{"id":320859,"date":"2026-06-03T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:45:06","slug":"baylor-scott-white-medical-center-in-austin-prepares-students-for-future-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320859\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Scott &#038; White Medical Center in Austin prepares students for future careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bswhealth.com\/locations\/hospital\/austin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Scott &amp; White Medical Center in Austin<\/a> celebrated its first cohort of students to graduate from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectsearch.us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project SEARCH<\/a> program May 20.<\/p>\n<p>The medical center partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austinisd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin ISD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodwillcentraltexas.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goodwill<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twc.texas.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Workforce Commission<\/a> to complete the program, which helped students with disabilities prepare for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Two AISD graduates with disabilities receiving special education services had the opportunity to participate in Project SEARCH, which enabled them to develop real-world work skills in a hospital setting. The students had recently graduated from high school, but are qualified to receive additional training in areas such as job skills, daily living skills and independence to transition into the workforce, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The students spend one week in each rotation at the hospital, from food services to pre-op, operating room and emergency imaging.<\/p>\n<p>The takeaway<\/p>\n<p>One graduating student has already accepted a full-time position at the Austin Baylor Scott &amp; White campus, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baylor Scott &amp; White Medical Center in Austin celebrated its first cohort of students to graduate from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,114939,133,114934,114935,114936,37175,114938,29654,81596,114937],"class_list":["post-320859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-medical-center","tag-austin-news","tag-baylor-scott-white-medical-center","tag-career-preparation","tag-disability-support","tag-healthcare-careers","tag-inclusive-education","tag-medical-education","tag-students-with-disabilities","tag-vocational-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}