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Jucovy, Linda – 1987
This workshop report deals with developing a youth service corps. Twenty-nine representatives from 15 youth corps attended the workshop, the second in a series of six sponsored by the Youth Corps Exchange Project. The report begins with an overview of the highlights of the workshop. The second section, which discusses the need for human services,…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Delivery Systems, Financial Support, Human Services
Johnson, Jon; Cawley, Jim – 1984
The purpose of the Wilderness Spirit program is to lead and assist children to comprehend, use, and conserve information about the natural resources of the Hill Country of Texas, including its wildlife, plant life, weather and climate, soils and minerals, water, and land use as well as all forms of agriculture and activities of daily subsistence…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Johnson, Grant; And Others – 1980
This paper is intended to help program developers to initiate or refine school-based, self-contained delinquency prevention programs. These programs are limited, short-term efforts to minimize delinquent behavior among youth by creating school situations in which the factors that contribute to delinquent behavior are reduced. Designed as an…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Mellander, Gustavo A.; Hubbard, Gary – 1990
In 1985, the Chancellor of West Valley College met with California Attorney General John Van De Kamp to explore methods by which the community college district could respond to the growing problem of drug abuse. The first step was the establishment of a 15-hour, fee-supported class on drug and alcohol abuse education for adult offenders at the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Community Services
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1986
This document summarizes the findings of currently available evaluation studies of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and other related reports and data. Data from 26 studies conducted between 1980 and 1986 are presented under the following subject headings: the state role (monitoring and oversight, policy interpretation and leadership,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Employment Projections
Knuti, David; Zuckerman, Alan, Ed. – 1986
This guide is intended to assist Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program policymakers, planners, and program operators develop JTPA programs and activities. Discussed first are JTPA participant eligibility criteria and ways of assuring that competing groups can receive services in an equitable manner that is consistent with the intent of JTPA.…
Descriptors: Business Education, Competency Based Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Walking Eagle, Karen P.; Miller, Tiffany D.; Cooc, North; LaFleur, Jennifer; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
New Jersey After 3 (NJ After 3) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to expand and improve afterschool opportunities for New Jersey's youth. Using both public and private resources, it supports a network of youth-service providers that deliver afterschool services based on NJ After 3's program model. Under an agreement with NJ…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Program Content, Nonprofit Organizations
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1985
This guide is intended to assist those responsible for supporting and evaluating a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) program in Great Britain. The first section contains an overview of the objectives and design of YTS. Addressed for the Certificate of Prevocational Education, a sample work learning guide (planned work experience and on-the-job training,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Check Lists, College Programs, Core Curriculum
Dawson, Amy L.; MacAllum, Keith; Warner, Nicole – 2003
This document chronicles the experience of the National Training Institute (NTI) for Community Youth Work and four of its Building Exemplary Systems for Training Youth Workers (BEST) affiliates in establishing youth development practitioner apprenticeship (YDPA) programs. Part 1 describes the work of NTI and BEST intermediary organizations to lay…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Adoption (Ideas), Apprenticeships