{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":0.0,"endTime":2.01,"body":"Embarking on"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":0.0,"endTime":2.01,"body":"the journey of transitioning"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":2.01,"endTime":4.8,"body":"from the familiar confines of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":2.01,"endTime":4.8,"body":"secondary education to the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":4.8,"endTime":7.5,"body":"uncharted territories of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":4.8,"endTime":7.5,"body":"adulthood can be daunting for"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":7.5,"endTime":11.13,"body":"any student. For families of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":7.5,"endTime":11.13,"body":"students with disabilities. This"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":11.13,"endTime":15.06,"body":"process presents a unique set of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":11.13,"endTime":15.06,"body":"challenges and uncertainties. As"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":15.06,"endTime":18.15,"body":"your child prepares on stepping"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":15.06,"endTime":18.15,"body":"into the world beyond, it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":18.15,"endTime":21.33,"body":"natural to feel overwhelmed by"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":18.15,"endTime":21.33,"body":"the myriad of decisions and cost"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":21.36,"endTime":24.87,"body":"considerations that lie ahead."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":21.36,"endTime":24.87,"body":"And that is what we're here to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":24.87,"endTime":27.93,"body":"talk about. Welcome. This is the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":24.87,"endTime":27.93,"body":"Post Secondary Transition"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":27.93,"endTime":31.2,"body":"podcast. We have conversations"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":27.93,"endTime":31.2,"body":"around that process of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":31.2,"endTime":34.23,"body":"transition for families of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":31.2,"endTime":34.23,"body":"students with disabilities. I'm"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":34.23,"endTime":36.27,"body":"one of the hosts My name is"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":34.23,"endTime":36.27,"body":"Meghan Smallwood, and I'm a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":36.27,"endTime":39.6,"body":"public school transition"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":36.27,"endTime":39.6,"body":"coordinator. And with me is..."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":39.96,"endTime":42.3,"body":"My name is"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":39.96,"endTime":42.3,"body":"Patrick Cadigan. I am a public"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":42.3,"endTime":45.33,"body":"school special education"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":42.3,"endTime":45.33,"body":"teacher. And this week, we are"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":45.33,"endTime":50.4,"body":"headed right back into the very"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":45.33,"endTime":50.4,"body":"familiar format, the interview"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":50.4,"endTime":53.34,"body":"format, and Meghan, do you want"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":50.4,"endTime":53.34,"body":"to set us up?"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":53.84,"endTime":56.6,"body":"I would love"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":53.84,"endTime":56.6,"body":"to today we have one of the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":56.6,"endTime":59.9,"body":"fabulous Transition Specialists"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":56.6,"endTime":59.9,"body":"for our county who I work"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":59.9,"endTime":64.22,"body":"alongside with and is just full"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":59.9,"endTime":64.22,"body":"of energy and always willing to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":64.22,"endTime":66.62,"body":"go above and beyond for"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":64.22,"endTime":66.62,"body":"everybody, Meredith"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":66.62,"endTime":69.68,"body":"Gregoire-Cope. And I realized I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":66.62,"endTime":69.68,"body":"never actually say your full"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":69.68,"endTime":72.2,"body":"last name. We always call you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":69.68,"endTime":72.2,"body":"GC. So..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":72.2,"endTime":72.68,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":72.98,"endTime":75.74,"body":"I hopefully I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":72.98,"endTime":75.74,"body":"said that. Right, Gregoire-Cope."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":77.045,"endTime":79.025,"body":"It's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":77.045,"endTime":79.025,"body":"perfect. Perfect. Yeah, JC is"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":79.025,"endTime":80.525,"body":"just much easier. I feel like."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":82.145,"endTime":84.905,"body":"To start, I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":82.145,"endTime":84.905,"body":"know a little bit about your"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":84.905,"endTime":87.725,"body":"background, Meredith. But do you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":84.905,"endTime":87.725,"body":"mind telling us a little bit of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":88.265,"endTime":91.265,"body":"where you started with your"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":88.265,"endTime":91.265,"body":"journey into special education?"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":92.885,"endTime":96.005,"body":"Yeah.So"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":92.885,"endTime":96.005,"body":"I am Howard County, born and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":96.005,"endTime":102.23,"body":"raised. I grew up in Maryland."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":96.005,"endTime":102.23,"body":"And so for me, one of the things"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":102.23,"endTime":106.85,"body":"that I guess you can say was a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":102.23,"endTime":106.85,"body":"privilege that we got to do, if"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":106.85,"endTime":110.45,"body":"we earned the right was to be"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":106.85,"endTime":110.45,"body":"able to help out and volunteer"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":110.45,"endTime":113.99,"body":"in the special education class."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":110.45,"endTime":113.99,"body":"So I was really excited. I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":113.99,"endTime":118.13,"body":"always got to do that. And my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":113.99,"endTime":118.13,"body":"dad, when I was 12 years old,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":118.13,"endTime":121.37,"body":"told me pick a job and stick to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":118.13,"endTime":121.37,"body":"a kid. He's like old school,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":121.49,"endTime":125.555,"body":"angry man from New York. And so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":121.49,"endTime":125.555,"body":"that was it. I just, I wanted to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":125.555,"endTime":129.095,"body":"be a special ed teacher. So I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":125.555,"endTime":129.095,"body":"went to Notre Dom in Maryland,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":129.155,"endTime":135.875,"body":"and graduated with a dual degree"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":129.155,"endTime":135.875,"body":"in special ed and Gen Ed. Yeah,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":135.875,"endTime":139.835,"body":"I moved to my current county,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":135.875,"endTime":139.835,"body":"and elementary school was my big"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":139.835,"endTime":145.064,"body":"thing. And I actually, my first"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":139.835,"endTime":145.064,"body":"placement was an elementary"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":145.064,"endTime":149.12,"body":"school. And I actually got to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":145.064,"endTime":149.12,"body":"move to working with our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":149.12,"endTime":154.28,"body":"director, Terry savage. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":149.12,"endTime":154.28,"body":"really was impressed with the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":154.28,"endTime":159.26,"body":"way with her leadership. And she"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":154.28,"endTime":159.26,"body":"told me, I should work as a team"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":159.26,"endTime":161.9,"body":"leader. And I was able to do"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":159.26,"endTime":161.9,"body":"that at another elementary"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":161.9,"endTime":165.2,"body":"school for six years. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":161.9,"endTime":165.2,"body":"learned a lot about myself and a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":165.2,"endTime":168.62,"body":"lot about leadership. But I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":165.2,"endTime":168.62,"body":"really felt like I wanted to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":168.62,"endTime":172.265,"body":"work in transition, I found out"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":168.62,"endTime":172.265,"body":"about that. And I feel like and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":172.265,"endTime":174.305,"body":"I'm sure you'll, you'll agree,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":172.265,"endTime":174.305,"body":"Meghan, there's not a lot of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":174.305,"endTime":177.545,"body":"information about what a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":174.305,"endTime":177.545,"body":"transition teacher does. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":177.545,"endTime":182.105,"body":"feel like we're learning more"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":177.545,"endTime":182.105,"body":"about that as we go along. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":182.165,"endTime":186.065,"body":"I've had to get my foot in the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":182.165,"endTime":186.065,"body":"door first by moving to high"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":186.065,"endTime":189.545,"body":"school and working in a position"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":186.065,"endTime":189.545,"body":"of just being in one of our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":189.545,"endTime":193.61,"body":"local only programs. So I was"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":189.545,"endTime":193.61,"body":"able to do that, get my foot in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":193.61,"endTime":197.33,"body":"the door for a couple years, and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":193.61,"endTime":197.33,"body":"then slide into the transition"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":197.57,"endTime":203.39,"body":"position into that same"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":197.57,"endTime":203.39,"body":"secondary position there. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":203.39,"endTime":207.17,"body":"now I'm moving into my third"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":203.39,"endTime":207.17,"body":"year there. So I'm getting into"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":207.17,"endTime":210.71,"body":"like my 21st year I feel like of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":207.17,"endTime":210.71,"body":"teaching now, like getting super"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":210.71,"endTime":214.91,"body":"old. Transition is I feel like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":210.71,"endTime":214.91,"body":"the highlight of my life. I am"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":214.955,"endTime":219.575,"body":"like so excited in that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":214.955,"endTime":219.575,"body":"position. I really love job"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":219.575,"endTime":224.675,"body":"development and working with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":219.575,"endTime":224.675,"body":"diploma and certificate students"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":224.675,"endTime":227.495,"body":"and just really understanding"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":224.675,"endTime":227.495,"body":"the differences between the two"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":227.495,"endTime":231.215,"body":"jobs, I really feel like my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":227.495,"endTime":231.215,"body":"passion is really working with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":231.215,"endTime":235.235,"body":"the certificate side of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":231.215,"endTime":235.235,"body":"students. And I'm, I guess,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":235.235,"endTime":237.995,"body":"people describe me as someone"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":235.235,"endTime":237.995,"body":"who really thinks outside of the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":237.995,"endTime":242.12,"body":"box. And I feel like that's not"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":237.995,"endTime":242.12,"body":"the most typical side of a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":242.12,"endTime":245.84,"body":"transition teacher. I feel like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":242.12,"endTime":245.84,"body":"I'm kind of on the outside of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":245.84,"endTime":250.04,"body":"things, which is where that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":245.84,"endTime":250.04,"body":"comes from. But I have really"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":250.04,"endTime":255.26,"body":"enjoyed trying to look at in our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":250.04,"endTime":255.26,"body":"county, how we can help our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":255.26,"endTime":261.2,"body":"students who are going down the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":255.26,"endTime":261.2,"body":"certificate path, find access to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":261.2,"endTime":264.005,"body":"what their passion is when it"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":261.2,"endTime":264.005,"body":"comes to jobs."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":264.0,"endTime":266.46,"body":"So I know"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":264.0,"endTime":266.46,"body":"everyone can't see, I think but"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":266.46,"endTime":270.54,"body":"I was like nodding like crazy."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":266.46,"endTime":270.54,"body":"Like when you're like \"yeah, I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":270.54,"endTime":273.48,"body":"tend to think outside the box,\""},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":270.54,"endTime":273.48,"body":"because that's I think my"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":273.48,"endTime":278.04,"body":"favorite thing about you like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":273.48,"endTime":278.04,"body":"you definitely crossed the lines"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":278.04,"endTime":283.32,"body":"and a good way of like getting"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":278.04,"endTime":283.32,"body":"people on board with those like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":283.38,"endTime":286.86,"body":"ideas that normally I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":283.38,"endTime":286.86,"body":"traditionally we wouldn't"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":286.86,"endTime":290.385,"body":"consider. So I love that and I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":286.86,"endTime":290.385,"body":"think we need more of that in"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":290.385,"endTime":291.045,"body":"our county."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":291.39,"endTime":296.49,"body":"I think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":291.39,"endTime":296.49,"body":"COVID really opened our eyes to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":296.52,"endTime":302.1,"body":"thinking about what We are able"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":296.52,"endTime":302.1,"body":"to do for our friends with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":302.1,"endTime":306.69,"body":"disabilities. If we realize what"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":302.1,"endTime":306.69,"body":"COVID did for us, it really made"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":306.69,"endTime":310.92,"body":"us think it stopped jobs for us"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":306.69,"endTime":310.92,"body":"not it made us really think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":310.92,"endTime":314.07,"body":"like, oh my god, we there's so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":310.92,"endTime":314.07,"body":"many jobs that we don't have any"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":314.07,"endTime":318.03,"body":"more just for typical adults and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":314.07,"endTime":318.03,"body":"and people like there were so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":318.03,"endTime":322.41,"body":"many. We were stifled from jobs."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":318.03,"endTime":322.41,"body":"And so many people were forced"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":322.41,"endTime":325.26,"body":"to work from home, and people"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":322.41,"endTime":325.26,"body":"want to continue to work from"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":325.26,"endTime":328.32,"body":"home. And now I feel like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":325.26,"endTime":328.32,"body":"there's even still people are"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":328.35,"endTime":331.89,"body":"trying to find jobs and so many"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":328.35,"endTime":331.89,"body":"places don't have opportunities"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":331.89,"endTime":335.1,"body":"now. But you have to realize how"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":331.89,"endTime":335.1,"body":"many more opportunities are our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":335.1,"endTime":338.49,"body":"adults with disabilities don't"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":335.1,"endTime":338.49,"body":"have now because of COVID. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":338.49,"endTime":341.34,"body":"that's really stifled our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":338.49,"endTime":341.34,"body":"programs inside of the school"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":341.34,"endTime":345.09,"body":"building, and even more so in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":341.34,"endTime":345.09,"body":"our agencies, and even more so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":345.09,"endTime":348.06,"body":"for our adults that have not"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":345.09,"endTime":348.06,"body":"been able to go back to our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":348.06,"endTime":353.31,"body":"agency. So we're so far behind"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":348.06,"endTime":353.31,"body":"in these opportunities that it"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":353.31,"endTime":357.18,"body":"has required, the people that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":353.31,"endTime":357.18,"body":"are willing to take the risk,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":357.18,"endTime":360.15,"body":"like myself and Megan and some"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":357.18,"endTime":360.15,"body":"of our other transition teachers"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":360.15,"endTime":365.28,"body":"to really think of how can we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":360.15,"endTime":365.28,"body":"get the people in inside of our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":365.28,"endTime":369.39,"body":"county to extend themselves and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":365.28,"endTime":369.39,"body":"really be flexible in their"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":369.39,"endTime":374.01,"body":"thinking, to give the students"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":369.39,"endTime":374.01,"body":"and these adults an opportunity"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":374.34,"endTime":375.66,"body":"to work."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":376.44,"endTime":378.24,"body":"And I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":376.44,"endTime":378.24,"body":"you're right, like I think since"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":378.24,"endTime":382.23,"body":"COVID, it's almost kind of like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":378.24,"endTime":382.23,"body":"a competition amongst us and the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":382.23,"endTime":386.07,"body":"other agencies and whoever else"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":382.23,"endTime":386.07,"body":"is out there for these jobs"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":386.07,"endTime":388.86,"body":"because they became a little"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":386.07,"endTime":388.86,"body":"more limited. And we're all like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":388.86,"endTime":392.79,"body":"after the same goal. But it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":388.86,"endTime":392.79,"body":"really, I think you've done such"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":392.79,"endTime":396.66,"body":"a good job of really like going"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":392.79,"endTime":396.66,"body":"out and researching and finding"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":396.66,"endTime":399.84,"body":"those other opportunities that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":396.66,"endTime":399.84,"body":"people might not have thought"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":399.84,"endTime":401.82,"body":"about. And I think that's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":399.84,"endTime":401.82,"body":"something important to mention,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":401.82,"endTime":404.97,"body":"too. Especially we've talked"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":401.82,"endTime":404.97,"body":"about this before with a lot of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":404.97,"endTime":408.42,"body":"our self directed friends, you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":404.97,"endTime":408.42,"body":"know, thinking not just only"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":408.42,"endTime":412.26,"body":"going into a business, but what"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":408.42,"endTime":412.26,"body":"can I bring into my own home to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":412.26,"endTime":415.05,"body":"help a business because I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":412.26,"endTime":415.05,"body":"that was something we really had"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":415.05,"endTime":417.51,"body":"to rely on a lot when we"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":415.05,"endTime":417.51,"body":"returned to the school building,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":417.51,"endTime":420.99,"body":"and we couldn't get out there."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":417.51,"endTime":420.99,"body":"You know, I think you you found"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":420.99,"endTime":424.14,"body":"a lot of jobs that we could"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":420.99,"endTime":424.14,"body":"bring into them, and they would"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":424.14,"endTime":426.93,"body":"work and then we would bring it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":424.14,"endTime":426.93,"body":"back. So it's still that that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":426.93,"endTime":429.72,"body":"relationship just in a different"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":426.93,"endTime":429.72,"body":"format. But you're still"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":429.72,"endTime":431.58,"body":"connected to the community in"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":429.72,"endTime":431.58,"body":"another way."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":431.84,"endTime":434.0,"body":"Yeah, I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":431.84,"endTime":434.0,"body":"think. And Patrick, I don't know"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":434.0,"endTime":436.58,"body":"if he knows. But one of my my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":434.0,"endTime":436.58,"body":"favorite things when it was we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":436.58,"endTime":440.0,"body":"were in the heat of COVID."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":436.58,"endTime":440.0,"body":"Right. And so I worked for I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":440.0,"endTime":443.6,"body":"worked in a school where I think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":440.0,"endTime":443.6,"body":"our parents were, you know, they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":443.6,"endTime":446.48,"body":"were so scared of what COVID was"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":443.6,"endTime":446.48,"body":"going to do for us. But they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":446.48,"endTime":449.66,"body":"still were like, Hey, listen, we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":446.48,"endTime":449.66,"body":"still need something for our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":449.66,"endTime":453.989,"body":"students to do like you still"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":449.66,"endTime":453.989,"body":"need to get on the grind. We"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":453.989,"endTime":454.01,"body":"don't know what COVID is, we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":453.989,"endTime":454.01,"body":"don't know what's going to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":454.01,"endTime":455.165,"body":"happen. But guess what, you're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":454.01,"endTime":455.165,"body":"their case manager and you're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":455.285,"endTime":459.305,"body":"still going to find something to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":455.285,"endTime":459.305,"body":"do. And I was like, I have a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":459.305,"endTime":461.705,"body":"baby at home. And I'm not"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":459.305,"endTime":461.705,"body":"leaving this house. And I would"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":461.705,"endTime":464.345,"body":"like wear a mask. And I wouldn't"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":461.705,"endTime":464.345,"body":"wear a hazmat suit if you'd let"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":464.345,"endTime":467.465,"body":"me but I just heard of this"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":464.345,"endTime":467.465,"body":"amazing teacher named Meghan"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":467.465,"endTime":470.465,"body":"Smallwood. And I'm just going to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":467.465,"endTime":470.465,"body":"ask her whatever I needed to do,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":470.465,"endTime":474.425,"body":"and, and I found this"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":470.465,"endTime":474.425,"body":"subscription box. And I like to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":474.425,"endTime":478.49,"body":"say, and one of them was how to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":474.425,"endTime":478.49,"body":"be a chef, or I'm a chef too,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":478.49,"endTime":481.13,"body":"and watching everything"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":478.49,"endTime":481.13,"body":"available now that we might"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":481.13,"endTime":484.07,"body":"create a box. Yeah, my pre K"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":481.13,"endTime":484.07,"body":"box, shout out to both of them."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":484.31,"endTime":487.37,"body":"And they were very small"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":484.31,"endTime":487.37,"body":"companies at the time. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":487.37,"endTime":490.19,"body":"just randomly reached out to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":487.37,"endTime":490.19,"body":"them through social media. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":490.19,"endTime":495.35,"body":"was like, Hey, I am a teacher in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":490.19,"endTime":495.35,"body":"so and so County. And, you know,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":495.35,"endTime":498.29,"body":"I noticed that you're basically"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":495.35,"endTime":498.29,"body":"working working from home mom"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":498.29,"endTime":501.215,"body":"used to be a teacher, can I have"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":498.29,"endTime":501.215,"body":"the students that will work for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":501.215,"endTime":503.735,"body":"free for you? Can we just put"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":501.215,"endTime":503.735,"body":"together your subscription"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":503.735,"endTime":507.395,"body":"materials for you? And they were"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":503.735,"endTime":507.395,"body":"like, ah, yeah, and it's like,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":507.395,"endTime":511.475,"body":"okay, and so I would meet my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":507.395,"endTime":511.475,"body":"students at my school and sit 10"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":511.475,"endTime":515.255,"body":"feet away. And I would meet the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":511.475,"endTime":515.255,"body":"lady and just grab the boxes"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":515.255,"endTime":518.495,"body":"give it to the students. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":515.255,"endTime":518.495,"body":"they were like, just materials"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":518.495,"endTime":521.615,"body":"for like students two through"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":518.495,"endTime":521.615,"body":"six. The other one were was"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":521.735,"endTime":525.215,"body":"edibles like foods that would"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":521.735,"endTime":525.215,"body":"create instructional materials,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":525.215,"endTime":529.22,"body":"I couldn't give it to all my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":525.215,"endTime":529.22,"body":"students. And we work for them."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":529.28,"endTime":533.12,"body":"And it spiraled into like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":529.28,"endTime":533.12,"body":"working for our, our work"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":533.12,"endTime":536.3,"body":"company that we have through our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":533.12,"endTime":536.3,"body":"school system. And one of them"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":536.3,"endTime":538.7,"body":"ended up on Shark Tank. And so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":536.3,"endTime":538.7,"body":"they turned into a million"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":538.7,"endTime":541.28,"body":"dollar company, so we can't work"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":538.7,"endTime":541.28,"body":"for them anymore. But the other"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":541.28,"endTime":545.12,"body":"one, she lets us don't work for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":541.28,"endTime":545.12,"body":"them. But the we even have,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":545.84,"endTime":549.065,"body":"Megan works for the works with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":545.84,"endTime":549.065,"body":"the mother, she works her"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":549.065,"endTime":551.405,"body":"husband Foundation, and her son"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":549.065,"endTime":551.405,"body":"actually is employed through"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":551.405,"endTime":555.005,"body":"that company and gets paid for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":551.405,"endTime":555.005,"body":"them to work. And so we're like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":555.005,"endTime":558.725,"body":"building the relationships that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":555.005,"endTime":558.725,"body":"are helping students feel"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":558.725,"endTime":561.725,"body":"accomplished and that they're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":558.725,"endTime":561.725,"body":"doing meaningful work every"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":561.725,"endTime":564.725,"body":"single day. And I think that's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":561.725,"endTime":564.725,"body":"the most important thing, Megan"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":564.725,"endTime":567.725,"body":"and I always talk to these these"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":564.725,"endTime":567.725,"body":"companies for because they say,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":567.725,"endTime":571.31,"body":"Oh, I feel guilty that we're,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":567.725,"endTime":571.31,"body":"we're using, you know, your the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":571.31,"endTime":574.37,"body":"students work. It's like, No,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":571.31,"endTime":574.37,"body":"you don't understand these kids"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":574.37,"endTime":577.43,"body":"feel accomplished. They're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":574.37,"endTime":577.43,"body":"building work employment skills,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":577.43,"endTime":581.15,"body":"they can use it on their resumes"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":577.43,"endTime":581.15,"body":"when they leave here at 21. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":581.15,"endTime":584.27,"body":"they're trying to find work"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":581.15,"endTime":584.27,"body":"moving forward. But also these"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":584.27,"endTime":587.99,"body":"are huge employability skills"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":584.27,"endTime":587.99,"body":"that they didn't have when"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":587.99,"endTime":590.27,"body":"they're sitting in the classroom"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":587.99,"endTime":590.27,"body":"and they're trying to build"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":590.27,"endTime":591.47,"body":"vocational skills."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":591.47,"endTime":593.75,"body":"And this is"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":591.47,"endTime":593.75,"body":"part of their educational like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":593.75,"endTime":596.795,"body":"curriculum in a sense. You know,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":593.75,"endTime":596.795,"body":"I think we just discussed this"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":596.795,"endTime":600.215,"body":"with one of the places that they"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":596.795,"endTime":600.215,"body":"were volunteering in There's a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":600.215,"endTime":603.695,"body":"little pushback about having"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":600.215,"endTime":603.695,"body":"them come volunteer because it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":603.695,"endTime":608.255,"body":"for free. But it's it's their"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":603.695,"endTime":608.255,"body":"education. You know, I know it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":608.255,"endTime":611.975,"body":"looks different than I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":608.255,"endTime":611.975,"body":"it's still not so accepted by"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":611.975,"endTime":615.395,"body":"everybody or understood by"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":611.975,"endTime":615.395,"body":"everybody. But like you said,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":615.395,"endTime":618.56,"body":"they practice all the skills in"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":615.395,"endTime":618.56,"body":"in the building. I mean, think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":618.56,"endTime":621.74,"body":"about them doing that for six or"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":618.56,"endTime":621.74,"body":"seven years, they're gonna get"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":621.74,"endTime":624.44,"body":"bored, like, Okay, here's the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":621.74,"endTime":624.44,"body":"same pencil I'm sharpening like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":624.44,"endTime":627.32,"body":"but if they know it's going into"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":624.44,"endTime":627.32,"body":"a box, it's been delivered to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":627.32,"endTime":630.2,"body":"kids who are actually using it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":627.32,"endTime":630.2,"body":"for something. It's just yeah,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":630.2,"endTime":633.56,"body":"like you said, so meaningful."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":630.2,"endTime":633.56,"body":"And I remember that phone call"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":633.74,"endTime":636.86,"body":"over COVID time when you called"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":633.74,"endTime":636.86,"body":"me, and you had these ideas. And"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":636.86,"endTime":640.145,"body":"I'm like, \"Oh, my gosh, she"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":636.86,"endTime":640.145,"body":"talks very quickly...\""},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":640.565,"endTime":641.825,"body":"Still to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":640.565,"endTime":641.825,"body":"this day."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":641.825,"endTime":643.925,"body":"But I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":641.825,"endTime":643.925,"body":"it's like all those out of the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":643.925,"endTime":647.225,"body":"box thinking like, honestly, I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":643.925,"endTime":647.225,"body":"literally just had, they're"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":647.225,"endTime":650.765,"body":"doing bingo night at my kids"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":647.225,"endTime":650.765,"body":"Elementary School, and I'm on"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":650.765,"endTime":653.645,"body":"the committee, and I'm like, we"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":650.765,"endTime":653.645,"body":"can take care of those folders"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":653.645,"endTime":656.945,"body":"for us. So now I have my"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":653.645,"endTime":656.945,"body":"students packing up the manila"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":656.945,"endTime":660.845,"body":"folders for bingo, I don't know"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":656.945,"endTime":660.845,"body":"if you're going Patrick, but if"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":660.845,"endTime":664.91,"body":"you do your bingo card, by our"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":660.845,"endTime":664.91,"body":"students, so there's just so"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":664.91,"endTime":667.07,"body":"many out of the box jobs like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":664.91,"endTime":667.07,"body":"that."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":667.36,"endTime":671.68,"body":"So one question"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":667.36,"endTime":671.68,"body":"then that I have, Meredith is,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":672.28,"endTime":675.16,"body":"do you have like a process, like"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":672.28,"endTime":675.16,"body":"in terms of how do you come up"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":675.16,"endTime":678.4,"body":"with the ideas for it? Are you"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":675.16,"endTime":678.4,"body":"do you start with your student?"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":678.4,"endTime":681.52,"body":"And then work your way out? Or,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":678.4,"endTime":681.52,"body":"how does it How does that work?"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":681.94,"endTime":684.94,"body":"No,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":681.94,"endTime":684.94,"body":"my...unfortunately, my brands"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":684.94,"endTime":687.28,"body":"like one of the you know, those"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":684.94,"endTime":687.28,"body":"Beautiful Mind type things where"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":687.28,"endTime":690.58,"body":"you like writing the, the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":687.28,"endTime":690.58,"body":"mathematician, like example on"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":690.58,"endTime":693.925,"body":"the board. And I actually think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":690.58,"endTime":693.925,"body":"that's what's the best thing"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":693.925,"endTime":697.045,"body":"about it is that I'm not a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":693.925,"endTime":697.045,"body":"selfish person when it comes to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":697.045,"endTime":701.485,"body":"these ideas. And, and I actually"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":697.045,"endTime":701.485,"body":"was very fortunate today with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":701.485,"endTime":705.385,"body":"our, this year with our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":701.485,"endTime":705.385,"body":"supervisors, she allowed me to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":705.385,"endTime":709.705,"body":"work for one of our programs,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":705.385,"endTime":709.705,"body":"which is community connections."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":709.945,"endTime":714.745,"body":"So we have several levels of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":709.945,"endTime":714.745,"body":"independence in our programs,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":715.15,"endTime":717.79,"body":"which I think is amazing. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":715.15,"endTime":717.79,"body":"and this is another level of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":718.39,"endTime":721.33,"body":"things that we're working on,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":718.39,"endTime":721.33,"body":"Meghan myself in our transition"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":721.33,"endTime":725.17,"body":"teachers and in special"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":721.33,"endTime":725.17,"body":"education is we have different"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":725.17,"endTime":728.23,"body":"levels that we want to see an"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":725.17,"endTime":728.23,"body":"independence for our students in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":728.23,"endTime":732.19,"body":"our work programs. And there"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":728.23,"endTime":732.19,"body":"should be a nice flow of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":732.19,"endTime":734.95,"body":"independence in our programs."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":732.19,"endTime":734.95,"body":"And that's something that we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":735.13,"endTime":738.955,"body":"consistently talk about, and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":735.13,"endTime":738.955,"body":"that we want to see levels of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":738.955,"endTime":742.555,"body":"independence for our students in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":738.955,"endTime":742.555,"body":"our work programs, and why we're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":742.555,"endTime":747.535,"body":"always thinking of different"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":742.555,"endTime":747.535,"body":"work sites and how they could"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":747.715,"endTime":751.435,"body":"function for students, right,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":747.715,"endTime":751.435,"body":"because it's, again, there's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":751.435,"endTime":756.535,"body":"it's an IEP, right is, is for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":751.435,"endTime":756.535,"body":"each student, you don't just put"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":756.535,"endTime":759.055,"body":"each student in a box. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":756.535,"endTime":759.055,"body":"that's how it's going to fit a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":759.055,"endTime":762.7,"body":"worksite also should not you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":759.055,"endTime":762.7,"body":"can't just put every single kid"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":762.7,"endTime":767.26,"body":"into a worksite. So if you think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":762.7,"endTime":767.26,"body":"about just our one worksite that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":767.26,"endTime":772.0,"body":"is staffed for students who need"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":767.26,"endTime":772.0,"body":"more support, we have over 100"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":772.0,"endTime":775.36,"body":"students in those work sites."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":772.0,"endTime":775.36,"body":"But as we get more and more"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":775.36,"endTime":781.3,"body":"independent, those should be"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":775.36,"endTime":781.3,"body":"individualized. So as Megan and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":781.3,"endTime":783.745,"body":"I have come on together, you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":781.3,"endTime":783.745,"body":"know, this is only like my third"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":783.745,"endTime":788.785,"body":"year working. As a transition"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":783.745,"endTime":788.785,"body":"teacher, we've been fortunate"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":788.785,"endTime":793.645,"body":"enough to work and create"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":788.785,"endTime":793.645,"body":"independent work sites. And then"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":793.645,"endTime":796.105,"body":"we think of like Community"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":793.645,"endTime":796.105,"body":"Connections is over at the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":796.105,"endTime":799.525,"body":"college and, and those two"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":796.105,"endTime":799.525,"body":"should be independent work"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":799.525,"endTime":802.525,"body":"sites. And then we think of even"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":799.525,"endTime":802.525,"body":"Project Search, which is the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":802.525,"endTime":806.47,"body":"most independent and should be"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":802.525,"endTime":806.47,"body":"government jobs. But again, with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":806.47,"endTime":811.09,"body":"COVID, that hasn't been the case"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":806.47,"endTime":811.09,"body":"as well. So we've also tried to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":811.09,"endTime":814.39,"body":"extend resources where we've"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":811.09,"endTime":814.39,"body":"reached out to people in the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":814.39,"endTime":818.71,"body":"community for those sites. So my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":814.39,"endTime":818.71,"body":"mother in law works. Or she's on"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":818.71,"endTime":821.35,"body":"the board for the ark. So when I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":818.71,"endTime":821.35,"body":"went to the chocolate ball, for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":821.35,"endTime":824.23,"body":"example, I was just trying to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":821.35,"endTime":824.23,"body":"randomly reach out to people and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":824.23,"endTime":826.69,"body":"just say, hey, oh, you're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":824.23,"endTime":826.69,"body":"working for this? Would you meet"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":826.69,"endTime":830.035,"body":"with Megan and I just to discuss"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":826.69,"endTime":830.035,"body":"opportunities of, of where we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":830.035,"endTime":833.215,"body":"could possibly have our students"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":830.035,"endTime":833.215,"body":"working or volunteering with you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":833.215,"endTime":836.335,"body":"for here or anytime I'm at the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":833.215,"endTime":836.335,"body":"grocery store. It's, it's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":836.335,"endTime":840.175,"body":"really, I think, Meghan might"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":836.335,"endTime":840.175,"body":"have told me one time when you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":840.175,"endTime":843.235,"body":"are in a area where you know,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":840.175,"endTime":843.235,"body":"people are where you feel"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":843.235,"endTime":846.535,"body":"comfortable with people, your"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":843.235,"endTime":846.535,"body":"everyday life. Those are the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":846.535,"endTime":849.595,"body":"people that know you the best."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":846.535,"endTime":849.595,"body":"Those are the people you want to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":849.595,"endTime":851.815,"body":"reach out and make connections"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":849.595,"endTime":851.815,"body":"with because if they know who"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":851.815,"endTime":854.8,"body":"you are as a person, they know"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":851.815,"endTime":854.8,"body":"you at the core. Yeah. Meredith"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":854.8,"endTime":857.8,"body":"talks a lot and Meredith's a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":854.8,"endTime":857.8,"body":"little like crazy. But you know,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":857.8,"endTime":860.62,"body":"marriage is a good person. So"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":857.8,"endTime":860.62,"body":"you trust Meredith. And if you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":860.62,"endTime":863.2,"body":"trust Meredith, then you will"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":860.62,"endTime":863.2,"body":"give her the opportunity to have"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":863.2,"endTime":866.74,"body":"her students work for you and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":863.2,"endTime":866.74,"body":"volunteer with you. And I've"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":866.74,"endTime":870.34,"body":"been able to make really good"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":866.74,"endTime":870.34,"body":"connections for the county and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":870.34,"endTime":873.46,"body":"for our work programs because of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":870.34,"endTime":873.46,"body":"that. And that's something I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":873.46,"endTime":876.325,"body":"always tell my parents when"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":873.46,"endTime":876.325,"body":"they're looking especially for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":876.325,"endTime":879.205,"body":"self directed parents. That's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":876.325,"endTime":879.205,"body":"something I always tell the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":879.205,"endTime":884.365,"body":"transition teachers that's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":879.205,"endTime":884.365,"body":"something I always tell the CCE"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":884.365,"endTime":887.185,"body":"teachers it's an it's almost"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":884.365,"endTime":887.185,"body":"like a web right, it extends,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":887.185,"endTime":891.205,"body":"extends extend and so when I'm"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":887.185,"endTime":891.205,"body":"out in the community, I try to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":891.205,"endTime":895.225,"body":"do that when I just extend"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":891.205,"endTime":895.225,"body":"myself and a friendly hello or"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":895.225,"endTime":898.51,"body":"smile. The worst thing that can"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":895.225,"endTime":898.51,"body":"happen is they say no to me. The"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":898.51,"endTime":901.21,"body":"best thing is I make another job"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":898.51,"endTime":901.21,"body":"for us are connection."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":901.51,"endTime":903.97,"body":"And I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":901.51,"endTime":903.97,"body":"that's been a huge way that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":903.97,"endTime":906.85,"body":"we've gotten a lot of jobs for"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":903.97,"endTime":906.85,"body":"our work program, because we"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":906.85,"endTime":911.41,"body":"have someone's husband works at"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":906.85,"endTime":911.41,"body":"a church or somebody's mother,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":911.41,"endTime":913.87,"body":"you know, goes to the store,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":911.41,"endTime":913.87,"body":"whatever it may be. So I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":913.87,"endTime":916.27,"body":"it's just a matter, like you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":913.87,"endTime":916.27,"body":"said, of just being out in your"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":916.27,"endTime":919.63,"body":"community and recognizing, oh,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":916.27,"endTime":919.63,"body":"they could use our help doing"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":919.63,"endTime":922.555,"body":"this. And it could be the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":919.63,"endTime":922.555,"body":"simplest mundane task, but it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":922.555,"endTime":925.735,"body":"something that our students have"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":922.555,"endTime":925.735,"body":"been working towards, and it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":925.735,"endTime":926.875,"body":"would be meaningful to them."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":926.0,"endTime":929.54,"body":"I think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":926.0,"endTime":929.54,"body":"it's just too that Megan, myself"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":929.54,"endTime":934.28,"body":"and a couple other vets, we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":929.54,"endTime":934.28,"body":"honestly think it is so crucial"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":934.28,"endTime":939.98,"body":"and so important to the success"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":934.28,"endTime":939.98,"body":"of the students that we put 100%"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":939.98,"endTime":944.6,"body":"in every single day, to find"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":939.98,"endTime":944.6,"body":"different careers and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":944.6,"endTime":945.26,"body":"different..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":946.52,"endTime":947.12,"body":"Opportunities."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":947.12,"endTime":947.96,"body":"...clusters"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":947.12,"endTime":947.96,"body":"and stirred..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":947.96,"endTime":948.32,"body":"Yup."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":948.32,"endTime":949.64,"body":"...opportunities. Not just the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":949.685,"endTime":951.605,"body":"same thing for them. And..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":951.605,"endTime":951.845,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":951.845,"endTime":953.405,"body":"...that's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":951.845,"endTime":953.405,"body":"what a good transition teacher"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":953.405,"endTime":957.125,"body":"does a good transition teacher"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":953.405,"endTime":957.125,"body":"will look at all different"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":957.125,"endTime":957.725,"body":"areas."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":957.725,"endTime":960.245,"body":"Right? It's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":957.725,"endTime":960.245,"body":"not just custodial.  And there's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":960.245,"endTime":963.665,"body":"some some friends that love some"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":960.245,"endTime":963.665,"body":"cleaning a window. We know"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":963.665,"endTime":966.425,"body":"that's not for everybody. And"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":963.665,"endTime":966.425,"body":"yeah, that's why I think it's so"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":966.425,"endTime":970.205,"body":"important. We're always scouring"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":966.425,"endTime":970.205,"body":"like the internet, or just"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":970.205,"endTime":973.91,"body":"looking at different stores to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":970.205,"endTime":973.91,"body":"see, you know, what other field"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":973.91,"endTime":977.33,"body":"we can capture. And I think I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":973.91,"endTime":977.33,"body":"know, summer is coming. And a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":977.33,"endTime":980.09,"body":"lot of times around this time of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":977.33,"endTime":980.09,"body":"the year, I have families who"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":980.09,"endTime":982.43,"body":"are looking for job"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":980.09,"endTime":982.43,"body":"opportunities over the summer."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":982.61,"endTime":985.25,"body":"And I'm always like, Well, what"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":982.61,"endTime":985.25,"body":"about like, where you go to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":985.25,"endTime":987.23,"body":"church? What about in the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":985.25,"endTime":987.23,"body":"neighborhood? What about people"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":987.23,"endTime":989.09,"body":"that, you know, is there"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":987.23,"endTime":989.09,"body":"anything that they could help"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":989.09,"endTime":991.79,"body":"them with like, and it's just"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":989.09,"endTime":991.79,"body":"like that first step to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":991.79,"endTime":995.735,"body":"naturally think of your circle"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":991.79,"endTime":995.735,"body":"of support and any potential"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":995.735,"endTime":998.375,"body":"opportunities there. Because"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":995.735,"endTime":998.375,"body":"that's really going to be"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":998.375,"endTime":1001.195,"body":"helpful, too, when they exhibit"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":998.375,"endTime":1001.195,"body":"21. You know, you've got those"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1001.195,"endTime":1003.835,"body":"connections already made. And"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1001.195,"endTime":1003.835,"body":"like you said before, I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1003.835,"endTime":1006.655,"body":"that trust is really big,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1003.835,"endTime":1006.655,"body":"because I know, when we start a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1006.655,"endTime":1009.295,"body":"relationship with a new"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1006.655,"endTime":1009.295,"body":"business, we often have to like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1009.295,"endTime":1011.095,"body":"it's like when you're first"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1009.295,"endTime":1011.095,"body":"dating, and you're like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1011.095,"endTime":1013.615,"body":"alright, is this really gonna"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1011.095,"endTime":1013.615,"body":"work? Like we got to see you got"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1013.615,"endTime":1016.495,"body":"to feel it out. And then once"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1013.615,"endTime":1016.495,"body":"you build that trust in that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1016.495,"endTime":1019.3,"body":"relationship, they're like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1016.495,"endTime":1019.3,"body":"sure, you know, come more, bring"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1019.3,"endTime":1022.66,"body":"more. And also, it's, it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1019.3,"endTime":1022.66,"body":"really like a little song and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1022.66,"endTime":1024.04,"body":"dance you have to go through"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1022.66,"endTime":1024.04,"body":"first."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1024.66,"endTime":1027.66,"body":"Meredith, one"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1024.66,"endTime":1027.66,"body":"question that I do have in, you"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1027.66,"endTime":1030.3,"body":"kind of hit the nail on the head"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1027.66,"endTime":1030.3,"body":"earlier, when we first started"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1030.3,"endTime":1035.04,"body":"in the conversation, that, in"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1030.3,"endTime":1035.04,"body":"this, in a lot of the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1035.04,"endTime":1039.24,"body":"discussions that we have had, we"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1035.04,"endTime":1039.24,"body":"concentrate a lot on our"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1039.24,"endTime":1043.62,"body":"students who are either not on"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1039.24,"endTime":1043.62,"body":"the diploma track or who have"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1044.28,"endTime":1048.765,"body":"special needs significant"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1044.28,"endTime":1048.765,"body":"special needs. However, there is"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1048.765,"endTime":1052.425,"body":"a large contingent of the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1048.765,"endTime":1052.425,"body":"population are diploma-bound"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1052.425,"endTime":1057.165,"body":"friends, and you said, you've"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1052.425,"endTime":1057.165,"body":"enjoyed getting to know the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1057.165,"endTime":1061.125,"body":"differences between the two."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1057.165,"endTime":1061.125,"body":"Could you speak briefly then"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1061.125,"endTime":1065.085,"body":"about what does that look like?"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1061.125,"endTime":1065.085,"body":"Like for you as somebody who's"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1065.085,"endTime":1066.165,"body":"just getting into this?"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1067.26,"endTime":1071.16,"body":"Yeah,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1067.26,"endTime":1071.16,"body":"and I think for me, DORS and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1071.16,"endTime":1074.46,"body":"then the work the Workforce"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1071.16,"endTime":1074.46,"body":"Center training, and I have to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1074.46,"endTime":1077.58,"body":"say I, we also have a new"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1074.46,"endTime":1077.58,"body":"position this year, the I would"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1077.58,"endTime":1081.42,"body":"say wrong now like the CCR, C"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1077.58,"endTime":1081.42,"body":"are they changed their name,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1081.48,"endTime":1082.98,"body":"like all over the place, but..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1082.98,"endTime":1084.54,"body":"College and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1082.98,"endTime":1084.54,"body":"Career Readiness."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1084.5,"endTime":1241.67,"body":"...Readiness? I think I have the best one of the bunch. I call him the Gits. Okay, but so he is just the best. He's like my big muscle man. He is just a vast amount of resources. Like right now, he just invited me to come on for field trips that he's taking. So he really has been a wealth of knowledge about like career path connectors, and exposing the kids to like different trade schools that are coming up. Megan did an amazing job with the field trip we just took for HCC for juniors and seniors that the transition teachers put together, which is amazing. I love working with Diane Neagle over at HCC I think it's just so impactful. And I think since Meghan took it over the past is two years now. I just think it has improved 100-fold that I think the kids have gotten so much out of it. I immensely you know, had just, I'm falling in love with HCC more and more each year for me and then DORS. I have so each of us as the transition teachers we have a DORS rep for each of our schools and mine's Jilian Steinhardt. And I just love Jilian, she is so present in each of the IEP meetings that we have. And she she attends my IEP meetings for freshmen, which I don't always listen, DORS is going to have a different relationship with with each other the people that they work with, I find Jilian to be extremely responsive, extremely communicative. And with your DORS rep, they really depending on the relationship depending on the communication you have with that person, they're able to kind of share what resources are available for that student. They're able to share what programs that that student is eligible for and really talk about what path they're gonna go down and I have found her to be so helpful again, with with what is going on. So like we had a student that was really interested in doing like the weeble, which is like a path where they can go on like a certain amount of week program where they're working in a different location and there's opportunities to get paid. And she was able to walk the student and the parent was present in the meeting, the student is present arched, I was welcomed to be present. And it was just so open, the communication was amazing. And I really enjoyed that whole conversation we were able to do right there. So for me being able to see that the Workforce Training Center, they're offering a really nice summer internship program that's paid, you can work from home. If that's works better, you can work in different locations, that again, that's something that gets offered to me, too, that he was handing out flyers for I'm sorry, I don't have to call them that way. So I really liked that co-teaching, like I call it co-teaching, but that's something we're doing together too,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1084.5,"endTime":1241.67,"body":"so..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1130.71,"endTime":1135.45,"body":"I think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1130.71,"endTime":1135.45,"body":"the one thing I'm really good, I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1133.59,"endTime":1144.03,"body":"Well, it's like that partnership"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1133.59,"endTime":1144.03,"body":"like and..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1135.45,"endTime":1143.79,"body":"was like, I don't know all the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1135.45,"endTime":1143.79,"body":"answers. And if I don't, then..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1144.0,"endTime":1196.41,"body":"knows,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1144.0,"endTime":1196.41,"body":"at the college, she does the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1144.03,"endTime":1144.33,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1144.03,"endTime":1144.63,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1196.47,"endTime":1207.45,"body":"Jumpstart program. And so she's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1196.47,"endTime":1207.45,"body":"really invested in that piece as"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1207.45,"endTime":1279.585,"body":"well. So I really do enjoy"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1207.45,"endTime":1279.585,"body":"working with him."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1279.645,"endTime":1281.505,"body":"That's another"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1279.645,"endTime":1281.505,"body":"resource he brings in then."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1281.96,"endTime":1283.82,"body":"Only"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1281.96,"endTime":1283.82,"body":"agree. So..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1284.42,"endTime":1285.8,"body":"But yeah, I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1284.42,"endTime":1285.8,"body":"think that's like that's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1285.8,"endTime":1288.38,"body":"something I tell parents to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1285.8,"endTime":1288.38,"body":"like, I'm not sure but I love"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1288.38,"endTime":1291.02,"body":"going down the rabbit hole and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1288.38,"endTime":1291.02,"body":"finding the information. And"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1291.02,"endTime":1294.5,"body":"honestly, it's helped so much"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1291.02,"endTime":1294.5,"body":"like every little situation that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1294.5,"endTime":1298.16,"body":"I've encountered. I just keep"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1294.5,"endTime":1298.16,"body":"like a document or you know, a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1298.16,"endTime":1301.52,"body":"folder and I'm like, Oh, wait, I"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1298.16,"endTime":1301.52,"body":"have looked this up before and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1301.52,"endTime":1306.125,"body":"then it comes to use for another"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1301.52,"endTime":1306.125,"body":"parent. So it's everything so"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1306.125,"endTime":1309.005,"body":"individualized. But you can at"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1306.125,"endTime":1309.005,"body":"least leave them to the right"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1309.005,"endTime":1309.425,"body":"person."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1309.845,"endTime":1312.245,"body":"I also"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1309.845,"endTime":1312.245,"body":"to like I have enjoyed with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1312.245,"endTime":1315.365,"body":"these computer paths really"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1312.245,"endTime":1315.365,"body":"learning a lot more about ARL"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1315.545,"endTime":1318.485,"body":"and also the apprenticeships"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1315.545,"endTime":1318.485,"body":"this year. I'm really excited"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1318.485,"endTime":1320.945,"body":"because we actually were able to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1318.485,"endTime":1320.945,"body":"get one of our certificate"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1320.945,"endTime":1323.345,"body":"students over at ARL for next"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1320.945,"endTime":1323.345,"body":"year, which I know it's like a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1323.345,"endTime":1327.076,"body":"little bit off track, Patrick,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1323.345,"endTime":1327.076,"body":"what you were saying but just"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1327.076,"endTime":1329.09,"body":"understanding what"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1327.076,"endTime":1329.09,"body":"apprenticeships are and what ARL"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1329.09,"endTime":1332.75,"body":"offers to our students. I wish"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1329.09,"endTime":1332.75,"body":"to that we could just extend and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1332.75,"endTime":1335.51,"body":"get so much more bar students,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1332.75,"endTime":1335.51,"body":"but you know, it's just"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1335.51,"endTime":1339.53,"body":"understanding what they bring to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1335.51,"endTime":1339.53,"body":"our students."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1339.65,"endTime":1341.81,"body":"Real quickly."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1339.65,"endTime":1341.81,"body":"For those of us who don't know,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1342.11,"endTime":1343.73,"body":"ARL, what is, what is that?"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1343.85,"endTime":1344.75,"body":"The"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1343.85,"endTime":1344.75,"body":"Applied..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1344.93,"endTime":1346.31,"body":"Research Lab."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1346.61,"endTime":1349.31,"body":"And there's just a variety"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1346.61,"endTime":1349.31,"body":"there's... Oh god, I want to say"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1349.31,"endTime":1351.11,"body":"is there like 12 or 13..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1351.35,"endTime":1353.855,"body":"...different"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1351.35,"endTime":1353.855,"body":"career academy is for students"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1353.855,"endTime":1356.915,"body":"who are interested in a specific"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1353.855,"endTime":1356.915,"body":"path. And they're really great"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1356.915,"endTime":1359.675,"body":"because they give the students"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1356.915,"endTime":1359.675,"body":"like opportunities to have"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1359.675,"endTime":1363.695,"body":"internships, certifications to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1359.675,"endTime":1363.695,"body":"leave school already, like, you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1363.695,"endTime":1366.755,"body":"know, ready to go and into that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1363.695,"endTime":1366.755,"body":"field, a lot of times."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1367.08,"endTime":1368.58,"body":"You do"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1367.08,"endTime":1368.58,"body":"have to apply though, in your"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1368.58,"endTime":1372.24,"body":"sophomore year. And you do find"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1368.58,"endTime":1372.24,"body":"out in your sophomore year, if"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1372.24,"endTime":1375.96,"body":"you make it and then you do go,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1372.24,"endTime":1375.96,"body":"junior year, you go the first"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1375.96,"endTime":1378.84,"body":"two periods of the day, senior"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1375.96,"endTime":1378.84,"body":"year, the last two, two and a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1378.84,"endTime":1379.86,"body":"half right, depending..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1380.04,"endTime":1382.44,"body":"The half day"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1380.04,"endTime":1382.44,"body":"off. Yep, have, a half day off"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1382.44,"endTime":1384.42,"body":"campus from your regular school."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1384.78,"endTime":1388.14,"body":"All right and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1384.78,"endTime":1388.14,"body":"then I wanted to because I have"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1388.14,"endTime":1391.005,"body":"to admit, in the back of my"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1388.14,"endTime":1391.005,"body":"head, I have been having this"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1391.005,"endTime":1394.785,"body":"question. My understanding, and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1391.005,"endTime":1394.785,"body":"I think I remember seeing it"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1394.845,"endTime":1398.985,"body":"something about it on Facebook,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1394.845,"endTime":1398.985,"body":"you had an opportunity, you"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1398.985,"endTime":1400.725,"body":"helped out the Washington"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1398.985,"endTime":1400.725,"body":"Capitals?"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1400.965,"endTime":1402.045,"body":"Oh, yes!"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1402.105,"endTime":1404.205,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1402.105,"endTime":1404.205,"body":"And look, I'm not even I am not"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1404.205,"endTime":1408.165,"body":"Molly Milani is one of our best,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1404.205,"endTime":1408.165,"body":"best, best best, best. I call"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1408.165,"endTime":1412.136,"body":"her my inclusion specialist"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1408.165,"endTime":1412.136,"body":"teacher, but everyone always"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1412.136,"endTime":1412.497,"body":"called them the resource ones,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1412.136,"endTime":1412.497,"body":"which I think is the weirdest..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1412.497,"endTime":1412.824,"body":"Oh, I just"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1412.497,"endTime":1412.824,"body":"call them the gen ed, special"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1412.824,"endTime":1412.857,"body":"educator."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1412.84,"endTime":1416.32,"body":"Right,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1412.84,"endTime":1416.32,"body":"the gen ed special educator. So,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1416.62,"endTime":1420.46,"body":"she actually has a connection"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1416.62,"endTime":1420.46,"body":"with the Capitals. So she"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1420.46,"endTime":1422.92,"body":"actually reached out and she"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1420.46,"endTime":1422.92,"body":"actually did, she's the one that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1422.92,"endTime":1425.92,"body":"got us the real estate thing as"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1422.92,"endTime":1425.92,"body":"well. I'll talk about that next"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1426.04,"endTime":1429.94,"body":"too. But again, so it's like the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1426.04,"endTime":1429.94,"body":"team working together to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1430.06,"endTime":1433.66,"body":"together she; yeah, she tagged"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1430.06,"endTime":1433.66,"body":"them on social media, and they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1433.66,"endTime":1437.785,"body":"send it out. And she brought it"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1433.66,"endTime":1437.785,"body":"in, and it was like 5000 pieces"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1437.785,"endTime":1440.905,"body":"of work that was just put"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1437.785,"endTime":1440.905,"body":"together. But again, it was, I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1440.905,"endTime":1443.905,"body":"think it was like two or three"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1440.905,"endTime":1443.905,"body":"weeks of work for us. But again,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1443.965,"endTime":1448.105,"body":"it was just thinking outside of"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1443.965,"endTime":1448.105,"body":"the box. She randomly came up to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1448.105,"endTime":1455.545,"body":"us and was like, Hey, do you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1448.105,"endTime":1455.545,"body":"think this is something you guys"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1455.545,"endTime":1457.684,"body":"would be interested in? It's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1455.545,"endTime":1457.684,"body":"probably boring for you. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1457.684,"endTime":1457.881,"body":"was like, Are you out of your"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1457.684,"endTime":1457.881,"body":"mind? Like I was like, this is"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1457.881,"endTime":1458.022,"body":"something that would be so"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1457.881,"endTime":1458.022,"body":"meaningful to them. And again,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1458.022,"endTime":1461.23,"body":"for our students, we have a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1458.022,"endTime":1461.23,"body":"couple students who find motors"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1461.23,"endTime":1464.17,"body":"an issue for them. And they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1461.23,"endTime":1464.17,"body":"enjoyed it so much, because it"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1464.17,"endTime":1467.23,"body":"was almost like we just had a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1464.17,"endTime":1467.23,"body":"systematic train running, right?"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1467.47,"endTime":1473.41,"body":"And they got it done in two"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1467.47,"endTime":1473.41,"body":"weeks. And they were blown away."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1473.41,"endTime":1476.47,"body":"They actually sent the kids"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1473.41,"endTime":1476.47,"body":"like, what do you call that like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1476.47,"endTime":1480.07,"body":"flair, like free stuff? And then"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1476.47,"endTime":1480.07,"body":"I was I actually called Megan I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1480.07,"endTime":1483.475,"body":"think what last week because we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1480.07,"endTime":1483.475,"body":"had a real estate agent who I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1483.475,"endTime":1485.815,"body":"have been working with and Molly"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1483.475,"endTime":1485.815,"body":"had been working with. And we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1485.815,"endTime":1488.995,"body":"had a staff member that used to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1485.815,"endTime":1488.995,"body":"work at our school. And they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1488.995,"endTime":1491.935,"body":"were like, Oh, we really need"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1488.995,"endTime":1491.935,"body":"some help. And because she"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1491.935,"endTime":1495.235,"body":"reached out to us, she had 12"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1491.935,"endTime":1495.235,"body":"other real estate agents that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1495.235,"endTime":1498.295,"body":"are also wanting to work with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1495.235,"endTime":1498.295,"body":"us. And so they're just like"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1498.295,"endTime":1502.315,"body":"bombarding us with stuff offer"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1498.295,"endTime":1502.315,"body":"now. So it's like, you just help"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1502.315,"endTime":1505.615,"body":"one person. So I'm sure that you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1502.315,"endTime":1505.615,"body":"are literally saving my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1505.66,"endTime":1509.32,"body":"marriage. And I was like, no,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1505.66,"endTime":1509.32,"body":"no, you are saving my life. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1509.32,"endTime":1512.26,"body":"she was like, we're gonna send"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1509.32,"endTime":1512.26,"body":"you pizzas every week. That's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1512.32,"endTime":1515.56,"body":"not, that's not gonna help my"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1512.32,"endTime":1515.56,"body":"thighs lady. So, you know, like,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1515.68,"endTime":1519.34,"body":"but it's, you know, just the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1515.68,"endTime":1519.34,"body":"these opportunities where people"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1519.82,"endTime":1524.62,"body":"are so overwhelmed by tasks that"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1519.82,"endTime":1524.62,"body":"they find, like you said, you"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1524.62,"endTime":1529.225,"body":"know, I don't say mundane, or"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1524.62,"endTime":1529.225,"body":"they find PDFs or they're just"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1529.225,"endTime":1532.345,"body":"easy. It's and tasks are taking"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1529.225,"endTime":1532.345,"body":"hours upon hours of their day."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1532.645,"endTime":1536.545,"body":"And we talked about it that our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1532.645,"endTime":1536.545,"body":"students who right now are in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1536.545,"endTime":1538.765,"body":"the classroom, and they're not"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1536.545,"endTime":1538.765,"body":"able to go out to work yet,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1538.765,"endTime":1542.545,"body":"because we can't send our little"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1538.765,"endTime":1542.545,"body":"ones out to work until junior"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1542.545,"endTime":1546.445,"body":"senior year. These are amazing"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1542.545,"endTime":1546.445,"body":"tasks for them. Because we're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1546.445,"endTime":1550.045,"body":"really able to collect data and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1546.445,"endTime":1550.045,"body":"say, Hey, we're starting to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1550.045,"endTime":1554.65,"body":"notice that so and so are"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1550.045,"endTime":1554.65,"body":"showing independence, they're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1554.65,"endTime":1559.45,"body":"showing the time on task is up"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1554.65,"endTime":1559.45,"body":"to 30 to 45 minutes, we're"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1559.51,"endTime":1562.87,"body":"showing they're able to follow"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1559.51,"endTime":1562.87,"body":"multi step directions, like they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1562.87,"endTime":1566.65,"body":"would be great for us to send"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1562.87,"endTime":1566.65,"body":"out to the workforce, or the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1566.65,"endTime":1569.35,"body":"opposite. Because when we have"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1566.65,"endTime":1569.35,"body":"these parents that say to us, I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1569.35,"endTime":1571.27,"body":"want them out to work"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1569.35,"endTime":1571.27,"body":"immediately, we're like, Hey,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1571.27,"endTime":1573.175,"body":"let me show you this data"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1571.27,"endTime":1573.175,"body":"collection we have, there's a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1573.175,"endTime":1577.255,"body":"couple of things we're noticing"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1573.175,"endTime":1577.255,"body":"X, Y, and Z that are concerning"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1577.315,"endTime":1582.955,"body":"for us, I just was able to get a"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1577.315,"endTime":1582.955,"body":"connection with the four H"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1583.015,"endTime":1586.735,"body":"group. And that's been amazing"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1583.015,"endTime":1586.735,"body":"this year, they've been able to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1586.735,"endTime":1590.935,"body":"come in and work with our guys"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1586.735,"endTime":1590.935,"body":"working with nature and building"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1590.935,"endTime":1594.055,"body":"and developing crafts with the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1590.935,"endTime":1594.055,"body":"kids, but they're also working"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1594.055,"endTime":1597.82,"body":"on finance skills with them,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1594.055,"endTime":1597.82,"body":"they want to come back and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1597.82,"endTime":1601.24,"body":"actually expand, of course, I'm"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1597.82,"endTime":1601.24,"body":"always going to look for Meghan"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1601.24,"endTime":1604.72,"body":"and you know, expand into her"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1601.24,"endTime":1604.72,"body":"school, my sister works at"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1604.72,"endTime":1607.48,"body":"another high school, she goes"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1604.72,"endTime":1607.48,"body":"out to work. So we're going to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1607.48,"endTime":1610.0,"body":"try and get into her school"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1607.48,"endTime":1610.0,"body":"today, we're going to try and"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1610.0,"endTime":1613.0,"body":"write a grant as well to get"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1610.0,"endTime":1613.0,"body":"funding done in the high schools"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1613.3,"endTime":1617.98,"body":"to expand. So for me, it's like,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1613.3,"endTime":1617.98,"body":"you know, there's your limitless"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1617.98,"endTime":1622.705,"body":"ends, it's just I need to try"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1617.98,"endTime":1622.705,"body":"and slow my brain down. But for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1622.705,"endTime":1626.785,"body":"me, I just think these kids need"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1622.705,"endTime":1626.785,"body":"to be out at work all the time."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1626.785,"endTime":1630.025,"body":"Because, you know, you got to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1626.785,"endTime":1630.025,"body":"think about the fact that 6/7"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1630.025,"endTime":1632.845,"body":"years is a really long time to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1630.025,"endTime":1632.845,"body":"be stuck in a classroom."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1633.445,"endTime":1635.605,"body":"Well and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1633.445,"endTime":1635.605,"body":"you're trying to set them up for"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1635.605,"endTime":1636.385,"body":"real life."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1636.925,"endTime":1638.425,"body":"Well"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1636.925,"endTime":1638.425,"body":"yeah, because I mean, I think"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1638.425,"endTime":1641.485,"body":"we've if we tallied I'd love to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1638.425,"endTime":1641.485,"body":"know how many of our friends"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1641.485,"endTime":1645.55,"body":"especially the self-directed"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1641.485,"endTime":1645.55,"body":"path, have productive jobs"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1645.55,"endTime":1648.19,"body":"afterward. And that's, that's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1645.55,"endTime":1648.19,"body":"what I really do worry about for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1648.19,"endTime":1648.85,"body":"our friends as..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1649.26,"endTime":1652.56,"body":"I think it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1649.26,"endTime":1652.56,"body":"also giving, like parents, you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1652.56,"endTime":1656.82,"body":"know, the ability to see they"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1652.56,"endTime":1656.82,"body":"they're capable, I think so many"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1656.82,"endTime":1660.18,"body":"times. And even I see a lot of"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1656.82,"endTime":1660.18,"body":"special occasions, they're stuck"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1660.24,"endTime":1664.86,"body":"on a job has to be 9-to-5, 40"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1660.24,"endTime":1664.86,"body":"hours a week, you know, Monday"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1664.86,"endTime":1668.7,"body":"through Friday. So I think it's"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1664.86,"endTime":1668.7,"body":"just changing that mindset and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1668.7,"endTime":1673.005,"body":"realizing a job could be couple"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1668.7,"endTime":1673.005,"body":"hours a day, working at home or"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1673.005,"endTime":1677.025,"body":"in, you know, in a store or"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1673.005,"endTime":1677.025,"body":"something doing this task. And"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1677.025,"endTime":1681.165,"body":"that is a meaningful job that is"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1677.025,"endTime":1681.165,"body":"there like good life. So I think"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1681.165,"endTime":1684.585,"body":"it's just parents realizing that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1681.165,"endTime":1684.585,"body":"and seeing that before they"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1684.585,"endTime":1688.365,"body":"leave, and knowing that they're"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1684.585,"endTime":1688.365,"body":"their child has a purpose in"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1688.365,"endTime":1688.605,"body":"that."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1689.025,"endTime":1690.765,"body":"Based on the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1689.025,"endTime":1690.765,"body":"conversations that we've had"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1690.765,"endTime":1694.02,"body":"also, between ourselves, and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1690.765,"endTime":1694.02,"body":"then also with some of the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1694.02,"endTime":1696.27,"body":"parents that we talked to I also"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1694.02,"endTime":1696.27,"body":"feel like the word that comes to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1696.27,"endTime":1699.03,"body":"my mind when we have that"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1696.27,"endTime":1699.03,"body":"discussion is agency like"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1699.03,"endTime":1702.45,"body":"knowing that they can, you know,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1699.03,"endTime":1702.45,"body":"make an impact or, you know,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1702.45,"endTime":1705.57,"body":"have some ideas. I always go"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1702.45,"endTime":1705.57,"body":"back to the conversation that we"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1705.57,"endTime":1708.09,"body":"have with Pam. Pam, which is"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1705.57,"endTime":1708.09,"body":"walk out in public and be like,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1708.09,"endTime":1709.35,"body":"Hey, who's going to employ my"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1708.09,"endTime":1709.35,"body":"kid?"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1709.41,"endTime":1709.71,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1709.71,"endTime":1709.89,"body":"Yep."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1709.89,"endTime":1710.49,"body":"And, you"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1709.89,"endTime":1710.49,"body":"know..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1710.73,"endTime":1712.89,"body":"Yeah. And she"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1710.73,"endTime":1712.89,"body":"was serious about it, too."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1712.89,"endTime":1713.13,"body":"Yeah. Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1713.13,"endTime":1715.29,"body":"And it's so"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1713.13,"endTime":1715.29,"body":"admirable, because she's like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1715.29,"endTime":1718.395,"body":"Yeah, he can work, put them to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1715.29,"endTime":1718.395,"body":"work. And I still remember like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1718.395,"endTime":1721.695,"body":"she was talking about, like,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1718.395,"endTime":1721.695,"body":"when he was hired, and the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1721.695,"endTime":1725.535,"body":"person he was working for had a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1721.695,"endTime":1725.535,"body":"question. They just called up"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1725.535,"endTime":1728.355,"body":"Pam. And she's like, Just tell"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1725.535,"endTime":1728.355,"body":"him to do it. And it was just"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1728.355,"endTime":1731.535,"body":"like a matter of wording. But it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1728.355,"endTime":1731.535,"body":"was something so simple to get"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1731.535,"endTime":1734.835,"body":"through, you know, and they were"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1731.535,"endTime":1734.835,"body":"willing to, so..."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1736.335,"endTime":1739.155,"body":"I do"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1736.335,"endTime":1739.155,"body":"wish, and I think this is"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1739.155,"endTime":1740.1,"body":"something we struggle with in"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1739.155,"endTime":1740.1,"body":"the school system and with"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1740.1,"endTime":1745.08,"body":"family sometimes is our ability"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1740.1,"endTime":1745.08,"body":"to have warm, open conversations"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1745.08,"endTime":1747.66,"body":"sometimes. And I know that our"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1745.08,"endTime":1747.66,"body":"families get, you know,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1747.66,"endTime":1751.08,"body":"especially when they get towards"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1747.66,"endTime":1751.08,"body":"the end, the anxiety builds. And"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1751.32,"endTime":1755.7,"body":"sometimes trust is hard. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1751.32,"endTime":1755.7,"body":"just wish we can have more"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1755.7,"endTime":1758.46,"body":"thoughtful, easier"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1755.7,"endTime":1758.46,"body":"conversations. And that is the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1758.46,"endTime":1762.54,"body":"one thing that's that's hard for"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1758.46,"endTime":1762.54,"body":"me is the reality of what's"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1762.54,"endTime":1764.925,"body":"coming next for them. And I"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1762.54,"endTime":1764.925,"body":"don't know how to bring their"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1764.925,"endTime":1768.045,"body":"guard down sometimes. And we"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1764.925,"endTime":1768.045,"body":"could just get through all the"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1768.045,"endTime":1770.445,"body":"muck of it and kind of just say,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1768.045,"endTime":1770.445,"body":"like, hey, please, like just"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1770.445,"endTime":1772.665,"body":"kind of show them a crystal"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1770.445,"endTime":1772.665,"body":"ball. Like what it's going to"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1772.665,"endTime":1776.685,"body":"look like if we just don't break"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1772.665,"endTime":1776.685,"body":"it down. And I'm hoping more"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1776.685,"endTime":1779.805,"body":"people can listen your podcast"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1776.685,"endTime":1779.805,"body":"and I think like sometimes they"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1779.805,"endTime":1782.385,"body":"like, you know, it's like,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1779.805,"endTime":1782.385,"body":"listen, listen, or you know,"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1782.385,"endTime":1783.225,"body":"just try but..."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1783.36,"endTime":1785.22,"body":"I think one of"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1783.36,"endTime":1785.22,"body":"the things that goes back to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1785.22,"endTime":1789.72,"body":"that, and when you were saying"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1785.22,"endTime":1789.72,"body":"earlier again was about trust. I"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1789.72,"endTime":1792.9,"body":"as I was focusing in on the I've"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1789.72,"endTime":1792.9,"body":"been in the school system now"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1792.9,"endTime":1796.92,"body":"for seven years, and I've been"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1792.9,"endTime":1796.92,"body":"fortunate enough to build"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1797.34,"endTime":1800.04,"body":"relationships with families of"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1797.34,"endTime":1800.04,"body":"the students that I work with"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1800.04,"endTime":1804.6,"body":"that we've had some pretty hard"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1800.04,"endTime":1804.6,"body":"conversations. And it goes to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1804.6,"endTime":1808.185,"body":"show a level of trust, when you"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1804.6,"endTime":1808.185,"body":"can openly have those"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1808.185,"endTime":1813.585,"body":"conversations. And but it is"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1808.185,"endTime":1813.585,"body":"not. It is not easy. It is not"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1813.585,"endTime":1814.965,"body":"easy. And...some..."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1816.225,"endTime":1818.325,"body":"...sometimes"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1816.225,"endTime":1818.325,"body":"it takes having that"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1818.325,"endTime":1820.665,"body":"conversation and letting it sink"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1818.325,"endTime":1820.665,"body":"in."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1820.785,"endTime":1821.325,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1821.0,"endTime":1822.2,"body":"them come back"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1821.0,"endTime":1822.2,"body":"when they're ready."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1822.2,"endTime":1822.5,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1822.5,"endTime":1823.1,"body":"...for more."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1823.1,"endTime":1824.96,"body":"Yeah. Some are"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1823.1,"endTime":1824.96,"body":"some are more willing to have"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1824.96,"endTime":1827.9,"body":"the conversation than others."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1824.96,"endTime":1827.9,"body":"But yeah, again, just the fact"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1827.9,"endTime":1830.84,"body":"that it's being brought up and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1827.9,"endTime":1830.84,"body":"kind of like, Hey, this is"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1830.84,"endTime":1832.46,"body":"something that we should be"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1830.84,"endTime":1832.46,"body":"thinking about."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1832.64,"endTime":1834.8,"body":"Yeah, I've had"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1832.64,"endTime":1834.8,"body":"parents tell me that, like, we'd"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1834.8,"endTime":1838.04,"body":"sit down when their child was"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1834.8,"endTime":1838.04,"body":"like 14, or 15. And I go through"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1838.04,"endTime":1840.5,"body":"the timeline and tell them some"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1838.04,"endTime":1840.5,"body":"of the things that might not be"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1840.5,"endTime":1842.84,"body":"easy to hear about, you know,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1840.5,"endTime":1842.84,"body":"when you're gone, and this and"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1842.84,"endTime":1845.285,"body":"that. And I've had them come"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1842.84,"endTime":1845.285,"body":"back years later. And they're"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1845.285,"endTime":1848.525,"body":"like, you know, I didn't want to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1845.285,"endTime":1848.525,"body":"hear that. You said it, and it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1848.525,"endTime":1851.405,"body":"stuck in the back of my mind."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1848.525,"endTime":1851.405,"body":"And I knew I had to come around."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1851.405,"endTime":1854.465,"body":"And eventually, when I was"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1851.405,"endTime":1854.465,"body":"ready, like I knew what I was"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1854.465,"endTime":1857.945,"body":"facing. So it's I think we"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1854.465,"endTime":1857.945,"body":"always struggle with that we've"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1857.945,"endTime":1860.645,"body":"had this conversation about like"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1857.945,"endTime":1860.645,"body":"trying to get down to the middle"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1860.645,"endTime":1862.985,"body":"school, when they're really"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1860.645,"endTime":1862.985,"body":"young, and start the"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1862.985,"endTime":1865.925,"body":"conversations then. But it"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1862.985,"endTime":1865.925,"body":"really comes down to who's ready"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1865.925,"endTime":1870.05,"body":"to hear it. And even if they, if"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1865.925,"endTime":1870.05,"body":"we don't think they're ready to"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1870.05,"endTime":1872.27,"body":"hear they act like they don't,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1870.05,"endTime":1872.27,"body":"they're not ready to hear it."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1872.63,"endTime":1875.33,"body":"Some of that information still"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1872.63,"endTime":1875.33,"body":"getting in there, you know, just"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1875.33,"endTime":1879.11,"body":"presenting it to them. I think,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1875.33,"endTime":1879.11,"body":"you know, it's just slowly"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1879.11,"endTime":1882.95,"body":"seeping in. But it's got to be"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1879.11,"endTime":1882.95,"body":"it's got to be thought about"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1883.01,"endTime":1883.91,"body":"early on."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1891.58,"endTime":1894.1,"body":"Well, thank you, Meredith, for"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1891.58,"endTime":1894.1,"body":"all that information. I know you"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1894.1,"endTime":1896.86,"body":"could go on and on. And I'm sure"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1894.1,"endTime":1896.86,"body":"tomorrow morning at 6am. We'll"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1896.92,"endTime":1899.62,"body":"get a text from you. \"Oh, wait,"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1896.92,"endTime":1899.62,"body":"I should have mentioned this.\""},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1900.52,"endTime":1905.5,"body":"We can always add it in later."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1900.52,"endTime":1905.5,"body":"But we appreciate all your hard"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1905.5,"endTime":1908.125,"body":"work and your out of the box"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1905.5,"endTime":1908.125,"body":"thinking and you are such a"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1908.125,"endTime":1912.745,"body":"tremendous support to these"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1908.125,"endTime":1912.745,"body":"families. And they're very lucky"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":1912.745,"endTime":1913.105,"body":"to have you."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1913.585,"endTime":1914.245,"body":"Thank"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":1913.585,"endTime":1914.245,"body":"you."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1915.565,"endTime":1918.205,"body":"All right. And"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1915.565,"endTime":1918.205,"body":"well, with that being said, I as"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1918.205,"endTime":1920.545,"body":"usual, when we have"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1918.205,"endTime":1920.545,"body":"conversations like this, I"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1920.545,"endTime":1923.245,"body":"always feel like we're just"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1920.545,"endTime":1923.245,"body":"scratching the surface. And we"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1923.245,"endTime":1926.245,"body":"probably could do some more"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1923.245,"endTime":1926.245,"body":"again. So of course, we're"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1926.245,"endTime":1931.45,"body":"probably going to do more again."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1926.245,"endTime":1931.45,"body":"But in the meantime, in the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1931.45,"endTime":1935.83,"body":"meantime, we need you to do us a"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1931.45,"endTime":1935.83,"body":"favor, we need you to like"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1935.89,"endTime":1939.19,"body":"follow please share out the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1935.89,"endTime":1939.19,"body":"podcast we want share out the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1939.19,"endTime":1941.53,"body":"information from these"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1939.19,"endTime":1941.53,"body":"discussions with as many"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1941.53,"endTime":1945.19,"body":"families as we can. And we need"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1941.53,"endTime":1945.19,"body":"your help to do it. We're on all"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1945.19,"endTime":1948.79,"body":"the major podcast platforms"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1945.19,"endTime":1948.79,"body":"through Apple, Spotify, YouTube"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1948.79,"endTime":1952.39,"body":"music, just to name a few. So go"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1948.79,"endTime":1952.39,"body":"out find us a share out the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1952.39,"endTime":1955.255,"body":"information, find the"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1952.39,"endTime":1955.255,"body":"information including links to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1955.255,"endTime":1958.195,"body":"resources from this and other"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1955.255,"endTime":1958.195,"body":"conversations in our show notes."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1958.195,"endTime":1962.875,"body":"They can be found at our podcast"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1958.195,"endTime":1962.875,"body":"website at www dot P2Transition"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1962.875,"endTime":1966.235,"body":"dot com, check out our YouTube"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1962.875,"endTime":1966.235,"body":"channel. Now we've done some of"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1966.235,"endTime":1969.295,"body":"the legwork for you by curating"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1966.235,"endTime":1969.295,"body":"videos of topics that revolve"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1969.295,"endTime":1971.815,"body":"around transition. We have"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1969.295,"endTime":1971.815,"body":"playlists, they cover"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1971.815,"endTime":1976.06,"body":"guardianship, alternatives to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1971.815,"endTime":1976.06,"body":"guardianship ABLE accounts, and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1976.06,"endTime":1979.48,"body":"there is still more to come. So"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1976.06,"endTime":1979.48,"body":"be sure to subscribe there as"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1979.48,"endTime":1983.32,"body":"well. And then finally, check"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1979.48,"endTime":1983.32,"body":"out our redesigned website. It"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1983.32,"endTime":1986.26,"body":"is chock full of information"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1983.32,"endTime":1986.26,"body":"around the transition process."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1986.32,"endTime":1989.86,"body":"You can find our contact"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1986.32,"endTime":1989.86,"body":"information there and so much"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1989.86,"endTime":1994.3,"body":"more. So definitely go to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1989.86,"endTime":1994.3,"body":"www.postsecondarytransition.com."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1994.9,"endTime":2000.885,"body":"And I think that we can finish"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":1994.9,"endTime":2000.885,"body":"out this discussion."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":2001.005,"endTime":2002.745,"body":"Awesome. Thank"},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":2001.005,"endTime":2002.745,"body":"you, Meredith."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2002.985,"endTime":2003.825,"body":"Thank you,"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2002.985,"endTime":2003.825,"body":"Meredith."},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":2003.825,"endTime":2004.185,"body":"Thank"},{"speaker":"Meredith Gregoire-Cope","startTime":2003.825,"endTime":2004.185,"body":"you."},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2004.605,"endTime":2007.185,"body":"All right, and"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2004.605,"endTime":2007.185,"body":"we will catch up with you guys"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2007.185,"endTime":2009.945,"body":"soon with more conversations to"},{"speaker":"Patrick Cadigan","startTime":2007.185,"endTime":2009.945,"body":"come. Thanks so much."},{"speaker":"Meghan Smallwood","startTime":2010.185,"endTime":2010.725,"body":"Thank you."}]}