We Offer Tools to Help the 22Q Community Find a Career That Matches Their Skills and Interests!
Career Pathways is a program designed to meet the needs of teens and/or adults transitioning to adulthood. With a 22q diagnosis comes a lot of uncertainty throughout the life of an individual. Participants in Career Pathways are guided through rotational career planning that includes support with: resumes, interviews, job search ,and networking.
Participants in Career Pathways are taught principles that can be applied throughout their career journey, whatever that path may be. Individuals are invited to take action in each session and the learning is very hands on, with plenty of practice. Goals are set and we celebrate when those goals are achieved!
Every person has a different career path, so let our team help you in identifying the path that meets your specific needs.
To get started:
- Fill out the 22q Family Foundation Career Coaching application.
- After filling out the application, you will be contacted within 7-10 business days to set-up an intake call. If you do not hear from our team within that time frame, please email: info@22qfamilyfoundation.org
- One of our Career Coaches will contact you to go over your skills, interests, and needs.
This program is also open to parents and siblings in our community!
Session Overview:
Practice Interviewing
- Everything up to this point has led to getting an interview. This is your time to shine, and we want to prepare you for this. The practice interviewing will help you build confidence in sharing your background in an interview setting.
Networking Overview
- Since networking is such an important way to find a career, our HR Professionals spend time teaching about networking, but also challenging participants to build their network.
Connection with the 22q Network
- Where possible, we will look to connect you with others we have worked with, who can be very valuable as you build your network wherever your Career Pathway may take you!
Why Work with our Career Coaches?
Read More about Jason Osborn
Job Position: Career Coach
Read More about Tammy Kleber
Job Position: Career Coach
Read More about Sarah Sherry
Job Position: Career Coach
Jason Osborn
Career Coach
Jason is a volunteer Career Coach, leveraging his background in Human Resources and formal education, which includes a Masters degree in HR and a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification.
The Osborns have two sons named Carter and Dax, and a daughter named Callie. They also had a baby named Shanna born in 2016. Shanna was born with 22q, and had open heart surgery when she was 7 days old. Unfortunately, at around 3 months old, Shanna passed away due to heart failure. Now Jason and Clarissa look to give back to the 22q community, and what better way than to help with Career Coaching. Jason has been a coach with the 22q Family Foundation since 2017.
Tammy Kleber
Career Coach
Tammy is a retired CPA who lives near Charlotte, North Carolina. She has 5 grandchildren and was introduced to the world of 22q when her middle grandson was diagnosed at the age of two. She found out about the 22q Family Foundation while searching online to learn more about her grandson’s condition. Through her years working as a CPA, she was involved with recruiting and staff training, so serving as a Career Coach seemed like a perfect fit. Tammy started working with the foundation as a volunteer Career Coach in 2024.
Sarah Sherry
Career Coach
Sarah Sherry is a Georgetown University certified coach with over 17 years of corporate experience in talent and leadership development. Sarah has led large-scale programs in leadership development, early-career mobility, and workforce engagement for a Fortune 200 organization, and has personally coached over 250 professionals, from early-career to executives, on work and life goals.
As a mom to two children, one of whom has 22q, Sarah brings both professional insight and personal empathy to her volunteer work with the 22q Family Foundation. She is deeply committed to helping young adults with 22q (and their families) navigate the transition from school into employment, college, or trade pathways with confidence and clarity.
Sarah lives in Maryland with her family, where she serves as a Family Ambassador for the Kennedy Krieger Institute, is a Governor-appointed parent member of Maryland’s State Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers, and the former Chair of the Howard County School Health Council. Her work is motivated by all the times she's been told by 'the professionals' to "just be a mom." She also likes to have a lot of fun, mostly outside in nature: hiking, building tree houses, or laying on a beach naming cloud animals.
Sarah is a graduate of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond) and has a master's in human resource development (Villanova University). She also holds a master's in personalized nutrition and epigenetics (University of Connecticut), integrating a holistic view of well-being into her coaching practice (and as mom of a 22qtie). Through her work, she helps families and individuals build sustainable energy, alignment, and purpose so they can thrive, not just adapt, to this one precious life