This manual is intended for use by secondary school and two-year college personnel engaged in placement work, career education, and guidance. It contains five sections, nineteen short appendixes, and fifteen brochures and reproducible items. Outlined in the first section are secondary and postsecondary job search and placement concepts and a…

Project HIRE is a special program conducted by Middlesex Community College since October 1978 to help people 55 years of age and older find paid employment. The specific goals of the project, as it was originally conceived, were to: (1) open three intake centers; (2) register clients at the centers; (3) provide career counseling; (4) offer…

In order to determine the potential employment demand and skills needed for health unit coordinators and other clerical workers in the medical field, Maui Community College (MCC) in Hawaii conducted a survey of 120 local health care providers in the spring semester of 1998. Forty respondents provided MCC with the following details: (1) 92 percent…

Highlights are presented of a national conference conducted to share specific models for community college programs for older adults and to devise financial and political strategies to ensure the continuation of these programs. After discussing the conference design, the report presents a summary of Bentley Lipscomb's keynote address on the…

As an informational aid for institutions interested in initiating displaced homemaker projects, this manual describes the development and operations of Hagerstown Junior College's Office of Displaced Homemaker Services. The manual's introduction outlines the specific objectives of the office, which was created to provide support services and/or…

A project was designed to create a program with adapted materials and techniques and the necessary support staff to meet the problems inherent in career education for handicapped students. Handicapped students who generally cannot secure employment because of inappropriate job goals were helped by Brookdale Community College's Career Services for…

This manual is designed to give placement and other school personnel detailed suggestions related to the formation and implementation of a school-based job placement service. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction which discusses goals for organizing and implementing job placement services, functions of a job placement service, and essential…

This collection of comments consists of four chapters of informal remarks by trustees, educators, and students from various types and sizes of institutions with innovative mainstreaming programs for handicapped students in postsecondary vocational education programs. Chapter 1 contains comments by nine individuals (students and administrators) on…

Between July 1, 1991 and June 30, 1993, Washington State's Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) served a total of 55,363 individuals. The program's intensive instructional services component was completed by 2,496 eligible displaced homemakers, 84% of whom were aged 30-59. Of the DHP participants, 84% were white, 75% were separated or divorced, 79%…

The Institute for Native American Development (INAD) was created at Truman College to provide quality higher education with a variety of educational choices to Native Americans in Chicago. The program has three major components: advising/placement, academic skill development/cultural awareness, and financial aid/job placement. Native Americans…

The Single Parent/Displaced Homemaker Program at Gulf Coast Community College (Panama City, Florida) targeted a population of women who generally had a high school diploma and needed moral support, direction, and financial assistance in returning to college to pursue higher-level vocational programs. (Because citizens in the rural panhandle area…

Focus on Careers, a program for single parents or homemakers, completed its second year of operation at Santa Fe (Florida) Community College on June 30, 1987. The program served 175 adult men and women from Alachua and Bradford counties who wanted to develop a career, re-enter the work force, or change careers. Services offered to single parents…

This Vocational Education Resource Package (VERP) was developed to provide materials useful in replicating an exemplary vocational education program for special student populations in the California Community Colleges. This VERP provides information on Career Beginnings, an exemplary program for disadvantaged students, originally developed at…

The Sex Equity Program at Santa Fe Community College continued to foster innovative approaches to overcoming sex-role stereotyping and discrimination in vocational education, training, and employment. It focused on four major areas: awareness/recruitment; education of students and staff at the college; support/job placement for enrolled…

This handbook provides practical assistance to all personnel involved with the development, organization, and maintenance of student services within the Illinois Education for Employment system. Part I focuses on organization of the Student Services Committees (SSCs). It defines student services; outlines considerations in the organizational…