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Teon Hayes; Elizabeth Lower-Basch – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2023
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people with low incomes avoid hunger and afford food. It stimulates the economy, improves individuals' success at school and work, and promotes better health. At the federal level, SNAP is operated by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. SNAP's…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Employment Programs, Job Training
MDRC, 2019
The purpose of this Policy Impact Snapshot is to identify the major categories of career and technical education (CTE) currently available within our nation's secondary and postsecondary education systems and describe the existing research on whether these programs are achieving desired outcomes for students. This Policy Impact Snapshot describes…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Apprenticeships, Job Skills, Job Training
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
This booklet describes specific proposed and/or implemented strategies for dealing with some of the problems encountered in the CETA program. These strategies are directed toward four goals: (1) helping those who need help most; (2) creating a jobs program that goes where the jobs are: the private sector; (3) better management, delivering more job…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs
Zemke, Ron – Training, 1982
Examines three distinct approaches to developing competency models: the modified task analysis approach, the critical trait approach, and the situational approach. Figures illustrate each model. (CT)
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Job Training, Models
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
This bulletin reports the outcome of a short study that investigated the issue of work-related nonadvanced further education (WRNAFE) opportunities for the unemployed, reviews planning strategies for the unemployed, and examines the practices observed in a small selection of local education agencies (LEAs) in Great Britain. Various plans for…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Institutional Cooperation, Job Training
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Two Year Coll. Development Center. – 1997
The purpose of the Postsecondary Vocational and Applied Technology Education (VATEA) Grants Officers' conference was to have officers share with each other the best practices of the VATEA programs. The report of the conference includes a presentation on workforce preparation by the Acting Deputy Commissioner, a keynote address from the Regent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum, Job Training
Fisher, Gerald P.; And Others – 1986
A multiuse Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Program (CODAP) job analysis is being used to develop training requirements and selection criteria for three interrelated Army civilian logistics career fields. Individual job task lists for the 20 job series within the three career programs were developed. The lists were based on a review of…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Government Employees, Job Analysis, Job Skills
Tracy, Keith M. – 1979
A Study investigated skill training, job placement, and follow-up services for the vocationally handicapped of sheltered workshops in Utah. Two questionnaires were developed, one to ascertain pertinent data about clients from the sixteen workshops of Utah and the other from the placed clients, for validation purposes. All but one workshop…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Disabilities, Job Placement, Job Skills
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
Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, PA. – 1998
A pilot project was conducted to implement the Oregon A.I.M. (Assessment, Instruction, Mastery), a tutor program accountability system developed in Oregon, in 15 volunteer-based programs in Pennsylvania and to make recommendations on the usefulness of this system as a means of collecting and aggregating data on student progress for these and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Resources, Evaluation Methods
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
Colombo, Louis; Cantwell, Glo – 1981
The Albuquerque Office of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Administration (OCETA) contracted with the Albuquerque Urban Observatory to conduct a study of employability skills needed by OCETA participants, to identify training programs that might be available to teach these skills, and to suggest a new model for OCETA job preparation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Educational Needs
Australian Inst. of Multicultural Affairs, Melbourne (Australia). – 1985
This 7-chapter report reviews unemployment among migrant and refugee youth in Australia, examines the employment and training programs that exist for this population, identifies unmet needs, and suggests programs or services to meet those needs. An overview of the labor market programs and services available is contained in Chapter 2. Chapters 1…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Vineberg, Robert; Joyner, John N. – 1980
Instructional System Development (ISD) methodologies and practices were examined in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, each of which prescribes the ISD system involving rigorous derivation of training requirements from job requirements, selection of instructional strategies to maximize training efficiency, and revision of instruction…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Formative Evaluation, Instructional Systems, Job Analysis
Weinbaum, Alexandra; And Others – 1992
The Youth Employment Program Assistance Project was a New York City initiative to demonstrate how employment training for out-of-school, economically disadvantaged youth can be made educationally vigorous. It involved four training programs with a few hundred students. The project focused on the following principles and goals: all learning…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Potential
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