Project SEARCH





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Project Search
Real-life work experience combined with training in employability and independent living skills to help youth with significant disabilities make successful transitions from school to productive adult life.
INTERNSHIPS/WORKSITE ROTATIONS:
Through three internships the students acquire competitive, marketable and transferable skills. Students will build:
- Communication skills
- Social Behaviors/Workplace Etiquette
- Teamwork
- Time Management
- Problem-solving skills
Worksites are identified through a process involving the teacher, skills trainers, and business liaison. Worksite locations:
- Begin a couple of weeks after start of program.
- Include an on-site department mentor that interacts with the instructor, skills trainers, and student giving constant guidance and feedback.
- Have students work 4 hours per day with a 30-minute lunch break.
- Provides job-coaching and teacher support to student interns.
WORK SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES:
- Update Patient Records
- Data Entry
- Sanitize/Stock Patient Rooms
- Deliveries Throughout Hospital
- Alphabetize & Sort
- Sanitize Equipment
- Food Preparation
- Inventory & Stock Supplies
- Check Expiration Dates
- Machine & Hand Fold Linens
- Update Employee Files
- Customer Service
- File Paperwork
- Burn/Shred CD's
- Telephone Skills
PROJECT SEARCH MODEL INVOLVES:
- Classroom instruction of independent living skills, money and budgeting, workplace ethics and communication skills
- Extensive period of training and career exploration
- Innovative adaptations
- Long-term job coaching
- Continuous feedback from teacher, skills trainers, and FMH department supervisors/mentors
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Project SEARCH Phone:
Lisa Laqua
(907) 458-5053
FNSBSD Project SEARCH Administrator:
Lori Swanson
(907) 452-2000 ext. 11444
National Project SEARCH website:
Newsletters:
ELIGIBILITY:
Project SEARCH serves students with disabilities. Typically these are students who:
- Are on an Individual Education Plan (IEP)
- Have completed their last year of high school (must defer diploma in order to enroll in Project SEARCH)
DATES to WATCH for:
- JANUARY - Open House at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital
- End of February - Applications DUE
- Mid-March - Interviews with potential interns
- Early April - Selection of interns announced
- Beginning of May - ALL additional immunization requirements/enrollment paperwork MUST BE COMPLETED