Bon Secours St. Francis Health System Launches Employment Program For Students With Disabilities

Bon Secours St. Francis Health System (Bon Secours) partnered with Greenville County School District and Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department to launch a job training program, named Project SEARCH, for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Specifically, Project SEARCH will provide job training for students with IDD such as Down syndrome and autism.

A total of forty students will take part in the program, which includes a total of thirty weeks of internships at Bon Secours facilities. Project SEARCH was first implemented at a Cincinnati children’s hospital in 1996, and has since been replicated at over 300 different sites . . .