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Peer reviewedJuntila, Stephen W.; And Others – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1980
Examined is the history of federally funded vocational education and employability development programs created to address the specific labor market needs relating to underemployment and unemployment. This article serves as an introduction to four more articles concerning CETA and youth unemployment. (CT)
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Labor Market
Download full textCorporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development activities mounted in conjunction with research, evaluation, and development activities funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. Based on the Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) "enhanced" job training/job placement approach, which used…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Schneider, Debra; And Others – 1977
This is a handbook designed for educators, manpower planners, and other officials interested in taking advantage of new legislation for creating youth employment programs. In the first part of the book major provisions of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 are explained. Good planning is stressed as crucial to the success…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, On the Job Training
Attivo, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine methods through which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants may be awarded credit for participation in CETA-sponsored programs in Pennsylvania. To accomplish this, CETA prime sponsors, CETA program operators, and a group of randomly selected potential program operators were surveyed. After…
Descriptors: College Credits, Credits, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Peer reviewedHolloway, Wilfred B. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Attributes the lack of success among youth employment/education programs over the past 50 years in part to inadequate evaluation of concept development, program implementation, and individual outcomes. Discusses objectives, implementation, and results of various private and government-supported youth employment and school to work plans. (JCD)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Programs
Maine State Dept. of Labor, Augusta. – 1985
This document provides a technical model of the preemployment skills area of the Youth Employment Competency System that service delivery areas (SDAs) are required to operate under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The model is intended as a program development aid to SDA staff and JTPA service providers. Section I deals primarily with the…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Competency Based Education, Coping, Curriculum Guides
Taggart, Robert – 1983
In times of economic recession, dollars for job training and job placement programs grow scarcer, and those that are available tend to go to middle-class workers who are displaced or temporarily unemployed. The structurally unemployed--primarily the poor, the less educated, and minority youth--find it harder to compete for the needed training, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Educational Needs
Opportunities Academy of Management Training, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1986
This technical assistance guide is designed to expedite the implementation of partnerships between vocational education and community-based organizations (CBOs) as called for in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is probably most useful as a resource for local training activities related to CBO/vocational education/Job…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Cooperative Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Wisconsin Governor's Employment and Training Office, Madison. – 1984
These two volumes of a resource manual are intended to provide technical assistance to Private Industry Councils regarding attainment of employment competencies by youth enrolled in employment and training programs funded by the Job Training Partnership Act. Volume I defines youth competencies, lists major categories of the recommended…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Employment Programs
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 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 (YEDPA). It provides an overview of FY 1979 planned projects funded in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico under the Governors' statewide youth services grants…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
Focusing on follow-through, synthesis, dissemination, and application, this Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act plan for knowledge development in 1980 is divided into seven key sections. The first section presents projects which will require continued funding and refinement to realize their objectives. Section 2 provides a list of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Wurzburg, Gregory – 1979
This overview of an evaluation of prime sponsor implementation of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), offers an interpretation of ten case study findings. It is divided into four principal parts. The first, "Summary of Findings and Recommendations," summarizes findings about local programs implementing YEDPA and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Youth Programs: Practical Lessons from Research and Program Experience, 1989
This journal issue summarizes the main points of a two-volume guide to youth performance management: "Working It Out: An Anthology of State and Local Performance Management Strategies Designed to Increase Services to Youth at Risk of Chronic Unemployment." The guide draws on the experiences of state and local practitioners in identifying…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Legislation
Human Environment Center, Washington, DC. – 1981
The Human Environment Center held a national conference on Youth Conservation Jobs and Service in May, 1981, in Washington, D.C., attended by approximately 100 representatives of minority, employment, youth, environmental, and national service interests. The conferees concurred that the Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) and the Youth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Conservation (Environment), Disadvantaged Youth
National Child Labor Committee, New York, NY. – 1980
This manual for supervisors in the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) provides background on SYEP and tips on program supervision. Section 1 is a brief introduction. The history and purpose of SYEP are presented in section 2. Section 3 contains nine SYEP supervisor work rules (concerning time records, safety, accidents and illness,…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Guidelines, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
