The Gibraltar Disability Society will sending two representatives, Mrs Nicole Byrne and Mr Maurice Valarino, to the Project SEARCH 2014 Europe Conference to be held in Glasgow in June. As part of the Society’s initiative to move forward and create much needed employment opportunities for persons with disabilities we have also issued invitations to Miss Samantha Sacramento Minister for Social Services, Mr John Cortez Minister for Health, Mrs Isobel Ellul Hammond Shadow spokesperson for Social Services and Health and Mrs Antonia Savignon-Balestrino from the Autism Support Group. The Society has offered to sponsor those we have invited to attend alongside our own representatives and we hope, as well as attending the conference, we will be able to organise a visit to a working Project SEARCH programme. By attending this conference we are following on from the visit to Gibraltar, sponsored by the Society, in October last year of Miss Erin Riehle, Founder and Senior Director and Mrs Anne O’Bryan, Program Consultant and UK Lead both from Project SEARCH. It was during this visit that Miss Riehle, Mrs O’Bryan and Nicole Byrne met with the Ministers for Health, Education and Social Services give them the opportunity to hear firsthand how such a project could benefit Gibraltar’s disabled young persons. Since its inception in 1996 Project SEARCH has grown from a single program site to over 200 sites across the United States and Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia. Further updates to regarding the Conference visit will be made over the coming weeks.
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