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Direct linkChoiseul-Praslin, Belkis; McConnell, Amber – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2020
Students with significant disabilities typically experience poor postschool employment outcomes. However, when provided opportunities to work and engage within their communities, they can gain necessary work-specific and workplace social skills to improve outcomes. This article outlines a six-step model for community-based employment programs…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Students with Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Individualized Transition Plans
Peer reviewedHamilton, Stephen F. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1981
Discusses a study undertaken to evaluate the influence of two community learning programs on the adolescent participants. Topics discussed include differences in staff roles in the programs, program characteristics, learning outcomes, and participant attitudes. Findings indicated that, in general, youth liked the community programs and learned a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Download full textBITTER, JAMES A.; O'NEIL, LAWRENCE P. – 1967
THIS IS THE FINAL REPORT OF A 3-YEAR PROJECT CARRIED OUT COOPERATIVELY BY THE SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, THE MISSOURI STATE DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, AND THE ST. LOUIS JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE. A WORK EXPERIENCE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED TO SERVE CLIENTS BETWEEN 16 AND 21 YEARS WITH IQ'S PRIMARILY FROM…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Education
Dildy, Dennis – 1982
Age appropriate training programs in natural environments for deaf-blind adolescents help to develop functional skills, with the ultimate goal of independent living and work placement. Other approaches to the education of handicapped children entail activity for the sake of activity, or babysitting and fun activities. The actual training of a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Deaf Blind
Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1980
Unpaid community activities have been widely recommended as learning experiences for adolescents. An evaluation was conducted of two community action learning programs, one which placed adolescents one-to-one in adult-dominated settings and the other which gave adolescents a group project to plan and carry out with adult assistance. Both programs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Coll. of Education. – 1989
This module provides information on supported employment as outlined in the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1986, P.L. 99-506. It discusses models of supported employment; the roles of vocational rehabilitation counselors, school district personnel, and job coaches; and what school district personnel can do to prepare students for supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Community Programs, Education Work Relationship
Osoro and Associates, Bellingham, WA. – 1980
This document contains (1) a monograph investigating and describing conditions under which it is cost-beneficial to operate an enriched YCCIP (Youth Community Conservation and Improvement Project) design and (2) a guidebook to work project enrichment. The first sections of the monograph focus on the attributes of an enriched YCCIP activity in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Comparative Analysis
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1962
THIS PAMPHLET DESCRIBES THE EMPLOYMENT ORIENTATION PROGRAM FOR MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS IN NEW JERSEY. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROGRAM ARE OUTLINED AND INCLUDE TIME SCHEDULES, CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF EMPLOYERS, PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS, OCCUPATIONS, AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCHOOL. AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROGRAM AGREEMENT (BETWEEN…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adolescents, Cooperative Programs, Employment Experience
Griffiths, Matthew; And Others – 1989
The study described in the first part of this two-part document identified the kind of ongoing support that would be most beneficial to all those concerned in the employment of young people with disabilities in England and Wales. Semistructured interviews were conducted with employers, representatives of preparation and placement agencies, and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adolescents, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
The Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) demonstration, a national research and demonstration program, was designed to test the effectiveness of a youth employment program in various settings. Eight VICI programs, each of which enrolled up to 60 unemployed, out-of-school, economically disadvantaged youths between the ages of 16 and 19, were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Building Trades, Community Change, Community Programs
Pressman, Harvey – 1981
This book describes experimental demonstration programs in the United States on different ways to link school and work more meaningfully for disadvantaged teenagers. The programs are sponsored by Youthwork, Incorporated, a public-private partnership concerned with youth unemployment and the transition from school to work. The book provides…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Planning, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Engbretson, William E.; Levine, Eugene A. – 1980
The product of a study of urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs involving youths aged 16-22 that would result in real or potential job creation and community economic development, this report consists of 24 case studies and a series of recommendations pertaining to the development of similar programs in Illinois.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
