by Vicky Westra | Feb 5, 2020 | Podcasts
Vicky Westra is the Founder of Autism Shifts, a 501(c)3 Non-profit Foundation and Artistas Café, a unique Social Enterprise whose mission is to employ individuals diagnosed with Autism. Prior to her current entrepreneurial role, Vicky worked at Tampa Electric Company...
by Vicky Westra | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs
Today, I read an article and the title was “Autistic restaurant worker Goes Unpaid for Months”. It resonated with me as I know very well from our autistic team members who work at Artistas that many of them were unpaid workers before securing their jobs at the Café....
by Vicky Westra | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs
In the bible in the book of Proverbs it says “Seek first to understand, then to be understood”. Stephen Covey the Leadership Guru also used “seek first to understand” as habit #5 in his leading book “7 Habits of Highly Effective...
by Vicky Westra | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs
We have all heard the proverbial “is the glass half empty or half full?” It’s an expression we use to indicate whether we see the world as an optimist or a pessimist sees it. Well this expression can certainly apply to how we see Autism. Today Autism is still...
by Vicky Westra | Dec 11, 2019 | Blogs
Fifteen years ago when we first received Gabbi’s diagnosis of Autism, I had no idea what it would mean for her, or us. There were so many unanswered questions and so much fear of what was to come. During the first few years, fear turned to anger as I wondered why...
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