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Talk Line: Andy Jackson shares updates from Sinnissippi Centers · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back Sock Value with the Waking crew here on
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  Speaker 1: FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty WIXN. It's
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  Speaker 1: eight sixteen on your Thursday morning, and that means it's
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  Speaker 1: time for talk line and I'm joining the booth once
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  Speaker 1: again by our good friends from Sinnesippi Centers, Andy Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: How are you today, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Good? How about you?
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  Speaker 1: I am not bad. It's nice and cool and here
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be warming up out there. So heading
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  Speaker 1: on into summer. We are almost out of June, but
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  Speaker 1: not quite. And that brings us to an important topic.
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  Speaker 1: Is it's PTSD Awareness Month.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is post traumatic stress disorder and often associated
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  Speaker 2: with combat veterans. Actually, PTSD is a mental health condition
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  Speaker 2: that can impact anyone of any age who's experienced or
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  Speaker 2: even witnessed. You don't necessarily have to directly experience that trauma,
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  Speaker 2: but you can witness a traumatic event and PTSD could
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  Speaker 2: be the results of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a big issue, something that's over
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  Speaker 1: the years gotten a lot more I think awareness and
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  Speaker 1: credibility to it. Whereas you know, mental health has been
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  Speaker 1: something that we've progressed over the years, and I think
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  Speaker 1: are finally you know, we've gotten to a really good point.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where like Sinnissippi comes in to be
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  Speaker 1: a foundation in the Salt area, in the Soft Valley
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  Speaker 1: area for mental health.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right. I think I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: work continues to need to be done to reduce stigma
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  Speaker 2: and those kinds of things. But I think you're right
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  Speaker 2: if you compare twenty even twenty years ago, I think
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  Speaker 2: at toward attitudes towards our mental illness have dramatically changed
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  Speaker 2: and have improved. So I think you're right about that.
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  Speaker 2: And PTSD is one of those that I think people
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  Speaker 2: understand probably more than ever now.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is it? Are there there signs or
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  Speaker 1: things that go on for someone who may be experiencing
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  Speaker 1: this but isn't quite aware that's what they're dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, upsetting memories or one of them feeling on edge,
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  Speaker 2: having trouble sleeping, those things and and and and those
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  Speaker 2: kind of reactions can be normal after a traumatic event
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  Speaker 2: temporarily and it's not PTSD. I have an example, myself
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  Speaker 2: got in an accident, had some symptoms short term after
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  Speaker 2: that and it was actually rollover. We rejected from the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily it wasn't injured really, just scrapes. Yeah, but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so had a little bit of a little bit going
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  Speaker 2: on after that, but then it cleared up. But however,
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  Speaker 2: if symptoms exist for longer than a few months, a
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  Speaker 2: person may have PTSD, and that might include nightmares, unwanted
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  Speaker 2: memories of the trauma, avoidance of situations that bring back
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  Speaker 2: memories of that trauma, heightened reactions, anxiety, depressed mood, especially
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  Speaker 2: if it affects your ability to do things, whether it
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  Speaker 2: be work or home life or you know, friendships, relationships,
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  Speaker 2: those kinds of things. And then PTSD and children can
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  Speaker 2: can present differently too, so that that probably could be
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  Speaker 2: its own you know conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And I mean this is something that isn't uncommon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean roughly, like how many people would you say
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't. It may not sound like a lot
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  Speaker 2: six percent of the population, but that's roughly twelve to
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million people maybe that have PTSD during any given year,
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  Speaker 2: So that that is a significant number of folks approximately,
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  Speaker 2: And it varies within the populations of veterans. About eleven
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  Speaker 2: to twenty percent of veterans who served in Operation Iraqi
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  Speaker 2: Freedom or Enduring Freedom have PTSD in any given year.
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  Speaker 2: It's about twelve percent for Golf War veterans, but it's
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  Speaker 2: estimated about thirty percent of Vietnam veterans have PTSD at
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  Speaker 2: some point in their lifetime. So that's very significant. But
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  Speaker 2: again it's not just those who it's not just combat veterans.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you could think of people in those countries
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  Speaker 2: who are refugees of those wars would have witnessed. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they weren't you know, personally experienced, didn't have a weren't
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  Speaker 2: maybe didn't have something personal happened to them in that war,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe they witnessed it. But again it can also
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  Speaker 2: other things, natural disasters, severe accidents, people who have experienced
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  Speaker 2: or witness that. So six percent, twelve million people, that
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  Speaker 2: is still a significant number for a condition that does
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  Speaker 2: need diagnosed and treated by a qualified mental health professional.
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  Speaker 2: And so it is a significant portion of the population.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely something that should be taken seriously. The best
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  Speaker 1: way to do that would be to give Sinissippi centers
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  Speaker 1: a call and get those those service started.
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  Speaker 2: It would so your initial appointment where you get an
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  Speaker 2: assessment if you suspect you have PTSD, mental health professional. Well,
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  Speaker 2: then at an initial appointment and subsequent appointments, diagnose that,
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  Speaker 2: make sure that it's PTSD or whatever it is, from
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  Speaker 2: an individualized treatment plan, and then go along on that
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  Speaker 2: treatment plan so that you can manage symptoms, get a
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  Speaker 2: better quality of life back, and make sure you take
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  Speaker 2: care of of what you need to take care of
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  Speaker 2: for PTSD or any other behavioral health concern.
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  Speaker 1: Give them a call, get that conversation started. It's the
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  Speaker 1: best way you can't get You can't get around these things.
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  Speaker 1: You have to go through them. You have to go
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  Speaker 1: through the processes, and the sooner you start, the better journey.
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  Speaker 2: What's the saying a journey of one thousand paces begins
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  Speaker 2: with one step or something like that. Yeah, and that
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  Speaker 2: first step is the call.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely Yeah, yeah, no, I love that kind of moving
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  Speaker 1: onto to something you know that goes along. Though. The
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  Speaker 1: weather is warming up and you guys are teeing up
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  Speaker 1: for your annual not too warm.
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  Speaker 2: We help, right, Oh, I don't know the degrees with
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent humidity, that'd be Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're we're going to get close though with the with
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  Speaker 1: those nineties next week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we probably will. But usually we've been usually we've
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  Speaker 2: been lucky with pretty good weather. Considering it's in August
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  Speaker 2: our Sinnesippie Center's Golf Open, our annual and it's our
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  Speaker 2: thirty fourth annual golf Open Thursday, August thirteenth of Deer
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  Speaker 2: Valley Golf Club and Deer Grove. But it's also occurring
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  Speaker 2: to our sixtieth anniversary years, so there'll be some elements
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  Speaker 2: from that included in the event sprinkled, you know, within
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  Speaker 2: the event, particularly at the banquet afterwards and in the
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  Speaker 2: materials that the golfers will see. But yeah, so that'll
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  Speaker 2: be August thirteenth again. Deer Valley Golf Club. Registration has
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  Speaker 2: been sent out. It's online. It's on our website. If
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  Speaker 2: you want a PDF form so you can grab that,
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  Speaker 2: just go to our website at sinnesip dot org, go
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  Speaker 2: to events, and then all the information is under the
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  Speaker 2: Golf Open event. But it's a lot of fun. That's
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  Speaker 2: our number one goal when we always have like an
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  Speaker 2: orientation for our volunteers that work out on the course
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  Speaker 2: that day and at registration. Number one rule is make
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  Speaker 2: sure the golfers have fun. It's a scramble format or
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  Speaker 2: best ball and every golfer gets a complimentary game pass
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  Speaker 2: and with raffle tickets and grand price tickets and a
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  Speaker 2: Mulligan card, which I'm always thankful for. Multiple Mulligan cards
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  Speaker 2: would be nicer for me. And every golfer walks away
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  Speaker 2: with a free you know, giveaway item, So it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of nice there. And we've got longest putt, longest drive
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  Speaker 2: both for men and for women, and we have a
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  Speaker 2: fifty to fifty and a grand prize as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: and we also I have again the dinner and awards
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  Speaker 2: banquet that follows the golf. So we have some flight.
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  Speaker 2: We have three flights, so we have prizes for that.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll flight the scores and if you've gone to
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  Speaker 2: one of these, you know what I mean, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: have prizes for those so as well. So a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun, some potential to get some really nice items,
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  Speaker 2: and all for a good cause. So it'll benefit the
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  Speaker 2: unmet needs of clients of Synicippy Centers, is what the
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  Speaker 2: proceeds will go toward.
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  Speaker 1: Love that local cause. And you get to the way
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  Speaker 1: I see it, okay, is things like this is you
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  Speaker 1: got to tell your wife, like, look, honey, do you
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  Speaker 1: not want me to help the people of the sub valley.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Are you so selfish that that, no, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to go golfing. I'm doing this for the people,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, But in truth yes, I mean just love
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  Speaker 1: that right, that's I'm just you know, husbands, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: giving you a free pass. Wives, whoever it is out
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  Speaker 1: there you need it, take it. But no, this is
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  Speaker 1: really a fantastic time and helping a fantastic cause here Sssissippi.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys sixty years and have only been
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  Speaker 1: growing and expanding services and that mission continues.
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  Speaker 2: What's amazing is back in nineteen sixty six, from those
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  Speaker 2: two offices one in Stirling one and Dixon, we were
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  Speaker 2: serving the same four county area Cara leo Ogle, Whiteside
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  Speaker 2: that we served up through. Forget the year that we
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  Speaker 2: opened the Freeport office now because it has been long enough,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been open for several years. So now so
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  Speaker 2: we now serve Stevenson County and by extension, clients will
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  Speaker 2: come in from Joe Davis into that office and then
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  Speaker 2: we have some people come in from surrounding counties as well.
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  Speaker 2: But serving that four county area for most of those
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  Speaker 2: sixty years before that growth into Stevenson County. Yeah, amazing
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  Speaker 2: to think that they were doing that back then, serving
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  Speaker 2: four counties. And it was back then it was known
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  Speaker 2: as Sinncipi Metal Health Center, and then as we grew
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  Speaker 2: in services and other things, it was changed to just
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  Speaker 2: Sinisipi Centers because it wasn't just mental health treatment anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It was substance use and a wide variety of behavioral
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  Speaker 2: healthcare services.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that has really really expanded. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: think expansion, you always think offices first, but it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the services and the wide range that have been now
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  Speaker 1: brought into the fold.
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  Speaker 2: Child and family services, right, recovery homes and residential living,
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  Speaker 2: apartment sites and just all kinds of things, all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of services for all kinds of for all ages.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, if anybody wants to kind of get a comprehensive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of view of the services that Sinissippi offers,
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  Speaker 1: what's the best way to do it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the website is great, of course, and pretty much
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  Speaker 2: everybody's online now I would think everybody's online, but Sinissippi
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  Speaker 2: dot org is a website. We have services tab where
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  Speaker 2: we have we do tell adult services. We detail uh,
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  Speaker 2: child and adolescent services. All of our services are detailed there,
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  Speaker 2: and the website's a great wealth of information for our
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  Speaker 2: location information, hours, phone numbers, addresses and all of those
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  Speaker 2: kind of things.
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  Speaker 1: There you go even better yet, I mean, the conversation
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  Speaker 1: is wonderful. When you give them a call. There, you
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  Speaker 1: are going to walk you through everything, gets you set
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  Speaker 1: up with an appointment to get everything set up. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I always prefer. But I know some people are
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  Speaker 1: like you said, everyone's online. I had a guy asked
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  Speaker 1: me to venmoll them change the other day. Everyone is online.
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  Speaker 2: But uh like like nickels and dimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean. It didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: cuff out anymore. It was just like tap your phone
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  Speaker 1: into my phone. No. I was like, I need a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more razmataz.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's less less less room in your pocket or
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  Speaker 2: more room in your pocket, I mean less stuff in
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  Speaker 2: your pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Pennies are going to be a collector's item, are you
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  Speaker 1: getting to I'm going to lilign my walls with them
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  Speaker 1: and sell them. You wouldn't give somebody a single penny
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  Speaker 1: over Venmo?
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  Speaker 2: Would you?
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  Speaker 1: Can you do that? Ah? I haven't tried that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And he's busted me. My wife has to
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  Speaker 1: Venmo everybody. I don't know if he used that thing.
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  Speaker 1: I only learned how to use the PayPal app what
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  Speaker 1: like a month ago. There you go, But uh, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I always I always prefer phone calls and in person
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  Speaker 1: and I love there's that option, But for so many
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  Speaker 1: of us who do prefer online, Like you said, the
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  Speaker 1: website is a fantastic resource. It is. It is.
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  Speaker 2: I like in person too at all. Very I think
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  Speaker 2: the approach depending on what it is. I do like
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  Speaker 2: online resources to.
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  Speaker 1: Go find things and rather questions. I got questions and
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  Speaker 1: then I'm like I couldn't or you know, if it's
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  Speaker 1: not in the f a Q. And I'm like certain services,
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  Speaker 1: so let's say subscriptions that I have. Chat support has
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  Speaker 1: improved a lot, and yeah, chat somebody up on just
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  Speaker 1: Chat and it's it's great. But I like a phone
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  Speaker 1: call too, that personal touchment. I just want to know,
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  Speaker 1: actually talk to somebody. So anyway, we got a little part,
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  Speaker 1: we got a little off under the weeds. That's all right.
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  Speaker 1: We got just about a minute and anything we forgot
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  Speaker 1: to cover this morning.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just want to thank everybody for their support
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  Speaker 2: over all these years, I mean sixty years ago. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, Sinnesippi formed May thirty first, nineteen sixty six,
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  Speaker 2: and then we started providing services in July. So there's
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  Speaker 2: probably some licensing and things like that that we had
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  Speaker 2: to do before we could actually start providing those services.
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  Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of organizations we've worked with.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of clients through the years, been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of supporters through the years, a lot of employees,
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  Speaker 2: board members hopefully I'm not forgetting to mention anybody in that,
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  Speaker 2: but just probably a cast of thousands who have supported
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  Speaker 2: us through the years and helped us and been a
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  Speaker 2: part of it. And so we just appreciate that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sixty years and looking forward to to the next decade
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  Speaker 2: and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, congratulations to the big six to zero and
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  Speaker 1: another sixty ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Andy, thank you so much for coming on the show,
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  Speaker 1: sharing the information and all the work that you and
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  Speaker 1: everybody over at sinnesipp Centers does. We do appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure