{"id":5794,"date":"2026-11-06T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2026-11-06T19:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:43:44","slug":"employment-strategies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"Employment Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=45b240034405a1b47948a710d&amp;id=a3632f7d57\">Subscribe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCYyd5KcOyQLeavo9ggl5eww\/videos\">AASCEND TV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fgQRNlm6dRM\">Latest Video on Autism Advocacy in the UK<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aascendjobclub.org\/\">Job Club<\/a><\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate?token=YGra2cAdWIEPeFHwLmNRZGuseYutEiajbhC98nIdjA4NTeW6BUcV8v0kDnlCXW6wW7EPqqYKc6xyLj0v\">Donate<\/a><\/strong>,<strong> <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7b04f3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">more<\/mark><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7b04f3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> at <\/mark><\/em><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">ACTIVITIES<\/mark><\/strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#7b04f3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> above. \/\/ See original postings for recordings (if any) of past programs. &nbsp;<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">At the upcoming <\/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\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Job Club<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"font-size:14px\">meeting on November 14 (NOT the usual 1st Saturday of the month) via Zoom, the three Job Club facilitators, <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fa0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Dan Middleton, Michael Bernick and Keith Halperin,<\/mark><\/strong> will discuss employment strategies. Michael will address the landscape of hiring people with disabilities. Dan will address tools for finding meaningful employment and introduce his new digital version of Compass Work. Keith will discuss the current activities of the weekly job club and plans for moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>The Zoom link to this presentation will be emailed <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>as the date approaches<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>to people on our mailing list. There is no need to register for the event.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span>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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"297\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AASCEND-Job-Club-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5795\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.8242579123255356;width:410px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"display:none\">\u00a0<\/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 welcome!<\/strong><\/span><br><strong>When: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Saturday, Nov 14 2026 at 10:00 AM<\/span><\/strong> Pacific Time<br><strong>Where: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Online via Zoom,\u00a0<\/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>Subscribe, AASCEND TV, Latest Video on Autism Advocacy in the UK,&nbsp;Job Club,&nbsp;Donate, more at ACTIVITIES above. \/\/ See original postings for recordings (if any) of past programs. &nbsp; At the upcoming AASCEND\u00a0Job Club meeting on November 14 (NOT the usual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5794\">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-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","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=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}