Agency:	MSDE	Writer:	John Rosson	
Client:	DORS	Producer:		
Project:	Project Search	Director:		
Title:		Art Director:		
Subject:		Medium:		
Job #:		Contact:		
Code #:		Draft:	#2 (5.21.09)	

VIDEO 		AUDIO	
			
MUSIC FULLSHOT OF JOE WALKING		(music full)
'ambient street'	
HOLDING JOE WALKING		(narrator track)
joseph brown walks through a brisk baltimore morning. 	
SLO PAN UNIV OF MD. EXT.		his destination?	
		the university of maryland BALTIMORE  school of law.	
		(music under)
joe's a senior -- and he's got a goal WHEN HE COMPLETES HIGH SCHOOL.	
SOT JOE BROWN		(sot joe brown)
'just to go out and work.'	
JOE IN THE LIBRARY 		(narrator track)
TO pREPARE, joe works as an intern in the law library on campus.	
NAT FULL STREET - TIEYONNA WALK		(nat full)
'street ambient - beeps of horns'	
TIEYONNA WALK		(narrator track)
tieyonna miller wends her way along -- one block over.	
NAT FULL 'WALK SIGN CHANGES'		(nat full)
'air brakes hiss'	
HOLDING VIDEO & THEN EXT. OF SCHOOL 'BIRD ACROSS'		(narrator track)
she too heads toward campus AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE.	
NATS FULL - INTERCUT WALKUP SHOT OF 'SUPERVISOR WALKUP'  & TIEYONNA @ DESK FROM 'NAT 'HI TIEYONNA'		(nat full)
'ambient walkup -- 'Hi Tieyanna! 	
TIEYANNA SMILES		(nat full)
'How are things going?	
NAT FULL TIEYONNA		(nat full)
'Good! nods'	
NAT FULL SUPER		(nat full)
'I see you're still working on the folders?	
NAT FULL 'YES' & SMILE		(nat full)
'Yes!' (smiles)	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
tieyonna works as an office assistant.	
NAT FULL CLARENCE WALK		(nat full)
'truck motor'	
HOLDING CLARENCE		(narrator track)
clarence moore strides with purpose toward his future.	
		like the others, clarence is a high school senior.	
CLARENCE PAINTING		and like the others -- clarence is on the job at the university of maryland, baltimore  -- 	
		painting his future in bold strokes.	
SOT CLARENCE		(sot clarence moore)
'That was the first thing I wanted to do when I first came to Project Search.'	
CLARENCE PAINTS		(NARRATOR TRACK)
WHAT IS PROJECT SEARCH?	
SOT JOANNA FALCONECG - JOANNA FALCONE         DIRECTOR, PROJECT SEARCH		(SOT JOANNA FALCONE)
'Project Search is an innovative employment program for people with disabilities. It was started in Cincinnati, Ohio more than a decade ago. It's now being replicated nationally -- around the world...'	
MORE CLARENCE PAINTING		(narrator track)
project search is a high school transition program for students with disabilities.	
		it weaves students --	
CITY SCHOOLS EXT.'S		the school system --	
SCHOOL OF LAW EXT.		and employers together in a win-win for all.	
NAT FULL JOE ENTERS ROOM		(nat full joe enters)
'door handle & open'	
NAT FULL OPPOSITE SIDE		(nat full joe enters)
'Good morning everybody...'	
SOT JOANNA FALCONE		(sot joanna falcone)
'it's a business model. It's a unique collaboration of partners. Here it's the University of Maryland Baltimore, the Baltimore City Public School System, The Arc of Baltimore, and DORS -- The Division of Rehabilitation Services. And all of those partners are working together to make the program a success here.'	
JOE REVERSE AND HOLD VIDEO		(narrator track)
the students gain real-life work experience.	
		the schools land students in the field where they learn job skills.	
		and employers such as pamela blue get students eager to learn those skills  -- in internships usually of about ten weeks.	
		and the employers realize a potential employee down the road!	
SOT PAMELA BLUHCG - PAMELA BLUH         THURGOOD MARSHALL LAW LIBRARY,           UNIV. OF MD SCHOOL OF LAW		(sot pamela bluh)
'Joe is -- well -- he was our first one -- so I guess we have a special fondness for him? (smiles)	
HOLDING JOE IN STOCKROOM 		(NARRATOR TRACK)
joe works in the library, its stockroom and file room.	
SOT PAMELA BLUHCOVERING W/JOE VIDEO		(sot pamela bluh)
'And we looked at things like opening the mail, delivering the newspapers ... which I -- I think it's been wonderful.'	
SOT PAMELA BLUH CUT 2		(sot pamela bluh)
'... it's given the three staff members who work most closely with the Project Search student an opportunity to learn some supervisory skills...	
HOLDING VIDEO OF JOE		(narrator track)
the staff also has help from project search in training the students.	
NAT FULL PAN STREET TO ARC		(nat full)
'bus brakes (outside ARC)	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
it comes from the arc of baltimore -- a community-based support services agencyfor people with developmental disabilities. The arc has launched  'project search' here in baltimore.	
NAT FULL TIEYONA		(NAT FULL)
'How are you?'	
		''Good...'	
OT TAMEKA BROOKS		(sot tameka brooks)
'I'm a job coach...'	
COVER W/TAMEKA & TIEYONNA		(narrator track)
the job coach serves as an essential part of the program.	
SOT TAMEKA BROOKSCG - TAMEKA BROOKS         JOB COACH, ARC OF BALTIMORE		(sot tameka brooks)
'I go to the supervisors, I learn the job, I write a job analysis up, task by task, and I come back with the student, and I teach the student the job.'	
SOT TAMEKA BROOKS CUT 5 @ 501(COVER W/HER AND TIE)		(sot tameka brooks)
'Usually you devote a lotta time in the beginning, but once you really work with them 1-on-1 the interns learn really fast, so you phase-out, so you might start inthe beginning there everyday from nine to one, and then as the days go on, and the student is mastering the skill, you phase out maybe twice a week, then maybe a coupla hours or maybe one hour. 	
HOLDING TAMEKA & TIE		(narrator track)
the job coach handles the training -- oversees the interns, and always is on site.	
SOT MARY DIGIACINTO CUT 1 @ 2709CG - MARY DIGIACINTO         DIR. HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES,         UNIV. OF MD, BALTIMORE		(SOT MARY DIGIACINTO)
'Too often programs are um, really great feel-good programs if you will -- but the amount of extra work ...'(pot under)	
CUT TO HER WALKING SHOT (HOLD THIS SHOT OVER FIRST THREE SOT'S BELOW & THEN OUT TO MARY)		(narrator track)
mary digiacinto is a human resources director at the University of maryland, baltimore..	
SOT MARY D @ 3345 CUT 5(COVERED)		(sot mary d)
'The job coaches ...'	
SOT MARY D @ 3355-59(COVERED)		(sot mary d)
' ... the quality of work was validated on an ongoing basis ...'	
SOT MARY D @ 3406-10(COVERED)		(sot mary d)
'... and again limited time from the immediate supervisor ...' 	
COVER W/MARY OR STUDENTS WORKING		(narrator track)
she says the students' work surprised the supervisors.	
SOT MARY D @ 3316		(sot mary d)
'... in their mind, they had limited what they expected to students could do, and found that they had to expand the amount of work that they could give to the students and that was very exciting to everyone, and that was one of the big 'ah-hah's...'	
NAT FULL -- JOE TAGGING BOOKS W/ANTI-THEFT DEVICES		(nat full)
'machine ambient'	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
joe and another intern handle the everyday ... such as tagging library books with anti-theft strips.	
BACKTIME BELOW		but joe also handles labeling books.	
NAT FULL JOE -- 'REBECCA - (HE INPUTS) -- THIS IS JOE FILING BOOKS ON COMPUTER		(nat full)
'Alright Joseph -- where are you on these right now?	
MORE OF JOE FILING		(narrator track)
It's a more complicated job that involves correctly  punching numbers into a data template on computer.	
		the job's done right.	
SOT PAMELA BLUH		(sot pamela bluh)
'Both of them have been excellent. And both of them have actually taken on more responsibility and learned more duties than we had anticipated that they would want to do or be able to do -- so we are thrilled.' (smiles)	
SOT JOANNA FALCONE		(SOT JOANNA FALCONE)
'And that's just where we want the program to go! We to challenge the students, we want to find jobs for them, that are not the jobs that you traditionally think that people with disabilities could do.'	
NAT FULL TIEYONNA 'PAUSE & STUFF IN' (SHE'S SORTING MAIL)		(nat full tieyonna)
'stuffs mailbox'	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 5 TOP		(sot christina huntley)
'I really wish that I'd known about it earlier...'	
		(guitar music under softly)
	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY		(sot christina huntley)
' ... office assistant is a very helpful position here.'	
BACK TO TIE MAIL SORTING SEQUENCE		(narrator track)
christina huntley TALKS ABOUT tieyonna miller -- who handles the mail, copies, sorts, ASSEMBLES folders FOR MEETINGS -- and MORE.	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 6CG - CHRISTINA HUNTLEY, COORD.         SCHOOL FOR MENTAL HEALTH, UNIV.         OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE		(sot christina huntley)
'I think our only concern is that we only have them for a short period of time, and we really wish we could have them for a longer duration.'	
MORE TIEYONNA SMILING		(narrator track)
she SAYS TIEYONNA'S POSITIVE PRESENCE BOOSTS MORALE.	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 10		(sot christina huntley)
(SMILING) 'Tieyonna is a very joyful person, she has a great smile and she's very pleasant to work with ...'	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 2 @ 5838 (COVER THIS PORTION W/TIEYONNA @ TOP BITE... THEN OUT TO CHRISTINA)		(sot christina huntley)
'Just a great smile when she comes in in the morning...'	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 10 101:34		(sot christina huntley)
'I can depend on Tieyonna to come in and even get started without myself or the job coach even being present...'	
BACKTIME OR COVER W/TIE		(narrator track)
she is -- in short -- 	
SOT CHRISTINA HUNTLEY CUT 11 (VERY END)		(sot christina huntley)
'independent... and also reliable and responsible.'	
NAT FULL CLARENCE WALKING DOWN HALL & INTO ROOM		(nat full)
'scuffle of shoes'	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 1 @ 555HOLDING VIDEO SEQUENCE OF CLARENCE INTO ROOM		(sot vassie hollamon)
'The employer really expects that the individual is going to come with certain skills, certain knowledge, certain abilities...'	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 1 @ 631CG - VASSIE HOLLAMON         ASSOC. DIR., OPERATION & MAINT.,         UNIV. MD, BALTIMORE		(sot vassie hollamon)
'... so it's really critical that when candidates come to us, they present themselves as being employable.'	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 1 @ 751		(sot vassie hollamon)
'at the end of the day, most employers are looking for you to do a job. To be job ready means that you have that ability to take on a task.'	
NAT FULL PAINT BRUSH & CAN		(nat full)
'paint brush in can'	
CONTINUE SEQUENCE		(narrator track)
clarence moore paints.	
		he's learned during 'project search.'	
SOT CUT 1 @ 810-23		(sot vassie hollamon)
'... you have that ability to understand an order when it's given to you... or a direction. Order's not always a nice word to use, but a direction when it's given to you.'	
HOLDING VASSIE & THEN BACK TO CLARENCE		(narrator track)
vassie hollamon appreciates both moore's ability to work --	
NAT FULL 'HELLO CLARENCE'VIDEO IS COOPERMAN WALKING INTO ROOM --  COVER JUMP W/CLARENCE		(nat full)
'Clarence ...'	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
and to see a job through.	
NAT BACK UP FULL		(nat full)
'How you doin' Mr. Coop?'	
POT NAT UNDER		(narrator track)
jerry cooperman --	
NAT FULL AGAIN		(nat full)
'ok... how you doin?	
		'ok!'	
POT NAT UNDER		(narrator track)
-- is moore's counselor.	
HOLDING SHOT A SEC -- THEN GO TO 'DIP IN CAN'		cooperman works for the division of rehabilitation services -- or 'dors' -- with the maryland state department of education.	
		DORS PROGRAMS HELP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES GO TO WORK.	
		MANY DORS COUNSELORS LIKE COOPERMAN WORK EXCLUSIVELY WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE MOVING FROM SCHOOL INTO WORK.	
SOT JERRY COOPERMAN CUT 6 @ 154:44 (C0VER W/MORE PAINTING)CG - JERRY COOPERMAN         COUNSELOR, DIVISION OF          REHABILITATION SERVICES 		(sot jerry cooperman)
'Clarence is getting real work experience. And he comes here everyday and he works in the various departments getting wonderful skills -- not only actual work skills but 'soft skills' as well. Get to work on time, how to interact with co-workers, how to deal with supervisors. We've been hearing via reports and talking to our contacts here that Clarence is really doing a wonderful job.'	
NAT FULL'TIE CUT & TEA LOOKDOWN'		(nat full renee gillis)
'and you want the person to know that you are very confident...'	
NAT FULL T MAKEWHAT?...'		(nat full renee gillis)
'So you should be making what?	
		(Joe) 'Eye contact.'	
		(Renee) 'Good, You should make eye contact.'	
CU STUDENT CUTS		(narrator track)
the students of project search attend class an hour before AND AFTER work.	
SHOT OF THE WHITEBOARD & RENEE WRITING		they learn job readiness, resume writing, and interviewing skills.	
NAT FULL CLARENCE KNOCKS ON THE WALL FOR THE MOCK INTV.		(nat full)
'knocks on wall'	
		(Renee) 'Come in...'	
		(Clarence) 'Good morning Ms, Gillis...' 	
		(Renee) 'Good morning...'	
		Clarence) 'How you doin'..."	
		(Renee) 'I'm well thanks, how are you?'	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
and they learn appropriate workplace conversation and behavior --	
		about 'how' to work, as much as the work itself.	
NAT FULL CLARENCE 'I'M A GOOD WORKER...'		(nat full clarence)
'Alright, I'm looking here -- I see that your name is Clarence Moore?'	
		'Yes ma'am....'	
SOT MARY DIGIACINTO CUT 7 @136:43		(sot mary digiacinto)
'You know you hear this all the time -- 'I can train for the technical skills, (animated) and I can do that -- as an employer I can do that, but what I find very difficult to do is get the right work attitude get the right work behavior...'	
NAT FULL CLARENCE 'I'M A GOOD WORKER...'		(nat full clarence)
'I'm a good worker.'	
		'And I can depend on you?'	
		'Yes ma'am.'	
		'Okay...'	
HOLDING VIDEO		(narrator track)
the classroom integrates job etiquette with the skills necessary to get along --	
CU PAINTBRUSH		get it done --	
PIC OF CLARENCE AND AWARD		and excel.	
SOT VASSIE CUT 10 @ 1711		(sot vassie hollamon)
'An individual with disabilities can do any job that's out there provided that it can be made to be structured and systematic.'	
EXT. OF U OF MD BALTO		(narrator track)
they can do these tasks, says hollamon, and often do them better.	
		at the university of maryland, baltimore, hollamon says time has taught him one bedrock truth.	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMONCOVER W/JOE,  CLARENCE & TIEYONNA ON THE JOB		(sot vassie hollamon)
'I now employ better than a dozen individuals with disabilities in my facilities management group, and -- within Operations and Maintenance -- and what I've found over the years is that uh, consistency, reliability, dedication, loyalty, these are all characteristics that show up in individuals with disabilities that frankly don't always show up in everybody else!'	
MORE 'ON THE JOB' 		(narrator track)
put coldly on paper he says --	
		his numbers are better.	
		less down time, fewer sick days.	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 22 12347-50		(sot vassie hollamon)
'If I were to simply look at my down time --the amount of leave time that's taken by employees ...'	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 22 @ 12402		(sot vassie hollamon)
'The average employee has a down time of 17%...'	
SOT VASSIE HOLLAMON CUT 22 @ 124:14		(sot vassie hollamon)
'Among the individuals with disabilities that we've hired, that downtime rate is less than ten percent.'	
SOT STEVE MORGAN CUT 9 'MOTIVATION' 151:08CG - STEVE MORGAN          EXEC. DIR., ARC OF BALTIMORE		(sot steve morgan)
'If there's probably a single characteristic that a Project Search graduate -- a person with a disability brings to a prospective employer is motivation and enthusiasm about working.'	
MORE ARC EXT		(narrator track)
steve morgan runs the arc of baltimore.	
SOT STEVE MORGAN CUT 6		(sot steve morgan)
'The thing that got -- I think all of us most excited about Project Search is that it resonates with the value that our organization holds dear when it comes to employment and that is that if given the opportunity and given the training virtually all people with developmental disabilities can work in real jobs in regular workplaces...'	
SOT STEVE MORGAN CUT 10		(sot steve morgan)
'These people wanna work ... bottom line! (smiles)	
GRAPHIC -- A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION FOR ALL ITS SUPPORT.		(music full)
	
CG - PROJECT SEARCH WEBLINK		(music full & under))
	
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