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Clarke, James Y.; And Others – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1980
The article describes a program providing summer jobs for the vocational preparation of nine moderately and severely retarded adolescents. The program combined an emphasis on realistic instruction in skills directly applicable to employment situations with Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) services to provide fully paid community…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Effectiveness, Severe Mental Retardation
Hougland, James G., Jr.; And Others – 1982
Changes in occupational status and income were examined among former participants in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs that had an educational focus and the purpose of providing short-term employment. Telephone interviews were conducted with 62 percent of individuals who terminated from CETA programs in a selected state…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Employment Level, Employment Programs
Download full textBloom, Howard S.; McLaughlin, Maureen A. – 1982
In preparation for the scheduled expiration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation at the end of fiscal year 1982, background information was gathered to analyze the effects of CETA training on participants' post-program earnings. An analysis was made of information gathered on persons over 24-years-old who entered a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Disadvantaged, Employment Level
Rist, Ray C.; And Others – 1981
This book looks at the evolution of 16 school-to-work transition projects initiated through the Exemplary In-School Grant Program of Youthwork, Inc., funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study addresses issues raised by the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977, which sought to produce changes…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects were designed to test whether guaranteed part-time jobs during the school year and full-time jobs in the summer would induce economically disadvantaged youths to remain in or return to school. The General Accounting Office (GAO) found that most worksites provided adequate experiences. Others, however,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
PDF pending restorationEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1975
This report reviews the establishment and early performance of the comprehensive manpower system established by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The report is divided into two major sections. Part 1 examines the background and first year results of the CETA program. The legislative and programmatic antecedents to CETA are…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Smith, Thomas J. – 1993
For 30 years, the following programming strategies have become the backbone of public policy regarding youth employment: work experience, labor market preparation, job placement, on-the-job training, and occupational training. Three sources were used to analyze the effects of these core employment strategies on youth: a 1985 comprehensive study of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Research
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
A review of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) results, strengths, and weaknesses, and future role in light of expected economic and technological changes indicates that it is time to strengthen--though not necessarily enlarge--America's only available second-chance training system. Cost-benefit analysis of the major CETA…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1981
This document presents five winning entries in the second annual competition for papers reporting research and policy studies on the topic of youth employability. In their paper entitled "The Impact of Employment and Training Programs on the Work Attitudes of Disadvantaged Youth," Michael Forcier and Andrew Hahn review and synthesize the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Definitions, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This is the second report concerning how Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors implemented two programs under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), specifically the Youth Community Conservation Improvement Projects (YCCIP) and Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP). The report is based on studies by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Campbell-Thrane, Lucille – 1979
An overview of cooperation between CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) and vocational education is presented in this speech, including a look at data on legislation, history, and funding sources. In light of CETA legislation's specificity on how local sponsors are to work with vocational educators, the speech gives excerpts and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperation
Snedeker, Bonnie – 1980
This description and analysis of the lives of 32 young Comprehensive Employment and Training Act participants presents youth perspectives on the nature of the employment situation and the interacting factors which affect youth's employment chances, on the individual developmental process, on reasons for coming to and expectations of employment and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Case Studies, Demography
Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
