ERIC Number: ED135998
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976-Jan
Pages: 268
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Facilitating the Career Development of Home-Based Adults: The Home/Community-Based Career Education Model. Final Report. Volume II. Research and Evaluation.
Guilfoy, Vivian M.; Grothe, Mardell S.
This second volume of a three-volume final report presents research and evaluation findings of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis. Primary focus is on home-based adults who used the career counseling service, which provided information, guidance, and referral by telephone using paraprofessional counselors. Section 2 details the demographic characteristics of 2,979 home-based adults, who called the service (August 1973 to March 1975) and examines the extent to which the nature of the callers changed over time. Section 3 describes characteristics of 1,157 home-based clients who used the service from March 1974 to March 1975 and explores clients' expectation from counseling, initial career objectives, and other factors. Section 4 presents data related to the nature and extent of activities engaged in by counselors and clients during the process of counseling. Section 5 examines the clients' career status at termination. Section 6 describes how clients reacted to and evaluated the services they received from the project. Section 7 deals with use of the resource center based on 268 noninstitutional visitors who used it in 1974. The final section of Volume 2 presents information collected during indepth interviews with 40 former clients. (Volume 1 of the final report covers the nature, context, and products of the model. Volume 3 consists of appendixes to the project.) (TA)
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Programs, Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Counselors, Delivery Systems, Demography, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Labor Force Nonparticipants, Needs Assessment, Outreach Programs, Paraprofessional Personnel, Participant Characteristics, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Referral, Resource Centers, Telephone Communications Systems, Work Attitudes
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA.
Identifiers - Location: Rhode Island (Providence)
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