This document presents the summative evaluation of the offender assistance program coordinated by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) as well as the final evaluation reports of the three pilot programs for convicted parolees operated by participating community colleges. The local-level evaluations include detailed…

The report describes an institute whose purpose was to produce specific recommendations to facilitate student transition from one school to another within and between the secondary and postsecondary levels in the four vocational education subject areas of agriculture, auto body repair and painting, carpentry, and distributive education. For each…

Through the use of group interviews in which individuals were stimulated to interact on key questions, 100 applicants over the age of 45 and with incomes below the poverty standard were selected for training in two different 11-week training sessions. There were no requirements of education or experience. The first phase of the program was in a…

The report describes the first few months of operation of an experimental Work Incentive Program (WIN) in Portland, Oregon to test the feasibility of the use of vouchers for on-the-job training (OJT). Voucher holders were required to decide on a training occupation, and then locate and negotiate for an employer to provide the training. WIN staff…

Four conferences on manpower development and training in correctional institutions were sponsored by the Manpower Administration to bring together the basic groups of people charged with responsibility in prisoner rehabilitation and to disseminate to them the significant results of experimental, demonstration, and research projects engaged in…

This document is an indepth evaluation of the Allied Health Counselor Training Program. The document is divided into the following major sections: (1) Bibliographical Data on Participants; (2) Participant Counseling Skills; (3) Participant Attitudes; (4) Participant Perceptions of the Failure of Minorities to Enter the Allied Health Professions;…

The document describes the implementation of the Illinois Occupational Education Administration project, an effort to refine a delivery system for imparting 159 identified competencies known to be essential to the successful work of Occupational Education administrators. The overall objective of the training phase was to recruit, train, obtain…