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This report is part of the national evaluation of the Participation and Equity Program (PEP), undertaken in 1986 by a team based in the Centre for Program Evaluation, Melbourne College of Advanced Education. It contains individual case study accounts of PEP in five TAFE sites, and an overview of the five case studies. The aim of the case studies was to portray a number of individual responses to PEP and the overview summarises those responses. PEP programs were sometimes individual courses and sometimes made up of a set of courses. Clients for the courses were the 15-24 year old unemployed who had often performed poorly in conventional schooling, particularly in terms of literacy and numeracy skills. They often had low personal self-esteem and social skills, and had low expectations in terms of obtaining employment. Part of the rationale for offering PEP programs in TAFE was to cater for people who had severe or multiple disadvantages.