Competitive Employment Grant

The SW/WC Service Cooperative and its partners were awarded a Competitive Employment Grant from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). The grant focus will be on improving work-based learning programs in our service region. Some key points will be: initiating new work-based learning programs using a shared-service model, improving communication between organizations and providing up-to-date transition resources to parents, teachers, students and agencies, providing staff development for teachers and paraprofessionals to improve their skills in setting up and managing work-based learning programs, and adding an independent living skills assessment service to the Project Discovery program.