Addresses the need for a guidance and counseling policy concerning youth unemployment by exploring the guidance program and concept and the root causes of youth unemployment. Makes recommendations concerning improvements in the educational system and the employment and training system. (CT)

Outlines a coping skills-based approach to serving youth employment and training needs. Discusses critical components of career education programs (job mobility, technological change, and specific skill training); a coping skills model; how coping skills are learned; and the role of schools in developing coping skills. (CT)

Presents a model for linking CETA with vocational education to implement entrepreneurship at the local level. Discusses staff responsibilities, the entrepreneurship lab, and a project evaluation. (CT)

The author presents an overview of the results of a nationwide series of workshops that addressed Comprehensive Employment and Training Act/career education collaboration. Topics included local education agencies/prime sponsor agreements, Youth Employment and Training Program implementation efforts and problems, and future concerns. (CT)

The staff of the Young Adult Training Center, Columbia, Missouri, used Canfield's Learning Styles Inventory to select enrollees for its training programs and to modify instructional strategies based on learner needs. The three vocational skill training programs involved were retail sales, building trades, and data entry. (CT)

A CETA-funded project provided job training for disadvantaged youth through the rehabilitation of a house. Program benefits included providing building trades experience which will lead to longtime employment opportunities; providing educational experiences for credit towards high school graduation; and community improvement through the house's…

Posits that youth unemployment is not an educational problem but an economic and political one. Any response must be economic and political in nature. While education must recognize and respond to youth unemployment, its contribution to the solution is a modest one. (JOW)

Presents a new focus of evaluation, known as knowledge development, and describes early attempts to implement the concept by the Department of Labor's Youth Programs Office, particularly Youthwork, one of the intermediary corporations contracting to improve school achievement and subsequent youth employment. Discusses guidelines for demonstration…