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Chapter 1: What progress has been made in autism employment since the last conversation?
Welcome to Why Not Me? Embracing Autism and Mental Health Worldwide.
Chapter 2: How is the Colorado Disability Opportunity Office funded?
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Chapter 3: What is Buildable and how will it operate in Nashville?
Some will spark laughter, others will move you to tears. These real life journeys inspire, connect, and remind you that you're never alone. We're igniting a global movement to empower everyone to make a lasting difference by fostering deep awareness, unwavering acceptance, and profound understanding of autism and mental health.
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Chapter 4: What challenges are faced in expanding trade-based careers for autistic individuals?
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Chapter 5: How do policy barriers affect autism employment opportunities?
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Chapter 6: What role do nonprofits play in autism employment initiatives?
Our guest today is someone who's been doing incredible work in the autism community, especially when it comes to employment and opportunity. Danny Combs has been deeply involved in helping create real jobs and real pathways for autistic individuals through his work with TAC. He's also involved with initiatives through the state of Colorado that focus on neurodiversity in the workplace.
Chapter 7: How can employer perceptions of autism be improved?
The last time Danny and I spoke, we talked about the vision of building meaningful employment opportunities for autistic individuals. Today, we're going to revisit that conversation, talk about the progress that's been made, and look ahead at where things are going. So before we dive into our episode, we'll be back with an uninterrupted show right after a word from our sponsors.
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Chapter 8: What is the long-term vision for autism employment and care?
Yeah, I've been looking forward to it. I'm so glad we were able to connect.
Yes, me too. Give us a little information on what you've been up to since we last chatted.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to believe last time we had spoken. Last time you and I had the chance and privilege to connect, I was honored to have received a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Citizen Honor Award for my work with the autism community, specifically here in Colorado with TACT and the Colorado Neurodiversity Chamber of Commerce and a book that I had written and
I have since, since I had spoken to you, I ended up getting appointed by the governor here in Colorado to work for a new office called the Colorado Disability Opportunity Office.
That's awesome. Tell us a little bit more about it.
It's really pretty fantastic in the sense that Colorado became one of the first states to have a disability policy advisor, where most states to the governor will have somebody that advises them on education, transportation, housing, all those kind of things. However, not disability, which seems kind of surprising. Colorado does.
And as this governor's term has been coming to an end, he wanted to make sure that kept going. And so they ended up making a whole new state office to do just that. They didn't want to raise taxes to do it. And so they got really creative in the way they went around it as they ended up reissuing historic license plates here in Colorado.
so not like you know in tennessee you would have if you're a ut fan the volunteers you have a tennessee titans plate or a disabled veterans plate or something along that they have that here in colorado too nothing like that they took historic plates from the 50s the 60s etc and brought them back and said okay the one that's really popular for us is an all black plate with white lettering it's very simple looks a lot like the black and yellow out in california
If you'd like this license plate, you can do it. It's 25 bucks. Well, people turns out really like historic things like that, but it's clean and simple and not branded with this favorite sports team or cause. It's now generating about a million and a half bucks a month for us. $25 a pop. That's great. Which is just wild. It's fantastic.
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