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Project Search internship at AdventHealth Sebring gives Highlands County young adults workplace experience
Summary
A transcript presentation describes Project Search, a nine-month internship program begun in 1996, that places 18–21-year-old participants with disabilities in on-site internships at AdventHealth Sebring, supported by local partners and family coaching.
Speaker 1, an unidentified speaker in the transcript, said Project Search "was founded at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1996" and has since grown into an internationally recognized nine-month internship model aimed at competitive employment.
The program, Speaker 1 said, places interns in a health-care workplace at AdventHealth Sebring where classroom lessons on employability are combined with three on-site internships. "Interns begin each day with classroom lessons on employability and workplace skills before reporting to their designated internship placements," the speaker said, and the internship work occurs…
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