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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
This publication reports on a recent study that compared the new Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study was conducted to determine how the JTPA limit on money for program administration affected the type of individual served and the training provided in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
Minning, Deborah – Worklife, 1978
Characteristics of the 1.3 million participants enrolled in CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs during the first quarter of fiscal year 1978 are presented primarily by way of a data table. Some of the statistical categories included are enrollment by program title, sex, age, education, socioeconomic status, military status,…
Descriptors: Age, Employment Statistics, Federal Programs, Job Training
Bassi, Laurie J. – 1980
A study was conducted to develop a theoretical framework for unbiased estimation of the dynamic net impact of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs on participants' earnings. (The possibility of selectivity bias arises from the non-random nature of participation in the program. That is, if participation is a function of…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs
Slack, Georgia – Manpower, 1975
A bilingual Manpower Recreation Training Program in Hialeah, Florida, provides on-the-job training for underemployed or unemployed 18 to 24 year olds from disadvantaged families. The year-round program encompasses classroom as well as playground training, and participant reactions describe a successful program. (LH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Government Role, Labor Force Development, On the Job Training
Zornitsky, Jeffrey J.; And Others – 1981
This guide has been developed to help Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors to meet their responsibility for assessing the effectiveness of their efforts by examining the extent to which CETA participation has enhanced the longer-term income and employability status of former enrollees. As part 2 of the guide, this…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Friedman, Nathalie; Flam, Helena – 1980
Project Citywork was a demonstration project to provide employment for disadvantaged youth, and at the same time to determine which kinds of programs tend to work, and which do not. The program included work experience in nonprofit agencies; on-the-job training in the private sector; supportive services including counseling and classroom training,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Demonstration Programs
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
This paper describes a model providing a framework through which communities can work to meet the critical shortage of adequate quality child care facilities and services in rural as well as urban areas. This CETA program model, called the Fresh Start Approach, offers skills training and supportive services to economically disadvantaged women…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1980
A study examined the attitudes of employers who provided jobs for 37 of the graduates and a number of the dropouts from the University of Texas Competency-Based High School Diploma (CBHSD) Program for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients that was implemented at five sites in Texas. Because of the restraints imposed on employers…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Level, Followup Studies
Zornitsky, Jeffrey J.; And Others – 1981
This guide was developed to help Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors to meet their responsibility for assessing the effectiveness of their efforts by examining the extent to which CETA participation has enhanced the longer-term income and employability status of former enrollees. As part 1 of a series, this document…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Olson, Claire – 1977
The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges surveyed its 919 member colleges in 1976 regarding their knowledge of and participation in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) locally-based delivery system. Responses from 519 colleges (56.5%) revealed that 478 (88.6%) of the respondents participated in CETA at some…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Education, Federal Aid
Peer reviewedCoffin, Donald A. – Evaluation Review, 1983
A planning model to improve performance in generating positive terminations of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants is described. Sponsors can improve performance by selecting participants with particular characteristics and altering types of services. This approach is useful for any social services which result in…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Job Placement, Job Skills, Local Government
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
The Department of Labor estimated that 300,000 people would lose their jobs because of the termination of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) public service employment programs. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the Department of Labor's efforts to find permanent unsubsidized jobs or new training opportunities for…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Programs
Berryman, Sue E.; And Others – 1981
A study assessed whether the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) equitably allocates its training, employment, occupational, and wage benefits by sex. To analyze the sex equity of CETA's resource distribution, researchers used data from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey (CLMS) for fiscal 1976, 1977, and 1978 CETA enrollees.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Policy, Evaluation and Research. – 1979
An overview of the National Program for Selected Population Segments (NPSPS), a group of eighty-two projects funded during fiscal year 1977 by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Title III, is presented in this report. Chapter I provides an introduction to NPSPS. Chapter II reviews the administrative models used by the eighty-two…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Criminals, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Mirengoff, William; And Others – 1980
A study examined the effect of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Reauthorization Act of 1978 on public service employment (PSE) programs. A field survey, conducted during June and July 1979 (two months after provisions of the amendment went into effect), assessed the early effects of the reauthorization in the following areas:…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
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