7/29/2019 Topic: It's Conference Time! Maryellen Daston Administrator	The workshop sessions!
11/5/2019 Topic: Opportunity for help with transportation Maryellen Daston Administrator	If transportation is an issue for your interns, check out this opportunity from Lyft's Community Grants program. Lyft will award up to $20,000 in ride credits to organizations across the country making a difference in their communities. Go to this website to apply: https://www.lyftwheelsforall.com/
3/28/2020 Topic: Professional Development Maryellen Daston Administrator	Dennis Cleary, co-creator of VocFit (www.vocfit.com), is hosting 2 live webinars. They will be on April 1st and April 3rd at 12 PM (Eastern Time). VocFit.com has a number of tools that can help support your Project SEARCH team during this Covid-19 Pandemic. If you are not yet a VocFit.com user, what better time to develop new skills and learn to use this tool? VocFit.com has new updates and tools and is perfect for tele-education. Learn how to use VocFit.com to support your interns this year and to plan for employment after graduation. Dennis Cleary is the co-creator of VocFit.com and will demonstrate the new changes during this webinar. Here is the info for the April 1 webinar: Topic: VocFit for Project SEARCH Date: Wednesday, April 1st Time: 12:00 PM (Eastern Time) - Live! Click on: https://iu.zoom.us/j/344348448 Meeting ID: 344 348 448
4/7/2020 Topic: Please catch up on intern data while you are home! Maryellen Daston Administrator	Hi Connie! Because the deadline has passed, the 2018-19 cohort of interns are now considered "Graduates." We have suspended the deadline, so the records are still editable, but you need to have the Graduate Data Entry Coordinator role to add or edit information. Your Program Site Database Coordinator can assign you that role.
10/14/2020 Topic: Skill Building at Home: New Activities and Contest Maryellen Daston Administrator	We’ve added 10 new “Skill Building at Home” (SBH) activities! You can find them at Toolkit>>Curriculum>>Skill Building at Home. We’d love to have more, and you can help us! We are announcing a 5-week contest to create additional “Skill Building at Home” activities. If you have ideas, this is your chance to share them with your Project SEARCH colleagues! Contest Details: --Submissions must be sent to susie.rutkowski@cchmc.org on or before Wednesday, November 18. --Create 1 or more “Skills Building at Home” activities using the Word format of the existing activities. --Show how your activity relates to VocFit skills (list as many as you want). --We will edit and share all activities that meet standards on the Project SEARCH portal! --Our curriculum team will review all submissions and award a small prize to the author of top-rated activity!
4/19/2022 Topic: going in order Maryellen Daston Administrator	There's a new course of study to accompany the new curriculum. You can find it at the bottom of the list of sub-folders when you open the Curriculum Folder in the ToolKit:
1/12/2023 Topic: Press release Maryellen Daston Administrator	Thank you, Holly! I was just coming here to do that.
1/17/2023 Topic: Enlisting in Military Maryellen Daston Administrator	Hi Marcy. The answer depends on whether or not the intern completed (or nearly completed) the Project SEARCH program and then enlisted or if they withdrew well before completion to enlist. If they completed Project SEARCH, or enough of the program that you think their experience in PS contributed to their ability to qualify for the Marines, you could record the enlistment as employment. If they withdrew early in the PS year, I would mark them as withdrawn and choose "Other" as the reason, and then indicate in the text box that they enlisted in the Marines.

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