Descriptions of community resources which can help youth understand and capitalize on the changing relationships between education and work are presented. Included are local, state, and national youth organizations, business associations, service organizations, large industrial cooperations, and community programs. (BM)

Our policy is an attempt to ensure that counselling services are seen as a total program with personal-social, educational, and career counselling receiving a balanced emphasis over a student's secondary school years. The three services are seen as integral components of the total educational experience of each student. (Author)

Describes a model program for the sharing of career-history videotapes made by retired professional persons for college students. Details tape preparation and production methods. Evaluation showed a positive response from students, their professors, and the retired persons who participated. (JAC)

A listing of the elements that helped make a strong career studies program at Linganore Junior-Senior High School, Frederick County, Maryland. (HD)

Describes the Washington, D.C. Center's internship program for political science and English majors. (AEA)

A program was developed to encourage Black students to consider science/engineering careers by exposing them to technical and scientific concepts, equipment, and projects during Saturday classes and site visits to businesses, factories, and laboratories; having them interact with minority engineers and scientists; and preparing them for college.…

Discusses seven components that comprise a comprehensive vocational education program, and describes Wisconsin's capstone course concept for high school seniors, which provides job training in a vocational area that the student has previously explored as part of the comprehensive vocational program involving career development, exploration, and…

The purpose of the Rural Student Vocational Program (RSVP) is to provide rural high school vocational students with work and other experiences related to their career objective. Students from outlying schools travel to Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau (Alaska) to participate in two weeks of work experience with cooperating agencies and businesses.…

The Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc. (AEL) of Charleston, West Virginia, has established an employer-based career education program in which unions have recently joined employers and educators in helping local youth explore careers and learn academic skills at worksites throughout the community. (Author)

Community-based learning (CBL) is a prevocational program that provides opportunities for career exploration. This publication outlines the particular adaptations that need to be made to the original CBL model to meet the needs of handicapped students. A flow chart of the CBL process and a CBL program overview are provided. CBL is then discussed…

The major programs sponsored by the Division of Vocational Education assisting career development in New Jersey are identified and briefly described. The stated objectives of career development are: identification of a variety of occupational opportunities, development of a number of career alternatives, demonstration of job responsibility,…

The report provides a summary of the independent, third party evaluation of the 1972-73 funding year of the Guided Occupational Orientation Project of the Syracuse City School District. A systems approach to evaluation was utilized in this effort. The funded project involved all three grade populations--elementary, junior high school, and senior…

The document is comprised of (1) a series of reports evaluating a SUTOE (Self Understanding Through Occupational Exploration) career education pilot project conducted in an Oregon City (Oregon) junior high school and (2) sample curriculum guides from that project. A brief project overview, emphasizing the interdisciplinary, team approach employed,…

Information for prospective employers of students involved in a work education program sponsored by the Pima County Developmental Career Guidance Project is presented in the document. Two of the project's programs are described: (1) Work Exposure, aimed at providing seventh through twelfth grade students with an opportunity to observe on a job…

The activities of the second year of a career education project in the South Portland School are reported in the document which covers the time period of July 1974 to June 1975. The project consisted of a career awareness component for grade levels K-6, a career orientation component for levels 7 and 8, a career exploration phase for grade 9, and…