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Employment and Training Services for Adults

Resources on employment and training services for adults. Such services can assist parents and caregivers in building job skills and readiness, finding and maintaining employment, and achieving job stability. Resources include State and local examples.

Employment Retention Essentials: Building a Retention-focused Organization
Clymer & Wyckoff (2003)
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Strategies that employment programs can use to encourage job stability and growth for disadvantaged individuals.

Sample Logic Model: Women's Training and Employment Program (PDF - 133 KB)
Innovation Network (2005)
Presents a sample logic model for determining key components of developing a training and employment program for women that will result in greater economic self-sufficiency.

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State and local examples

Human Services in Montgomery County, Ohio: Service Integration Writ Large (PDF - 158 KB)
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (2002)
Support services for at-risk families are provided through neighborhood-based collaboratives that offer assistance such as family crisis intervention, family life education, and juvenile justice intervention.

PARENT Program: People Achieving Responsibility Through Education, Nurturing and Training (PDF - 376 KB)
Center for Policy Research (2003)
Implemented in Larimer County, Colorado, to equip noncustodial parents to support their children emotionally and financially. Services include parenting skills education, employment assistance, case management, and referral.

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Updated on July 3, 2008