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From CETA to Skilled Jobs.
Schweder, Jeanne – VocEd, 1983
Describes the Elliott Training Center in Greensburg, PA, which is a federally funded, state-of-the-art center operated by the Elliott Company. With the help of the National Alliance of Business, the Elliott Company was able to obtain federal funding. (JOW)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Federal Aid, Job Training, School Business Relationship
Laid Off But Moving On
Bolinger, Joyce – Manpower, 1975
Zenith Radio Corporation and General Electric, with an assist from the Chicago Mayor's Office of Manpower, have developed a program to upgrade workers with an experimental learning-on-layoff program. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Job Layoff, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Where the "T" in CETA Is Very Important.
Garza, Oziel – Worklife, 1978
Describes the job training programs at the Hampden District Regional Skills Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. The center trains 650 persons at a time and places more than 800 trainees a year in jobs through involving industry in the planning and training. (MF)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Placement, Job Training
Down to the Sea in STIP's.
Rich, Les – Worklife, 1978
Part of the former Boston (Massachusetts) Navy Yard is now a job training center where Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants are trained as welders, pipefitters, electronics technicans, mechanics, and other marine workers. About half the program graduates use their transferable job skills in other industries. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Job Training
Far from the Surrey with the Fringe on Top.
Wedge, Doris – Worklife, 1979
Describes how Oklahoma women are training for and successfully working at nontraditional jobs (such as machine shop, carpentry, and auto mechanics) as a result of training funded by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), and the changing attitudes of employers toward women in nontraditional jobs. (MF)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blue Collar Occupations, Employer Attitudes, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
An Effective Instructional Design at Iowa Lakes Community College to Make Hard Core Unemployed People Employable.
Schorzmann, Eugene F. – 1977
In order to meet the educational needs of the hard-core unemployed, an instructional program known as the "Alternative Career Center" was designed at Iowa Lakes Community College to prepare those identified by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act for employment. After reviewing the literature on educational programs for the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Community Colleges
The Opportunities Industrialization Centers: A Decade of Community-Based Manpower Services. Manpower and Human Resources Studies No. 6.
Anderson, Bernard E. – 1976
The Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) is the nation's major community-based organization providing manpower development services to the disadvantaged. Chapter 1 of this report introduces the topic and outlines the major issues to be considered. Chapter 2 describes the nature of the urban job crisis and the social and economic conditions…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Civil Rights, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged