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Direct linkKyle Reardon; Dawn A. Rowe; Deanne K. Unruh – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2025
Achieving successful employment outcomes is critical for individuals with disabilities (IWD). Employers' perspectives toward employability skills for entry-level employees with disabilities is an important factor in employment rates. This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Entry-Level Employability Skills and Behaviors (EL-ESB)…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Job Skills, Employees, Disabilities
Byron Sanders, Editor; Shannon Epner, Editor – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024
Built for More, The Role of OST in Preparing Youth for the Future of Work will highlight OST research and illustrative practices and bring forward multi-disciplinary perspectives about future trends, innovations, and the impact of OST on the future workforce. The focus is on OST programs as well as related activities that contribute to…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Summer Programs, Apprenticeships, Disabilities
Download full textK. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, 2019
This document serves as the final report to the Pierce Foundation for funding to support the design and implementation of a 1.5-day Forum entitled "Technology Changes Everything: A Forum on Inclusive Tech and Jobs for a Diverse Workforce" conducted in New York City on October 26-27, 2017 at Baruch College. The conference idea was…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Disabilities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Entrepreneurship
Larson, Mindy – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2018
In May and June 2017, the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) conducted a national survey on Frontline Professional Development Needs among Youth Service Providers. NCWD/Youth received 74 survey responses from youth service professionals in 20 states. Sixty-one percent of survey respondents identified as the…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Youth Programs, Professional Personnel, Responsibility
Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2019
Businesses throughout the United States are facing a tight labor market and a growing need for skilled workers. At the same time, millions of U.S. adults have foundational skills gaps in areas such as literacy or numeracy. This issue is especially acute among Americans with disabilities, who are twice as likely as their non-disabled peers to have…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Disabilities, Adult Education, Labor Force Development
Russell, Arlene – National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth, 2018
This evaluation report describes the findings from a multi-year evaluation of the Youth Service Professionals' Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Professional Development Demonstration and Evaluation Project (YSP/KSA Demo). The National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD)/Youth conducted the YSP/KSA Demo to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Youth Programs, Professional Development, Labor Force Development
Cushing, Ellen; English, David; Therriault, Susan; Lavinson, Rebecca – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2019
As states grapple with competing priorities and constrained resources, there is an increasing focus on efficiency and alignment of programs and resources across state agencies. The College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center recently analyzed and compared four federal laws that govern the education-to-workforce pipeline. They are: (1)…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Labor Force Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2014
The "Fall Enrollment and Staffing Report 2014" provides a snapshot of enrollments in community and technical colleges during fall quarter 2014. The report addresses the questions most commonly raised regarding the community and technical colleges in Washington. The primary source of information for this document is the State Board for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Enrollment, Full Time Equivalency
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2013
The "Fall Enrollment and Staffing Report 2013" provides a snapshot of enrollments in community and technical colleges during fall quarter 2013. The report addresses the questions most commonly raised regarding the community and technical colleges in Washington. The primary source of information for this document is the State Board for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Enrollment, Full Time Equivalency
Watts, A. G.; Sweet, Richard; Haines, Christine; McMahon, Mary – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2006
The Third International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy was entitled "Shaping the future: Connecting career development and work development." Papers were provided by 16 nations and organisations, and this article synthesises these papers. The country teams were asked to select and address two or three of six themes: (1) human…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Indigenous Populations, Disabilities, Public Policy
McCain, Mary; Gill, Patricia; Wills, Joan; Larson, Mindy – Institute for Educational Leadership, 2004
This paper provides baseline information for the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) to fulfill its overall mission: To ensure that youth with disabilities are provided full access to high quality services in integrated settings in order to maximize their opportunity for employment and independent living. It…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Labor Force Development, Delivery Systems, Competence
Korver, Ton – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2004
The conducive economy challenges both the conceptual foundations and the practices of present-day economies. In the Netherlands, a few initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s looked promising, in particular, as these initiatives focused on work quality as one major precondition for reducing disability and enhancing labor participation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Job Skills, Quality Control
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 2000
This paper offers the definition of the term "special populations" that appears in Section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational-Technical Education Act of 1998: (1) individuals with disabilities; (2) individuals from economically disadvantaged families, including foster children; (3) individuals preparing for nontraditional training and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Disabilities, Displaced Homemakers
Metropolitan Community Colleges of Kansas City, MO. – 1994
The WorkAbility Program was a 3-year project initiated in October 1991 by the Metropolitan Community Colleges (MCC) in Kansas City, Missouri, to increase the employability of students with disabilities by addressing needs for career counseling, mentoring, job search skills preparation, and career-related work experiences. The five sections of this…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
High Skills, High Wages. Washington's Comprehensive Plan for Workforce Training and Education, 1998.
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1998
In Washington, urban centers enjoy rising wages and low employment; rural areas have stagnating wages and high unemployment. Most family-wage job opportunities are in occupations that require some postsecondary education but not a four-year degree. The shortage is most severe in the supply of skilled workers with vocational training. Technology…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Disabilities, Employment Opportunities
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