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Attivo, Barbara J.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to examine methods through which Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants may be awarded credit for participation in CETA-sponsored programs in Pennsylvania. To accomplish this, CETA prime sponsors, CETA program operators, and a group of randomly selected potential program operators were surveyed. After…
Descriptors: College Credits, Credits, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Society of Cable Television Engineers, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1981
Intended to provide cable television company owners and operators, managers, supervisors, suppliers, and manufacturers with broad guidelines for the operation of and participation in a local or regional Private Industry Council (PIC), this handbook begins with a description of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); a brief history…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Cooperative Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Campbell-Thrane, Lucille; Jahnke, Jessica Jo – 1981
Based upon interviews in a number of community-based organizations in several states, this report describes community-based organizations from several perspectives. The report begins with a discussion of the origins of community-based organizations. This historical perspective sets the background for a discussion of the nature of community-based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Public Service. – 1980
This study reports on one of the knowledge development activities conducted under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of l977 (YEDPA). The report contains findings of an analysis of nine YEDPA projects and the factors that contributed to effective implementation of these programs. The study compares discrete projects with different…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1981
This is a report of a hearing on March 31, 1981, before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, to review veterans' education, training, and employment programs currently administered by the Veterans' Administration. Testimony on the effectiveness of the three major…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
Adult women returning to paid employment often encounter the belief that homemaking and community volunteer work have no transferability to work experience. Project Access, designed to survey the skills acquired through women's life experience and determine their usefulness in selected direct-entry occupations, showed that the most commonly found…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Office of Youth Programs. – 1979
The reports in this volume concentrate on various aspects of the 1978 program designed to meet the employment needs of disadvantaged and minority youth in urban areas. Included are process evaluations, worksite examinations, impact studies, a General Accounting Office report with Department of Labor comments, specialty reports such as the study on…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1978
The complete texts of testimony and statements from the February and March, 1978, Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor regarding the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Amendments of 1978 are presented in this document. (Hearing sites included Grand Rapids and Detroit, Michigan, Madison,…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Drewes, Donald W.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways and means for initiating and sustaining a lasting and mutually rewarding partnership between vocational education and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) youth programs. These suggestions were based on observations of over 100 programs throughout the United States judged to contain examples…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Coordination, Coordinators, Employment Programs
Reynolds, Lawrence J.; Baldwin, Fred D. – 1979
This publication reports a Virginia study of the structure of local education divisions, community colleges, and other organizations capable of delivering service to Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Its purpose was to determine how short-term-funded projects can utilize facilities and personnel with minimum disruption to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Postsecondary Education
Spirer, Janet E. – 1980
Underutilization of evaluation findings relative to the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation may not stem primarily from factors usually identified in the literature (e.g., methodological reasons) but may be superseded by a more potent factor such as the prominence of the policy or program on the national agenda. Viewed…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Job Training
Besse, Art – 1980
This study argues for the use of public service employment (PSE) as a portion of an anti-recessionary fiscal policy package to include public works and tax cuts. Keynesian economics, deficit spending in this case, serves as the study's underpinnings. Chapter 1 reviews public service employment's current low status as an anti-recessionary measure.…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Financial Policy, Financial Support
Maynard, Rebecca; And Others – 1979
An interim evaluation was conducted to determine the impact of the National Supported Work Demonstration (NSWD) on employment of four target groups: Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients, ex-drug-addicts, ex-offenders, and youths. The evaluation was based on data collected in interviews with 2,830 persons--1,419 of whom were offered…
Descriptors: Adults, Control Groups, Crime, Demonstration Programs
Rezmovic, Eva Lantos; And Others – 1979
The emphasis on the mechanics of research techniques has often overshadowed other aspects of evaluation research that are determiners of research quality. Many problems encountered by program evaluators are not solvable by the information provided in research texts. Some of the practical problems encountered and dealt with during an experimental…
Descriptors: Agencies, Correctional Rehabilitation, Data Collection, Employment Programs
Haveman, Robert H. – 1978
The performance of the Social Employment Program (a public undertaking to employ physically, socially, or culturally disadvantaged persons) in the Netherlands is discussed and evaluated in this paper. The management, organization, and financial structure of the program are described in detail, and the degree of efficiency attained by the program…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities
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