{"id":30903,"date":"2023-07-19T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/?p=30903"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:21:59","slug":"dj-heads-to-washburn-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/dj-heads-to-washburn-u\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Heads to Washburn U"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DJ first came to PCS in 2017, newly diagnosed with Autism. He was struggling in school and his parents were concerned about his social anxiety. When he transitioned to middle school, his Support Coordinator encouraged him to lead his own IEP meeting. Despite how nervous he was, he did it! That moment was monumental for him, helpinghim recognize the power of his voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Just be yourself and do your best and not to give up. You have to have faith and believe in yourself. Though it\u2019s hard sometimes, try not to worry about what others think\u2026 go for it! &#8220;<\/p>\n<cite>DJ<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Over the years, the more he learned about his autism, the more he used that information to propel and motivate himself. He continued to speak up for himself. We\u2019re excited to report that DJ has been accepted into Washburn University! He will be studying criminal justice next fall. People, DJ is going places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI admire DJ\u2019s resilience because he is self motivated and someone who works hard and doesn\u2019t give up easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>-Jodi, DJ&#8217;s Support Coordinator at PCS<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ first came to PCS in 2017, newly diagnosed with Autism. He was struggling in school and his parents were concerned about his social anxiety. When he transitioned to middle school, his Support Coordinator encouraged him to lead his own IEP meeting. Despite how nervous he was, he did it! That moment was monumental for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[258,1],"tags":[376,69,163,375,377,110],"class_list":["post-30903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-adulthood","tag-advocacy","tag-college","tag-post-secondary","tag-success-story","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30907,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions\/30907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progressivecommunityservices.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}