# @childrenscolo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQUfUVNEz_M
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68564223-childrenscolo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-27T16:55:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Children's Hospital Colorado (@ChildrensColo) — https://gondola.cc/ChildrensColo

## Caption

Daniel still remembers riding his bike through the hallways at Children's Colorado with his therapy team. Now, he strides those same halls as an employee with a new mission. 

When Daniel was 5, he came to our Sie Center for Down Syndrome to receive care. 

“It was fun being with my team, and I always liked going there,” Daniel says. 

With the help of our therapy team, Daniel learned how to run, and now he’s sprinting through life. 

Daniel returned years later as a teenager for a projectsearchhq internship — learning job skills, independence and confidence in the professional world. Project SEARCH is a school-to-work transition program to help young adults with developmental disabilities learn more about the workforce. 

Through the Project SEARCH program, Daniel completed rotations at different internships throughout the hospital to get experience in different jobs. His favorite rotation was where he first started as a patient — the Sie Center. 

Daniel says the program helped him learn time management skills, and how to be professional and independent. 

Once Daniel graduated from Project SEARCH, he began a job in food services at Children’s Colorado, greeting old friends and keeping the cafeteria shining. “I like the job of cleaning tables and seeing the doctors and nurses that work there every day,” Daniel says. 

Since 2009, 83% of Project SEARCH graduates have found employment following the program’s conclusion, and 44% of graduates were hired at Children’s Colorado. 

We love to see Daniel and his fellow graduates roaming our hallways and hope they continue for years to come. 

#HereItsDifferent #DownSyndromeAwarenessMonth #DownSyndrome #DownSyndromeAwareness #DisabilityEmploymentAwarenessMonth

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