{"id":129197,"date":"2018-09-23T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/?p=129197"},"modified":"2018-09-23T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:47:27","slug":"bringing-gigi-u-to-hillsborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/bringing-gigi-u-to-hillsborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing GiGi U to Hillsborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cWhen is GiGi U starting? Our daughter needs it.\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere isn\u2019t anything challenging him anymore, GiGi U will be so great for my son!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat exactly is GiGi U?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

These are the three most common responses that I get about\u00a0GiGi U<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0when talking about it around the Playhouse. The Board of Managers and I are working hard to raise the funds needed in order to\u00a0start this great\u00a0career development program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

GiGi\u00a0U is designed to motivate adults with Down syndrome to achieve their highest potential in the world through innovative, educational, goal-development and small group skills instruction. Along with health and wellness, career skills, empowerment, community engagement and exceptional work opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The program has four overall goals that it seeks to achieve during the 15-week program:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Increase self-confidence\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Increase career skill knowledge\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Increase personal wellness\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Increase quality of life\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Program graduates will then\u00a0go on to work 18-week internships in our community;\u00a0GiGi\u2019s\u00a0Playhouse Hillsborough has been blessed to have not one but THREE businesses in our community have step forward to be an internship site for our\u00a0GiGi\u00a0U graduates. Our graduates will work at the counters- learning how to interact with customers, offer great customer service and even run a register!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>The costs of running\u00a0GiGi\u00a0U include hiring an instructor to run the program and oversee our interns in the field, as well as instructional materials. Help us reach our startup goal of $50,000 by joining us at the inaugural\u00a0Rock \u2018N Brews BBQ<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Sunday, September 30 from\u00a02:00- 7:00PM at Stage House Tavern. Every cent raised will go towards starting\u00a0GiGi\u00a0U in Hillsborough!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cWhen is GiGi U starting? Our daughter needs it.\u201d \u201cThere isn\u2019t anything challenging him anymore, GiGi U will be so great for my son!\u201d \u201cWhat exactly is GiGi U?\u201d These are the three most common responses that I get about\u00a0GiGi U\u00a0when talking about it around the Playhouse. The Board of Managers and I are working…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,6,69,72,36,3],"class_list":["post-129197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career-development","tag-down-syndrome","tag-education","tag-gigi-u","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-gigis-playhouse-hillsborough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/hillsborough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}