{"id":10152,"date":"2016-10-09T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/tlc-thanks-juneau-community-foundation\/"},"modified":"2016-10-09T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T15:00:08","slug":"tlc-thanks-juneau-community-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/tlc-thanks-juneau-community-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"TLC thanks Juneau Community Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the Juneau Community Foundation\u2019s Douglas-Dornan Fund. Your support of SERRC\u2019s The Learning Connection (TLC) will allow 10 students to take their GED\u00ae tests free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Attaining a GED\u00ae certificate is hard under any circumstances, requiring months of dedicated study and support from family and friends. By removing financial barriers to success, Douglas Dornan funds will help TLC students complete their much-needed diplomas. Passing the GED\u00ae tests allows our students to retain or advance in their jobs, to find new jobs or to pursue post-secondary training opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>TLC serves Juneau\u2019s young parents, new immigrants, low-income families, laid off workers, elders looking to get back into the workforce, at-risk youth, those unable to complete high school and anyone else needing to build their skills for further training or college.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Juneau Community Foundation for supporting the education efforts of Juneau\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Smith,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Southeast Regional Adult Basic Education Program Coordinator and Instructor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Learning Connection \/ SERRC-Alaska\u2019s Educational Resource Center<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the Juneau Community Foundation\u2019s Douglas-Dornan Fund. Your support of SERRC\u2019s The Learning Connection (TLC) will allow 10 students to take their GED\u00ae tests free of charge. Attaining a GED\u00ae certificate is hard under any circumstances, requiring months of dedicated study and support from family and friends. By removing financial barriers to success, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}