{"id":5469,"date":"2025-12-14T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:10:35","slug":"ca-dor-pathways-to-success-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5469","title":{"rendered":"CA DOR Pathways to Success Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#8217ed\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/mbnACnVadu82BPa2KKu0vt4fZU128JtjPcTrwLzp1YuuMZaCQgyFBCD7R8HnqUmZ.Skxz-352HtvD5iiG?startTime=1766253763000\">recording<\/a> of the following presentation and a link to the new DOR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dor.ca.gov\/Home\/OrderofSelection\">Order of Selection<\/a>.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">At the <strong>December 20 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 128, 0);\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"><strong>N<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(153, 51, 102);\"><strong>D&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Job Club<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">meeting, online via Zoom, <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f90101\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ricardo Perez, <\/mark><\/strong>Sector Business Consultant at the <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fa0404\" class=\"has-inline-color\">California Department of Rehabilitation, <\/mark><\/strong>will talk about the DOR Pathways to Success Project. Ricardo will address these questions:<\/span><br><strong>What are Department of Rehabilitation services?<br>What is the Pathway to Success Program?<br>Who is eligible?<\/strong><br>He will discuss opportunities in <br><strong>* Advanced Manufacturing<br> * Biotechnology<br> * Construction and Transportation<br> * Sustainable <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#419b04\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Green Energy<\/mark><br> * Healthcare<br> * Information Technology and Communications<\/strong><br><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ricardo will be joined in discussion by Job Club Facilitators <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#945910\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Dan Middleton<\/mark><\/strong> and <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a45a00\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Michael Bernick<\/strong>.<\/mark><br><br><\/span><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><font color=\"#f90101\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Zoom link to this presentation will be emailed to people on our mailing list as <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(249, 1, 1); font-size: 14px;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">date approaches. <\/span><\/font><\/mark><font color=\"#8b4513\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">There is no need to register for the event.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=45b240034405a1b47948a710d&amp;id=a3632f7d57\">here<\/a> to subscribe to our mailing list if you aren&#8217;t already on it. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RicardoPerez.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0 !important;\" alt=\"Ricardo Perez portrait photo\" class=\"wp-image-5470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RicardoPerez.jpg 280w, https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RicardoPerez-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"color:#006400\">As usual, autistic adults will share their perspectives throughout the program.<\/span><br><br>Who: Adults on the spectrum, family, professionals and friends. All are welcome!<\/strong><\/span><br><strong>When: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Saturday, Dec 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM<\/span><\/strong><br><strong>Where: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Online via Zoom,&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:13px\">Link will be emailed as the date approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact info@aascend.org with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a recording of the following presentation and a link to the new DOR Order of Selection. At the December 20 AASCEND&nbsp;Job Clubmeeting, online via Zoom, Ricardo Perez, Sector Business Consultant at the California Department of Rehabilitation, will talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}