Project SEARCH Program Featured on The Macon Newsroom

The Macon Newsroom featured Project SEARCH, a program offered through the Bibb County School District and MGA designed to give students with developmental disabilities opportunities to gain employable skills so they can build resumes and eventually apply for paid jobs.

"Project SEARCH is an international program that started in 1996 at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. It is the fifth year the program has been offered by Bibb Schools in partnership with the university...

'I was concerned about what they were going to do for students that would require, I guess, extra attention after high school,' Chase’s mom, Dr. Felisha Kitchen, said. 'Project SEARCH was a godsend for us.'"

Read The Macon Newsroom's article here.

Chase Kitchen signed a letter of intent to be an intern at Middle Georgia State University through the Project SEARCH program. Chase, center, is pictured with his parents, Charles and Felisha Kitchens, and Bibb County school board member Lisa Garrett. Photo: The Macon Newsroom

Carter Robinson, 20, shakes hands with Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims at the Project SEARCH program graduation at Middle Georgia State University on May 18, 2023. Robinson is set to start working at ACE Hardware. Photo: Laura Corley, The Macon Newsroom