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Download full textFerrero, Lee – NAWDP Advantage, 1994
The most serious problem with the current work force preparation system is that many employment and training programs operate today to serve roughly the same people. Instead, these programs should be coordinated better to lower costs in the face of lowered funding. The General Accounting Office reports that about 125 federal programs do…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1992
This report documents statements from Senators, agency representatives, and tribal representatives concerning Senate bill S. 1530. The purposes of S. 1530 are to demonstrate how Indian tribal governments can integrate the employment, training and related services they provide in order to improve the effectiveness of those services, reduce…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, American Indians, Coordination
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
An Enterprise Zone Working Group brought together enterprise zone directors, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program administrators, and private industry council representatives from the state and local levels. It discussed ways in which employment and training programs could better coordinate with development activities in enterprise zones.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
Wilken, William H.; Brown, Lawrence L., III – 1981
Federal funds for youth employment programs have increased for two decades, yet program effectiveness could improve if greater coordination between job training agencies and educational institutions were achieved. Initial coordination efforts gave educational agencies a major role in governing and operating the vocational education services needed…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Lamar, Carl F.; Owens, Devert J. – 1980
More cooperation between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs and vocational education programs is both desirable and feasible, concludes this year-long study in Kentucky. The study was conducted (1) to determine the feasibility of developing a plan for coordinating vocational education resources and supporting services to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedHarris, Toni C. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1980
Describes a project conducted by the Illinois Community College Board to: develop an information base; promote information exchange between Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors and community colleges; conduct needs analyses; identify resources; match meeds and resources; and provide technical assistance. Identifies factors…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Coordination, Employment Programs
Dement, Edward F. – 1985
A summary of a 50-state assessment of the organization, composition, staffing, and operations of State Job Training Coordinating Councils (SJTCCs), conducted through telephone interviews with Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) or SJTCC administrators, produced a sketch of SJTCC procedures and practices. Some of the findings of the summary…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Advisory Committees, Aging (Individuals), Cooperation
Bailis, Lawrence Neil – 1984
This report examines the status of coordination at State and local levels between the activities funded by the Service Delivery Areas and other employment and training programs on the one hand, and between these programs and private sector employers on the other. The status of coordination in Fiscal 1983, the last year of the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
Intended to encourage CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) prime sponsors and apprenticeship program sponsors to integrate their activities, this technical assistance guide demonstrates many ways the two can unite at the local level to train and place people for employment. A general description of CETA is provided explaining the shift…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demonstration Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1992
Information was collected and compared on services provided to dislocated workers by the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance (EDWAA) programs. (TAA and EDWAA are the two major federal programs created to help dislocated workers make the transition to new employment.) Findings were based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Morra, Linda G. – 1992
The two major programs to help dislocated workers make the transition to new employment are Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance (EDWAA). Both programs have shortcomings that hamper their ability to help dislocated workers: they are slow in providing assistance, the services offered are often…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Dislocated Workers
Olympus Research Corp., Washington, DC. – 1971
Based on followup interviews with 1700 participants, this study is an evaluation of Federal manpower programs in Boston, Denver, and San Francisco-Oakland. Included are Manpower Development and Training Act Programs, Work Incentive Programs, and Concentrated Employment Program from late 1969 to early 1970. Program impact on enrollees, employers,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Kansas State Council on Vocational Education, Topeka. – 1993
A statewide assessment was made of the vocational education delivery systems assisted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990 and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), as well as the coordination between them, in Kansas. The study indicated that minimum set-asides for serving targeted populations were made under…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Coordination, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Clermont-Warren Employment Services Network, Lebanon, OH. – 1991
A project created linkages in Service Delivery Area 12, Clermont and Warren Counties, Ohio, to improve services for welfare recipients. During the project, the original grant seed money of $22,000 grew to more than $220,000 in grants for cooperative programs. In addition, integral, completed linkage treaties were forged between various agencies…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Programs
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1989
A follow-up study investigated what happened to recommendations made as a result of a formal study of coordination between Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and vocational education programs in Illinois. Questionnaires listing the nine recommendations were sent to staff of the 26 service delivery areas (20 respondents), staff of the 61 regional…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Delivery Systems, Employment Programs
