Project Opportunity
The Tennessee Department of Human Services and Vanderbilt University Medical Center joined forces in the spring of 2005 to help high school students with disabilities find full-time employment. Project Opportunity is a pilot career training and employment program within the Department's Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) for students in their last year of high school. After successful completion of the program, which requires total immersion and on-the-job-training in the healthcare setting, the students will be eligible for full-time employment at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
The pilot program is modeled on a similar program at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Project Opportunity partners include DRS, Williamson and Metro Nashville School systems, the Tennessee Department of Education, the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Project Opportunity gives 'Gift of Hope'
Rehabilitation Services
- Americans With Disabilities Act
- Blind & Visually Impaired Svcs.
- Community Tennessee Rehabilitation Centers (CTRC's)
- Compliance Office
- Councils and Committees
- Deaf & Hard of Hearing Svcs.
- Disability Determination Services
- Eligibility for VR Services
- Employer Services
- Project Opportunity
- Tennessee Rehabilitation Center (TRC)
- Tennessee Technology Access Program (TTAP)
- Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Services
