The Women's Resources Center, a new and rapidly developing program of the University of British Columbia Centre for Continuing Education, provides a wide range of short courses which can teach women the skills, attitudes, and behaviors necessary for living in the new world of women successfully. (Author/BP)

INQUIRY centers for adults offer counseling for persons who seek to make career changes, to continue their education, or to re-enter the world of work but who are unaware of the available opportunities. Computers are used to assist in the counseling by providing a comprehensive data bank of information. (Author)

The first year's activities of the Adult Career Advocates Project are described in this interim report, a national study of what counseling services are available for out-of-school youth and adults. Focus is on administrative structure, programming, staffing, and funding of the 353 centers identified as providing career and educational guidance to…

After compiling a national inventory of centers which provide career and educational guidance to adults, a curriculum was developed for advocates of adults and a technical assistance conference conducted for organizations which sponsor advocacy efforts. Advocacy was seen as incorporating the tasks of both the labor market intermediary (providing…

The adult advocates study attempted to determine what counseling services for out-of-school youth and adults are available nationally in operational centers and to observe the practices of the centers in order to ascertain the degree to which individuals are helped through transition periods. The main components of the counseling centers are (1)…

Fifteen two-year college, vocational education projects are described, which, in the opinion of New York's Showcase of Excellence Program judges, are worthy of adaptation or replication by other institutions. For each of the projects which were selected from 83 nominations, objectives, activities, project impact, and personnel and material…