{"id":14205,"date":"2011-12-14T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=14205"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:57:36","slug":"celebration-on-friday-will-honour-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/12\/celebration-on-friday-will-honour-griffiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration on Friday will honour Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14206\" title=\"Dorothy Griffiths\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/griffiths.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Griffiths\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A celebration in Pond Inlet on Friday will honour Dorothy Griffiths, Brock\u2019s latest recipient of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths received the country\u2019s highest honour earlier this year for her work improving the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. The event will be from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16 in Pond Inlet. Everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/undergraduate-programs\/child-and-youth-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Child and Youth Studies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-centres\/centre-for-applied-disability\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Disabilities Studies<\/a> professor has devoted her career to helping people with intellectual disabilities, particularly those with mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Her contributions include consulting work on reintegrating people with intellectual disabilities into the community. With three other Brock professors, she is three years into a four-year research project evaluating the reintegration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related story:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10983\">Professor to receive the Order of Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration in Pond Inlet will honour Brock\u2019s latest recipient of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[244,45,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14208,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions\/14208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}