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Neill, Shirley Boes – Worklife, 1978
Disabled persons manage a program in San Diego, California, called "Able-Disabled Advocacy," which offers, with federal aid, work experience, counseling, and placement services to the area's disabled through experience in publishing a monthly magazine promoting opportunities for the disabled and through an on-the-job training project.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Billman, Lynne – 1978
Divorced, widowed, or separated women need help in three basic areas in the transition from sheltered home life to the world of work: (1) in recognizing their own interests and abilities; (2) in obtaining up-to-date, salable skills; and (3) in finding support services, such as counseling, job placement, peer group support, and role models. A…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Displaced Homemakers
Squires, Gregory D. – 1978
This reassessment of a 1975 report on issues in Indian education and employment in the Twin Cities indicates that little progress has been made. Indians are less than half as likely to complete high school as the total Twin Cities' school population, they are three times as likely to be unemployed, and six times as likely to live in poverty. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), American Indian Education, American Indians