2025 AHPS Graduates

Your local Project SEARCH team is a collaboration between Augusta County, Staunton City, and Waynesboro City Schools, DARS, and Augusta Health. Together we are a dynamic partnership with the goal to help post high school graduates in the Valley with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain job skills to achieve competitive and enjoyable employment. Click HERE to learn about how this innovative program works.

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Project SEARCH 2026-2027




Nail Biting & Skin Picking

This might seem like an odd topic… …but it is one I am uniquely qualified to address. Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I am just someone with many years of experience dealing with this habit. For me picking the skin around my fingers can be conscious and unconscious. It can be a torture…

Fun Friday!

10 Years Of Project SEARCH in the Valley With the help and support of our partners, in honor of our 10th year of Project SEARCH in the Valley, we hosted a Fun Friday event in the Blue Ridge Cafe on 11/19/2025. This event was a way to spread the word about our program and say…

Responsible & Self Motivated

Being responsible and self motivated are two key attributes of a great employee. In the training room, our interns have an opportunity to sharpen these skills. They are required to clean the training room each Thursday and if they remember to do it WITHOUT being asked they can put their name in the “Pitch In…

Internship Options

Ever wondered what type of skills our Augusta Health Project SEARCH interns get to learn? Right now Augusta Health Project SEARCH has interns actively learning job skills in Supply Chain, Catering, Central Sterile, Environmental Services, and Laundry. Our interns have the opportunity to rotate between three internship sites within the hospital over the course of…