By Robert Parkinson, Career Services Program Manager, Search, Inc.
Sometimes it is just plain nice to look back over a year and see good things. The end of this past fiscal year (FY22) is one of those times!
With a recent past of…
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By Robert Parkinson, Career Services Program Manager, Search, Inc.
Sometimes it is just plain nice to look back over a year and see good things. The end of this past fiscal year (FY22) is one of those times!
With a recent past of…
By Joe Luzadder, Guest Blogger and Sibling
To me, growing up with a little sister with Down syndrome was a blessing. It was also typical, however, because I did not know what it was like to grow up…
By Jack Luzadder, Guest Blogger & Sibling
Sympathy is almost always the feeling people express when they find out you have a sibling with a disability. Oftentimes they’ll try to relate by giving a hardship they faced while growing up. While the good intentions…
By Diane Royanto, Guest Blogger
Did you know that more than one billion people live with some form of disability? That’s a lot of potential employees! Unfortunately, many businesses have yet to embrace disability inclusion in their workplace. This is despite the fact that doing so…
By Jennifer Gledhill, Community Inclusion Coordinator, Search Inc.
Back in 2016, Search, Inc. (Search) adopted the principles of the Council on Quality Leadership (CQL), an accreditation body that uses several principles to guide agencies like ours further towards person-centered services. CQL put into words…
By Bridget Brown, Self-Advocate
My name is Bridget and I am a self-advocate who works on behalf of Pace Suburban Bus.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and it is a perfect time to talk about how taking the bus and transportation is the key…
By Ashley Alcantar, Guest Blogger
I thought I was going to be at a completely different stage in my life career-wise than where I am presently, and it is frustrating. It is frustrating because I’m having a “mid-life” crisis at the age of 24 and it’s…
By Edward Madden – Pace Suburban Bus
The Covid-19 pandemic has been very challenging for all of us and public transportation was hit particularly hard. In Spring 2020, Pace’s ridership dropped to as low as 30% of 2019 levels and many of our fixed routes were…
Building Your Online Profile: The first installment in a series about online dating
By: Adrian Drower, Ask Adrian Blogger and No Boundaries Participant
Most movies and TV shows make finding a love life relatively easy, but we all know that it is not always the case….
By: Melanie Ausbrook, Adult Learning Program Manager, Search Inc
Both neurodiversity and queerness/sexual identity are often viewed as spectrums. The Kinsey Scale places sexual identity on a continuum with no person being totally ‘straight’ or ‘gay.’ Similarly, autism is defined as a spectrum disorder with no…