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Theodos, Brett; Pergamit, Michael R.; Hanson, Devlin; Edelstein, Sara; Daniels, Rebecca – Urban Institute, 2016
Urban Alliance serves at-risk youth through its high school internship program, which provides training, mentoring, and work experience to high school seniors from distressed communities. The program aims to help youth move on to higher education or employment after graduation. The Urban Institute is conducting a six-year, randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, At Risk Students, High School Students
Laney, Kahliah – Center for an Urban Future, 2013
With middle-income jobs in decline, entrepreneurship offers an increasingly promising pathway out of poverty; but few low-income New Yorkers are currently taking this route to economic self-sufficiency. This report provides the most comprehensive examination of low-income entrepreneurship in New York. The report documents current self-employment…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Low Income Groups, Self Employment, Barriers
Meier, Amy L.; Smith, Marilyn; Usinger, Janet – Journal of Extension, 2010
Bootstraps is a 12-week program designed for rural youth, ages 18-21, who are not working and not in school. The program goal is for participants to develop skills and motivation to find meaningful work, which is accomplished through a combination of classroom learning and practical fieldwork. The environmental fieldwork on public lands, funded by…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Work Experience, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs
Anuncibay, Raquel de la Fuente – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2007
One of the challenges raised by proactive employment policies centres on redressing inequalities that are not solely of an economic nature, as others may also be added of a social and ethnic nature as well as personal, cultural and educational aspects. This article analyses the situation in which groups at risk of social exclusion find themselves…
Descriptors: Employment, Social Isolation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), At Risk Persons
Gallup, Lelland L. – 1970
To facilitate the writing of relevant curriculums for building construction technicians, this study collected data concerning the occupational characteristics, job descriptions, and specialized training requirements for these employees. Data were obtained through interviews with 25 employees from 13 building construction firms within the State of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bibliographies, Building Trades, Construction Industry
Basseches, Michael; Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1980
Objectives of a study of the impact of participatory-democratic work experience on adolescent development are (1) to explore the possibilities for facilitating adolescent development by promoting participatory-democratic work structure in Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) programs and to augment past research on YCC by monitoring the structure of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Control Groups
Ministry of Advanced Education, 2005
The 2005 Graduate Follow-up Survey of Apprenticeship Students was a pilot project undertaken by the Ministry of Advanced Education, the Industry Training Authority, and post-secondary institutions (13 public and 9 private). The pilot survey targeted those who completed their apprenticeship technical training programs in a BC post-secondary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pilot Projects, Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship
Potter, Susan B., Ed.; And Others – 1978
These appendixes are the second volume of a final report of a project to (1) demonstrate a model of appropriate vocational service for developmentally disabled adults and (2) provide technical assistance and training to community facilities serving these persons. (Volume 1, the report, is available separately. See Note.) Contents include an intake…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Case Studies, Cooperative Programs
Arbeiter, Solomon; And Others – 1978
Interviews were conducted with a sample of 400 nonstudent, in-transition adults to identify their career information and education needs, their reasons for being in-transition, and their personal and demographic characteristics. In-transition was defined as either undergoing or anticipating job or career changes. Over forty million Americans (36%…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Blacks, Career Change