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and vocational functioning as they return to the work
environment.
The most structure and support is provided to participants
at lower levels of psychosocial functioning, such as participants
experiencing chronic physical or psychiatric disabilities that
prevent them from sustaining regular employment. Those
participants are given work within a workshop or other hospital-
based setting and work between 4 and 30 hours a week at simple
tasks.
Participants capable of working outside of a hospital, in
community settings, such as Federal agencies and private
businesses, but not prepared to take on full-time employment, or
struggling with frequent substance abuse relapses, participate in
a day labor pool, where work appropriate to the participants’
levels of commitment and ability is provided.
Participants able to commit to continuous full-time
community-based employment, and who demonstrate appropriate work
ethics and behavior, can be assigned to a range of activities,
such as administrative support, data entry, landscaping,
accounting, and construction. A participant at this level
interested in, or with experience in, the construction trades,
may be assigned to the Veterans Construction Team. Members of
the Veterans Construction Team are assigned to construction
projects both inside and outside the VA hospital system.
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