The chief difference between mental health units and training schools lay in the type of patient admitted.  Training schools were devoted to care of those whose mental conditions derived from hereditary factors, or for whom there was little or no hope for cure.  The work in training schools was very similar to that in mental hospitals. 

Men worked as ward attendants at the school.  The July 15, 1944 issue of The Reporter, published by the National Service Board of Religious Objectors, included a description of the day-to-day activities at Stockley.

The day attendant in the Delaware State Training School at Stockley comes on duty after breakfast.  He puts toothpaste on two dozen toothbrushes and sees to it that 24 of his feeble minded charges brush their teeth.  He sees to it that a higher-grade worker-patient sweeps the floor; another scrubs the floor; and another takes out the trash.  As another worker is picking up papers, the attendant sees to it that the rest of the patients change into their day clothes.  All this takes a good part of the morning.  Comes noon, together with the worker-patients, he gets them off to lunch.

During the meal, he keeps an eye on the patients to see that they get enough—that they don’t steal anyone else’s food—and don’t give their food away.  In the afternoon, the lower-grade patients go to the play yard, and the higher-grade worker-patients go back to work.  The supper routine is pretty much the same as at noon.  At bedtime, he checks to be sure that everyone is clean, gives medication to the patients with epilepsy, bandages cuts, stops fights, and then pretty much collapses as everyone finally gets to sleep.  (The Reporter, July 15, 1944 in Sareyan p. 77)