This framework provides a set of recommendations for postsecondary institutions and employers to support Black learners and workers to build professional social capital. It expands on a related JFF market scan that maps the landscape of nonprofit and social enterprise-led social capital initiatives.

This self-study guide provides state and local education agencies and schools with a tool to assess implementation of career readiness practices across a district or secondary school and to plan improvements. It is arranged by implementation areas that have been found to be important to career readiness efforts based on a review of the literature…

In 1967 the Northern Ireland Council of Social Service undertook to pioneer a counseling service (the Educational Guidance Service for Adults) for adults who wished to change their educational and/or career direction. A description of its various services and guidelines for setting up a similar service are presented. (Author/BP)

The booklet provides some guidelines and suggestions around which career guidance programs may design their standards. It discusses and briefly outlines some recent legislation, publications, speeches, and committee actions which deal with the objectives and methods of career guidance. It lists 10 assumptions which should be considered when…

The author offers nine guidelines for setting up a Career Planning program. The ractical suggestions range from (1) "Build an information base" to (9) "Maintain personal sanity". They are based on her own experience in university counseling and career planning. (Author/BP)

The role of the cooperative education program coordinator, vital to the success of the program, is shown to include student advising, job placement, and liaison with employers and with teaching faculty and administrators. Guidelines are suggested. (Author/LBH)

The guide is a component of the Program Development Section of the "Career Education Handbook for Implementation" whose purpose is establishing and operating a school-based job placement program. It is designed to be of practical assistance to the user in building a placement program that will effectively meet the needs of a particular situation.…

This plan is intended to be used by the Los Angeles Community College District during the five academic years between 1976 and 1981 as a basis for planning and implementing new career training programs and services, and for reviewing programs already in existence. Part 1 describes District and vocational education policies, goals, and objectives,…

This publication addresses one of the significant and critical characteristics of an effective rehabilitation counselor: the awareness of the various kinds of strategies and information that are available to him and the client for decisionmaking. Five sections are included after the introductory section, which briefly discusses evaluation of…

The guide provides suggestions concerning possible solutions to specific career education implementation problems. Committee selection and organization are discussed in the first section. Then a detailed approach to a sequential system for program implementation is presented. The program consists of a precommitment stage, commitment stage, and an…

Because the elementary years are years of curiosity and inquiry, trial and exploration, and relative freedom from prejudice, this is the natural time for developing appropriate career foundations in students. This publication was designed to suggest guidelines for meeting these opportunities through career guidance and is intended for use in the…

This 12-section handbook, based on information for Colorado but applicable to other states as well, contains resources and lists and explains procedures to establish or expand a career guidance center in a school, government office, or organization. The 12 sections cover the following topics: (1) purpose and philosophy; (2) assessment, advisory…

Designed to assist state and local educational agencies and intermeidate educational units in developing administrative policies for the vocational education of handicapped students, the manual address present policy areas and administrative concerns. Guidelines are presented for policy development in the following nine areas (examples of…

The publication was developed for use in the career education workshops for professional development sponsored by the Missouri State Department of Education. It serves as a resource guide for establishing career development goals and objectives at both the elementary and secondary levels, with emphasis on the junior high school level. The…

Hard data related to recidivist rates in the State of Washington are not available but testimony offered to a legislative subcommittee suggests that they may be as high as 70 percent. Given this almost desperate situation, the Joint Committee on Education decided in 1969 to investigate the education programs operated in the correctional…