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Ivymount School launches Project Search with the NIH Clinical Center Ivymount School launches Project Search with the NIH Clinical Center Ivymount School will place twelve students, in their last year at Ivymount, at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. Ivymount School is the first non-public school which serves multi-jurisdictions to become a Project Search replication site. Project Search was originally established in 1996 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and now has 140 replication sites throughout the county and overseas. The Ivymount project at the NIH Clinical Center will be a partnership with our local school systems, funding agencies and adult vocational providers, including DDA, DORS, RSA, DDS, and SEEC. Project Search is also supported by a grant from the HSC Foundation. Ivymount students, beginning in September, will start and end their day at NIH and will, through a rotation of internships during the year, gain competitive, marketable, and transferrable skills leading to the ultimate goal of employment. For more information visit the website at www.projectsearch.us. Excerpt from the NIH Clinical Center Newsletter, August 2010: Hospital Welcomes Project SEARCH Interns "Twelve new interns will arrive at the Clinical Center in September through a partnership with Project SEARCH for a 30 week unpaid internship. THE CC is launching this intern program as a pilot under the management of Denise Ford, Chief of the Office of Hospitality Services, as part of The CC Volunteer Program. Recent high school graduates from the Ivymount School in Rockville will work with job coaches from a local rehabilitation service to ease their transition into the workplace. They will join the CC team and will work with close mentoring in nine different departments. The interns’ tasks will include receiving and stocking supplies in the Materials Management Department, clerical work in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education and patient and visitor greeting with Hospitality Services. “This will help people see beyond the disability and understand the interns as contributing members of our workforce,” Ford said. “It’s a win all the way around.” She hopes the CC’s involvement in this transition program will create a recruitment stream to support the presidential goal of increasing the employment rate of workers with disabilities. The ultimate aim for young people in Project Search is competitive employment.”
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