The goal of the Manpower Educational Services Project at the University of Houston was, in the short run, to explore using a university's capability and position in the community to contribute to the understanding and functioning of manpower programs in its geographic area. In the long run, it was hoped that a permanent center could be established…

This project was designed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of job adjustment counseling and consultation provided at the site of employment by an autonomous professional organization as a means of preventing and ameliorating employees' job adjustment problems, especially among lower income employees. Representatives of management…

This monograph is an outgrowth of a research and demonstration project designed to experiment with technique for increasing the quantity and quality of jobs listed with a state Employment Service Branch Office in order to create the potential for increased placements. The project's basic approach has been to improve the quality and extent of…

Vocational placement, social needs, and the lack of proper transportation for disabled persons are major problems to be solved if physically handicapped people are to function in community life. Mobilization for Maturity was a 3-year research and demonstration project which utilized a self-help approach to help disabled people to re-enter…

This special research and development project was funded by the U.S. Department of Labor to: (1) serve as an information clearinghouse and develop planning procedures for manpower agencies, (2) improve career opportunities for workers in the human services occupations, and (3) strengthen the U.S. Employment Service capabilities in the human…

The Works Public Administration, said to be the first serious effort made in U.S. to address the problem of wide-scale unemployment through a public sector effort, is looked at in great detail in relation to its applicability as a suitable model for implementation in the health field. (Author/AM)

The Community Mental Health Workers Project is a 5-year community-based staff-demonstration study designed to develop, train, utilize, compare, and evaluate the effectiveness of three new types of middle level workers for community mental health programs. The three levels of workers are classified as: (1) an aide who will be an indigenous member…

Since the passage of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 (MDTA), the Department of Labor has funded over $30 million worth of experimental and demonstration (E and D) projects in an effort to discover some new directions for dealing with the unemployment problems of disadvantaged youth. To evaluate the effectiveness of these and…

The report describes courses in entrepreneurship and management for minority groups, including counseling and post graduate seminars. Descriptive material about the training center organization, facilities, and financing is included. This demonstration project shows the need for management-trained blacks in the manpower marketplace. Possibilities…

The monograph capsulizes the activities of the Manpower Administration 1963-1973 in providing adult basic education (ABE) to manpower program clients in research and demonstration projects. Spanning the initial efforts under the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 to the present efforts to related to the Comprehensive Employment and…

This report is a summary of a project utilizing subprofessionals in the field of social work. Conducted in the Jacksonville, Florida area in 1968, the project demonstrated that subprofessionals could successfully perform a wide variety of tasks formerly assigned to social workers. Although early resistance on the part of social workers was…

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,…

Fifteen reviews in this issue pertaining to rural and urban disadvantaged youth are organized under six topics: (1) Manpower Reports reviews the 1967 and 1968 Presidential Manpower Reports and a report on national goals and manpower requirements, (2) Training youthful offenders treats correctional programs at the Lorton Youth Center and the New…

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…

This is the preliminary report of a demonstration project in continuing education of the physician in his own community. Members of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center went into residence in 14 communities in Northern California and Nevada for periods of three days. Choice of specialities and the programing were developed by…