ERIC Number: ED273748
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 73
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The Job Training Partnership Act: Service to Women.
Solow, Katherine; Walker, Gary
This study describes and assesses the early years of implementation of Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in regard to its services to women. Title II of JTPA is the major Federal program intervention--funded at about 1.8 billion dollars annually--aimed at providing employment and training services for the economically disadvantaged. For this study, data were gathered through the review of the records of a sample of 25 JTPA sites. The study found that the emphasis on high placement/low cost performance has generally operated as a disincentive to targeting services on particular groups of clients, particularly those that might require supportive services or a combination of training services. In addition, the severely reduced allocation of Federal resources to employment and training services over the past five years has lessened the inclination of program administrators to focus local JTPA programs on specific issues or groups of eligibles; thus, services for women specified in the legislation have not received high priority in the implementation. Specially tailored programming for women was limited to a very small percentage of training dollars. Hard-to-serve target groups such as displaced homemakers and teenaged parents were only very rarely offered special services. However, other research projects have shown that projects offered to women, especially to disadvantaged groups and welfare recipients, have been quite successful in raising women's earnings. Such programs should be used as examples in determining the future thrust of JTPA's programs for women. (KC)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Displaced Homemakers, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Females, Job Training, One Parent Family, Postsecondary Education, Program Effectiveness, Unemployment, Womens Education
Grinker Associates, 130 West 42nd Street, Suite 801, New York, NY 10036 ($10.00).
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.; Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI.; National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC.; Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Grinker Associates, Inc., New York, NY.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Job Training Partnership Act 1982
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A