Project Corporate Support (CORPS)

Project Corporate Support (CORPS)

CORPS is a model demonstration project designed to assist students with severe disabilities to transition into chosen jobs and careers through employer-based and employer-driven interventions and supports.

Objectives

Employers are the experts at hiring and training workers with disabilities to fulfill their workplace demands. Increasingly, their training efforts are being offered to workers with disabilities as businesses include this largely untapped resource into their workforce. Post-school employment outcomes for students with severe disabilities can be improved by enhancing employers' capacities to train and support them along with their other employees.

The Objectives And Activities of the project are designed to build the capacity of public and private employers, including large corporations, small businesses, and government agencies to support transitioning students with severe disabilities through:

modifications to existing orientation and training programs for new employees, job descriptions, and employee evaluations;
mentoring programs for training and ongoing support functions, and
worksite accommodations such as environmental modifications, scheduling modifications, and job carving.

Student Benefits

Students benefit from the project by transitioning into work while in secondary programs, without an interruption of services and without discontinuity between educational and adult services.

Project Materials and Products

Individual Employee Mentoring Survey - PDF version, MSWord version

Department/Divisional Mentoring Survey - PDF version, MSWord version

For More Information

Pam Targett
Virginia Commonwealth University
Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workplace Supports
P.O. 842011
1314 W Main St.
Richmond, Va. 23284-2011

(804) 828-2325 (voice)
(804) 828-2994 (tty)
(804) 828-2193 (fax)

This grant (#H158V970055) was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and Office of Special Education Programs in October of 1997 and ends October of 2000.