The Second Chance Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act encourage juvenile justice personnel to collaborate with not-for-profit organizations, employers, and community schools to provide incarcerated girls with disabilities transition support to reenter their community after incarceration. The "Career and College…

This article describes the process of reentry for adolescent girls and young women who experienced incarceration as adolescents in Costa Rica. The needs of adolescent girls and young women with undiagnosed and psychosocial disabilities are explored, considering existing scholarship and research gaps from Costa Rica's legislation and policies.…

Describes the Women's Employment Counseling Unit in Vancouver, British Columbia, the first of several Canadian counseling centers designed to meet the needs of women. Describes the organization of the center and the counseling services provided, and discusses characteristics of reentry workers. (JAC)

Fourteen female single parents attended Jobtrain courses to prepare for employment through literacy, personal, and career development. The holistic approach including assertiveness, parenting, health issues, sociology of work and self-image caused dramatic changes in their self-worth, supportive networks, and self-confidence. (SK)

Women making the transition from home to paid employment often need help identifying their values, setting goals, assessing abilities and interests, and organizing a job search compaign. An overview of a three-day workshop planned to address these issues is presented. (Author/CC)

Employers view career breaks negatively, but particularly when women leave the work force to raise a family. Discusses how women returning to work assess their skills, knowledge, and attributes and present them to prospective employers; how employers assess the skills of job applicants; and how problems in these areas can be reduced. (PEN)

Objectives of Project HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills are to develop, validate, and field test educational planning and experiential evaluation materials which can be used by women, counselors, and employers in assessing the skills which women have acquired from their volunteer work and homemaking experience. Progress to date has…

Describes a project assisting women with academic concentrations in liberal arts to crystallize vocational interests into marketable skills. Evidence indicates that objectives were realized in developing awareness of career opportunities and increasing confidence for women who are returning to the work force or who are underemployed. (Author)

The Discover program is a program for women who want to become self-sufficient and self-supporting. Clients of the program may be separated or divorced, single mothers, or married to an underemployed spouse. The Discover program involves career exploration in the hope that its graduates will enter an occupational training program. The goals of the…

St. Louis Community College's Careers for Homemakers program is a vocational counseling program designed to help displaced homemakers enter the job market for the first time or after a significant absence. The program's goal is to place participants, chosen according to academic or economic disadvantaged eligibility, in jobs consistent with their…

PROBE, Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education, is a program designed to assist people, primarily women, who are reentering the labor force or school after working in the home for a number of years. Funded by the Higher Education Act, Title I, and administered by The Pennsylvania State University, PROBE is based in Dauphin County…

This paper describes the displaced homemaker, defines her plight, and delineates the successful Displaced Homemaker Program conducted by the Fort Wayne area (CETA) consortium. The emphases of the program focus on the fundamental concerns of the displaced homemaker, i.e., the establishment of a new identity, the resolution of financial problems,…

The Women's Re-Entry to Education Program (WREP) at San Jose City College, which offers a supportive program in teaching skills needed for meaningful careers is described in this report. Funded in July 1973, WREP is designed for women who suddenly find themselves confronted with unexpected needs and roles, making it necessary for them to change…

Goals of the "Transition, Retraining, and Change for Entry" project were to provide counseling and/or group support for single heads of households or persons entering nontraditional employment and to provide placement services for the target group. A third goal was to disseminate information about the value of and opportunities in…

The Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education (PROBE) counseling and referral system is intended to help single parents and displaced homemakers gain greater control over their own lives, careers, and futures. PROBE began in 1975 as a campus-based program at Pennsylvania State University and became community based in 1977. PROBE,…