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Download full textRock, 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
Perlstein, Linda – Aspen Institute, 2011
The nation's community colleges share a common and vital purpose: preparing students--young and working adults--for jobs and continued academic study. Today, over 7 million community college students strive to attain a degree that will expand their opportunity, whether they aim to graduate directly into the workforce or continue on to seek a…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Community Colleges, Educational Quality, College Role
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
Public schools are finding that an educational program which serves as effective preparation for, and as an adequate transition to employment, may involve activities which have often been considered to be beyond the usual scope of school responsibility. Communities are finding that the task of preparing the mentally retarded for community living…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Public Schools
Brevard Community Coll., Cocoa, FL. – 1983
A project was undertaken at Brevard Community College in Florida to provide special placement and followup assistance to persons entering nontraditional occupations. Included among the major project activities were the following: efforts to raise the consciousness of women about opportunities in nontraditional careers through a seminar on…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Employment Opportunities
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee. – 1978
Summaries are included here for all vocational research projects in Florida from 1965 to 1976 as well as a few 1977 projects which have been completed. The format for the entries is informative data (title, organization, project director, expenditures, project duration, and project number), problem to be addressed, objectives to be met, procedures…
Descriptors: Administration, Agriculture, Business Education, Career Education
Pinellas County District School Board, Clearwater, FL. – 1976
This career education project achieved four goals; to (1) identify roles and functions for persons responsible for local school programs; (2) determine personnel performance competencies; (3) develop methods to bring personnel to operational confidence levels; and (4) establish a career education personnel training center. The center, which served…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Career Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Diaz, William A.; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation and project feasibility of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) during the latter period of the demonstration from September 1978 through August 1979. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King-Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua…
Descriptors: Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1980
A study focused on the implementation of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) in its initial period through September 1978. Program operations at 17 sites--Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, King and Snohomish Counties (Washington), Mississippi, Alachua County (Florida), Albuquerque, Berkeley, Dayton, Hillsborough…
Descriptors: Coordination, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
