{"id":44486,"date":"2017-03-28T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=44486"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:19:16","slug":"career-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/03\/28\/career-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Career finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State graduate Jeremy Nelson helps adults with disabilities find community employment through his\u00a0role with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ursdayton.org\/\">United Rehabilitation Services (URS) of Greater Dayton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said people with disabilities need a lot of support and resources to have a level playing field when searching for employment.<\/p>\n<p>United Rehabilitation Services\u00a0provides the support and services necessary for participants in the program to achieve their career goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing somebody move from being stuck to really being fully themselves in the community in a job and being able to be the best version of themself is really rewarding,\u201d said Nelson, who graduated from Wright State in 2013 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/education-human-services.wright.edu\/human-services\/master-of-science-in-clinical-mental-health-counseling\">master&#8217;s degree in clinical mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Employment program at United Rehabilitation Services ensures that participants are equipped with the job skills, self-confidence and one-on-one support to reach their personal employment goals and achieve financial independence.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson has placed participants with a wide range of employers, from fast food restaurants and grocery stores to area hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State graduate Jeremy Nelson helps adults with disabilities find community employment. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/03\/28\/career-finder\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":44487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,2060,744,725,727,2101,715,2089,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-graduate","category-education-human-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-human-services","category-news","category-social-work","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44756,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44486\/revisions\/44756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}