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Download full textDepartment of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1999
This guide shares information about setting up and operating Neighborhood Networks centers. (These centers operate in Department of Housing and Urban Development-assisted or -insured housing nationwide to help low-income people boost their basic skills and find good jobs, learn to use computers and the Internet, run businesses, improve their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Community Centers, Computer Literacy
Cort, Maureen; Krouse, Nancy; Gonzalez, Manuel – 1998
This document begins with a report describing a Northampton Community College project to develop a manual to help adult literacy providers understand how they fit into welfare reform. The accompanying manual consists of four sections corresponding to the project's four objectives. Section 1, intended to enable adult literacy providers to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1999
This guide is for Neighborhood Networks center staff and volunteers who want to learn how centers across the country are helping adults meet work force demands. It provides resources to work force development programs so examples can be tailored to meet the needs of other communities. It focuses on challenges that integrating academics and job…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Computer Literacy
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1990
This guide is designed to assist adult education cooperatives in implementing educational services for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children participating in the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. It addresses the educational services to be provided by the cooperatives per the interagency cooperation contract…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation
Breslauer, Ardis; And Others – 1991
This guide gives educational service providers materials and resources to increase motivation and address other barriers that hinder the progress toward self-sufficiency of participants in Job Opportunities and Basic Skills/Greater Avenues for Independence (JOBS/GAIN) programs. Section 1 contains an explanation and sample of the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Assertiveness, Basic Skills
Brown, Amy – 2001
This guide distills lessons from an extensive body of research into practical advice for policymakers and practitioners concerned with helping hard-to-employ individuals find jobs and succeed in the work force. Part 1 examines the following topics: characteristics of the hard-to-employ; the prevalence of various barriers to employment; and the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills, Career Counseling
