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Sizemore, Donna Lynn – Momentum, 1985
Describes the activities and achievements of Broome County Catholic Youth Organization 70001, a unique program for economically disadvantaged youth and high school dropouts, which offers preemployment training, educational upgrading, motivational activities, and job placement assistance. Explains the benefits for the young participants, community,…
Descriptors: Catholics, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Employment Programs
Croxall, Allen – 1988
Across Canada almost 40 percent of youth drop out and do not finish high school. Young people feel they can drop out of school and find a job tomorrow that will pay them enough so they can continue the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. However, unemployment rates for individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 are high. There are people who…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Employment Programs
SYNDERMAN, GEORGE S.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE JEWISH EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL SERVICE (JEVS), A NONSECTARIAN, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, CONDUCTED TWO PROJECTS WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE AND THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT. THE FIRST PROJECT DEALT WITH 79 TEENAGERS CONSIDERED TO BE HOSTILE, AGGRESSIVE, DEFIANT AND UNMOTIVATED. EACH STUDENT WAS…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Employment Programs, Improvement Programs
Peer reviewedPalmo, Artis J.; And Others – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1980
Determined the effects of a concentrated vocational assessment and counseling program for high school dropouts. Approximately 60 percent of the dropouts were still employed six months after the program. Dropouts reported increased awareness of their own abilities and awareness of employers' needs. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Download full textGueron, Judith M. – 1984
The Department of Labor's Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) was the nation's largest demonstration to test a new approach to solving the employment problems of disadvantaged youths. Sixteen- to 19-year-olds from low income or welfare households who had not yet graduated from high school were offered minimum-wage jobs, part-time…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
Rossbach, Jim – School Shop, 1978
Gives a brief description of Titles I through VIII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 and urges teachers to investigate its opportunities. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1990
This report recommends that the House of Representatives pass the School Dropout Prevention and Basic Skills Improvement Act of 1990. The bill would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve secondary school programs for basic skills improvement, dropout prevention, and dropout reentry by strengthening reporting…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Organizations, Community Services, Compensatory Education
Willis, Denise C.; And Others – 1989
As the 21st century rapidly approaches, America will be directly confronted with the reality that its nationwide public education system has failed to adequately and accurately train its future generation of citizens. Socioeconomic status and race have been implicated as the two biggest factors related to dropping out. Current researchers have…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Employment Programs, High Risk Students
American Business Press, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
This booklet contains a sampling of corporate programs designed to help alleviate urban social problems, and offers small and medium-sized businesses ideas for economic development programs involving the disadvantaged. Included are six hiring and recruitment programs; 15 related to dropouts, job training, and adult basic education; 14 for…
Descriptors: Black Businesses, Business, Dropout Programs, Economic Development
Redmond, Michael – 1985
The Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) sees a strong connection between the dropout decision and unemployment in the teen years and beyond. It developed JOBSTART, a model of a project giving youths a chance to work and focusing on educational remediation, occupational training strategies, and support services to dropouts. To…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Research
Establishing Service Goals for School Dropouts under the Job Training Partnership Act. Final Report.
Gentry, Larry; And Others – 1986
The State of Washington commissioned research into various issues involving services to school dropouts under the terms of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Data suggested that each service delivery area (SDA) had its own set of internal dynamics (economic, cultural, demographic variables) that resulted in a characteristic pattern of…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report focuses on the young school drop-out portion only of the supported work experiment, which also included offenders, ex-addicts, and welfare recipients. The goal of supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
MDC, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1980
A review was conducted to assess early initiatives by Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors in knowledge development under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The review was based on two waves of site visits to a total of 19 prime sponsors, in May-June, 1979, and in November-January, 1979-80. From…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
This document reports the oral and written testimony of witnesses who appeared before a House of Representatives hearing centered on the accomplishments of the Job Corps and the need for a new Job Corps center in Fresno, California. (The Job Corps is a 25-year-old program that trains disadvantaged youth and places them in jobs.) Witnesses, who…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Escutia, Marta – 1986
Several independent analyses of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) indicate that it has achieved mixed results and has failed to effectively serve disadvantaged youth and school dropouts. It can only offer short-term, low-cost programs, and has difficulty in attracting youths. The number of dropouts being served is declining. The…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
