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Peer reviewedKohler, Paula D. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1994
This study assessed the effects of a Brevard County (Florida) high school-based vocational training and community-based on-the-job training program called Brevard's Exceptional Students in Transition (BEST). Results indicated positive improvements in vocational skills and behaviors of participants in the BEST program. (JDD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Programs. – 1990
The State of New York conducted a follow-up study of the 76,000 students who completed an occupational education program in New York in 1987. Students were followed up by mail and telephone interviews, with an overall rate of return of 67 percent. Some of the major findings of the study were the following: (1) for all occupational education…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Download full textBlalock, Ann Bonar, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This book on evaluating social programs is an outcome of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Evaluation Design Project, which produced a set of 10 guides for the evaluation of state and local JTPA programs. This book distills ideas from these guides and applies them to a larger context. Part 1 presents a general approach to program evaluation…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
Dent, Lillianne Massey; And Others – 1996
This paper describes a three-phase program which places students with disabilities into job sites in strip malls, enclosed malls, industrial parks, and individual businesses to prepare them for their transition to independent living. The paper explains that in phase 1 of the program students train at a different site each day; in phase 2, students…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Community Programs, Disabilities
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
Wong, Kenneth K. – 1988
This report surveys the vocational education system, work experience programs, and job training programs for youths in Chicago. The report is organized in five sections. It begins with a brief review of the socioeconomic context that affects youth employment in the city of Chicago. Section 2 examines vocational training in the Chicago public…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
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
Fein, David J. – 1994
A study examined the impacts of different education and training (E&T) assignments in Ohio's Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Training Program on the employment and earnings of Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients who became mandatory JOBS clients in 1989 or 1990. Data on the JOBS assignments and earnings and employment…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Programs, Comparative Analysis
Adler, Laurel; And Others – 1995
The Los Angeles Area Business/Education Partnership provides numerous services designed to encourage youths who have been identified as being at high risk of dropping out of school to complete high school and continue in a formal postsecondary education program. Among the services offered by the partnership are the following: clustered…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Community Programs
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
