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Lidman, Russell M.; Weeks, Gregory C. – 2001
The Washington State welfare reform program WorkFirst is designed to move individuals from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) into the workforce. A critical question facing the program is how to assist participants in sustaining and advancing their employment. Three studies of those who exited the program measured multiple outcomes…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dropout Characteristics, Employment Counselors, Employment Level
Gandolfo, Cecilia – Roses and Thorns from the Grassroots: A Series Highlighting Organizational Change in Massachusetts, 1998
This organizational vignette is one in a multi-part series highlighting community providers. This particular issue spotlights Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, an organization that works with youth at risk, many of whom have developmental disabilities. The collaboration between Bridge and the Institute for Community…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Change Strategies
Sampson, James P., Jr.; Reardon, Robert C.; Kolodinsky, Robert W.; Herbert, Shawn M. – 1997
Current national trends regarding the availability and use of information and assessment resources in one-stop centers for employment and related social services were examined in a study of one-stop centers that were nominated for exemplary practice or for fully implementing their state's implementation plan. The sample of 39 consisted of 3…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Agency Cooperation, Career Education, Delivery Systems
Bulusu, Aparna S. – 1998
A literature review examined the potential impact of a multicultural applicant's nonverbal behavior (specifically, proxemics and kinesics) in a selection interview. Proxemics refers to the perception and use of personal and interpersonal space, which varies from culture to culture. The review indicated that in an interview situation, the chairs…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Washington State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1994
Between July 1, 1991 and June 30, 1993, Washington State's Displaced Homemaker Program (DHP) served a total of 55,363 individuals. The program's intensive instructional services component was completed by 2,496 eligible displaced homemakers, 84% of whom were aged 30-59. Of the DHP participants, 84% were white, 75% were separated or divorced, 79%…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Displaced Homemakers, Educational Cooperation
Vera Inst. of Justice, New York, NY. – 1980
This guide explains how to establish a program of supported work that can be used to enable hard-to-employ individuals (including disabled persons, ex-offenders, and rehabilitated drug and alcohol abusers) to obtain and retain jobs. The program described is based on the following five concepts: real job assignments, graduated stress, sympathetic…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Employment Counselors
Clark, Marilyn; And Others – 1985
Dislocated workers are distinguished from chronically unemployed individuals in that the former have a stable work history and are generally unaware of the community's social services programs and how to use them. Dislocated workers frequently lack job search skills and do not see the transferability of their work skills. Often, they have heavy…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies, Counseling Services, Dislocated Workers
Louisiana State Dept. of Health and Human Resources, Baton Rouge. Bureau for Women. – 1977
This report concerns forty-six Jobs Unlimited placements of women in Louisiana into nontraditional jobs (mostly blue-collar or skilled craft fields) between April 1976 and January 1977. (Jobs Unlimited was a project which informed the public, especially women, of opportunities available in nontraditional employment.) The report researches the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Blue Collar Occupations
Danielsen, Reidar – 1974
Skilled labor has always been difficult to recruit, and in a tight labor market unskilled, low-paying jobs with low status are also difficult to fill. Recruitment from outside seems necessary to satisfy demands, but migration creates at least as many problems as it solves. The consumption of theoretical training through the university level (a…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Change Strategies, Developed Nations, Employment Problems
Bailey, C. J., Comp. – 1973
This handbook was prepared for the Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher to provide information on the public services and programs administered by Federal, State, and local governmental agencies, including private, civic, and community organizations through which the needs of ABE students may be met. A cross-index is provided, including the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Organizations, Community Resources, Directories
Muller, Petra; Kurtz, Beate – 2003
The equality of the opportunities available to males and females in Germany's labor market was examined. The study compared employment patterns among women and men and the extent to which selected discretionary benefits of Germany's Federal Employment Service benefit women and men. Selected results were as follows: (1) women are under-represented…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Differences, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women
MacGillivray, Lois – 2002
The Youth Offender Demonstration Project (YODP) combined oversight of youth offenders with services to support youth offenders' passage into the word of work by providing recommended social development strategies for youth offenders. YODP demonstration projects were funded in the following categories: (1) model community projects; (2) education…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation
Nilsen, Sigurd R. – 2001
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the performance measurement system of the Department of Labor's (DOL's) Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS), which administers programs and activities designed to help veterans obtain employment and training assistance. The GAO review focused on the following items: VETS' proposed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Employment Services
Buck, Maria L. – 2000
Although the disappointing results of earlier ex-offender programs convinced many that "nothing works so let's just keep prisoners incarcerated longer," research in the 1980s and 1990s has shown that intensive pre-release employment training and post-release employment programs and support can cut the rate of recidivism. Current initiatives…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, At Risk Persons, Correctional Education
Fagnoni, Cynthia M. – 2001
A study collected information on the participation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients in work and work activities and their characteristics and how they have changed over time. Data were gathered on strategies states use to help hard-to-employ (HTE) TANF recipients get and keep jobs and on challenges states face in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Data Analysis