Vocational Coaching and Development Institute

VCDI provides services to the consumers in the macro-areas of self-advocacy, community integration and the paramount focus of service provision, employment training, in the form of vocational preparedness, vocational acquisition, and vocational maintenance.In keeping with its innovative view of the importance of consumer employment, VCDI seeks to maintain an "employment first" stragegy with relation to all of the services provided by the program, therefore, it should be noted, though some objectives in areas other than vocational training may be indicated and assigned. All trainings are provided by VCDI vocational support mentors in a matter that: First, imparts the skill targeted in the assigned objective; and second, relates that skill to the individual's goal of employment.