Describes a program of the Great Plains Area Vocational Technical Center in Lawton, Oklahoma involving the establishment of a career counseling and enrollment center in a downtown mall. (JOW)

Describes the partnership formed by five Indiana state agencies in order to provide and coordinate job placement, counseling, rehabilitation, and unemployment insurance services. Lists examples of the partnership's successes. (NRJ)

Comprehensiveness is the key to the success of Job Corps programs. Corps centers attempt to rectify deficiencies in social attitudes, self-esteem, drug/health problems, and work habits, while providing intensive skill training and work experience to economically and educationally disadvantaged youth. (SK)

Many older adults are not ready to retire from life. What they choose to do will be affected by legislation, economic and social needs, personal ambitions, previous experiences, and perhaps a willingness to pursue further training or education. (CT)

Opportunities Industrialization Centers are community-based organizations that provide employment and training programs to poor and unskilled people. Essential features of their programs are attention to attitudinal and behavior changes, skills training, and work readiness. (SK)

Arlington (VA) Career Center offers experience-based career education as an alternative high school program for special education students. Forty-five sites in the community provide a range of work environments and opportunities for practice of occupational skills. (SK)

Reviews the information-gathering and record-keeping methods used at Milwaukee Area Technical College and explains the usefulness of such data in maintaining accountability, improving instructional quality, and planning for the future. (SK)

Texas State Technical Institute was able to expand its fund-raising capacity effectively by establishing a nonprofit, tax-exempt foundation composed of business and industry leaders. Besides financial and equipment assistance, the foundation also serves in student job placement. (SK)

Focusing on successful vocational programs for Blacks, this article describes two differently structured secondary-level schools located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: (1) Murrell Dobbins Area Vocational-Technical School and (2) A. Philip Randolph Skills Center. (LRA)

As long as vocational education is presented as an investment in the future, it must stand the test of economic evaluation. Research on its economic effectiveness is essential to more informed public policy and support for vocational programs. (SK)

With the help of parents and employers, Texas schools are helping special needs students to compensate for their disabilities, accept their handicaps, and achieve success in a vocation. Special education students attend a vocational adjustment class to develop basic job skills. (LRA)

This first in a series highlighting Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA) programs describes a guidance and placement program in Williamson County, Tennessee, to ease students' transition from school to work through career counseling, job training at Yates Vocational Center, job placement, and community liaison services.…

Pittsburgh Public Schools' student placement coordinator describes their program to help secondary students and school leavers with cooperative, part-time, and later full-time job placement, using behavior modification and cooperative education. Includes program organization, use of paraprofessionals, funding, and the importance of employer…