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What Is Vocational Rehabilitation? By Dave Kettner Vocational rehabilitation programs are programs that help train individuals so that they can attain stable employment that is suitable to their needs, skills and other factors. Vocational programs may provide vocational training pertinent to the type of job or career that is being pursued, but oftentimes includes various other types of assistance as well.
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rehabilitation programs may include various secondary types of training and assistance, such as psychiatric or medical rehabilitation or intervention to improve work-related personal issues, such as anxiety, chemical dependency or simply more specialized forms of training, such as helping a person to acclimate themselves to new work situations and co-workers.
Many vocational rehabilitation programs are for service disabled military veterans who need further training and / or education in order to attain suitable and steady employment. These veterans vocational rehabilitation programs often include various types of assistance for such things as tuition, fees, supplies, books and equipment necessary for training or employment itself.
Non-veteran rehabilitation programs are typically run through state and are funded by the federal government, with each state matching the funds that the government puts into the vocational programs offered by that state.
Vocational rehabilitation programs are not always ‘rehabilitation’ per se, but are also used as ways to prepare for professional life upon graduation from high school or college. Many vocational rehabilitation programs are entered into upon high school graduation or even during the senior year of high school to ready participants for entering the job market and meeting the demands of productive adult life.
Drug And Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs
By Dave Kettner
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation is usually a last resort for an addict. It can be at the behest of family and friends, it can be court ordered or it can even be Read more...
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Drug And Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs
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Drug and alcohol rehabilitation is usually a last resort for an addict. It can be at the behest of family and friends, it can be court ordered or it can even be Read more...
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Information On Inpatient Rehab
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1973 Rehabilitation Act
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Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act was a piece of American legislation that guaranteed particular rights to people with disabilities. While Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Read more...
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SHOCKING REPORT!
Below are excerpts from a recent CASA (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse) report. The facts speak for themselves. NEW CASA REPORT FINDS HALF OF COLLEGE STUDENTS BINGE DRINK, ABUSE PRESCRIPTION AND ILLEGAL DRUGS NEARLY ONE IN FOUR MEET MEDICAL CRITERIA FOR ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, 2007 – Forty-nine percent (3.8 million) of full time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs, according to Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities, a new report by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “It’s time to get the ‘high’ out of higher education,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. “Under any circumstances acceptance by administrators, trustees, professors and parents of this college culture of alcohol and other drug abuse is inexcusable. In this world of fierce global competition, we are losing thousands of our nation’s best and brightest to alcohol and drugs, and in the process robbing them and our nation of their promising futures.” Between 1993 and 2005 the proportion of students abusing prescription drugs increased: 343 percent for opioids like Percocet, Vicodin and OxyContin 93 percent for abuse of stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall 450 percent for tranquilizers like Xanax and Valium 225 percent for sedatives like Nembutal and Seconal Between 1993 and 2005, the proportion of students who: Use marijuana daily more than doubled to 310,000 Use cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs (except marijuana) is up 52 percent to 636,000. In this age where popping a pill is seen as the solution to so many problems, both physical and mental, what will it take to get college students to say no to drug abuse--all drug abuse?We at Narconon International know that the best solution for the problem is effective drug education done early and done well! And that's why Narconon® drug education--booklets, videos, live presenters--continues in heavy demand worldwide. Want to help? Do the Drug Prevention Specialist Course at the International Training Center in McAlester, Oklahoma!
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