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Peer reviewedSterrett, Emily A. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1998
Links self-efficacy theory with job club methodology by presenting a case study that measured changes in self-efficacy as a result of welfare recipients' participation in a job club. The job club enhanced each of four sources of job search expectations postulated by Bandura (1977, 1982) and resulted in return to work for all participants.…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Case Studies, Job Search Methods, Reentry Workers
Download full textEkstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This counselor's guide is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. The main purpose of this is to help counselors work with women who are entering paid work after spending…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselors, Employed Women, Employment Qualifications
Hanks, Marlene – 1982
St. Louis Community College's Careers for Homemakers program is a vocational counseling program designed to help displaced homemakers enter the job market for the first time or after a significant absence. The program's goal is to place participants, chosen according to academic or economic disadvantaged eligibility, in jobs consistent with their…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Employment Services
Kentucky Vocational Education Region V, Elizabethtown. – 1990
During fiscal year 1989-90, Project Step Forward provided single parents and displaced homemakers in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with information on available opportunities and assisted participants in raising their self-esteem. The project served 64 people through three 2-week, 40-hour workshops and an additional 151 people through mini-workshops…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Exploration
VanderLugt, Marilyn J. – 1984
Goals of the "Transition, Retraining, and Change for Entry" project were to provide counseling and/or group support for single heads of households or persons entering nontraditional employment and to provide placement services for the target group. A third goal was to disseminate information about the value of and opportunities in…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Exploration, Displaced Homemakers
Bloomington Dept. of Human Resources, IN. – 1983
A project was conducted by the city of Bloomington, Indiana, to help displaced homemakers cope with stress, learn to manage their lives, become more assertive, and gain job search skills. Aimed at a three-county area, the project assessed the job market, developed counseling techniques, developed interest and aptitude assessment instruments,…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Lidman, Russell M.; Weeks, Gregory C. – 2001
The Washington State welfare reform program WorkFirst is designed to move individuals from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) into the workforce. A critical question facing the program is how to assist participants in sustaining and advancing their employment. Three studies of those who exited the program measured multiple outcomes…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dropout Characteristics, Employment Counselors, Employment Level
Bromley, Ann; Moore, Marnie – 1987
Focus on Careers, a program for single parents or homemakers, completed its second year of operation at Santa Fe (Florida) Community College on June 30, 1987. The program served 175 adult men and women from Alachua and Bradford counties who wanted to develop a career, re-enter the work force, or change careers. Services offered to single parents…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling
Knight, Joyce – 1983
A project was conducted at Indiana Vocational Technical College to (1) identify unemployed or laid-off persons who required vocational guidance and/or training in order to reenter the work force; (2) ascertain realistic occupational goals, competencies, and potential job markets; and (3) develop and implement a counseling program with written…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
