{"id":1061,"date":"2023-03-13T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:11:03","slug":"ncss-here-for-you-episode-peer-based-supports-randy-lizotte-shares-his-story-to-help-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/ncss-here-for-you-episode-peer-based-supports-randy-lizotte-shares-his-story-to-help-others\/","title":{"rendered":"NCSS Here For You Episode, Peer-Based Supports: Randy Lizotte shares his story to help others."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By sharing their own lived experience and practical guidance, peer mentors help people develop their own goals while creating strategies and building fulfilling lives. In addition, empowering individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to achieve their goals for employment, inclusion, and community engagement.&nbsp; Today, Peer Advocate, Randy Lizotte shares his story to help others.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NCSS Here For You, Peer-Based Supports: Randy Lizotte shares his story to help others.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/epnmYLthdAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By sharing their own lived experience and practical guidance, peer mentors help people develop their own goals while creating strategies and building fulfilling lives. In addition, empowering individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to achieve their goals for employment, inclusion, and community engagement.&nbsp; Today, Peer Advocate, Randy Lizotte shares his story to help others.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}