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Peer reviewedGaylord-Ross, Robert; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1988
The Employment Retention Program is a supported employment program involved in job placement and intensive worksite training of graduating handicapped youth, emphasizing retention strategies that transfer supervision to nonhandicapped co-workers and that promote social interactions between handicapped employees and co-workers. At followup, 60…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Experiential Learning
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1970
Selected examples of successful approaches, innovations, and techniques in rural manpower programs were analyzed to provide new organizations with blueprints of workable program operations. Attention was focused on such areas as recruitment and selection, trainee orientation, economic development, job placement, on the job training, interagency…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Action, Coordination, Economic Development
Download full textDavis, Otto A.; And Others – 1976
The Pittsburgh Plan, a voluntary hometown plan designed to place minorities in local building trade unions, is described in detail from the perspective of its operations, its effectiveness in carrying out its purpose, and the individuals it serves. A benefit-cost analysis of the Pittsburgh Plan is presented. The significance of the results and its…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Apprenticeships, Black Employment, Blacks
STEVENSON, DIANTHA – 1967
TWO PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN THE 9-COUNTY EASTERN SHORE AREA OF MARYLAND SERVED ESSENTIALLY THE SAME TARGET POPULATION, THE UNDEREMPLOYED AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THEIR OCCUPATIONAL POSITIONS. THE FIRST, SEPTEMBER 1963 TO SEPTEMBER 1964, WAS DEVOTED TO VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND GUIDANCE, AND THE SECOND, JUNE 1964 TO SEPTEMBER…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, College Programs, Counseling Services
BUENAVENTURA, ANGELES – 1967
REPRESENTATIVES OF SPANISH-SPEAKING FORMER MIGRANTS (FARM WORKERS) AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED GROUPS, NEGRO AND WHITE, PARTICIPATED IN A PROGRAM, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT UNSKILLED PERSONS WITH LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION AND LIMITED COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY TRAINED AND PLACED IN OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THERE WAS LOCAL DEMAND AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs
Sredl, Henry J. – 1982
Work force development in the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) is affected by sundry but interrelated factors. Included among these are the following: (1) the PRC's population of one billion people; (2) a recent history of political turmoil and violence, resulting in profound changes in national leadership and vacillation in national policy; (3)…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Economic Factors, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Kohler, Maxie P. – 1999
Staff from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Jefferson County, Alabama, Department of Human Resources (DHS) worked together to create a "pipeline to employment" at UAB for welfare recipients by combining on-the-job training with educational opportunities. Welfare recipients referred to UAB by the Jefferson County DHS…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, College Programs, Cooperative Planning
