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Hesse, Charles R. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1982
Describes the Personal Employment Program, a four-week training and development experience that enables CETA participants to secure unsubsidized employment. The last two weeks of the program emphasize job search interactions. The program is successful in finding employment for program completers but has a low completion rate. (AJC)
Descriptors: Career Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
National Coalition on Women, Work and Welfare Reform, Washington, DC. – 1986
This publication is designed to alert local and state advocates to the presence of the National Coalition on Women, Work, and Welfare Reform. It shares the Coalition's perspective on the welfare employment issue and proposes several initial strategies local advocates or policymakers might use in considering proposed or ongoing welfare employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1971
This annual report is the ninth in a series of reports concerning the activities of the New York State Education Department in the manpower training effort, and it offers a narrative description and rationale of the activities of the Bureaus of Manpower Program Development and Manpower Program Supervision during 1971. The goals of the manpower…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs

Amritmahal, Ananda; Mehta, J. M. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1987
A project of the Poona (India) District Leprosy Committee offers training in the industrial sector to leprosy patients, orthopedically handicapped individuals, and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, under a common roof. The project aims to combat the leprosy stigma and to aid rehabilitation by making the trainees economically…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Disability Discrimination, Diseases, Economically Disadvantaged
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Special Occupational Services. – 1973
The report presents a review of institutional manpower training programs conducted in the State during the 1973 Federal fiscal year. Two major manpower training objectives are used for the basis of the report: to provide education, supportive services, and training opportunities for unemployed and underemployed individuals and to provide education…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Programs
Nightwine, W. H. – 1971
Conceived in December, 1970, this project directed its efforts toward aiding in the alleviation of unemployment problems faced by the hardcore disadvantaged population of Arizona's northern and central counties. An area with a high out-of-school population lacking in job skills, this portion of Arizona was also without industries. As a means of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Van Horn, Carl; And Others – 1983
This guide, based on approaches for targeting jobs and business opportunities that were developed during the Targeted Jobs Demonstration Program (TJDP), contains strategies and techniques for ensuring that some of the benefits of economic development investments are directed to low-income individuals and small and minority businesses. Addressed in…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
Bailin, Michael A. – 1992
This testimony of the President of Public/Private Ventures (PPV) in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) is on the subject of designing effective youth services programs, particularly in light of the PPV's experience with its program, Summer Training and Education Program (STEP). Following a description of the background for this and similar programs, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Beck, Judy A. – 1988
This manual outlines a program model that combines employment training with literacy building for low-income single mothers. Chapter I introduces these programs. Chapter II discusses barriers that a low-income single mother faces. Chapter III offers directions for thinking about the feasibility of moving into literacy services by conducting a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities
Keppler, Mark; Juelich, Mike – 1980
This study analyzes private sector training programs that benefit economically disadvantaged (CETA-eligible) persons. Information on ten private sector training programs in seven states (Iowa, Florida, Maryland, California, Kansas, Mississippi, and New York) collected from a mailed eleven-page questionnaire, a follow-up telephone interview, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, IL. Career Options Research and Development (CORD).
This final report of the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project reviews the original assumptions, objectives, problems, and opportunities related to training the poor for employment in the human services areas. Specific objectives of Project CORD were: (1) to test the validity and reliability of the social mobility theory, (2) to…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation
The Potential State Role in Youth Employment. Working Paper #3. The State Youth Initiatives Project.
DeLone, Richard H. – 1982
The millions of disadvantaged youth, especially minority group youths, face a bewildering mix of job training and employment programs. Because of bureaucratic regulations and funding complications, most of these programs are not effective for the majority of youths who need them. To be effective, youth employment and training programs should…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Thompson, Jeffery W.; Turner-Meikeljohn, Susan; Conway, Maureen – 2000
This case study on Focus: HOPE is the fourth of six sectoral studies to provide an in-depth look at individual sectoral employment development programs and their interaction within distinct economic and industry environments. It explores HOPE, a Detroit civil rights organization with a highly developed machinist training program. Section 1…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Civil Rights, Economically Disadvantaged
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
Designed specifically for private industry councils (PICs), this guide introduces the subject of economic development and job creation and highlights the impact PICs can make through carefully chosen involvement in local economic development efforts. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to economic development: What it is; how it is related to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bibliographies, Career Education, Case Studies
Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
Written to provide business executives with examples of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that successfully prepare people to be skilled workers, this guide also describes the financial incentives for hiring unemployed and economically disadvantaged persons. In an overview of CETA and Title VII programs, private industry…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Incentives