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Martinko, Agnes – 1975
The concept of lifelong learning places new emphasis on helping out-of-school adults make their educational and employment choices. Educational institutions are beginning to extend their counseling services to adults who need them. However, other agencies and various educational programs designed to meet specific adult needs, which include…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Counseling, Educational Counseling
Download full textMeans, Bob; And Others – 1994
This document provides descriptions of employment interventions as a resource for use in initiating or expanding employment services for individuals with disabilities. The document presents abstracts of 40 employability/employment interventions and practices currently in use by independent living programs throughout the United States. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Welch, Nancy – 2000
In 1996, the City of Phoenix Enterprise Community Job Linkages Initiative sought to increase employment by matching local people with local jobs. Evaluation of the second project at Friendly House found that Friendly House, during the 18 months of the grant, increased residents' employability skills and linked them with Enterprise Community…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Career Guidance, Employment Programs
Backer, Thomas E. – 1979
To comply with the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and with explicit federal guidelines for equal employment opportunity, local employment and training agencies funded by CETA need to develop client assessment programs. This volume and its companion are designed for this purpose. Five original program descriptions, and findings…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Counselors, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Peer reviewedJohnson, Gil L.; Maxson, John H. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1998
Describes the Job Placement Training Program, a training program run by Southern Illinois University that is designed to teach rehabilitation counselors and placement specialists employed by state rehabilitation agencies the knowledge, techniques, and strategies necessary to help rehabilitation clients obtain employment. The program's curriculum…
Descriptors: Adults, Counselor Training, Disabilities, Employment Services
Gentzler, Rie – 1980
PROBE, Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education, is a program designed to assist people, primarily women, who are reentering the labor force or school after working in the home for a number of years. Funded by the Higher Education Act, Title I, and administered by The Pennsylvania State University, PROBE is based in Dauphin County…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Counseling Services, Employed Women
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This document provides an introduction to a job search training activity--self-directed job search--which can be implemented by Private Industry Councils (PICs) or Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Prime Sponsors. The first section introduces self-directed job search for the economically disadvantaged. The next section describes…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Interviews
Perspective: Essays and Reviews of Issues in Employment Security and Employment and Training Programs, 1986
This volume of an annual journal contains 21 articles focusing on the many services that state Employment Security (ES) agencies are providing to improve outreach to employers who pay for the programs through the dedicated revenues of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and state benefit taxes and to improve their own staff ability to deliver…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Information Systems, Delivery Systems
Perspective: Essays and Reviews of Issues in Employment Security and Employment and Training Programs, 1990
This volume of an annual journal contains 17 articles that focus on model local offices of the employment security (ES) and training systems. The articles are arranged in three parts. Part I, on developing new initiatives, contains the following five articles: "A Public Employment Service for the 1990s" (Elizabeth Dole); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Information Systems, Cooperative Programs
Hollenbeck, Kevin, Ed.; And Others – 1984
This volume presents 19 papers and reactor comments from the third annual Policy Forum on Employability Development, which focused on the information and program options needed to prevent and ameliorate worker displacement. The first four papers describe and assess the context of the problem. Topics include national policy and local program…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Conference Proceedings, Dislocated Workers
