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Download full textChild Development Services Bureau (DHEW/OCD), Washington, DC. Project Head Start. – 1973
As the Head Start program has matured, the need to establish a comprehensive Career Development Program has become increasingly apparent. Job openings for personnel from program assistants to professionals, created and sustained by Head Start funding, are considered by DHEW administrators as critically important to provide employment and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Ladders, Child Development Centers, Child Development Specialists
Hamilton, Laurie S.; Muthard, John E. – 1973
The research and evaluation literature of several Federal Manpower training programs and the Federal-State Vocational Rehabilitation program was reviewed to determine effectiveness in reducing economic dependency among welfare recipients. Emphasis was on the Vocational Rehabilitation programs used for comparison. Significant findings are…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Research, Economic Status, Economically Disadvantaged
Fitzgerald, Joan – 2000
This paper addresses the role community colleges can play in moving the working poor toward economic independence. Since Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) was enacted in 1996, there have been many new job openings in the country. But, employment and earnings prospects for job seekers leaving the welfare system are dismal. TANF clients…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Aboud, Grace – 1973
The trend in the early 1960's was toward manpower programs to help the unemployed and underemployed to get jobs and improve their job status through federally financed job training. The objective was to get those workers who had been trained in these programs into unsubsidized jobs. The trend toward job creation came later in the decade; the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
COHEN, AUDREY C.
WOMEN'S TALENT CORPS, FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, WILL MEET TWO SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN NEW YORK CITY--JOB SHORTAGES IN COMMUNITY SERVICES AND UNEMPLOYMENT AND LACK OF TRAINING AMONG THE POOR. WOMEN WILL BE RECRUITED FROM LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS AND TRAINED AS PRE-PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANTS IN SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND SOCIAL AGENCIES…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Opportunities, Community Services, Curriculum Development
O'Neill, Mara, Comp.; And Others – 1976
Arranged alphabetically by main topic, this bibliography cites 322 doctoral dissertations, written between 1970 and 1974, pertaining to various aspects of poverty. Where possible, annotations have been written to present the kernel idea of the work. Im many instances, additional subject headings which reflect important secondary thrusts are also…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitudes, Bilingual Education
