Graham County’s Emergency Medical Services<\/a> (EMS). Much like his fellow classmates, David\u2019s vision for his adult life began to take shape. He decided that he wanted to eventually build a log cabin, own a red pick-up truck and a hound dog, and spend time with family and friends. While at the local EMS service, David proved himself as a valuable employee. When graduation came around, he was offered a permanent position with the service. David continues to works at the EMS service, lives in his own apartment, and because of technology, has very limited need for support from staff. David was just given a raise and he is making $10 per hour. He is close to living his dream; he now owns his own pick-up truck and is saving money for a down payment on a log cabin. David\u2019s mom, the county\u2019s CPA\/Chief Financial Officer, estimates that David\u2019s chosen lifestyle has saved the federal and state governments $100,000 per year combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet David! David\u00a0lives in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. During middle school and high school, David\u2019s school transition plan involved working for part of each school day. He tried working in a hospital setting for a short time in high school; however, it ended badly because the school system did not involve support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,219],"tags":[281,90,240,101,282,220,283,284],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tash.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}