A study was conducted in 1987 to: (1) assess the impact of the farm financial crisis in Washington State; (2) identify at-risk populations; and (3) suggest appropriate programs and agency responses. Particular emphasis was placed on making recommendations for training and development programs to aid in reemployment of dislocated agricultural…

This report, along with its supplemental volumes, assesses the welfare system and its successes and failures, describes the frustrations felt by the poor in the United States, and proposes a basic change in public assistance policy. America's state and federal governments spend more than $150 billion a year on programs to alleviate poverty, yet…

This report provides an overview of the current welfare system. The number and size of federal public assistance programs have increased during the past 25 years, with particular growth in noncash benefit programs, which now constitute about three-quarters of all means-tested assistance. From mid-1983 to mid-1984, more than 52.5 million Americans…

A study examined local and state-level collaboration between the Job Training Partnership System (JTPA) and four other programs: the Employment Service, vocational education, welfare, and economic development. Methods included telephone interviews with 46 state managing agencies for JTPA, 205 service delivery area administrators, and 209 Private…

This paper describes various kinds of inservice teacher education sponsored by the Maryland State Department of Education and explores the factors influencing impact on participants in terms of use of knowledge or skills presented. Data were collected by observation, interviews, and questionnaires. A cross-case synthesis of 10 individual case…

This document reports results of a survey of vocational schools and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) agencies in Maine conducted by a mailed questionnaire and site visits. Sixty-eight percent of the vocational schools and 65 percent of the JTPA agencies returned the surveys. The report presents an overview of vocational education and JTPA…

Designed specifically for state and local managers and supervisors who plan, direct, and operate child support enforcement programs, this workbook provides a four-part, step-by-step process for identifying needed information and methods of using the information to operate an effective program. The process consists of: (1) determining what…

The Quality Assistance Plan (QAP) for Vocational Education in Illinois is a state-funded program for locally initiated, developed, implemented, and evaluated projects that was begun in Fiscal Year 1982. Its purpose is to build the capacity, in each educational setting, for the improvement of vocational education programs. That improvement should…

These conference proceedings are designed to provide the latest research on children in jails and to assist in the development of action programs. The materials include a "work file" of alternatives to jail, such as a home detention program, short-term shelter care, crisis intervention services and foster care, because jail placements do not…

Guidelines are presented for consideration in the development, review, submission, and approval of all new instructional programs in the Maryland Community Colleges (MCC). The first section of the manual explains: (1) operational definitions for transfer and occupational programs; (2) the five-year state plan listing; (3) letters of intent and…

The achievement of more adequate vocational guidance services in the nation's schools through the improvement of state supervisory service, was the major objective of the seminar. In additon to 72 state guidance supervisory staff members from 47 states, seminar participants and leadership personnel included 14 counselor educators, 12 state-level…

The influence of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) on language education is considered in this study. Special emphasis is given to continuing issues and questions, research in language and language education, fellowships, NDEA language and area centers, institutes and teacher education. There is a chapter on state services, equipment, and…

The Sixth Annual Evaluation Report has been developed by the Florida State Advisory Council on Vocational and Technical Education through its evaluation committee. The recommendations reflect the Council's thinking as related to specific components of the Florida program of vocational and technical education. An introductory section contains a…

This document contains the supplementary and supportive material on which the final report (Volume I) is based. Statistical reports of staff studies, summaries of testimony presented at public hearings, profiles and reports of regional committees, reports of technical committees, and reports of radio, television and newspaper coverage are…

This is a summary of the final report, contained in Volume I and II, of the Statewide Planning Project for Vocational Rehabilitation Services which was established by the Governor to develop a master plan for vocational rehabilitation services. For an abstract of that report see VT 013 092. Other related documents are available as VT 013 093, VT…