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| Worklife | 9 |
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| Baker, B. Kimball | 1 |
| Brown, Stephen | 1 |
| Burdetsky, Ben | 1 |
| Hashian, J. T. | 1 |
| Mitchell, Brad | 1 |
| Neill, Shirley Boes | 1 |
| Pfeil, Mary Pat | 1 |
| Rich, Les | 1 |
| Wagner, Judith | 1 |
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Wagner, Judith – Worklife, 1976
A program in which disabled veterans in Toledo, Ohio, work as traffic bureau technicians at police headquarters is presented as an example of the results of emphasizing abilities rather than disabilities. (BP)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Mitchell, Brad – Worklife, 1978
Chicago's on-the-job training program, the largest in the country funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), is based on a business-government partnership through a nonprofit corporation called the Chicago Alliance of Business Manpower Services. Program organization and activities are described. (MF)
Descriptors: Business, City Government, Community Cooperation, Federal Aid
Hashian, J. T. – Worklife, 1978
Summaries of eight titles of the reauthorized (for fiscal years 1979 through 1982) Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA) are presented and discussed. The new CETA will serve, essentially, to increase the earned income of the economically disadvantaged. (MF)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Neill, Shirley Boes – Worklife, 1976
Affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, and comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) employment goals are more than catch words in the Los Angeles (CETA) affirmative action program. (ABM)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, City Government, Employment Qualifications, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Pfeil, Mary Pat – Worklife, 1978
Describes the Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsor for ten northern Wisconsin counties. Primary occupations available to program participants are in wood products, paper industry, tool and die manufacturing, welding, meat cutting, and resorts and recreation. (MF)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Brown, Stephen – Worklife, 1979
The Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP), Title VII of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), is planned to put employment and training back in private business through grants to employers for on-the-job training programs, with private industry councils as links between business and industry and the federal government. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Industrial Training
Baker, B. Kimball – Worklife, 1976
The Suffolk County Coordinated Manpower Program in New York is a pilot project whose purpose is to eliminate duplication in employer contacts and services delivered. Agencies at the Federal, State, and local levels work together for a common goal. Definitive results await data analysis, but developments are encouraging. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Organizations, Coordination, County Programs
Rich, Les – Worklife, 1978
Part of the former Boston (Massachusetts) Navy Yard is now a job training center where Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participants are trained as welders, pipefitters, electronics technicans, mechanics, and other marine workers. About half the program graduates use their transferable job skills in other industries. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Job Training
Burdetsky, Ben – Worklife, 1977
Specific areas that form the core of the "Marshall Plan" (for U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall) are described as offsite training for unemployed apprentices and allied craftworkers; reimbursed employment and training cost grants; apprenticeship-school projects; and apprenticeship innovations. Some statistical data on the number of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
