For the higher functioning individuals, a transitional employment program helps them develop the necessary skills to be able to enter the workplace.

A key feature is the use of "transitional employment," a strategy that helps members acquire work habits and motivation through part-time jobs.

They softened welfare reform with generous childcare, health insurance, wage supplements and transitional employment.

Each member of a clubhouse who participates in a Transitional Employment position is guaranteed to earn minimum wage or above.

He also recounted the state's history with Transitional Employment Enterprises and America Works.

Research in Secondary Special Education and Transitional Employment.

No 354-A, would establish a "transitional employment program" that over five years would create 7,000 jobs in local government agencies and 3,000 jobs in nonprofit community organizations.

She is president of Transitional Employment Enterprises, a Boston organization financed by public and corporate funds that tries to play this networking role for the disadvantaged.

IC also participates in the Transitional Employment Program (TEP), and colleague training.

Wilson lists multiple examples of what this universal program would include, such as public funding of training, retraining, and transitional employment benefits that would be available to all members of society.

"Transitional Employment Models," The Enterprise Foundation Ready, Work, Grow National Workforce Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2003.

The first step of the program is Transitional Employment (TE), in which members can work in meaningful part-time jobs outside the clubhouse procured through partnerships with community entities and businesses.

"We will provide permanent and transitional employment for some in the community who have a hard time finding jobs," said Mr. Holland, the project's developer and founder of Ark of Freedom.

The National Education, Training and Work program, part of a five-year, $5.2 billion welfare measure approved by the ways and means committee, would permit limited mandatory jobplacement and has no provision for transitional employment.

America Works is now exploring the possibility of getting a contract with Massachusetts, but its efforts are being resisted by officials who recall the state's experiences with Mr. Cove and Transitional Employment Enterprises.

At the heart of Fountain House's programs is the transitional employment program, which involves 38 high-profile companies like the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Chemical Bank and Time Warner.

Since 1987, he has held 14 positions through the transitional employment program, working for concerns like Dow Jones & Company, the financial news publisher, and D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles, the advertising agency.

Each member contribution at a Transitional Employment position is designed to be transitional and temporary, lasting for six to nine months, as these positions belong to the clubhouse, and are designed in such a way so that ideally all members will have an opportunity to work.

WRAPS provides quality, timely, and affordable home repair services to Los Angeles residents and property managers while generating income to support VCHC's vital programs; creating training and transitional employment opportunities for YouthBuild Trainees; and preserving housing.

An investigation by the state's Inspector General and an independent audit found that money from the nonprofit group, Transitional Employment Enterprises, had been improperly used to help start America Works and that the state was wrongly billed for expenses like singing telegrams and health club dues.