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Download full textOhio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1997
The Ohio NEW (Nontraditional Employment for Women) Team is a collaborative team of public and private agencies that was formed in 1993 to promote nontraditional careers for women in Ohio by offering information on nontraditional career choices to all female customers served in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs with other partner…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Cooperative Planning
Pearce, Diana M. – 1993
A study analyzed the effects of Wider Opportunities for Women's (WOW) Nontraditional Employment Training (NET) Project. NET was designed to identify and demonstrate strategies to increase the number of women entering and succeeding at nontraditional training in the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) system. Three sites reflected differences in…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs, Females
Colorado Job Training Partnership Act. Annual Report Program Year, 1994. July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995.
Colorado State Workforce Coordinating Council, Denver. – 1995
In Program Year 1994, Colorado divided its Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funds among adult and youth job training programs, summer youth programs, dislocated worker programs, and the Governor's Special Initiatives. JTPA staffing levels decreased at the same rate as the declining budget. The programs became especially efficient at using…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Stover, Deborah A. – 1990
"Look into the Future" is a program created by a Job Training Partnership Act project and 9to5, Working Women Education Fund, to address the training and retraining needs of office workers in light of the advances in computer and communications systems. This guide describes the model project and suggests steps other organizations can…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Curriculum Development, Dislocated Workers
Institute of Applied Research, St. Louis, MO. – 1989
This handbook is a summary of research that was a follow-up to a comprehensive study of women and employment conducted in 1987. In that study, a statewide sample of working women in Missouri was asked about problems ("barriers") they had experienced in relation to work. The data were analyzed in terms of women reporting the most severe…
Descriptors: Day Care, Disadvantaged, Displaced Homemakers, Employed Women
National Inst. of Corrections (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1985
These proceedings represent major addresses, panel presentations, and abstracts of workshops from a conference to develop partnerships, coordination, and cooperation among the correctional education field. Federal agencies, professional organizations, and the private sector in addressing juvenile and adult offender education needs. The two major…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Bilingual Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1995
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the future of job training in Ohio. Among the topics discussed are the following: the job training needs of selected special needs groups, including convicted felons on probation, dislocated workers, displaced homemakers, unemployed individuals, underskilled employees, disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Correctional Education, Disabilities
