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Bay Area Project SEARCH
Toolworks is excited to be part of a small consortium of agencies awarded funding to create Bay Area Project SEARCH.
Project SEARCH is a highly effective model that partners medical centers with nonprofit agencies serving people with disabilities to create successful recruitment, employment training, and retention programs for people with disabilities.
Project SEARCH was started at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, OH and has been been replicated successfully in several other states. Through the grant, Medical Center partners interested in working with us will have the opportunity to visit Cincinnati Children's Hospital or other medical centers to see the program in action, as well as meet with the hospital administrators who made it work for their facilities.
Through technical assistance provided by the national Project SEARCH group, Medical Centers can:
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Identify hard to fill positions or positions with high turnover
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Identify tasks that are being completed by highly skilled personnel, reducing patient care time
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Learn from industry professionals how to create efficiencies by using the project SEARCH employment model
The Bay Area Project SEARCH team will then create a customized recruitment, training and support program for employees with disabilities with our medical center partners. Our Project SEARCH team provides staffing for the program, typically at no cost to our partners.
For information on the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Project SEARCH program, visit their website at:
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/svc/alpha/p/search/
For information regarding Bay Area Project SEARCH, please contact Kristy Feck, Vice President, Toolworks, Inc. at kfeck -at- toolworks.org
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and Exciting Affordable Housing Services in the East Bay
Learn
more about the unique and
specialized services Toolworks is now providing to residents
of several affordable housing projects in Berkeley.
Job
Opportunities at Toolworks
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out our Job
Opportunities page
for the latest opening at Toolworks: Vocational Specialist.
Wishlist
Program for Local Schools and Nonprofits
Here's your chance to help make a difference in someone's life.
Craigslist and Cole HardwareŽ are currently offering people a chance
to donate to local schools and nonprofit agencies. Its very easy.
Go to http://www.secure5.ep-dns.com/~colehard/
and
select Toolworks from the list of Bay Area nonprofit agencies and
schools. Follow the links until you get to the Toolworks Community
Day Services wishlist.
From there, you can choose from the list of art supplies that helps
support the various art projects of the Day Program.
In
addition, Cole HardwareŽ is extending a 10% discount to all contributors
in order to make your donations even more effective!
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