{"id":22689,"date":"2022-06-22T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/TinleyPark\/?p=22689"},"modified":"2023-02-26T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:51:24","slug":"meet-our-epic-leader-tracey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/meet-our-epic-leader-tracey\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our EPIC Leader Tracey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/files\/2022\/06\/tracey-and-catherine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/files\/2022\/06\/tracey-and-catherine-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/files\/2022\/06\/tracey-and-catherine-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/files\/2022\/06\/tracey-and-catherine.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in\">\u201cMy name is Tracey Ardizzone-Droesch.&nbsp; I started volunteering at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse in 2018, after my daughter, Catherine, went to a Teen-Tastic program with her key club at her high school.&nbsp; She loved it so much and, since we both enjoy volunteering so much, we thought it would be a great thing that we could do together.&nbsp; After coming once together, we were hooked.&nbsp; Volunteering at GiGi\u2019s brought me back to a time when I was a young child and my church put on a summer camp for kids in the Sparrow program, many of whom had Down syndrome.&nbsp; I loved and enjoyed playing with all the children then and I continue to love all the time I spend at GiGi\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"margin-left: .5in\">I have worked at Stagg High School for the past 9 years as an Academic Mentor.&nbsp; I decided in 2020 that I should expand my education to not only hold a Masters in School Counseling, but to also obtain a Masters in Social Work.&nbsp; My internship here at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse is the last step I need to complete my Master\u2019s degree in August.&nbsp; I am blessed to get to do my internship at my \u201chappy place,\u201d GiGi\u2019s.&nbsp; My task is to create a program of enrichment for the adults at GiGi\u2019s.&nbsp; I am very excited to spend my summer here and work with all these amazing participants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy name is Tracey Ardizzone-Droesch.&nbsp; I started volunteering at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse in 2018, after my daughter, Catherine, went to a Teen-Tastic program with her key club at her high school.&nbsp; She loved it so much and, since we both enjoy volunteering so much, we thought it would be a great thing that we could do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/tinleypark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}