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Employment Training: Successful Projects Share Common Strategy

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 7, 1996
Report No. HEHS-96-108
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Summary:

GAO reviewed six successful employment training projects with a variety of characteristics, including diverse geographic locations, client populations, program sizes, and funding sources. Despite these differences, the six training projects shared a common strategy to prepare clients for self sufficiency. This strategy--resulting in placement rates of more than 90 percent for three of the projects GAO visited--incorporated four key features: ensuring commitment to training and landing a job, removing barriers that might hinder a client's ability to finish training and get and keep a job, improving employability skills, and linking occupational skills training with the local labor market. Although the projects implemented them differently, together these features ensure that clients are ready, willing, and able to participate in and benefit from training and employment assistance and become self-sufficient.

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