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Download full textSouthwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1992
This manual provides rehabilitation service provider organizations with necessary information and instructions for completing an Information Request Form (IRF), the first step in the process of applying for recognition by the Regional Rehabilitation Exchange (RRX) Project as an exemplary program model in the area of supported employment. The RRX…
Descriptors: Adults, Agencies, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1993
This catalog describes 22 programs selected as exemplary by the Regional Rehabilitation Exchange (RRX) project, in the areas of supported employment, job placement services, school-to-adult life transition, and independent living services. The programs are located in federally designated Region VI, consisting of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. – 1984
In March 1983, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) received $4 million in Federal funds to establish an emergency jobs program as authorized under the Emergency Jobs Act of 1983. Within 90 days, TVA found employment for 493 persons, and, by the end of June 1984, 1,183 persons had been employed by TVA. Of those employed, 14.9 percent were…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Verstegen, Dale; Nietupski, John – 1994
This manual presents a process for creating public-private sector partnerships on state and regional levels focused on increasing job opportunities for people with disabilities. The manual's four chapters follow the recommended program planning process. The first chapter offers suggestions for building a cadre of consumer, private sector, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities
Kuhlman, Judy; And Others – 1989
This issue paper, meant to stimulate discussion within the employment and training community, offers three different perspectives on improving conditions in rural areas. However, all of these perspectives share common themes: a belief in the ability of rural areas to recover economically, a commitment to ensuring that this occurs, and the use of…
Descriptors: Adults, County Programs, Economic Change, Economic Development
Rothstein, Frances R. – 1989
This issue paper, intended to stimulate discussion within the employment and training community, was developed in response to the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act (EDWAAA), the recently passed amendments to the Title III dislocated worker program of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The fact sheets and option paper…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), County Programs, Dislocated Workers
SOMERS, GERALD G. – 1967
THIS FORD FOUNDATION SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECT CONCENTRATED ON EVALUATING AND REPORTING ON PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1961 TO RETRAIN AND RELOCATE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS IN FOUR DEPRESSED AREAS OF WEST VIRGINIA. RESEARCHERS, SCHOLARS, AND RESOURCE PERSONS WERE INVOLVED IN CONDUCTING THE WEST VIRGINIA PHASE OF THE PROJECT…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Evaluation
PDF pending restorationNational Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1986
This document consists of three closely related reports, dealing with "State Governments", "Regional Councils", and "Local Econcomic Development Agencies", respectively, together with a fourth document, a preceding overview. These documents draw from results of a project to identify successful approaches to coordinating economic development and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Cooperative Programs
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1974
The examination of Irish manpower policy is largely devoted to a consideration of the strategy for economic development and permanent job creation--as well as to a study of various aspects of the procedures and administrative arrangements adopted to attain these objectives. Attention is drawn to the fundamental imbalances in the Irish…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, Economic Development, Employment Level
Wilson, Thurlow R.; And Others – 1978
Results are presented of a project to analyze employment assistance given to persons fifty-five or older and to recommend improvements in older job seekers' employment services. (The project evolved from income security concerns expressed in the Older Americans Act.) The report, divided into seven chapters, reviews employment characteristics and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Demonstration Programs, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems
PDF pending restorationBarocci, Thomas A.; Myers, Charles A. – 1977
A study regarding the implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in four eastern Massachusetts prime sponsor areas (Cambridge, Lowell, New Bedford, and the Balance of State) was done to (1) examine the impact of the decisions made during the implementation of CETA on manpower services and institutions, program…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, City Government, Community Change
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Div. of Adult Education and Literacy. – 1997
The 12 programs selected as 1996 winners of the Secretary's Awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs illustrate a diverse range of promising practices for the 21st century. Winners were selected based on the presence of 10 elements, including the following: effective and potentially replicable practices; measurable objectives…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
