{"id":19711,"date":"2022-05-01T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:49:03","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-amaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/2022\/05\/01\/volunteer-spotlight-amaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight: Amaris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tell us a little bit about yourself.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a Fieldwork Educator at Stark State College in the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. I have the best job ever! I get to play everyday!! I have a husband named Bryan. I have 2 boys, Jayden and Parker. I also have a mini Australian Shepherd named Neevie.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We want to get to know you! What are some of your favorites? (food, color, season, activity, restaurant, place to shop, etc.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite food is Mexican. My favorite colors are purple and green. My favorite season is Summer. I love watching my boys play sports!! The best restaurant is Texas Roadhouse! I love to go to the Grove City Outlets for a girls trip with my mom!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How did you learn about GiGi\u2019s and what prompted you to become a volunteer?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stark State College and Facebook<\/div>\n
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What is your role at the Playhouse?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I get to teach college students how to work with participants in Occupational Therapy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What is your favorite experience you have had at the Playhouse?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So many its hard to say!! Probably dancing with the participants. I love that I get to listen to music and just have fun all day long.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tell us a little bit about yourself. I am a Fieldwork Educator at Stark State College in the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. I have the best job ever! I get to play everyday!! I have a husband named Bryan. I have 2 boys, Jayden and Parker. I also have a mini Australian Shepherd named Neevie.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":19712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,7,395,394,526,396],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-down-syndrome","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-occupational-therapy","tag-ot","tag-stark-state","tag-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","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\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}