Project SEARCH is a business-led collaboration that enables young adults with disabilities to gain and maintain employment through training and career exploration.

The cornerstone of Project SEARCH is total immersion in a large business. Participants may be high school students in their final year of high school eligibility or they could be adults who have experienced significant barriers to employment. Each day, these interns report to the host business, learning employability skills in the classroom and job skills in the workplace as they rotate through 3 − 4 internships/experiences during the program year. 

Project | SEARCH Arizona, an initiative to pilot the program locally with the goal of replicating statewide, is a collaborative partnership among the following organizations:

• Arizona DES Division of Developmental Disabilities
• Arizona Rehabilitation Services Administration
• Linkages
• Pima County Joint Technological Education District
• SAGE Employment & Community Services, Easter Seals Blake Foundation
• Sonoran University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
• Tucson Unified School District
• University Physicians Hospital
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