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The purpose of this study was to explore the implementation of five life skill components of Brolin's (1979) Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) program in Basic Education classrooms in school districts in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. Using a case study approach (Yin, 2014), LCCE Knowledge Battery pre-test was administered to a group of students with varying severity of intellectual, social, and physical disabilities. Working with school staff, families, and the community, workshops on counting money, responsible expenditures, banking, housing, and healthy living was implemented in an attempt to improve student achievement on final examinations, student self-efficacy and self-determination, and to help students develop employability skills. Analysis of the results indicated most students improved in all five areas. The LCCE is described and analyzed and specific examples are provided to explicate the methods used in this study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to characterize the information needs experienced by adult patients across the continuum of their hematological cancer., Methods: Individual semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 28 adults with hematological cancer and 18 clinicians recruited from across Canada and analyzed using interpretive description., Results: Distinct information needs were organized across seven points of the cancer continuum: prior to diagnosis, at diagnosis, prior to treatment, during treatment, after treatment, relapse/non-response, and end of life. Patients' information needs reflected a desire to better understand their current physical and psychosocial circumstances, as well as how to make decisions about their treatment, self-management, and health care. The need to receive information in a preparatory way was relevant across all phases of the cancer continuum., Conclusion: Our work contributes an initial approach for providing patient education and counselling for people with hematological cancers, which can be tailored based on individuals' unique characteristics and treatment pathways., Practice Implications: Adults with hematological cancers require information to support decision making over the course of their diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, but can experience information overwhelm. These findings provide an approach for organizing the delivery of information based on different points of need across the cancer continuum., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None., (Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.)