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Programs & Events with the YWCA of the Sauk Valley · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Waking Crew on AM fourteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: and entertainment information you need to start your day. Dropping
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  Speaker 1: in the booth with me this morning, I have our
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  Speaker 1: good friends from the White WCA of the Sauk Valley,
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  Speaker 1: the executive director Rebecca Munos Ripley. Did I get that right?
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  Speaker 2: Rebecca almost Munosos, Oh my god, that's okay. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 2: few people do, so it's all good. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I am thrilled to have you in my booth for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. I know you're a friend of the show,
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  Speaker 1: so we will be able to keep these conversations going
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  Speaker 1: into the future.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations on your new position. I hope the early hour
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  Speaker 2: suits you well.
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  Speaker 1: They do. Took a little getting used to for some
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  Speaker 1: of the earlier but they do. I like being an
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  Speaker 1: early riser and going to bed a bit earlier, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's working. Steve Marcoschuser a bit big to fill. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still wiggling my toes around, but you've got it. So
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  Speaker 1: I always like to start when I remember to think
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  Speaker 1: of it anyways. At the beginning, for anybody listening and
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  Speaker 1: might not know as much about the organization as they should,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like you to tell them a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the YWCA. You know, it's mission and what it offers.
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  Speaker 2: Sure thing, why say the sac Valley. We are one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and two years old this January. We cover all
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  Speaker 2: of Lee and Whiteside Counties. Our mission is that we're
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  Speaker 2: dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom,
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  Speaker 2: and dignity for all. We are part of the larger
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  Speaker 2: YWCA network that's across the nation and across the globe.
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  Speaker 2: YWCA is actually the largest women's membership organization in the world.
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  Speaker 2: There's millions of members across the globe, so that's actually
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  Speaker 2: really exciting. We all share that same mission and you
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  Speaker 2: get to determine what that means in your community. And
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  Speaker 2: so for the Sack Valley, the needs that we see
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  Speaker 2: that pertain to our mission are related to domestic violence.
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  Speaker 2: So we provide comprehensive domestic violence services. So that's emergency shelter,
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  Speaker 2: transitional shelter, hotline counseling, in person counseling, legal advocacy, anything
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  Speaker 2: to move someone from that state of crisis into a
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  Speaker 2: person who is thriving and able to be successful. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hour hotline available with that as well. We also
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  Speaker 2: are the certified rape crisis center for the Stock Valley area.
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  Speaker 2: So again going back to that twenty four hour hotline,
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  Speaker 2: people can call us any time of day or night
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  Speaker 2: six two six seven to two seven seven or two
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  Speaker 2: eight eight one zero one one, always a free call,
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  Speaker 2: always answered by a trained staff person. And for rape
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  Speaker 2: crisis services we respond to call us at hospitals. We
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  Speaker 2: do provide hotline counseling, even just answering questions if you're
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  Speaker 2: not sure what to do or if you have suspicions
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  Speaker 2: about something. We also do provide counseling services children all
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  Speaker 2: the way up through any age, any gender idea. Again,
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  Speaker 2: we do legal advocacy, so things like no contact orders,
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  Speaker 2: stocking orders, orders of protection, all of those things. We
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  Speaker 2: also do a lot of prevention work across the Sock Valley,
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  Speaker 2: so we actually touch the lives of every public school
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  Speaker 2: child and lee in Whiteside County with our prevention education
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  Speaker 2: and so preschoolers all the way out through students at
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  Speaker 2: SOCC always developmentally appropriate, but talking to those in the
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  Speaker 2: audience about how to get safe if someone's hurting you,
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  Speaker 2: what could possibly be ways that someone is hurting you,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And so most young children know about Bow
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  Speaker 2: and Brenda Bear who go along and talk about things
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  Speaker 2: like good touch, bad touch. If you are in high
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  Speaker 2: school or going to SOCC we're talking about things like
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  Speaker 2: consent and date rape and date rape, drugs, sexteing and
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  Speaker 2: those sorts of things. So but always developmentally appropriate. Then
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  Speaker 2: we also have our Immigrant Outreach program. Every year we
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  Speaker 2: have three to four hundred immigrants across the Stock Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Everything from interpretation and translation, figuring out where you find
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  Speaker 2: child's care, how you can get in connection with resources
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  Speaker 2: to become a citizen, all sorts of things under that umbrella.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have girls empowerment groups that we do
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  Speaker 2: at area schools and also in the summer, really helping
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  Speaker 2: girls build life skills and trying to get them on
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  Speaker 2: a path towards a future that is one where they
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  Speaker 2: can reach their potential and they don't have the limits
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  Speaker 2: that maybe society or culture might place on them.
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  Speaker 1: Speechless here for a moment, and it's a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: that is great and This is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: that I love asking this question is because I honestly
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  Speaker 1: thought I had a good idea of what you folks offered,
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  Speaker 1: and it is just far even beyond what I knew
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  Speaker 1: you did. So this wonderful services. I'm glad you folks
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  Speaker 1: are here. I'm glad you are in the booth talking
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  Speaker 1: with me about this this morning. And I know you've
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  Speaker 1: got some special fundraising style events coming up.
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  Speaker 2: We do, and so fundraisers for us are really huge
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  Speaker 2: because obviously we're a nonprofit, but also for some of
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  Speaker 2: our grants, we have to have match dollars, and so
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  Speaker 2: if they're going to give you ten dollars, they may
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  Speaker 2: say you have to bring in one local dollar, or
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  Speaker 2: for every five dollars we give you, you have to
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  Speaker 2: bring in a local dollar. So we do need match
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  Speaker 2: funds also to keep going as well as just to
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  Speaker 2: fund our programs. So we have two exciting things coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Both are related to food because at the White w
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  Speaker 2: CAA we do really love food. And so the first
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  Speaker 2: one is actually this Sunday, November twenty third, from four
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  Speaker 2: to eight pm, we're doing a fundraiser at Chipotle. Do
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  Speaker 2: Good with Chipotle and so between four and eight you
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  Speaker 2: could go in and order some delicious Chipotle food here
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  Speaker 2: in Dixon and tell them it's for the White WCA.
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  Speaker 2: You could show them the flyer on your phone. It's
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  Speaker 2: available on our Facebook page under White WC of the
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  Speaker 2: SOCC Valley. And then twenty five percent of the proceeds
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  Speaker 2: from the event actually come back into the organization and
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  Speaker 2: so we are hoping to be able to just pack
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  Speaker 2: the place and have that dry through full. So this
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  Speaker 2: Sunday four to eight at Chipotle and Dixon.
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  Speaker 1: There you have it. Folks, go out, you can stay
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  Speaker 1: in your car, order through the drive through, have some
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  Speaker 1: good food and support a good cause.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, yep, me too. And then we also
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  Speaker 2: have our annual Tamali fundraiser coming up, and so we
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  Speaker 2: are now actively taking orders. Actually orders close on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: November twenty sixth, so we're into the final days of
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  Speaker 2: taking orders. They will be delivered on Wednesday, December tenth,
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  Speaker 2: between four to six pm at the White WCA and Sterling,
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  Speaker 2: which is at four twelve First Avenue in Sterling. We
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  Speaker 2: do do a drive through pickup, so you don't even
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  Speaker 2: have to get out of your car. Once again, people
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  Speaker 2: love convenience, and so the Tamalis are delicious. They'll actually
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  Speaker 2: picked up be picked up that morning. Our director of
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  Speaker 2: Community Services, Sylvia Rivera, will drive with her son in
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  Speaker 2: a U haul. They will go and pick up a
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  Speaker 2: truckload of Tamali's. They will come back hot, fresh and
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  Speaker 2: ready to eat. They are twenty dollars a dozen this year,
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  Speaker 2: and they are delicious. They make great gifts. I hear
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  Speaker 2: lots of people like to give them as gifts to people.
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  Speaker 2: They're also great for that meal in the future that
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have time to cook, and so they freeze
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  Speaker 2: really really well.
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  Speaker 1: They do. I know this firstthand I had several years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I took part in a Tamali factory procession in my
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  Speaker 1: kitchen where I was joined with about six other people,
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  Speaker 1: family members and some friends who came together and they
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  Speaker 1: had made a big, big vat would would really be
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  Speaker 1: understating it. And we each had our Tamali rolling station
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  Speaker 1: and we literally spent the better part of the entire day, yes,
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  Speaker 1: rolling those, but when it was done, there were bags
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  Speaker 1: of them. We all kind of had our parts put
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  Speaker 1: them in the freezer. And you're absolutely right, folks, you
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  Speaker 1: can take them out. You don't got to think about
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  Speaker 1: it and still just as good.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, and we'll sell about five hundred dozen and
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  Speaker 2: that's our cutoff. And so I know that's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine how many hours go into actually making
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  Speaker 2: a list about Oh my goodness, I know. So get
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  Speaker 2: your orders in while you still can. If you have questions,
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  Speaker 2: you can always call us sixty five oh three three three.
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  Speaker 2: But again another great and easy, delicious way to support
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  Speaker 2: the yw So I would certainly encourage you to order
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  Speaker 2: to mallies that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, that's wonderful. You wanted to touch on Tech
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  Speaker 1: girl graduation.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and so if you don't know, we offer a
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  Speaker 2: program called YWCA Tech Girls. It is actually a national program.
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  Speaker 2: We've been offering it here in the Socc Valley since
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and So the premise of Tech Girls is
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  Speaker 2: essentially introducing girls to science, technology, engineering and math field,
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  Speaker 2: teaching them computer programming and getting them interested and letting
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  Speaker 2: them know they can do it too before they reach
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  Speaker 2: the age where they've internalized those societal messages and they
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  Speaker 2: start to think that no, maybe that's just not for me.
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  Speaker 2: So in Stirling and rag Falls we're able to offer
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  Speaker 2: tech girls at three area schools, Lincoln, Washington, and Meryll.
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  Speaker 2: Sessions are always full, and over the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks we have had graduations and so girls who've gone
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  Speaker 2: through the program, they've actually learned how to do coding
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  Speaker 2: on their own. They've built robots, they've worked with drones,
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  Speaker 2: they've gone on field trips, and so it's been super
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  Speaker 2: exciting and it's always fun because the girls give speeches
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  Speaker 2: at graduation and even the shy girls somehow find the
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  Speaker 2: courage to get up and talk, and they always take
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  Speaker 2: about how they were afraid to do it and it
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  Speaker 2: was so hard in the beginning, and then they realized
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  Speaker 2: they could do anything. And that's really what the program
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  Speaker 2: is about. It's really helping girls achieve that sense of
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  Speaker 2: confidence so that they can achieve their earning potential later
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  Speaker 2: in life. Because we know that almost half of homes
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  Speaker 2: are headed by a female. Often it's a single parent home,
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  Speaker 2: and so we need for women to have the same
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  Speaker 2: earning potential as men in stem fields in which they're
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  Speaker 2: typically underrepresented, so that we can start to break through
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  Speaker 2: some of those cycles of poverty. And so that's what
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  Speaker 2: this program is about, and it's always really exciting to
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  Speaker 2: see the girls at the graduation and how proud their
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  Speaker 2: families are of them. Because all the families come to
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  Speaker 2: we do offer summer camps to watch for those. We
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  Speaker 2: had a summer camp in Dixon last year, we had
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  Speaker 2: one in Morrison, and so our programs are always free. Again,
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  Speaker 2: another great reason to support Chipotle and Smiley fundraisers because
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  Speaker 2: it helps get access to services where they're needed the most.
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  Speaker 1: I love that, A free, wonderful program that's helping. How
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  Speaker 1: how can they you know, anybody listening? How can they
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  Speaker 1: sign up?
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  Speaker 2: So if you will have our next sessions of tech
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  Speaker 2: Girls starting the end of January beginning of February, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to learn more, you can always give us
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  Speaker 2: a call six two five O three three three and
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  Speaker 2: you could just ask to talk to someone in the
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  Speaker 2: Tech Girl program. And if you are a student at
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  Speaker 2: one of those schools, then information does come home.
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  Speaker 1: To you wonderful. Well, there you have it, folks in January.
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  Speaker 1: Is the next session coming up the end of January,
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  Speaker 1: end of January, so you've got plenty of time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk with your young ones. This, this would be a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Hotlines, Yes, We always like to remind the listeners out
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  Speaker 2: there about our hotlines for domestic violence and sexual assault services.
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  Speaker 2: You can call us anytime. It doesn't matter if it's Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if it's Christmas Eve, in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the night, in the middle of the afternoon, six
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  Speaker 2: two six seven to two seven seven two eight eight
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  Speaker 2: one zero one one. We never want for anyone to
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  Speaker 2: be suffering alone. Remember, you can call for counseling, you
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  Speaker 2: can call for an emergency, you can call to just
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  Speaker 2: ask questions whenever you need to.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, folks, you have that number. Please reach
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  Speaker 1: out if you need it, or if you know somebody
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  Speaker 1: who needs it, Please pass that along Rebecca. Anything else
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  Speaker 1: to share.
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  Speaker 2: We always like to remind all of the listeners that
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  Speaker 2: we are a United Way agency of both Lee and
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  Speaker 2: Whiteside Counties. I know they're all trying to wrap up
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  Speaker 2: their fund or yeah, their fundraising season, campaign season, so
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  Speaker 2: if we encourage you to go out and support them.
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  Speaker 2: I believe tonight is the Girlfriend. Yes, yes, that the
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  Speaker 2: Dixon Alex which is super exciting. And I know Whitesay
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  Speaker 2: County has been really busy with their winter Feed the
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  Speaker 2: Children program, so they do great things. We couldn't do
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  Speaker 2: it without them. We're proud to live united. Please support them.
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  Speaker 1: Please do folks, Rebecca, thank you so much for for
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  Speaker 1: not only coming on the show, but for all your
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  Speaker 1: organization does. This is just super important work and I'm
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  Speaker 1: very glad that you're doing it and that you're here
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  Speaker 1: to share what you do so that I'm sure somebody
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  Speaker 1: here either might need these services or know someone that does,
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  Speaker 1: and if they didn't know it before, now they do.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having us. We hope everyone
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  Speaker 2: has a happy Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and you as well.