{"id":5349,"date":"2025-09-29T20:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:12:32","slug":"employment-changes-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"Employment Changes in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/rec\/share\/lTHpKP5j2loRSh_PfM_bNaazjX8ZZg0rjSbUhNu6fJZ2-1dVpu9zAvIc48PuYcIe.OYEHSZdpMF-G8joQ\">Here<\/a> <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#9509f2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">is a video recording of the following program<\/mark>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At the upcoming <span style=\"color:#ff0000\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff6600\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff9900\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#008000\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#33cccc\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#3366ff\"><strong>N<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#993366\"><strong>D&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><strong>Job Club<\/strong> meeting on October 4&nbsp;via Zoom, the three Job Club facilitators, <strong>Dan Middleton, Michael Bernick<\/strong> and <strong>Keith Halperin, <\/strong>will discuss the coming changes in 2026, in neurodiversity employment programs and strategies. Michael will address the employment changes with Regional Center programs and DOR programs. Dan will address the emerging online search tools for the neurodivergent community, and the upcoming job fairs and employer events. Keith will discuss the current activities of the weekly job club and plans for moving forward.&nbsp;<br><br><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>The Zoom link to this presentation will be emailed <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>as the date approaches<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>to people on our mailing list. There is no need to register for the event.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=45b240034405a1b47948a710d&amp;id=a3632f7d57\">here<\/a> to subscribe to our mailing list if you aren&#8217;t already on it. <br> <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"13690143\" height=\"320\" width=\"480\" style=\"border: 0px  ; width: 480px; height: 320px; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/45b240034405a1b47948a710d\/images\/36855ec4-ba9e-960f-3439-c5fd9244d4e5.jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"color:#006400\">As usual, autistic adults will share their perspectives throughout the program.<\/span><br><br>Who: Adults on the spectrum, family, professionals and friends all welcome!<\/strong><\/span><br> <strong>When: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Saturday, Oct 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM<\/span><\/strong><br> <strong>Where: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Online via Zoom,&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:13px\">Link will be emailed as the date approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video recording of the following program. At the upcoming AASCEND&nbsp;Job Club meeting on October 4&nbsp;via Zoom, the three Job Club facilitators, Dan Middleton, Michael Bernick and Keith Halperin, will discuss the coming changes in 2026, in neurodiversity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=5349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}