{"id":6197,"date":"2025-05-05T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6197"},"modified":"2025-05-08T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:37:48","slug":"how-to-support-easterseals-on-may-17-a-game-changer-for-this-birmingham-family","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/news\/how-to-support-easterseals-on-may-17-a-game-changer-for-this-birmingham-family\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Support Easterseals on May 17\u2014a Game Changer for This Birmingham Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section style=\"background-color: #FFFFFF;color:#2D2D2D;\" class=\"section custom-section position-relative  align wp-block-acf-section\" data-desktop-bg=\"\" data-mobile-bg=\"\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-link-color wp-elements-e41b9e934a11f34a720f9f1327a8b927 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p>Ethan Marshall, a high school senior with a learning disability and ADHD, turned an Easterseals summer internship into a part-time job at Piggly Wiggly, gaining confidence, job skills, and independence. His journey is part of a full-circle family story\u2014his father also benefited from Alabama\u2019s vocational services years ago. Now, Ethan is set to graduate from Alabama Virtual Academy and continues thriving thanks to Easterseals of the Birmingham Area, whose programs empower people with disabilities across all ages through job training, therapy, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bhamnow.com\/2025\/04\/29\/easterseals-of-birmingham-golf-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read the full article on Bham Now here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Marshall, a high school senior with a learning disability and ADHD, turned an Easterseals summer internship into a part-time job at Piggly Wiggly, gaining confidence, job skills, and independence. His journey is part of a full-circle family story\u2014his father also benefited from Alabama\u2019s vocational services years ago. Now, Ethan is set to graduate from Alabama Virtual Academy and continues thriving thanks to Easterseals of the Birmingham Area, whose programs empower people with disabilities across all ages through job training, therapy, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6198,"template":"","news_category":[31],"news_tag":[26],"news_keyword":[248],"news_state":[125],"class_list":["post-6197","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-k-12-education","news_tag-k12-in-the-news","news_keyword-alva","news_state-alabama"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"news_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tag?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"news_keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_keyword?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"news_state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stridelearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_state?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}