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Proscio, Tony; Elliott, Mark – 1999
This practitioner's guide to helping employment program clients find, retain, and advance in jobs is based on the experiences of Moving Up, an employment program operated by New York's Vocational Foundation, Inc. (VFI). The guide begins with an overview of Moving Up, which has become a national model for helping disadvantaged minority youths…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Client Relationship, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
Elliott, Mark; Palubinsky, Beth; Tierney, Joseph – 1999
Five programs in the Bridges to Work demonstration have functioned as a labor market exchange--with the main services being job matching and transportation coordination--for job-ready inner-city workers and suburban employment. The logistics of transportation have been simple; the basics of employment have been an ongoing challenge. Sites have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Elliott, Mark; Roder, Anne; King, Elisabeth; Stillman, Joseph – 2001
A study assessed the first two years of a three-year initiative to test the potential of extending sectoral employment strategies among 10 organizations, most of which were new to the sectoral employment field. Five organizations increasing low-income workers' access to good jobs were ARCH; PhAME; Training, Inc.; WIRE-Net; and Project QUEST. Five…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities