{"id":17258,"date":"2020-04-14T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:13:05","slug":"one-on-one-program-coordinator-volunteer-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/2020\/04\/14\/one-on-one-program-coordinator-volunteer-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"One-on-One Program Coordinator &#8211; Volunteer Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/files\/2020\/04\/genny-monroe-buddy-walk-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>I\u2019m Genny or as some like to call me DJ Genny B. I\u2019m the one on one program coordinator and the sole member of the IT team. I am also a board member and on the outreach committee. I am a third grade teacher at The Golden Key School for Exceptional Children. While I don\u2019t have any kiddos of my own, the Budd Family has always let me share their\u2019s. Their youngest, Monroe, has Down syndrome and she\u2019s the reason I became involved in GiGi\u2019s Playhouse. I wanted to make sure she had a place to go where she could get everything she needed, where she would feel loved and supported. Bringing a GiGi\u2019s to Canton was the way to make that happen. I\u2019ve been a part of GiGi\u2019s Canton family from the very first meeting at a Panera Bread. It\u2019s been a great adventure that I wouldn\u2019t trade for anything in the world.<br \/>GiGi\u2019s Playhouse gives us all a place to share the beautiful message of acceptance for all. Being able to offer free educational and therapeutic programs to ANYONE who needs it, is so awesome. Knowing that what I do changes lives makes my heart so happy. GiGi\u2019s makes it possible to connect people together in ways that may not have been possible without it. We connect volunteers with participants and create amazing bonds that will last a lifetime. We help connect participants with each other to form lasting friendships. We also help connect parents with other parents so they know they\u2019re not alone. GiGi\u2019s Playhouse is made out of a community full of love, support, and acceptance. Everything that GiGi\u2019s is now and everything that it will be, makes everything worth it. Seeing the smiles on the faces of our participants faces and hearing their laughs makes reading instruction manuals till my eyes crossed worth it. I am so excited to see what\u2019s next for us. What started with one little girl being born with an extra chromosome has blossomed into this amazing place that helps us prove we are #strongertogether!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Genny or as some like to call me DJ Genny B. I\u2019m the one on one program coordinator and the sole member of the IT team. I am also a board member and on the outreach committee. I am a third grade teacher at The Golden Key School for Exceptional Children. While I don\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":17259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}