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= Project Search =

Project Search Overview Mission Winner of the 2004 Secretary of Labor's New Freedom Initiative Award Project SEARCH was awarded the 2004 New Freedom Initiative award from the Department of Labor. This award recognizes businesses and people that have demonstrated exemplary and innovative efforts in furthering the employment and workplace environment for people with disabilities.

//In 1995 the American College of Healthcare Executives [|adopted a policy statement] that reads, in part, "...healthcare executives must take the lead in their organizations to increase employment opportunities for qualified persons with disabilities and to advocate on behalf of their employment to other organizations in their communities."//

//With this statement as a guiding prinicple, Project SEARCH serves people with disabilities through innovative workforce and career development. Through this process we educate employers about the potential of this underutilized workforce while meeting their human resource needs.//

Project SEARCH provides employment and education opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities. The program is dedicated to workforce development that benefits the individual, community and workplace.

Project SEARCH Programs > Comprehensive employment, job retention, and career advancement services for adults with disabilities. > A one-year, worksite-based school-to-work program for youths with developmental and / or physical disabilities in their last year of high school eligibility. > A highly individualized approach for Cincinnati Children's patients with disabilities or chronic illness (ages 14 and older) to address vocational, educational, training and employment goals. > Tours, individualized consultation, and group workshops for supported employment and special education professionals. [|Contact Project SEARCH] For more information about Project SEARCH at Cincinnati Children's, please contact projectSEARCH@cchmc.org or call 513-636-2516.
 * **[|Adult Employment Program]**
 * **[|High School Transition Program]**
 * Learn more about Project Search's High School Tranisition Program (12 min. 15 sec.)
 * Learn more about Project Search at Fifth Third Bank. (10 min. 36 sec.)
 * View a news story about this program, Making the Grade: Fifth Third, CPS Team Up.
 * **[|Vocational-Education Clinic]**
 * **Program Replication and Dissemination**