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Project SEARCH

Year in Review for 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 a variety of 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
  • Financial Literacy
  • Employability
  • Self-Advocacy

Worksites are identified through a process involving the instructor, skills trainers, and business liaison.  Worksite locations:

  • Begin after completion of Foundation Health Partners Employee Orientation.
  • Include an on-site department mentor that interacts with the instructor, skills trainers, and intern giving constant guidance and feedback.
  • Have interns work 4.5 hours per day with a 30-minute lunch break.
  • Provides skills trainer and instructor support to interns.
  • Introduce new skills as initial skills are mastered.

WORK SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

  • Update digital patient records
  • Complete data entry
  • Sanitize/Stock public areas
  • Make deliveries throughout hospital
  • Complete clerical tasks
  • Sanitize Equipment
  • Complete food service tasks
  • Inventory & stock supplies
  • Check expiration dates
  • Machine & hand-fold linens
  • Update employee files
  • Customer service
  • File Paperwork
  • Transport/escort patients and visitors
  • Obtain benefits verification/authorization
  • Calibrate and check glucometers
  • Sort and categorize computer equipment
  • Decommission/Shred computer hard drives

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 instructor, skills trainers, and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital department supervisors/mentors

Project SEARCH Phone

Lisa Laqua

(907) 458-5053

National Project SEARCH website:

www.projectsearch.us

Fairbanks Project SEARCH Facebook Page

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 - Applications Accepted - Deadline is last Friday of the month
  • February - Interviews conducted with candidates
  • March - Acceptance letters sent out
  • Early May - ALL additional immunization requirements, background check, and DVR intake must be completed

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