Miami City Hall a classroom for students with disabilities
August 26th, 2008From the Miami Herald:
Twelve students with disabilities are working in Miami’s City Hall, rotating through city departments as they learn marketable job skills. While there’s no guarantee of a permanent city job, it’s a possibility.
They’ll spend the school year answering phones, scanning documents into computers and generally learning the ins and outs of being a big-city bureaucrat.
”It’s pretty cool,” Julius [Curry] said. “They actually care, and they want to help you train.”
The pilot training program is part of Project SEARCH, which runs dozens of job sites nationwide for people with disabilities, most in hospitals.
The Miami effort is one of only two (with Vancouver, Washington) in which local governments have adopted the program. Program graduates are said to have a success rate of more than 80 percent in finding jobs.
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