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Rock, Andrew; Metz, Rachael; Tessler, Betsy; Gasper, Joseph – MDRC, 2022
This brief highlights key findings from the implementation of the TechHire and Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) programs and offers considerations for practitioners. The programs provided training for high-tech jobs as well as support services to people with barriers to training and employment. Presented especially for a…
Descriptors: Job Training, Barriers, Job Skills, Recruitment
SILVERMAN, LESLIE J. – 1967
PROJECT UPLIFT'S PURPOSE WAS TO FIND EFFECTIVE WAYS OF REACHING, RECRUITING, TRAINING, AND PLACING DISADVANTAGED RURAL ADULTS LIVING IN A 10-COUNTY SECTION OF NORTHERN FLORIDA. THE FOLLOWUP STUDY HAS THREE GENERAL OBJECTIVES -- (1) TO SHOW THAT INDIVIDUALS WITH ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS WERE SERVED, THAT THEY WERE TRAINABLE AND THAT…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Services, Experimental Programs
University of South Florida, Tampa. – 1968
Conducted in Greater Tampa, Florida, from July 1966 through July 1968, this project was an effort to help unemployed or underemployed high school graduates aged 17-25 to acquire or upgrade work skills. Shorthand and typing courses, the Communications Clinic, and other curriculum elements were designed to correct deficiencies in basic educational…
Descriptors: Attendance, Career Counseling, Curriculum, Educationally Disadvantaged
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1989
Florida's community college and school district postsecondary adult vocational programs in fire fighter training and fire science technology were subjected to a statewide program review. Efforts were made to reach Florida's entire community of career and volunteer fire fighters. Data were collected in the following ways: site interviews with…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems