{"id":2169,"date":"2015-09-18T06:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2015-09-18T06:41:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T14:41:14","slug":"project-search-open-house-with-national-speaker-in-kenai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/09\/18\/project-search-open-house-with-national-speaker-in-kenai\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Search Open House with national speaker in Kenai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2013\/09\/KPBSD-logo-4c-today.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-907\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2013\/09\/KPBSD-logo-4c-today-150x150.png\" alt=\"KPBSD logo 4c today\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<br \/>\nNews Release<br \/>\nProject SEARCH open house is September\u00a024, 2015<br \/>\nWhat 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Thursday, September 24, 2015<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>5:00 \u2013 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Challenger Center,<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Kenai, Alaska<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Families, educators, partner organizations, and community members are invited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet student interns who will showcase learning from their respective internship rotations<\/li>\n<li>Talk with the teacher and job coach<\/li>\n<li>Meet the hospital job mentors<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Be inspired by national speaker,\u00a0Erin Riehle, the Project Search National Director, who will speak about the\u00a0ways in which you can assist our students with special needs in employability training and community involvement.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sean Dusek, KPBSD superintendent said, \u201cOne 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.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nKenai Peninsula Project SEARCH is made possible through the collaborative efforts of Project SEARCH Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital, Central Peninsula Hospital, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, the Governor\u2019s Council on Disabilities and Special Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Frontier Community Services.<br \/>\n<strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsearch.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project SEARCH<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=31323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014 Golden Apple Award: Central Peninsula Project SEARCH program<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=29416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2013 KPBSD Project SEARCH story<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=27168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 KPBSD Project SEARCH story<\/a><br \/>\n###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release Project SEARCH open house is September\u00a024, 2015 What takes place when a school district and hospital collaborate to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/09\/18\/project-search-open-house-with-national-speaker-in-kenai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project Search Open House with national speaker in Kenai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-district-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}