{"id":25980,"date":"2021-06-01T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/?p=25980"},"modified":"2024-09-10T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:45:31","slug":"gen-g-board-people-together-goal-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/gen-g-board-people-together-goal-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gen G youth board is a unique group of people\u00a0because we all came together with the same goal in mind, acceptance."},"content":{"rendered":"

After volunteering at GiGi’s playhouse on my own for a year, it was wonderful to join the Gen G youth board and be surrounded by a group of teens who loved GiGi’s as much as I did. \"\"<\/a>From the youth board, I learned more about the Generation G movement which aims to spread both knowledge and acceptance to those who’ve always lived separated from the Down Syndrome Community. I never realized the impact we would be able to make on others until we did events such as the High-five challenge where we went to colleges and talked to the community about the playhouse and the Generation G movement. I’d always considered acceptance to be one of the most important values a person could have, but it wasn’t until I joined the youth board that I realized my ability to make an impact by sharing this message with others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After volunteering at GiGi’s playhouse on my own for a year, it was wonderful to join the Gen G youth board and be surrounded by a group of teens who loved GiGi’s as much as I did. From the youth board, I learned more about the Generation G movement which aims to spread both knowledge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,434,1,438],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-community","category-generationg","category-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/raleigh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}