Exploring Summer Youth Employment Programs: Increasing Access Through Career Pathways builds the case and provides actionable recommendations for state-led support in the intentional alignment of summer youth employment programs (SYEP) with career pathways and the work-based learning continuum, including through Career Technical Education (CTE).…

This short report will outline a remote work experience scheme that has successfully been running for three years in the psychology group within the Leeds School of Social Sciences. It is designed to aid transition to university for pre-tertiary students by introducing them to undergraduate literacy skills and making their expectations of…

The Student Conservation Association has expanded its summer park service opportunities to disabled youth over 18. Students undertake a full range of duties in interpretation and visitor services; resource, recreation, forest, range, and wildlife management; trail construction and maintenance; backcountry and river patrols; and research. (CL)

The article describes a program providing summer jobs for the vocational preparation of nine moderately and severely retarded adolescents. The program combined an emphasis on realistic instruction in skills directly applicable to employment situations with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to provide fully paid community…

Theoretical and practical considerations for providing severely physically disabled youth access to experiences in vocational development and career planning are presented. A comprehensive career development program developed by the Vocational Services Department of the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (New York) is described. (SBH)

A summer work experience program for 10th and 11th graders with visual impairments includes a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs.…

This article describes the Summer Work Experience Program developed by 3 agencies in Dallas, Texas, for students (ages 14-18) with visual impairments. The article describes student training; expectations for employees; attitudes of students, parents, and employers; and problems encountered. (JDD)

Describes a summer job placement program which recruits, trains, and counsels minority youth with the goal of helping them find and maintain meaningful employment. (PCB)

This article describes a summer work experience program for seven blind rural high school students in Ohio, consisting of two weeks of work evaluation/adjustment and eight weeks of paid work experience using job coaches. Results indicated success in improving participants' understanding of work-related issues in general. (Author/PB)

The booklet describes the Maine Medical Center's Summer Youth Employment Training Program conducted in 1986, 1987, and 1988 providing disabled high school students with work experience under close supervision. The first section describes program benefits and the incorporation of the program within the Hospital Industries program which screens,…

The Vocational Exploration Program was an 8 week summer employment and education program which gave 14 deaf students an opportunity to study the attitudes of employers and students in work situations and some ideas on how to better prepare for jobs in the labor market. (Author/SBH)

This article describes the establishment of Individual Development through Employment, Assessment, and Learning (IDEAL), a summer transition program for adolescents with blindness or visual impairments in Pennsylvania. The program emphasizes independence, work exploration, and social skills development. Data from participants, parents, and staff…

Since 1983, Michigan has addressed youth unemployment through the Michigan Youth Corps (MYC), a state-supported summer jobs program. Administered by the Michigan Department of Labor and funded by general appropriation of the Michigan legislature, MYC is the nation's largest state-funded youth employment program. The service delivery area (SDA)…

This report presents a broad overview and assesses the effectiveness of the summer 1984 pilot of the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP). Chapter I provides a general introduction. These three program objectives are cited: increase participants' level of achievement, increase their ability to make responsible decisions about sexual…

This hearing concerned an amendment of the Job Training Partnership Act that would establish an education component in the summer youth employment programs funded under part B, Title II, of that Act. The first bill discussed (H.R. 1090) would convert the existing programs to ones that (1) provide basic academic and functional competencies for…