Description of the Community Correctional Services (CCS) program for the 16th Judicial Circuit of Illinois, a program to provide quality vocational and employment services to youthful and adult law offenders. Servicing 250 participants in 1976 and 270 in 1977, the counseling and referral service is funded by the Comprehensive Employment and…

The article tells the story of one Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) client, the counseling given him, and his repeated failures. Depicted are the sorts of problems sponsors can expect when employing exoffenders under CETA. (MF)

Excerpts from President Carter's economic message to the Congress, proposing a recovery package which included (1) an increase of authorizations for local public works, (2) an expansion of public service employment, (3) expansion of training and youth programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and (4) an increase in the…

Second in a series, this article discusses the applicability of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to those persons with an arrest or conviction record, who usually lack education and training and who encounter employment barriers. Some resource materials for CETA sponsors are given. (MF)

Describes the cooperative relationship between the Rockford, Illinois, advisory council and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) staff for Winnebago and Boone Counties and credits this cooperation and community input with CETA's success. (MF)

The program trains disabled Vietnam veterans to become employment interviewers (to assist other veterans in finding employment) while employing them as paraprofessional community service aides. (AG)

Describes the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) program, with funds provided under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, to train apprentices in home construction trades and place them on jobs, with particulars about the carpentry training program. (MF)

Two programs in the Miami area enable Florida senior citizens to earn money while aiding others. The Senior Surrogate Parent Program offers classroom instruction and on-the-job training in child care. Home nursing skills and nutrition are taught in the Companion Aide to the Elderly Program. (Author/MS)

Review of programs initiated by various western countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)--government-initiated public and private programs to cope with the youth unemployment problem. (JT)

This articles summarizes the National Planning Association's (NPA) experience in its initial efforts to develop an early warning system to anticipate job openings generated in local communities by large Federal procurement contracts. (WL)

Provides examples of the diversity of jobs offered through public service employment (PSE) programs (funded under titles II and VI of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act). It is noted that these projects demonstrate the flexibility with which communities can use CETA funds to meet local needs and at the same time provide PSE jobs for…

An unemployed poet obtained a CETA public service job as a teacher's aide in Marin County, California, where he has guided elementary children's imaginative projects. His experiences are described. He has published a volume of the children's verse under the title "Love Is Like a Squished Banana." (AJ)

Beginning in 1967 the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training required that apprenticeship program operators indicate the race or national origin and sex of all persons hired as apprentices in registered programs. Through June 1976 the number of minority group apprentices almost tripled with a much lower first-year dropout…

Describes President Carter's proposed system to give welfare and other low-income families a chance to earn their way out of poverty. Focus is on the Jobs for Families component which combines the Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Supplemental Security Income for the aged, blind, and disabled; and Food Stamps in a single cash assistance…

Summaries of eight titles of the reauthorized (for fiscal years 1979 through 1982) Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) are presented and discussed. The new CETA will serve, essentially, to increase the earned income of the economically disadvantaged. (MF)