{"id":872,"date":"2007-07-07T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/07\/the-grass-is-always-walgreener\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T22:10:00","slug":"the-grass-is-always-walgreener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-grass-is-always-walgreener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grass is Always (Wal)Greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B2akb4v2cUQ\">Walgreen&#8217;s<\/a>!  They are setting an example for the rest of the country.  Why the hell not go that extra yard and hire a lot of people with disabilities?  Are non-disabled people always such a bargain?  There is a huge untapped workforce among those with disabilities.  With a little creative thinking and openmindedness, we could be employing a full range of people  and who knows what kind of positive changes that could bring?<\/p>\n<p>My first phone conference meeting with the Young Adult\/Adult Services Subcommittee of Autism Speaks went very well, by the way.  They are a dynamic group of people from all over the country, real powerhouses in autism resources.  Per my suggestion, they are going to set up an Autism Works section on their website and they are striving to become a clearinghouse of information and resources for the employment of autistic people.  We want to know about good role models, employers who, like Walgreen&#8217;s, are moving beyond society&#8217;s barriers to build a more dignified, diverse workforce. We are also going to be writing a paper on transition and pre-voc training, what educators need to know, as well as working with policymakers towards more legislation that funds employment resources for the disabled.  All very exciting, exactly what I wanted to be doing, but with the muscle of Autism Speaks behind the effort it should bear some interesting fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for Walgreen&#8217;s! They are setting an example for the rest of the country. Why the hell not go that extra yard and hire a lot of people with disabilities? Are non-disabled people always such a bargain? There is a huge untapped workforce among those with disabilities. With a little creative thinking and openmindedness, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-e4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}