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Baker, B. Kimball – Manpower, 1975
Detroit's efforts to deal with large scale unemployment through Manpower Administration aid, and an outlook on the future of the automobile industry are discussed. Programs related to unemployment insurance, employment services, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and The Work Incentive Program (WIN) are described. (LH)
Descriptors: Employment Services, Government Role, Job Training, Labor Utilization
Trew, Patricia – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Correctional Rehabilitation, Federal Programs, Job Training
Morehouse, Karen – Manpower, 1975
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) cooperative relationship regarding the development of environmental manpower programs on a State and local level is discussed. Environmental programs resulting from CETA aid are described and EPA statistics given, stating that such programs are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Environmental Technicians, Government Role, Job Training
Download full textLittlejohn (Roy) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
Vanguards in Training presents, in summary form, the National Training System's (NTS) Training Grant Program supported throughout the Nation by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to increase the skills, career mobility, and credentials of drug abuse prevention, treatment, and research personnel. The program summaries speak for themselves…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Educational Programs, Employment
EPI-HAB Phoenix, Inc., AZ. – 1971
A demonstration project (1958-1961) was conducted to establish that a self-sustaining workshop for epileptics can maintain itself competitively and be a viable rehabilitative setting for the epileptic midway between one employable in private industry and one employable only in a sheltered workshop. An EPI-HAB project in Phoenix, Arizona,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Potential, Epilepsy
This is a report on the first year's operation of a major job-readiness and job placement program in an "urban fringe" area near the San Francisco Bay. It includes contractor's categories and full information on types and numbers of placements. Also included are narratives of successful programatic breakthroughs and descriptions of areas which…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
FORSYTH, G.R.; NININGER, J.R. – 1966
PROGRAM 5 TRAINING FOR THE UNEMPLOYED CAME INTO EXISTENCE UNDER THE TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1960. THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO EVALUATE THE PROGRAM'S EFFECTIVENESS AND PROVIDE GUIDELINES FOR ITS FUTURE OPERATION. THE STUDY CONCENTRATED ON (1) THE PROGRAM TRAINEES, (2) EMPLOYER KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND USE OF THE…
Descriptors: Employers, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Government Role
Hiland, John E. – 1970
Representatives from all parts of the United States attended a conference designed to: (1) explore ways and means of involving older persons--primarily welfare recipients--as employees, (2) delineate the wide variety of tasks that have been and can be undertaken by older persons, (3) determine the kinds of recruitment, selection, training,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Employment Opportunities, Job Analysis, Job Training
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1970
This three-part package provides a description of the philosophy and operating instructions for New Careers training programs in Employment Security (NCES) agencies. The first part gives instructions to State agencies and Department of Labor staffs on the operations of a training project. Included are term definitions, program standards, training…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Development, Career Ladders, Disadvantaged
Barocci, Thomas A. – 1972
The report is based on the results of a mail questionnaire sent to a sample of the total population of persons involved in the registered apprenticeship program in Wisconsin during the years 1965-1970. The returned questionnaires consisted of approximately the same number of dropouts and completers; these two groups were compared throughout the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Career Development, Data Analysis
Kalani, Henry – 1975
A research project was designed to develop a hospitality education program model for Hawaii's community colleges. Primary data were gathered in a survey of the hospitality industry characteristics, manpower requirements, and training needs. This report of the project covers the following information: history and growth of the hospitality industry…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Employment Projections
Hyatt, Norman F.; Gloriod, John A. – 1972
This evaluation of 9 months of the first year of the federally funded Utah Manpower Development and Training Act Skills Center with 89 enrollees examines the program's effectiveness by means of a literature review, personnel interviews, preparation of training program objectives, and the utilization of these objectives as success criteria for the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Federal Programs, Goal Orientation
Educational Computer Corp., Radnor, PA. – 1972
Trainees with low reading achievement (0 to 4th grade levels) were recruited, tested, and selected for training in four areas: auto mechanics, appliance repair service, heating services, and electronics, especially radio and television repair. The project employed a work simulation device, the SMART simulator, to help overcome the traditional…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Development, Computer Oriented Programs
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences. – 1978
This volume contains nine case studies describing the initial two-year experiences of local governments in implementing the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). (An earlier volume published eight similar area studies on the transition from federally centralized to decentralized manpower programs.) Written by resident field…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Control, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Office of Human Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This report includes annual reports from both the Department of Labor on employment and training requirements, resources, and utilization and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on facilities utilization and employment and training program coordination. First is a description of the current administration's five basic labor market…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Disadvantaged
