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Review Of Applied Urban Research 1980, Vol. 08, No. 06, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Interests, Preferences of Central Business District Employees," by Joan V. Holley and R. K. Piper.

A 15 percent population gain in suburban areas and a 4 percent population loss in the central cities between 1970 and 1980 was reported in the preliminary 1980 Census data.¹ Vincent B. Barabba, director of the Census Bureau, has stated that a back-to-the-city movement has had a negligible impact on declining cities and will not affect cities much in the future.² However, the quantity of recent articles on urban housing in professional journals and …

Servicios Para Ciudadanos Mayuores, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

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Servicios para Ciudadanos Mayuores

Employer And Training Needs: Report 01 Ophthalmic Technology, Joan V. Holley

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in metropolitan Omaha in an occupational area designated as ophthalmic technology.

Survey Of College Professional Staff For Mcc, Murray Frost

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The evaluation and needs assessment study of Metropolitan Technical Community College included a survey of the professional staff at the College. A questionnaire was developed and delivered to the College administration for distribution to the faculty, administrators, and other professional staff. The administration was responsible for the distribution and collection of the survey instruments. Responses were received from 78 faculty, 44 administrators, and 14 other professional staff. This represents response rates of 75% for faculty and administrators and 93% for other professional staff. The remainder of this report will delineate a) the respondents' evaluations of Metro Tech's success in achieving …

The State Of Black Omaha 1980, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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In early 1978, the Urban League of Nebraska published a report designed to measure the status of Blacks in housing, employment, education, health care and political participation. At that time, Blacks in Omaha were found to be deficient in all the above areas in relation to the general community. Today, in early 1980, the basic facts of that report have not significantly changed. Blacks are still almost exclusively concentrated east of 48th Street with most of them having a median income just under 1 half that of the Omaha average of $16,000. Official figures indicate that while Black unemployment has …

Older Hispanics In Nebraska: Their Characteristics, Attitudes, And Needs, David R. Dimartino, Carole Davis

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The successful delivery of human services requires rational program planning. Rational program planning, in turn, requires evaluation of 1) the needs of targeted client groups, 2) the availability of established services to the potential clients, and 3) the utilization of available services by the client population(s). The success of human service delivery systems, therefore, must incorporate the assessment of public programs in terms of the correspondence between client needs and service provision and usage.

A Study Of Alcohol Prevention Grants In The State Of Nebraska, 1973-1979, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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In the early 1970's as the enormous pressure of drug related problems was abating~ the attention of mental health professionals, school personnel, and the criminal justice system was refocused on the problems that come with alcohol. A new phenomenon seemed to be following the drug "scene", the increased alcohol usage among teen-agers and even children. The message was clear: an effort had to be made to prevent alcohol abuse before problem drinking became more widespread.

Share Newsletter 1980-1984, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Issues of the SHARE Newsletter, dating 1980 - 1984.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 13 Health Care Occupations, Marian Meier, Kathryn Deising

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in the metropolitan Omaha area in several occupations related to health care. These include medical laboratory technician, EEG and EKG technicians, electronic bio-medical technician, medical office and record assistant, X-ray technician, surgical technician, occupational therapist, dental laboratory technician, dental hygienist, and dental assistant.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 14 Construction Technologies, Michael Eskey

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employment and training needs of Metropolitan Omaha in the occupational area designated as construction technologies. The construction trades were divided into eight major areas including: 1) brick and block layers, 2) carpenters, 3) drywall installers/ finishers, 4) cement workers, 5) electricians, 6) plumbers and pipe-fitters, 7) sheet metal workers, and 8) heavy equipment operators.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 08 Sport And Specialty Engines, Margaret A. Hein

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in metropolitan Omaha for sport and specialty engine mechanics.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 12 Law Enforcement And Private Security, Joan V. Holley

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The purpose of this portion of the study is to determine the employer and training needs in metropolitan Omaha in an occupational area designated as law enforcement.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 11 Media Production, Carole Davis

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in the metropolitan Omaha area in the field of media production with the main focus on the field of film production.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 02 Apparels Arts, Joan V. Holley

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The purpose of this portion of the study is to determine the employment and training needs in metropolitan Omaha in an occupational area designated as the apparel arts.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 09 Human Services Programs, Carole Davis, Joan V. Holley, Marian Meier

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs for paraprofessionals to work in the human services areas in the metropolitan Omaha area.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 07 Diesel Mechanics, Margaret A. Hein

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in metropolitan Omaha for diesel mechanics.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 06 Machine Technologies, David R. Dimartino

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in Metropolitan Omaha in the occupational area designated as machine technologies.

The study is intended to provide information to Metropolitan Technical Community College for consideration in the possible establishment of a new course of study in machine technologies. The potential program would provide training for students wishing to become professional machinists, machine tool operators, set-up workers, and tool and die workers. The proposed course of study could build upon the established course work at MTCC, including courses in machine and tool design, drafting, and metallurgy.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 05 Laboratory Animal Technology, Joan V. Holley

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The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in an area designated as laboratory animal technology.

Employer And Training Needs: Report 04 Agriculture, Joan V. Holley

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Metropolitan Technical Community College offers four programs in Agricultural Technology. The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in agricultural fields related to three of these four courses of studies : Agriculture Business Management, Agriculture Cooperative Management, and Agriculture Chemicals Technology.

Alcoholism Research Project Of Mexican Americans In Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Jesse Cervantes, David R. Dimartino

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The principle focus of this report is to assess the availability and utilization of established alcoholism services for Mexican Americans in the Scottsbluff area. Though important, the concern here is not with the absolute supply of services (for example, the number of quarter way and halfway houses in Scottsbluff County), nor is it with spatial distribution of services (for example, the location of the detoxification center in Scottsbluff County) . Rather, this analysis focuses on the utilization of existing services and the extent of the need for services by Mexican Americans in the Scottsbluff area.

Alcohol Prevention In Five Secondary Schools, Genevieve Burch

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In the early 1970's as the enormous pressure of drug related problems was abating, the attention of mental health professionals, school personnel, and the criminal justice system was refocused on the problems that come with alcohol. A new phenomenon seemed to be following the drug "scene," the increased alcohol usage among teen-agers and even children. The message was clear: an effort had to be made to prevent alcohol abuse before problem drinking became more widespread.

Connie Caregiver's Cook Book, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Compiled by the staff of the Day Care Training Program for Regions I, II, III, and IV at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 12, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Filtering and Neighborhood Change in Omaha's Bemis Park," by Donald Guy.

Many ways to approach the problem of neighborhood change are possible. One major theory in the literature on housing markets deals with the way in which property values in a neighborhood change over time and is referred to as the theory of filtering.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 11, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Burglary Offender Characteristics Can Be Predicted: Enhancing Investigation Efficiency Through the Development of Probability Models¹," by Chris W. Eskridge.

Crime is not a new phenomenon in American living. For decades, researchers have documented and projected the growth and devastating complexity of the crime problem in the United States, its causes, and its destructive effects on national life. The intense damage to innocent persons, property, and spirit, coupled with the lingering fear of unprovoked, unpredictable violence are indeed familiar entities in all realms of society.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 10, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Interstate Freeways Attract New Office Sites," by Murray Frost and Armin K. Ludwig.

Completion of the interstate highway network in American metropolitan areas has opened a wide variety of locational options for urban land uses. New office sites have been salient among these developments. The purpose of this study is to compare Interstate radial freeway corridors with other spatial units in Omaha and six other metropolitan areas to determine their differential attraction for new office sites in the period 1970-1976. The seven metropolitan areas studied were Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Louisville, Minneapolis-St. …

Builders And Lenders Attitudes: The Nebraska Mortgage Finance Fund Use Of Fha 235 Housing, Jack Ruff, Peggy Hein

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This report was originated by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development in an effort to gather information from builders and lenders concerning their perceptions of the appropriate functions of the Nebraska Mortgage Finance Fund. In gathering the information for the report, considerable time was given by the builders and lenders in order to share their thoughts, ideas, and concerns about the Nebraska Mortgage Finance Fund, and their use of the 235 program. Although some of the ideas were in conflict, those who read this report will find some common threads on which to build a program. Different interests have different …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 09, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Households Moving to City Triple Those Leaving: In-Migration and Net Migration to the City of Omaha, August, 1977 - July, 1978," by Armin K. Ludwig.

The purpose of this study is twofold; 1) to determine the counties in the United States from which households moved to the city of Omaha for the period August, 1977 through July, 1978; and 2) to establish the net household migration between Omaha and these counties for the same period. The net migration figure was developed for a given county by subtracting the number of households …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 07, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Mid-continent Net Migration Losses Decline: Centers of Net Migration Gains in the Great Plains, 1970-1976," by Armin K. Ludwig.

As a unit the American region known as the Great Plains suffered net migration losses in each of the five census periods prior to 1970. During the following six years, however, these losses had begun to abate.¹ This study examines the 1970-1976 net migration changes in a bloc of 320 nonmetropolitan, nonmetropolitan- fringe counties roughly coincident with the Great Plains and seeks to account for the higher net migration gains recorded …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 06, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "New Migration Patterns Emerge in U.S.: The Movement of Metropolitan Populations to Nonmetropolitan America: Anomaly or Trend?" by David R. DiMartino.

Internal migration patterns have shifted markedly in the United States during the twentieth century. The exodus of rural populations to urban centers which dominated internal migration during the nineteenth century continued into the twentieth. By mid-century, however, that earlier pattern had given way to different, dominant trends. On the one hand, urban centers had grown massively and were sprawling rapidly out· ward, creating a pattern of decentralized metropolitan populations in …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1979, Vol. 07, No. 05, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Change Develops in Migration Patterns: Destinations of Household Moves from the City of Omaha, 1975-76 and 1977-78," by Armin K. Ludwig.

American Migratory Patterns between 1970 and 1976 began to reflect a growing tendency for metropolitan counties (SMSA's)1 to suffer net migration losses and for nonmetropolitan counties to record net migration gains. The nonmetropolitan counties which had the largest net gains were those which are contiguous to an SMSA and which thus form a metropolitan fringe. This contiguity of SMSA and fringe suggests that a loss in a given SMSA is …