{"id":932,"date":"2021-08-29T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/congratulations-to-east-brooklyn-resident-ojo-olukayode-for-being-the-rising-ground-employee-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:42:03","slug":"congratulations-to-east-brooklyn-resident-ojo-olukayode-for-being-the-rising-ground-employee-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to East Brooklyn Resident Ojo Olukayode for Being the Rising Ground Employee of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rising Ground Inc.<\/strong>, a leading nonprofit human services organization in New York City that annually serves more than 25,000\u00a0children, adults, and family members, is very pleased to share that <strong>Ojo Olukayode was recently honored as its <em>Employee of the Year<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ojo, a Brooklyn resident, loves to assist those in need, and says that it provides him a sense of fulfilment. My secret is simple: \u201cFamilies we help and serve, I treat no different from my own family. As a result, I am not stressed assisting them and providing the level of help needed. Caring for others and their kids is just natural to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rising Ground Chief Executive Officer Alan Mucatel<\/strong> shared that Ojo is part of a workforce of 1,600 who operate more than 50 programs at sites across all New York City boroughs and Westchester County. \u201cIt\u2019s people like Ojo who day in and day out provide New York children, adults, and families with the resources and skills needed to rise above adversity and positively direct their lives. I congratulate him for his dedication and constant professionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ojo, a six-year veteran of the organization, currently serves as a Foster Care Reunification Specialist, and started his career as a case aide and was later promoted to case planner. In September 2020, he was recognized for \u201cExcellence in Practice\u201d by New York City Administration for Children Services. A huge fan of European football (soccer), Ojo roots for Manchester United in the Premier League, and La Liga, which keeps him home on weekends during regular matches. He is married to Oluwabukola, and has two sons, Adesoji and Oluwatimileyin.<\/p>\n<p>Rising Ground, which changed its name\u00a0in 2018\u00a0from\u00a0Leake\u00a0&amp; Watts Rising Ground won the prestigious\u00a0New York Community Trust\u00a0Nonprofit Excellence Award in 2014.\u00a0\u00a0Founded as an orphanage in 1831, Rising Ground has been at the forefront of\u00a0supporting\u00a0evolving community needs and has become a leader in utilizing result-driven, evidence-based practices. For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.risingground.org\/\">RisingGround.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rising Ground services East New York, as well as neighborhoods throughout New York City.<\/p>\n<p>To Suggest someone to be Featured on East New York News <a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/real-people-of-east-new-york-nominations\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising Ground Inc., a leading nonprofit human services organization in New York City that annually serves more than 25,000\u00a0children, adults, and family members, is very pleased to share that Ojo Olukayode was recently honored as its Employee of the Year. Ojo, a Brooklyn resident, loves to assist those in need, and says that it provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}