Full immersion in the workplace enables classroom instruction, career exploration, and hands-on training. The Project SEARCH® Transition-to-Work Program is a unique, business-led, one-year employment preparation program that takes place entirely at the workplace. Total workplace immersion facilitates a seamless combination of classroom instruction, career exploration, and hands-on training through worksite rotations. The program culminates in individualized job development. Project SEARCH®
The goal of Project SEARCH® is competitive employment. To reach that goal, the program provides real-life work experience combined with training in employability and independent-living skills to help young people with significant disabilities make successful transitions to productive adult life. The Project SEARCH® model involves an extensive period of skills training and career exploration, innovative adaptations, long-term job coaching, and continuous feedback from teachers, skills trainers, and employers. As a result, the Project SEARCH® team works at the completion of the training program, to support students to be employed in nontraditional, complex and rewarding jobs. In addition, the presence of a Project SEARCH® program can bring about long-term changes in business culture that have far-reaching positive effects on attitudes about hiring people with disabilities and the range of jobs in which they can be successful. New York State Coordination
The Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities serves as the statewide coordinator for Project SEARCH® in New York State. Working in collaboration with the Project SEARCH® team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, we can provide technical assistance to communities interested in starting a Project SEARCH® program. Current Project SEARCH® Programs in New York State
Arnot Health at St. Joseph's Hospital - Elmira
Beechwood Continuing Care - Getzville
City of Rochester - Rochester
Crystal Run Healthcare (formerly Legoland) - Newburgh
E.J.DelMonte Corporation - Rochester
Eastview Mall - Victor
Good Samaritan Hospital - Suffern
Jewish Senior Life - Rochester
Medford Multicare Center for Living - Medford
Montefiore Hospital - Bronx
Montefiore Hospital - New Rochelle
New York Presbyterian Queens - Flushing
New York Presbyterian Westchester - Bronxville
N.Y. Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health - White Plains
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn
RXR Realty - New York
Staten Island University Hospital / Northwell Health - Staten Island
SUNY Cobleskill - Cobleskill
University of Rochester Medical Center - Rochester
UPMC Chautauqua - Jamestown
Upstate Medical University - Syracuse
Wegmans Food Markets - Rochester
Interested in project SEARCH? Contact Us:
Project SEARCH
Marilee Boylan, M.S., Director of Employment Programs
N.Y. Project SEARCH State Coordinator
Marilee_Boylan@urmc.rochester.edu
