The 1979 Displaced Homemakers Conference focused on developing awareness of services available from various Illinois agencies to displaced homemakers, generating the spirit and means for cooperative relationships among agencies serving them, and offering prototypes of how women's centers are attempting to coordinate the various services of state…

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…

This booklet is designed to help the mature job seeker or career changer establish goals, implement plans, and inspire action. The materials provide action signals to help the mid-life career changer move toward the achievement of career goals. Realities of reentry into the job market are described and an approach to career decision making and job…

Intended for midlife and older women in the job market, this booklet is designed to help them in the process of looking for work outside the home. It helps them assess current skills and identify potential employment barriers; teaches them how to prepare effective written materials to support the job search and how to interview successfully; and…

This guide provides administration and teaching materials for use in organizing and conducting workshops intended to provide job-finding techniques and emotional support for women entering and re-entering the work force. Suggestions are made for assessing the employment situation in the community, the workshop, and finding potential students.…

Based on a survey of former fulltime homemakers in the Reading, Pennsylvania, area, this handbook was designed to provide a framework for resource persons to lead group sessions for women in transition. The material focuses on leading women to assess their skills and to discover which skills developed through homemaking can be transferred into…

The Redirected Homemakers Project began in August, 1979, as a program to aid displaced homemakers in the assessment and development of skills which could be translated into meaningful, salaried work. The project operated within the office of Community Education of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. Within the structure of the school…