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Something You Should Know - August 18 Julie St Francis House Dinner and Auction October 5 · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: Excited to visit today with Julie from the Saint Francis House.
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  Speaker 1: They have their twenty third annual dinner and auction coming
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  Speaker 1: up October fifth. We're going to talk more about that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute, but first Julie, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Saint Francis House. For anybody that doesn't quite know what
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  Speaker 1: you guys do. What do you do at the Saint
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  Speaker 1: Francis House.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: Always grateful to be able to share the message of
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  Speaker 3: the Saint Francis House. We provide transitional housing for individuals
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  Speaker 3: who are homeless in our community.
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  Speaker 2: So people say, well, what does transitional mean.
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  Speaker 3: We work very closely with our emergency shelters, Bishop Dudley
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  Speaker 3: Hospitality House in the Union Gospel Mission because they are
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  Speaker 3: considered emergency housing typically sixty days or less.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Francis House is.
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  Speaker 3: Where they can take that next step to stay sixty
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  Speaker 3: days and longer. So here at the house, we have
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  Speaker 3: people who stay sometimes that average is about six to
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  Speaker 3: nine months. We have others that stay a year, and
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  Speaker 3: a couple times we've had some people stay over a
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  Speaker 3: year due to the lack of affordable and safe housing
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  Speaker 3: in our community. So we have people that, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: come from the two emergency shelters. We have people who
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  Speaker 3: will walk in off the street. Some people are referred
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  Speaker 3: from the hospitals. We have a strong relationship working with
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  Speaker 3: individuals who are from the probation area as well as
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  Speaker 3: the Southdakota Department of Corrections.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. So let's talk about the capacity. How
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  Speaker 1: much room do you have and are you typically full?
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  Speaker 3: Well. When we moved into this building six years ago,
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  Speaker 3: we had it planned for one hundred and twenty and
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  Speaker 3: we've expanded to have one hundred and sixty eight beds
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  Speaker 3: now because some of our rooms have added bunk, and
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  Speaker 3: right now we are averaging around that ninety two percent,
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  Speaker 3: which the minute I get off the phone with you,
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  Speaker 3: it could change drastically and we could be at complete capacity.
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  Speaker 3: Just the number of people who are coming in is
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  Speaker 3: growing tremendously. We have right now just looking at individuals
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  Speaker 3: wanting to come from the prison system because we know
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  Speaker 3: that they're at over capacity. We have over two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and forty four individuals who are currently in prison waiting
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  Speaker 3: for the parole date that want to parole to the
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  Speaker 3: Saint Francis House.
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  Speaker 1: We moved to this area twenty years ago and we've
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  Speaker 1: watched two falls grow a tremendous amount in that amount
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  Speaker 1: of time. Now, as a community grows, there are some
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  Speaker 1: growing pains that happen as well, But during that time
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  Speaker 1: you have been able to help so many people right
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  Speaker 1: there at the Saint Francis House.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, most certainly, as we look at we did an
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  Speaker 3: overview of the ten year snapshot, looking at from twenty
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  Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty twenty four, and then most recently we've
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  Speaker 3: added to the most recent dates. When you look at
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  Speaker 3: one our recidivism rate, typically, we've said at about eighty
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  Speaker 3: six percent of the individuals that come from the correctional arena,
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  Speaker 3: the judicially impacted individuals do not return to present eighty
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  Speaker 3: six percent. That's a pretty huge number compared to what
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  Speaker 3: the state, the Self Code Department Corrections reports on their
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  Speaker 3: website of about fifty percent of people who are not
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  Speaker 3: affiliated with Saint Francis House. When you look at ninety
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  Speaker 3: six percent of our guests are working in the community,
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  Speaker 3: so we are dressing workforce development. And when majority of
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  Speaker 3: our guests leave our program, they have paid off a
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  Speaker 3: significant amount, if not.
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  Speaker 2: All, of their debt.
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  Speaker 3: Currently, from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty five, our guests
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  Speaker 3: have paid off three million, seven hundred and thirty six
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars in debt, So that's two fines and restitution, back,
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  Speaker 3: child support, and other debts such as utility bills, landlords,
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  Speaker 3: medical bills, sometimes parents because they have owed them money.
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  Speaker 3: That is money that is going right back into our community,
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  Speaker 3: the state of South Dakota, and some people when you
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  Speaker 3: said the community grows and more people come, we sit
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  Speaker 3: at about ninety two percent of our guests our South
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  Speaker 3: Dakota residents, and that's by their birth certificate or their
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  Speaker 3: state issued ID.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have done so many amazing things for so
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  Speaker 1: many deserving people, and there's probably people listening going how
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  Speaker 1: can I help with this amazing mission. Well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you asked the twenty thirty and you will dinner in
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  Speaker 1: auction as October the fifth. Let's talk about this event
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  Speaker 1: and what folks can expect to have on that evening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is our annual event that we raise our
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  Speaker 3: funds for the daily operations of our agency, and so
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  Speaker 3: we have I know it sounds like a big number,
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  Speaker 3: but the tickets are going fast because we have had
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  Speaker 3: people we have come every single year. We have approximately
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  Speaker 3: one thousand seats to fill the Who Follows Convention Center
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  Speaker 3: on Monday, October fifth. If people want to, go to
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  Speaker 3: our website www dot Stfrancishouse dot com and you can
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  Speaker 3: click on to register. There is no cost for tickets
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  Speaker 3: because we have such amazing corporate sponsors that cover the
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  Speaker 3: cost of the venue. Because then everything raised that night
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  Speaker 3: between our silent auction, our live auction, our other events
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  Speaker 3: that are going on, and especially our fundamission, which is
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  Speaker 3: always the expanding program services that we have here at
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  Speaker 3: the Saint Francis House. That all goes to meet the
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  Speaker 3: guest needs by feeding them, housing them and getting those
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  Speaker 3: program services to them.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a great opportunity to get together with
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  Speaker 1: your friends and do something good for the community. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to buy a ticket, but you should register
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  Speaker 1: in advance let's talk about how we do that right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very easy.
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  Speaker 3: If you go to our website, and even if you
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  Speaker 3: just google Saint Francis House, Sioux falls right on the homepage,
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  Speaker 3: it has the link to register. You click on that,
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  Speaker 3: you put in your name, your phone number, your email address,
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  Speaker 3: and you are automatically registered. And then I will be
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  Speaker 3: reaching out as well as my marketing team to see
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  Speaker 3: are you wanting a table because a table seats eight
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  Speaker 3: or ten, or are you just wanting to come with
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  Speaker 3: maybe you and a friend or your spouse, because we
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  Speaker 3: have open tables that we will seat people at.
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  Speaker 2: So it is it is such a fun night.
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  Speaker 3: We have Jonathan Larson from Larson and Larson Auctioneering.
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  Speaker 2: He is a hoot. If you've ever not seen him,
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  Speaker 2: just coming to see him as amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And we also, most importantly Autoworks is donating nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 3: nine Chevy pickup.
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  Speaker 2: The raffle is twenty dollars tickets, unlimited tickets.
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  Speaker 3: We're drawing the night of Monday, October fifth, so the
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  Speaker 3: truck will be there and the funds are being split
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  Speaker 3: between the Saint Francis House and the Union Gospel Mission.
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  Speaker 3: So this isn't just about Saint Francis House. This is
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  Speaker 3: about all of our collaboration and the work that we do,
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  Speaker 3: partnering with all of our agencies to meet the needs
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  Speaker 3: of those who need us the most.
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  Speaker 1: So many wonderful people all getting together and folks, I
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  Speaker 1: would love it if you would join us that evening.
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  Speaker 1: It's the twenty thirty annual dinner and auction. It's on
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  Speaker 1: a Monday night, October the fifth, at the Sooux Falls
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  Speaker 1: Convention Center. Register right now to save your spot. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to throw a link on our page to make
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  Speaker 1: it really easy to find Facebook, dot com, slash Sunny Radio. Julie,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your time today and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: doing what you guys do to help so many people.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I considered a blessing being here and being able to
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  Speaker 3: do this work every single day to help people move
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  Speaker 3: on to the next stage.
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  Speaker 2: In their life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for the event on October fifth, and I
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  Speaker 1: will see you there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you much again.
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  Speaker 1: Julie is with the Saint Francis House. You can learn
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  Speaker 1: more on their website. St. Francishouse dot com dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, I've got a link to all
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  Speaker 1: of the information at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio
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  Speaker 1: and Facebook dot com slash Soufalls News, Sonus Now