{"id":44144,"date":"2017-07-14T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=44144"},"modified":"2017-07-14T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:24:43","slug":"acc-and-austinup-host-luncheon-to-get-seniors-back-to-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/14\/acc-and-austinup-host-luncheon-to-get-seniors-back-to-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC and AustinUp host luncheon to get seniors back to workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Austin:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0Bz-3yUf6uTRrTlprbU0xZk1hUUk\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC and AustinUp host luncheon to get seniors back to workforce<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>ACC works to get seniors in the workforce<\/h2>\n<h6>June 20, 2017 \u00a0| \u00a0CBS Austin Staff<\/h6>\n<p>Austin Community College is working to get seniors back in the workforce. Austin has the nation&#8217;s fastest growing population of 55- to 64-year-olds and the second fastest growing population of seniors 65 and up. Today, ACC hosted a luncehon\u00a0to kickstart an effort aimed at utilizing the 50+ demographic. The meeting today included local employers, policy makers, and community organizations to collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we find with this demographic is their background is very eclectic,&#8221; says Ann Pamela Fant-Saez, MA,\u00a0ACC BACK TO WORK 50+\u00a0director. &#8220;Some of them are coming with tremendous work experience, but the crisis for this demographic is computer training and technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The effort is a collaboration with AustinUp,\u00a0a nonprofit organization formed as a result of Mayor Adler&#8217;s task force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Austin:\u00a0ACC and AustinUp host luncheon to get seniors back to workforce ACC works to get seniors in the workforce June 20, 2017 \u00a0| \u00a0CBS Austin Staff Austin Community College is working to get seniors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/14\/acc-and-austinup-host-luncheon-to-get-seniors-back-to-workforce\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":43838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1618,419,1570,1617],"class_list":["post-44144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acc-in-the-news","tag-austinup","tag-back-to-work-50","tag-cbs-austin","tag-wesi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}