{"id":3383,"date":"2017-02-16T02:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2017-02-16T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:50:32","slug":"invitation-possibility-becomes-reality-project-search-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/02\/16\/invitation-possibility-becomes-reality-project-search-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"invitation: Possibility becomes reality for Project SEARCH interns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>You are invited!<a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/Project-SEARCH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3386 size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/Project-SEARCH.jpg\" alt=\"Project SEARCH\" width=\"330\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nProject SEARCH intern showcase<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #000080\">Possibility becomes reality when a school district and hospital collaborate to create a business-led, one-year, school-to-work program for students with disabilities.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Everyone is invited to discover how Project SEARCH is a positive impact in our community.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Tuesday, February 21, 2017 <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>5:30 \u2013 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Denali Room, Central Peninsula Hospital, Soldotna, Alaska<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Families, local employers, educators, partner organizations, and the community are invited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meet student interns who will showcase learning from their internship rotations<\/li>\n<li>Talk with the teacher and job coach; meet the hospital job mentors<\/li>\n<li>Light refreshments will be served<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-intern-2.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-intern.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3385 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-intern.png\" alt=\"2017 intern\" width=\"399\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsearch.us\/\">The Project SEARCH High School Transition Program<\/a> is a total workplace immersion, facilitating classroom instruction, career exploration, and relevant job-skills training in strategically designed internships. Through targeted internship rotations, 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 \/>\n<strong>Local employers of previous interns include:<\/strong> Safeway Bakery; Fred Meyer; Wal-Mart; Central Peninsula Hospital; Heritage Place; Blue Moose Bed and Biscuit; Charis Place Assisted Living; Walgreens; KPBSD.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<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, Frontier Community Services, and the Kenai Job Center.<br \/>\n<strong>Questions?<\/strong> Contact: Cindy Worley, Project SEARCH Instructor, KPBSD and CPH, 907.513.9691<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-intern-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3384\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2017\/02\/2017-intern-2-532x1024.png\" alt=\"2017 intern 2\" width=\"338\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are invited! Project SEARCH intern showcase Possibility becomes reality when a school district and hospital collaborate to create a business-led, one-year, school-to-work program for students with disabilities. Everyone is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2017\/02\/16\/invitation-possibility-becomes-reality-project-search-interns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;invitation: Possibility becomes reality for Project SEARCH interns&#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":[9],"tags":[216,807,899],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-partners","tag-central-peninsula-hospital","tag-project-search","tag-school-to-work-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","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=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}