Application & Acceptance Process
First students fill out an application. Here is the link if the application window is open.
Students: Please include your resume with your submission.
Teachers, please fill out the transition assessment here.
Teachers, please send the most recent career assessment to hammondb@edmonds.wednet.edu
Here is the Brigance Transition Inventory you can have your student fill out.
Most high schools in the Edmonds School District utilize Naviance. You are welcome to send me that if you prefer, but most students have success with the Brigance.
If applications pass the initial screening, they are invited to interview (see qualifications below)
After interviews, the students receive a letter of acceptance or denial.
Students meet with their Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor in the Lynnwood Office to get signed up for DVR.
Sign up for DVR Services with Diane Shepard
Phone - 360-870-5844
Email - Diane.Shepard@dshs.wa.gov
Students have an intake meeting with the embedded Community Vocational Rehabilitation partner.
Northwest Center is our embedded provider. Ally Frank is the contact.
Email: afrank@nwcenter.org
Phone: (206) 285-9140
Students and families attend orientation in June to prepare for the next school/program year (see Dates & Timelines for more detailed information).
How to Qualify
As in life, the interns earn everything here at Swedish Edmonds Project SEARCH. Admission into the program is no exception.
With the program taking place in a hospital, the safety of all needs to come first. For this reason, this program is competency based.
All people have the right to work to attain internships and paid employment opportunities and the Swedish Edmonds Project SEARCH program is no different.
For the safety of everyone in a healthcare environment, the following prerequisites are necessary to accept students into the program, similar to how an employee is accepted into a paid employment position in the community.
