Past Programs: Start On Success


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How Start On Success Works

Since 1994, in pilot projects from urban centers in Pennsylvania to rural Ohio, we have been searching for the most supportive, cost effective, non- bureaucratic ways to introduce high school students with disabilities to the workplace. Our focus is on "gap" kids These are students who, if they cannot find their place in the working world or in continuing education by the time they graduate, will be prime candidates for isolation, welfare or incarceration.

Our Goals
  • To help students with disabilities to discover that they have abilities which are needed in the workplace.
  • To help employers and their non-disabled employees to understand better the
    realities and advantages of hiring young people with disabilities.
  • To demonstrate what local communities can accomplish through voluntary
    partnerships among students, teachers, parents, administrators, service
    providers and employers.
  • To enable these young people to become self-supporting participants in the
    lives of their communities.


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Last Updated: July 29, 2005