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Direct linkKathleen Bolter, Contributor; Tim Bartik, Contributor; Brad Hershbein, Contributor; Michelle Miller-Adams, Contributor; Lee Adams, Contributor; Brian Asquith, Contributor; Alfonso Hernandez, Contributor; Kyle Huisman, Contributor; Iryna V. Lendel, Contributor; Gabrielle Pepin, Contributor; Bridget Timmeney, Contributor; Beth Truesdale, Contributor; Yulya Truskinovsky, Contributor – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
The Policies for Place initiative at the Upjohn Institute brings together experts from around the country to study community-based strategies to create good jobs--and how to help people get and keep those good jobs. This initiative represents a unique approach to helping people in distressed places: (1) focus on good jobs because research shows…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Place Based Education, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Download full textNational Skills Coalition, 2021
The need to invest in our nation's crumbling infrastructure goes back decades. But today, with millions of people unemployed, there is unprecedented momentum to act. Women, immigrants, and people of color are disproportionately represented in these numbers as are young adults. President Joe Biden and Congress are counting on infrastructure…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Public Policy, Federal Legislation, Investment
Hester, Edward L. – Thrust: The Journal for Employment and Training Professionals, 1982
Summarizes some of the uses that local Private Industry Councils (PICs) have found for their employment generating resources from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Includes suggestions on how local leaders can involve PICs in the solution of employment and development problems. (SK)
Descriptors: Business, Community Involvement, Economic Development, Employment Programs
West, Howard M. – Florida Vocational Journal, 1980
Elements of the individual education plan (IEP), developed to provide flexible and meaningful training for the handicapped child, are presented. Deals with awareness, exploration, evaluation, preparation, job development/job placement, employability skills, parents, community interests, and follow-up. An appropriate education strategy is also…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Educational Strategies, Individualized Programs
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
This booklet provides examples of challenging jobs that have been done by kids, often Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees. Jobs range from working with cops in Atlanta to helping the elderly in Chicago; from aiding emotionally disturbed children in Philadelphia to doing city wide surveys in Salinas, California. The jobs presented in this booklet…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Involvement, Community Support, Employment
Montgomery, Travis – 1974
A comprehensive Career Education Project for 10 secondary non-urban high schools in Missouri has been developed to implement job development and job placement programs and follow-up of area high school seniors. The program components seek to: (1) establish a Centralized Job Placement Office; (2) implement a job placement service in each high…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Career Development, Community Involvement, High School Students
Shabecoff, Alice; And Others – Strategy Alert, 1993
A community-based approach can excel at putting people back to work. The community-based strategy for helping people find and keep jobs needs to provide comprehensive and integrated services. Collaboration is likely to be the most practical means to round up those services. Community groups usually have a dual purpose in pursuing a jobs program:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement
Hartke, Vance – 1972
A bill to provide opportunities for employment to unemployed and underemployed persons, to assist States and local communities in providing needed public services, and for other purposes is presented. The Act is cited as the Full Employment Act of 1972, under the authority of the Secretary of Labor, and includes such states as the District of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Careers, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Fazio, Ernest J., Jr.; And Others – 1980
Developed to assist Native American reservation program planners, this handbook highlights a number of exemplary uses of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds in reservation economic development, presents a discussion of the problems reservations may face in meeting the new funding directions of the federal government, and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Involvement
Wallace, Phyllis A. – 1974
An exploratory study on unemployment among black teenage females in two urban poverty neighborhoods in New York City (Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant) was conducted by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) during 1970-71. The unemployment rate among black teenage females (16-19 years) has ranged from 28.4 percent in 1958 to 35.5 percent in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged
Riccio, James A. – 1999
This report describes the Jobs-Plus approach, an attempt to transform low-work, high-welfare public housing developments into high-work, low-welfare communities. It highlights the rationale of the approach, the way the demonstration has been set up to test the approach in the field, and what has been accomplished so far by the seven cities chosen…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
White, Carol R. – 1979
In response to the recognition and needs of displaced homemakers as a distinct population, this model is presented as an outgrowth of Project New Start, a displaced homemakers center sponsored by the Chicago Community Colleges. Introductory sections include an abstract of the final project report, rationale and background of the project with focus…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Counseling Services
Smutny, Joan Franklin; And Others – 1982
Designed for use by high school students, their teachers, and counselors, these six learning modules contain creative materials to encourage individuals to think about their own talents, skills, interests, and capacities for job creation. Each module consists of student worksheets and teacher guides. Covered in the first five modules are the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Education
Illinois Univ., Champaign. – 1980
This publication contains ten papers designed to show relationships between job creation and vocational education. Information is presented regarding three areas: (1) national and state perspectives of job creation, (2) examples of how specific vocational education disciplines impact in the job creation process, and (3) case studies of job…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Community Involvement
Van Rensburg, Patrick – 1974
Opened in 1963, the Swaneng Hill School in Serowe, Botswana, was an experiment for its untrained founders whose objectives were to reduce the exclusiveness of secondary education, equip students with skills and knowledge needed for development, make the school a focal point for community development, and instill a sense of social justice in the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Course Descriptions
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