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Rusch, Frank R.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
Data collected from a 2-round Delphi procedure involving model transition program directors validated the relative importance of a list of 22 employment outcomes and 65 related activities in the transition of individuals with disabilities from school to employment. Educational agencies and service providers can use the list to target areas that…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Spring, Shannon Harrelson – 1994
This practicum developed a program to help students with disabilities to locate adequate employment, utilize community services, and live independently in the community. Practicum activities involved developing a comprehensive K-12 vocational curriculum, developing a policies and procedures manual for competitive/supportive employment, increasing…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Employment Programs
Morgan, Valda B.; Karr-Kidwell, PJ – 1994
Supported employment opportunities can help to meet the transition needs of individuals enrolled in special education programs. A review of related literature discusses characteristics of supported employment program participants, the need for individual transition planning, the school's role and responsibility, vocational planning, benefits,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Federal Aid

Weisenstein, Greg R. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1991
The Vocational Education to Work model is a system of communication and support between vocational and special educators, designed to train students with disabilities in mainstreamed vocational education. The model's four sequential components include active recruitment, guided placement, continuing support, and job placement followup.…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Employment Programs, Job Placement

Gaylord-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
Harrell, Karen L., Ed. – 1988
This monograph presents information on critical issues in the transition of handicapped youth from the school setting to the work environment. The articles discuss the needs of handicapped youth, professional and parental competencies, employability, job settings, and legislation. Titles and authors are as follows: "Career Education for…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cooperative Planning
Edelman, Peter B.; And Others – 1986
These three essays are intended to provide an overview of southern efforts to help increased numbers of young persons make a successful transition from school to work with a future. The first paper, "Smoothing the Path from School to Work: A Promising Venture in Structural Change in a Southern State," by Peter B. Edelman and Myrtis H.…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1981
This draft statement outlines the issues to be discussed at a series of invitational conferences to consider policies and proposals regarding youth education and employment in New York State. It consists of three sections. In section 1 a general description of the problem of youth unemployment is provided. Section 2 examines a framework for action…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Needs
Izzo, Margaretha Vreeburg; Drier, Harry N. – 1987
This monograph contains summaries of the following 19 programs for providing career guidance to high-risk persons participating in a Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program: Youth Employment Curriculum and Competencies (Boise, Idaho); Career Mentoring Program for the Disadvantaged (Grayslake, Illinois); Partners in Skills for Career/Vocational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adolescents, Career Education, Career Exploration
Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment, Washington, DC. – 1992
The Coalition on Women and Job Training has developed a women's job training agenda that focuses on nine issues related to women's full participation in training and achievement of economic self-sufficiency. The issues highlighted in the agenda are as follows: (1) the need to make long-term economic self-sufficiency the goal of all employment and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Coordination, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Kim, Anne – 2001
Evidence from the past 4 years confirms that private sector jobs are the best and first resort for welfare recipients seeking to enter the workforce and that the private sector can well absorb the entry of these new workers. The model of wage-based transitional employment may be a more effective means of helping hard-to-employ welfare recipients…
Descriptors: Career Development, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
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
Gooden, Susan – 1998
Washington Works is a nonprofit organization founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1992 to help low-income women improve their lives and the lives of their children by teaching them to think differently about themselves. The program offered courses in personal effectiveness training, basic skills training, office skills development, and job search…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged