Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888
News Release
Project SEARCH open house is September 24, 2015
What takes place when a school district and hospital collaborate to create a business-led, one-year, school-to-work program for students with disabilities? Join KPBSD and Central Peninsula Hospital for the annual Project SEARCH High School Transition Program open house and find out about a life-changing opportunity happening in our community.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Challenger Center,
Kenai, Alaska
Families, educators, partner organizations, and community members are invited to:
- Meet student interns who will showcase learning from their respective internship rotations
- Talk with the teacher and job coach
- Meet the hospital job mentors
- Be inspired by national speaker, Erin Riehle, the Project Search National Director, who will speak about the ways in which you can assist our students with special needs in employability training and community involvement.
Sean Dusek, KPBSD superintendent said, “One of our on-going challenges is to ensure that our students with disabilities make a smooth transition to life after high school. Project SEARCH is thus, a wonderful way to help us meet this challenge.”
The Project SEARCH High School Transition Program is a total workplace immersion, facilitating a seamless combination of classroom instruction, career exploration, and relevant job-skills training through strategically designed internships. Through a series of three targeted internships the students acquire competitive, marketable, and transferable skills. Students also build communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills which is important to their overall development as a young worker. The goal: independent adults prepared for competitive employment opportunities.
Kenai Peninsula Project SEARCH is made possible through the collaborative efforts of Project SEARCH Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Central Peninsula Hospital, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, the Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Frontier Community Services.
Links
Project SEARCH
2014 Golden Apple Award: Central Peninsula Project SEARCH program
2013 KPBSD Project SEARCH story
2012 KPBSD Project SEARCH story
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