Those who were allowed to return to school appeared to benefit from the academic support as the providers mostly focused on the development of vocational ability.
We consider the boundary crossings between the occupational practices and the educational practice significant to vocational teachers' ability to maintain and develop their vocational/professional knowledge and identity.
The services should also be comprehensive, i.e. that the services should be directed against a broad array of areas of functioning that are frequently impaired in clients with co-occurring mental and SUD such as housing, vocational functioning, ability to manage the psychiatric illness and family and social relationships [ 25].
Without vocational identities, workers' abilities to plan, execute, and monitor their work activities autonomously would be far less likely.
The agency also develops the elder children's income-earning abilities through vocational training such as tailoring, electrical repair, carpentry and masonry, fishing and animal husbandry.
"The core reasons for entry into stripping by students were the high cost of higher education, the lack of availability of loans and support for vocational courses and the ability to combine stripping work with the demands of educational courses, due to the flexibility it offered," the study said.
At Sanctuary, residents have access to counseling, skill building and educational programs, volunteering and vocational opportunities, and the ability to learn from local community leaders who serve as mentors and friends of the organization.
The assessment is intended to be authentic in terms of occupational situations, and appropriate with respect to abilities acquired through vocational training.
Baethge and Arends (2009, p. 9) describe vocational competencies as "young adults' abilities to successfully apply their knowledge and experience to authentic occupational situations in selected vocational areas in the world of work".
