Beare, Paul L.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1992
This paper describes a successful model of supported employment developed by a single small agency previously providing services as a segregated day activity center. Included is discussion of the service agency, program methodology, barriers to successful community-based employment, manner in which barriers were overcome, program outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Change Strategies, Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities
Arterburn, Daniel; And Others – 1987
A community based (Conejo Valley, California) vocational program was designed to give handicapped junior and senior high school students a variety of real world experiences in the natural setting. Advantages of the community based approach include immediate transfer of learning, opportunities for generalization, provision of role models by other…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Butterworth, John; And Others – 1992
This report summarizes the results of a 3-year project in the metropolitan Boston (Massachusetts) area designed to demonstrate job placement and support for individuals with multiple disabilities that include severe physical disabilities and mental retardation. The report summarizes project outcomes, the cost and range of supports that…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Employment Programs, Human Services, Job Development
Department of Labor, Chicago, IL. Region V. – 1989
This document comprises the second volume of a two-volume resource guide to help states and localities take advantage of new Federal initiatives to increase services to youth under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). This volume comprises the discussion papers that formed the basis for the options summarized in the first volume. The papers…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs
Bliss, Steven; Riccio, James – 2001
Jobs-Plus is an intensive, place-based initiative for increasing employment among public housing residents. Closely aligned with the goals of the 1998 federal Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, Jobs-Plus aims to transform public housing communities by increasing employment among residents. Tests of this new employment approach…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Attitude Change, Community Cooperation
Toledo Area Private Industry Council, OH. – 1991
The Toledo Area Welfare Coordination Task Force, coordinated by the Private Industry Council and funded by the Job Training Partnership Act, brought together more than 20 community leaders representing private and public organizations that have a role to play in implementing the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in Lucas and Wood…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs
Shabecoff, Alice; And Others – Strategy Alert, 1993
A community-based approach can excel at putting people back to work. The community-based strategy for helping people find and keep jobs needs to provide comprehensive and integrated services. Collaboration is likely to be the most practical means to round up those services. Community groups usually have a dual purpose in pursuing a jobs program:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement
McCarthy, William H.; And Others – 1985
This booklet considers the problems of urban unemployment and presents 21 case studies of urban areas dealing with the problem. The first chapter defines urban unemployment and classifies barriers to employment, trends in unemployment, and types of unemployed persons. Chapter 2 describes some general principles necessary to successfully combat the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dislocated Workers
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