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Williams, Patti – 1987
The Indian River Community College (Florida) program prepares people who qualify as displaced homemakers and single parents to enter or reenter the work force and vocational training. The program is designed to meet the needs of the target population by offering pre-employment information and skills, guidance, community referral, and vocational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Potential
Download full textSpaid, Robin L.; Parsons, Michael H. – 1980
As an informational aid for institutions interested in initiating displaced homemaker projects, this manual describes the development and operations of Hagerstown Junior College's Office of Displaced Homemaker Services. The manual's introduction outlines the specific objectives of the office, which was created to provide support services and/or…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Job Placement
Guilfoy, Vivian M.; And Others – 1981
This final report describes Project Second Look that focused public awareness on training and employment needs of displaced homemakers and stimulated development of services to help them achieve economic independence. Section 1 is an executive summary overviewing the program and reflecting on project experience. The work of the project is…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Advocacy, Career Counseling
New Choices for the Displaced Homemaker in Vocational Education. Final Report from 7/1/83 - 8/31/84.
Armstrong, Jan – 1984
The New Choices for the Displaced Homemaker in Vocational Education project was aimed at developing skills and providing training for employment to meet the displaced homemaker's need for financial support while simultaneously offering services to aid in her emotional development. Objectives were to provide opportunities for the displaced…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Choice, Career Planning, Displaced Homemakers
Associated Educational Consultants, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA. – 1980
This document provides descriptions of 32 model adult vocational education programs to assist Connecticut vocational education administrators in planning programs to strengthen the basic skills aspect of employment training for adults. The model programs represent the result of a search of the Educational Resources Information Center indexing…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education, Day Care
Butler, Matilda; And Others – 1981
This collection of program descriptions consists of case studies of 47 programs that contain promising approaches to sex-fair vocational education. The case studies (which represent programs in 39 states and the District of Columbia) describe programs that address the educational and job-skill training needs of such groups as displaced homemakers,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disabilities, Displaced Homemakers, Educational Needs
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1983
During the 1980-81 school year, enrollments in vocational education programs totaled nearly 16.9 million and federal, state, and local capital outlays for vocational education increased by approximately $470 million from 1979-80 to an all-time high of $7.3 billion. Vocational education also served significantly increased numbers of handicapped,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal)
