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Peer reviewedEnsign, M. Dale – Business Education Forum, 1972
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Peer reviewedMoore, Barbara A. – Roeper Review, 1979
The article describes a model career exploration program, the Professional Career Exploration Program for Minority and/or Low Income Gifted and Talented Students, which was created as a tenth-grade community exploration program. Sections address the multistage process used to identify disadvantaged gifted students, the inclass seminars for student…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Download full textNational Manpower Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This inventory contains summaries of current and completed activities sponsored or conducted by local collaborative councils through the Work-Education Consortium Project. The summaries are grouped into ten issue area/process categories: (1) engaging community resources for youth; (2) opportunities for work and service experience; (3) employment…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Consortia, Information Dissemination
National Child Labor Committee, New York, NY. – 1978
This report on youth employment programs is intended to help prime sponsors and program operators implement innovative youth employment efforts under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act (YEDPA). The content is in two chapters. Chapter 1 covers the introduction, meeting…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1974
This book provides descriptions of youth involvement projects that have made significant contributions to young people, their schools, and their communities. Each description is intended to provide information for starting and operating similar youth projects. They explain how a particular project began, mention the important problems encountered,…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Matz, William A. – 1990
This report describes the summer occupational/vocational programs held in each of three vocational school districts and it compiles activities in the regular school districts in Delaware for fiscal year 1991. The three vocational-technical school district programs profiled are those of Kent County, Sussex County, and New Castle County. For each…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1977
This planning charter for the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) explains the Department of Labor's basic principles in designing and implementing YEDPA programs to provide a framework for the development of YEDPA efforts. This booklet is divided into six sections. The first section briefly discusses priorities regarding the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Community Programs, Employment Programs
Levine, Mark, Comp.; Kravitz, Marjorie, Ed. – 1979
This is a bibliography of documents selected from the data base of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service that provide an overview of comprehensive treatment programs in local jails. The citations follow an explanation of how to obtain the documents and are arranged under the following topics: (1) state of the art, (2) jail management and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Citations (References), Community Programs
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1976
The conference reported here was held for national leaders from industry, labor, education, and youth-serving organizations to (1) provide a forum for the presentation of a sampling of illustrative programs displaying initiative being taken in the private sector to enhance youth career development, and (2) obtain the counsel of participants on how…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. Policy Analysis Service. – 1978
Designed to review service learning programs which interrelate the world of education, work, and community service and also to consider what contributions the American Council on Education can make in the areas of education, work, and the problems of American youth, this report discusses various service learning programs, both domestic and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community Services
Corporation for Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
The Ventures in Community Improvement (VICI) demonstration, a national research and demonstration program, was designed to test the effectiveness of a youth employment program in various settings. Eight VICI programs, each of which enrolled up to 60 unemployed, out-of-school, economically disadvantaged youths between the ages of 16 and 19, were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Building Trades, Community Change, Community Programs
Parikh, V. M. – 1978
To examine the feasibility of introducing a program of cooperative education at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), a task force assessed the problems encountered by other institutions which have introduced cooperative education. Attention was given to the support that might be expected for cooperative education among students,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordinators
Engbretson, William E.; Levine, Eugene A. – 1980
The product of a study of urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs involving youths aged 16-22 that would result in real or potential job creation and community economic development, this report consists of 24 case studies and a series of recommendations pertaining to the development of similar programs in Illinois.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Industry-Education Council of California, Burlingame. – 1979
A community career education resource center (CCERC), designed to expand the audience of career education programs to include adults and out-of-school youth, was developed in Oakland, California. The center was constructed as the hub of a network of existing services. Included in the network of over 300 agencies linked by the Oakland CCERC are the…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Education
National Youth Employment Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1998
This document consists of descriptions of 43 effective youth employment initiatives that were identified by the Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet), a project of the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC). The document begins with an explanation of the five broad categories of criteria used to select the programs (purpose and…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Exploration
