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A Profile of the Workforce Development Partnership Program, 2000

2001-09-28

This report profiles New Jersey's Workforce Development Partnership Program. Two main components of the program are the Individual Training Grant program, which awards training grant vouchers to dislocated workers, and the Customized Training program, which awards grants to firms and consortia to train current employees The first chapter of the report provides a description of the Individual Training Grant participants between 1997-2000 and the type of training they received. The second chapter provides a description of the firms participating in the Customized Training Program. The third chapter provides a picture of how Individual Training Grant participants who completed training in 1994-2000 have been faring in the labor market ever since.

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WDP 2000

A Profile of the Workforce Development Partnership Program

2002-09-30

This report profiles New Jersey's Workforce Development Partnership Program. Two main components of the program are the Individual Training Grant program, which awards training grant vouchers to dislocated workers, and the Customized Training program, which awards grants to firms and consortia to train current employees.

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WDP 2001

Aftershock: Serving 9/11 Displaced Workers

2004-11-22

On September 30, 2004, the Heldrich Center hosted a symposium in New York to reflect upon the efforts of the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program to help more than 11,000 dislocated workers from the New York region find new jobs and launch new careers. This publication reports the proceedings of that symposium.

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Aftershock Report

An Evaluation of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium

2007-09-07

This report assesses the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium (N/ECCC) program, which is designed to improve the employment prospects and earnings of Essex County, NJ’s low-income residents.

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An Evaluation of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium

Demographic Profile of 9-11 Dislocated Workers

2004-10-27

A report profiling more than 11,000 New York area workers who were assisted by the September 11th Fund's Employment Assistance Program, which was designed by Heldrich Center staff.

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Dislocated Workers 9-11 EAP Overview

2004-10-05

A summary of the September 11th Fund's Employment Assistance Program.

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911 Overview

Employment Assistance Program Focus Group Report

2003-08-01

The September 11th Fund, working with the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, created the Employment Assistance Program to help dislocated workers regain employment and wages lost in the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. The project consisted of eight focus groups conducted at a professional focus group facility in Manhattan between June 25 through July 9, 2003. This publication reports on the findings of those focus groups.

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EAP Focus Group Report

Evaluation of the New Jersey Workforce Development Partnership Program: Customized Training Program

2009-05-28

This report explores the perceived effect of Customized Training (CT) grants on recipient companies and their employees. The report also examines the wage and employment outcomes of selected individuals who received training. Finally, the report makes a series of recommendations that could be used to inform future CT grant decisions.

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Evaluation of the New Jersey Workforce Development Partnership Program: Customized Training Program

Evaluation of the Transition to Comprehensive Youth Services Under WIA

2002-06-04

Evaluation by the Heldrich Center and Jobs for the Future ascertains the progress communities are making across the nation in addressing the challenges of establishing workforce and development programs for youth under the Workforce Investment Act.

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Youth Services Evaluation

Evaluation of the Workforce Development Partnership Program

2000-01-25

An evaluation of New Jersey's Workforce Development Partnership Program, which focuses on the Individual Training Grant and Customized Training Grant programs. The Individual Training Grant program awards training grant vouchers to dislocated workers to help them obtain new skills and jobs, and the Customized Training program awards grants to firms and consortia to train current employees.

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WDP Evaluation 2000

Five-Year Strategic Plan for Pilots, Demonstrations, Research, and Evaluations 2000-2005

2001-04-02

This plan provides a strategic vision for research efforts based upon extensive input from stakeholders, a review of recent research efforts, an identification of areas where future research is needed, and a review of possible research methodologies. This is the first five-year research plan for the USDOL/ETA, which was transmitted to Congress.

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Five-Year Strategic Plan

Helping Job Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills

2004-11-05

This guide provides program planners and frontline staff at public and private career centers with an introduction to the steps involved in planning, implementing, and improving a system of services that helps job seekers who have limited basic skills to meet workplace skill requirements and get and keep rewarding, financially sustaining jobs.

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Helping Job Seekers

How The One-Stop System Serves People with Disabilities: A Nationwide Survey of Disability Agencies

2002-06-01

The purpose of this publication is to understand the opinion of the One-Stop system among state and local agencies that focus on people with disabilities.

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One-Stop Disabilities Report

Incidence of Substance Abuse in the Workplace

2002-02-01

A survey of employers' attitudes regarding the prevalence of drugs in the workplace, how employee drug use impacts their firm, and the effectiveness of company policies to treat and prevent employee substance abuse.

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Drugs in the Workplace

Moving Up the Ladder: Strategies for Economic Independence

2002-04-19

Reports the findings of a statewide conference co-sponsored by the Heldrich Center and Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, and issues a call for universal support for magnifying public and policy attention on improving how public funds and programs are managed and deployed to assist the working poor.

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Moving Up the Ladder

One-Stop Accessibility: A Nationwide Survey of One-Stop Centers on Services for People with Disabilities

2002-02-01

This survey of One Stop Centers attempts to ascertain the accessibility status of One-Stop centers and the ways that workforce development systems are serving people with disabilities.

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Accessibility Report

Promising Practices

2001-06-01

This publication reports the findings of a national review of One-Stop Career Centers operating under the Workforce Investment Act. It details the success stories and promising practices of One-Stop Career Centers.

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Promising Practices

Recipes for Success: Worksheets/Attachments

1999-01-11

These attachments and exercises are designed to give Youth Council members and staff an opportunity to take a "hands-on" approach on dealing with complex Youth Council issues.

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Recipes for Success Attachments

Recipes for Success: Youth Council Guide to Creating a Youth Development System Under WIA

2000-01-10

Provides practical information for community leaders, local Workforce Investment Boards, Youth Councils, staff, and others that are committed to effective youth and workforce development.

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Recipes for Success

September 11th Fund Employment Assistance Program: Performance Outcomes

2005-07-26

This report examines the anticipated and actual performance outcomes of the Employment Assistance Program, an initiative to enable workers displaced by the 9/11 terrorist attacks to connect with employment services, career counselors, job placement opportunities, education, training, and other resources.

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9/11 Performance Outcomes

Service Activity Report/Participants Enrolled in the September 11th Fund's Employment Assistance Program

2005-03-24

This report profiles the services received by the 11,393 individuals served through the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program (EAP). The report defines and describes the types of services available to EAP participants, analyzes how the different groups of participants took advantage of the array of services, and shows the similarities and differences among service providers. The report also presents detailed statistical tables on the services received by participants.

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Service Report

The Workforce Investment Act of 1998: A Primer for People with Disabilities

2002-01-11

The primer outlines the various componenets of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). It also suggests ways that people with disabilities can fully access WIA systems and services.The report was prepared for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities and funded by the United States Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

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Disability Primer

The Workforce Investment Act of 1998: Performance Management and People with Disabilities

2002-11-04

An in-depth examination of the WIA performance management systems of four states and how these systems are customized to meet the needs of people with disabilites.

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WIA 1998

Tools for Navigating Today's Labor Market: A Vital Role for States

2005-11-28

Individuals need easily accessible, easy-to-understand information to successfully navigate the ever-changing U.S. labor market. Internet tools are one way to effectively and efficiently convey such information to users. This paper explores the role state governments can play in creating such resources. It specifically examines how the State of New Jersey, with the assistance of the Heldrich Center, created two Web-based resources that provide students, job seekers, and workers with the information they need to make informed decisions about careers and further education. The paper also explores the value of such resources and illustrates some of the key lessons for creating a successful information resource.

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Tools for Navigating the Labor Market

Toward the Accessible Workplace: Strategies for Competitive Employment-People with Disabilities

2004-01-23

A report based on a Heldrich Center symposium that excamines the barriers to the workplace that continue to exist for people with disabilities, as well as current incentives and disincentives to work created by the public disability support system.

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Toward More Accessible Workplace

Trying to Become the Person I Was Before: 9/11 Displaced Workers and the Employment Assistance Program

2005-06-30

This report examines the September 11th Fund's Employment Assistance Program (EAP), an effort to enable workers displaced by the 9/11 terrorist attacks to connect with employment services, career counselors, job placement opportunities, education, training, and other resources. The report discusses the EAP's different services, and analyzes participants' employment status prior to the attacks and following their participation in the EAP.

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Trying to Become

Workforce Information Customer Satisfaction Assessment: A Primer for State and Local Planning

2002-06-01

A handbook designed to assist state workforce information professionals in developing strategies for assessing customer satisfaction with workforce information products and services.

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LMI Primer

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