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Occupational and Sectoral Training

Introduction

Occupational and sectoral training are training programs designed to prepare clients for professional opportunities within a specific occupation, such as truck driving or welding, or sector, such as health care or manufacturing. This Evidence Snapshot summarizes what rigorous research tells us about 23 interventions that used occupational and sectoral training as an approach to providing services to clients and the interventions’ impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.

Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) (as compared with Individual Placement and Support [IPS])

Intervention (standard name)
Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) (as compared to Individual Placement and Support [IPS])

SEI participants received continuous case management over the full 20-month intervention period. For the first eight months, participants attended classes twice a week for one and a half hours each session. In the vocational skills acquisition phase (four months), participants learned vocational skills such as, photography and silk-screening. In the small business skills acquisition phase (four months), participants learned accounting, budgeting, marketing, and management skills.

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