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On October 23, the Pickens County Board of Disabilities & Speical Needs and Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) celebrated the grand opening of The Jericho Project, a housing community serving individuals with specila needs and disabililties. The Jericho Project represents a new type of collaboration offering a living/learning environment to prepare its special needs and disabilities residents to live more independent lives, while at the same time, providing a select group of SWU students an immersive experiential learning opportunity to guide them in important ways in their chosen profession.