{"id":157894,"date":"2024-12-18T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/?p=157894"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:02:13","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-jakes-volunteer-experience-inspired-him-to-take-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/volunteer-spotlight-jakes-volunteer-experience-inspired-him-to-take-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight \u2013 Jake\u2019s volunteer experience inspired him to take action!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jake Kingsbury started volunteering at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Phoenix during his sophomore year in high school helping with group programs. In his junior year in high school, he became a Youth Board member.  Jake collaborated with other Youth Board members to provide group activities for the participants, as well as spread GiGi’s Acceptance Challenge to fellow students in his high school.  He helped collect supplies and fundraise to support purposeful programs at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After he graduated high school and went on to college, Jake continued to volunteer at the Virtual Playhouse as a tutor in the one-on-one Math Program.\u00a0 Both of his students were new to our program when Jake started working with them.\u00a0 He created engaging activities, so his students wanted to work with him every day as their math skills started increasing significantly!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake encouraged and challenged his students to give their \u201cBest of All\u201d at each lesson.  Jake modeled and shared his \u201cBest of All” weekly, as he became a better tutor, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a senior at Barrett Honors College at University of Arizona, Jake is asking for our help! <\/strong> He was so inspired by his volunteer work at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse he decided to make Down syndrome the focus of his dissertation.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please see this request from Jake: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you a parent or guardian of a child with Down syndrome? If you answered \u201cyes\u201d, you are invited to participate in a research study conducted by Arizona State University! You will be asked to participate in a short survey that should take no more than 15 minutes of your time. Participation is voluntary and completely anonymous. The research is being conducted by Jake Kingsbury under the guidance of Professor Mary McMullen and Dr. Teresa Hart. Our research is targeted at establishing if there are specific demographic characteristics that influence a parent or guardian\u2019s perception of their child\u2019s diagnosis with a focus on how that may change as the child ages. If you would like to participate, please click HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 You must be 18 years or older to fill out the survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jake Kingsbury started volunteering at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Phoenix during his sophomore year in high school helping with group programs. In his junior year in high school, he became a Youth Board member.  Jake collaborated with other Youth Board members to provide group activities for the participants, as well as spread GiGi’s Acceptance Challenge to fellow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,10,83,71,84,28],"class_list":["post-157894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acceptance","tag-down-syndrome","tag-tutoring","tag-virtual-playhouse","tag-virtualtutor","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/virtual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}