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The study aimed to identify the attitudes of secondary students towards technical and vocational work, and the role of the technical and vocational rehabilitation initiative in developing these trends towards technical and vocational work. In order to answer the questions of the study, the descriptive method was used. The study consisted of 302 students from the third grade of Madinah who participated in the Technical and Vocational Rehabilitation Initiative (1438/1439). The study used the analytical descriptive method. The study tool consisted of a questionnaire consisting of (16) paragraphs measuring the sample's attitudes toward technical and vocational work in the light of the technical and vocational rehabilitation initiative. The study reached a number of results, the most prominent of which are: The role of the technical and vocational rehabilitation initiative in developing the attitudes of high school students in Medina towards technical and vocational work from their point of view was (high). The results showed no statistically significant differences between the sample responses due to the variable (specialization, gender). The main difficulties that have hindered the role of the technical and vocational rehabilitation initiative are: the reluctance to move towards technical and vocational rehabilitation, and negative attitudes towards technical and vocational education compared with the study of academic disciplines. In the light of the results, the study recommended that the technical and vocational rehabilitation initiative should be expanded to include the rest of the secondary school, and that evening training programs should be held for students in line with the needs of the labor market. (Published Abstract)