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Download full textHolloway, Wilfred B. – 1980
Through a study, strategies were investigated to increase the role of in-school youth in creating job opportunities. Drawing upon qualitative data provided by the Youthwork National Policy Study, researchers examined four youth-operated employment projects in order to isolate those factors that either hinder or facilitate the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Guy, Cynthia A.; And Others – 1991
The Self-Employment Investment Demonstration (SEID) is a test, designed to run from 1988 to 1992, of the feasibility of operating a program to encourage self-employment among welfare recipients. Challenges facing SEID included selecting sites, developing curricula, recruiting clients, getting clients through business training, completing business…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Norris, Claudia K. – 1980
The 1978 reauthorization of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) introduced a new title, Title VII: the Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP). This title instructs Prime Sponsors to form a new kind of intermediary organization, a Private Industry Council (PIC), which has the major objective of increasing the opportunities of…
Descriptors: Administration, Contracts, Definitions, Employment Opportunities
Van Horn, Carl; And Others – 1983
This guide, based on approaches for targeting jobs and business opportunities that were developed during the Targeted Jobs Demonstration Program (TJDP), contains strategies and techniques for ensuring that some of the benefits of economic development investments are directed to low-income individuals and small and minority businesses. Addressed in…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
San Diego State Univ., CA. – 1992
Project WORK was developed by San Diego State University and San Diego City Schools in California to prepare young people with disabilities for work and life after high school. The program teaches employment skills; supports students in their first work experience; works with students and their families to plan for the student's work and life…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. Office of Women in Development. – 1980
This report to Congress describes the women in development programs, projects, and activities undertaken by the Agency for International Development (AID) during the period from 1978 through 1980. Information is provided concerning AID cooperation and support on preparations for the United Nations Decade for Women Copenhagen Conference. Presented…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Torres, Marcia; Askins, William – 1990
This report presents an evaluation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, Chapter 2, Subprogram C, Special Projects program for the 1988-89 school year. The purpose of the program was to expand the knowledge and skills of job developers in placing severely handicapped students in appropriate occupational and adult service agency…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services
Casale, Ellen – 1989
This manual collects experiences of successful linkage programs to demonstrate the promise of linkage and to show its limits and risks. It is intended to help communities assess the capacity of linkage to meet their needs and evaluate the considerable commitment this strategy requires. (In linkage programs, developers who receive community…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, City Government, Community Change, Community Cooperation
Elliott, Mark; Roder, Anne; King, Elisabeth; Stillman, Joseph – 2001
A study assessed the first two years of a three-year initiative to test the potential of extending sectoral employment strategies among 10 organizations, most of which were new to the sectoral employment field. Five organizations increasing low-income workers' access to good jobs were ARCH; PhAME; Training, Inc.; WIRE-Net; and Project QUEST. Five…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Diaz, William A.; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation and project feasibility of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) during the latter period of the demonstration from September 1978 through August 1979. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King-Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua…
Descriptors: Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) in its initial period through September 1978. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King and Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua County (Florida), Albuquerque, Berkeley, Dayton, Hillsborough…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Kramer, Fredrica – Issue Notes, 1998
This document examines strategies for promoting job retention and career advancement for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The document begins by considering the problems faced by less-skilled TANF recipients in finding, retaining, and advancing in jobs. Section 2 examines the following policy issues: (1) the aims of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling
