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Grinker, William J. – USA Today, 1979
Supported work is an employment program operated primarily by locally based nonprofit corporations that serve as the temporary employer for people who have traditionally had great difficulty in getting or holding a job. This article describes program operations, target groups, funding sources, and program impact research. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Financial Support
Download full textEmployment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
The reports in this volume concentrate on various aspects of the 1978 program designed to meet the employment needs of disadvantaged and minority youth in urban areas. Included are process evaluations, worksite examinations, impact studies, a General Accounting Office report with Department of Labor comments, specialty reports such as the study on…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedBurt, Diana B.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
This report presents case studies of 4 adults with autism who enrolled in a work-training program utilizing a behavioral social interaction approach, and were subsequently competitively employed for 6 to 30 months. Success was associated with such factors as appropriate communication and interpersonal skills, gradual fading of supervision, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Behaviorism, Case Studies
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. The report focuses on the young school drop-out portion only of the supported work experiment, which also included offenders, ex-addicts, and welfare recipients. The goal of supported…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Delinquency
Friedlander, Daniel; Hamilton, Gayle – 1993
The effectiveness of the Saturation Work Initiative Model (SWIM) was evaluated after its fifth year of operation in San Diego. Data on SWIM on participants' employment, earnings, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) receipt were compared to those persons in one of several control groups consisting of members of the AFDC-unemployed…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Gibson, G. Ruth – 1983
This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in the first-year Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Program (CVAE) and the effect of participation in work experience on the knowledge of basic employment skills and work attitudes of disadvantaged youth in selected Georgia high schools. The study compared the scores on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
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
National Child Labor Committee, New York, NY. – 1980
This guide for establishing and evaluating Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) worksites consists of seven sections. Section 1--the introduction--describes the history and scope of the SYEP and discusses the need for worksite development. Section 2, which deals with identifying community needs, lists eight information-gathering approaches.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Problems, Employment Programs, Needs Assessment
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study obtained information on examples of county or local Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) or JOBS-like programs that emphasize job placement, subsidized employment, or work experience positions for welfare recipients. It also identified the extent to which county JOBS programs nationwide used these employment-focused activities and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Brock, Thomas; And Others – 1993
The history of unpaid work experience shows that work requirements for welfare recipients have often been proposed and attempted. The consistent trend has been to place greater emphasis on employability services. Studies of nine welfare-to-work programs providing unpaid work experience indicate that the level of participation is limited by factors…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Programs, Participant Satisfaction, Program Attitudes
Bloom, 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
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1978
This report provides background and data from an investigation of New York City's summer youth employment program. It concludes that the program was poorly planned and poorly administered by both the Department of Labor and the city. Although some of the worksites visited were providing useful work experience to enrolled youths, over half of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Moore, Richard W.; Addy, Ronald; Blake, Daniel R.; Gorman, Philip C.; Herczeg, Claire F.; Phillips, G. Michael; Shipley, Daniella – 2002
Evaluation of the role of structured on-site training (SOST) in the Employment Training Panel's (ETP's) training program involved 10 case studies of active ETP projects with SOST, survey of 50 recently closed projects with SOST, face-to-face interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders, Delphi survey of consultants, and quantitative analysis…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Contract Training, Employment Programs, Experiential Learning
Fahy, P.; McLean, A. – 1987
The Alberta Vocational Centre (AVC) Transitional Vocational (T-V) Program, in Edmonton, began in 1982. The program currently employs six instructors to provide a postsecondary employment-oriented program for mildly mentally disabled adults. The yearlong program is offered in two sessions and has an approximate enrollment of 30 incoming students…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Gilsinan, James F.; Tomey, E. Allan – 1980
A study compared the effectiveness of public and private sector work experience programs. In five locations equal numbers of jobs were developed in the private and public/nonprofit sectors. To equalize the incentives relative to the public sector, full wage subsidies were provided on an experimental basis in the private sector. Youth were matched…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged
