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Table of Contents: BrightStart Pediatrics. . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Family Footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 OCPS ESE Parent Services Program - Newsletter Making Your Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sarah Lopez Sequenzia Workplace Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Helen Leonard, The Paragon School Directory: Community Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Visit BrightFeats.com View our other publications: Tampa Bay Disability Resource Hub www.BrightFeats.com/tampa Space Coast Bright Feats www.BrightFeats.com/spacecoast Employment Project Bright Feats is working to provide meaningful employment to individuals with unique abilities through a collaborative partnership with Lisa Jester, PhD and the Florida Institute of Community Inclusion, Kelly Green (social media marketing expert) and Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS) Exceptional Student Support Services (ESSS). With the work of Bright Feats and the connections we have within the local special needs community, there is a lot of opportunity to explore. Producing the Bright Feats magazine, managing the website and database for the directory, providing social media support, and email marketing to serve families with children with special needs allows us to have a menu of options to employ individuals with unique skills and strengths. This summer, our collaborative team hired six interns through ePathways to learn about social media support. We had the gracious support of SCPS, allowing us to work with their teacher SCPS ePathways student interns learn to create social media posts at the Bright Feats summer employment project. Danielle Mojica and to utilize the SCPS ILIAD center for the location of our summer project. Dr. Lisa Jester worked with the students on career readiness and entrepreneurship skills to connect their work activities to the context of possible meaningful employment in the future. Employment is a natural progression of our mission to serve local families by creating meaningful jobs for individuals to have a positive impact in the community. 2 www.BrightFeats.com


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