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AUCD: Poster Symposium: Ensuring Opportunities for Competitive Employment: Sustaining a Program During Economic Hardships: UNMC I Nebraska Medicine's Project SEARCH Gains Partners and Diversifies Funding

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Presenter

Tara Harper, M.P.A., UCEDD Program Associate
Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics & Rehabilitation, UCEDD/LEND

Other Presenter(s)

Ian Froemming, Omaha, NE, United States, NE - Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics & Rehabilitation, UCEDD/LEND;


Description

The UNMC/Nebraska Medicine Project SEARCH program achieved a 100% employment for the 2017 class. It's proven to be an effective model for adults with I/DD. Proposed changes in the state could have devastated the program. To be proactive stakeholders diversified funding. A school district added this year will make the program a mixed-site (transition students and adults). Braided funding will support salaries allowing the program to become sustainable once again.

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