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Talk-Line: Dr. Laura Gumbiner, Florissa Center clinical psychologist · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Quarter past the hour. This is the Wednesday. It's September
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  Speaker 1: the tenth, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of talk Line here at
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  Speaker 1: WIX and Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is
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  Speaker 1: time to touch base with our friends from Crider Services.
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  Speaker 1: We get our monthly inside into news and information with
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  Speaker 1: Crider Services every month. But this time we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take a turn away from the administrative manager Sue Eley,
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  Speaker 1: who is on assignment. We have with us today representing
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  Speaker 1: the Florissa Center under the umbrella of Crider Services, a
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  Speaker 1: clinical psychologist and she's kind of at the helm of
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  Speaker 1: the Florissa Center when it comes to Crider activities. Her
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  Speaker 1: name is doctor Laura Gumbiner and she is lied with
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  Speaker 1: us by telephone this morning here at WYX and Laura, good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning, See.
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  Speaker 1: It is nice to have you back with us, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining. Did I get all of that right?
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  Speaker 1: I hope, I did you know what You're interesting over beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: But I do want to give a shout out. Our
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  Speaker 2: clinics director is doctor Kelly Flannagan. Okay, I am just
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  Speaker 2: one of the psychologists, but I am spearheading the grant
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going to talk about this point.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we have Laura on board because she's
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  Speaker 1: got some exciting news about the Florissa Center and about
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  Speaker 1: an exciting grant opportunity that has been offered Florisa. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to have that in just a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: with us here at WYXM. But to kick things off, well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, the icebreaker, Laura, how long you been
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  Speaker 1: with Crider and Florissa.
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  Speaker 2: Now, ooh, I have been at Florista since twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, come here, all right, yep, you're right, okay, very good,
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  Speaker 1: close to a decade with the Florisia's. But before that, though,
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  Speaker 1: you've worked in the area, right, I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: that you put in time in the area.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. When I was here previously, I worked at Palk
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  Speaker 2: Valley Community College, which was fabulous, and then my family
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  Speaker 2: moved away for a few years, and when we returned,
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  Speaker 2: I began working with Criter at Florisa.
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  Speaker 1: Yea, And when Florissa was kind of born is when
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  Speaker 1: doctor Gunbeiner kind of became a cog so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: with Florissa. When Florissa went into business and that was
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  Speaker 1: probably right. Are we talking maybe seven eight years ago?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're very cool. Ok So Florissa formed about a
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  Speaker 2: little over ten years Okay, so it was just in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years infancy when I joined.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, when we talk about the Florissa Center through
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  Speaker 1: Crider Services, what areas are we talking about that specialized
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  Speaker 1: through Florissa? Take us through that, Laura.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So Crider Services adults with developmental disabilities, and in
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  Speaker 2: the early two thousands they began offering evaluations for autism
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  Speaker 2: through the Autism Program of Illinois, and it became really
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  Speaker 2: apparent that family needed more that beyond just autism, and
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  Speaker 2: so through some local community collaborations and some federal grants,
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  Speaker 2: Florissa was formed in twenty fourteen as the Children's division
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  Speaker 2: of Crider. And the name Florissa means to flourish, which
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  Speaker 2: is basically part of our mission to be a community,
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  Speaker 2: a collaborative community where children and families flourish, and it
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  Speaker 2: was to expand services for families beyond autism. So we
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  Speaker 2: now offer very comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, where the only facility
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  Speaker 2: in northern Illinois that does that. Last year, I think
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  Speaker 2: we serviced around fourteen counties.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, we also.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we do offer therapy for children and for
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  Speaker 2: group therapy and parents and school consultations. We have a
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  Speaker 2: resource room for families in the community. We have some
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  Speaker 2: community events, we offer professional development or just general community presentations.
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  Speaker 2: And we're also a training site, so students who are
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  Speaker 2: working on their degrees to become psychologists, we also train
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  Speaker 2: them as well. So we have a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: going on at Florisa, predominantly evaluations, but many things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, though it sounds like, you know, Florissa active,
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  Speaker 1: you know, each and every day, I mean on a
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  Speaker 1: regular basis, as Laura just pointed out, many again different
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  Speaker 1: areas covered flu FIRSTA, it is predominantly though a youth
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  Speaker 1: oriented area of crider services, as you mentioned Laura, you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting right at a very young I mean we probably
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  Speaker 1: start preschool right even probably for the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am so glad you mentioned that. So Florisa
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  Speaker 2: will service children's zeros up to through twenty two because
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  Speaker 2: early intervention is housed at Floris's.
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  Speaker 1: So we have two.
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  Speaker 2: Developmental earlier mentioned therapists, so they work with the youth
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  Speaker 2: zero to three and they'll go into the home. On
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  Speaker 2: the evaluation side of things, like the diagnostic evaluations, you
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  Speaker 2: see children really as young as two, depending on the questions,
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  Speaker 2: up through twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the very early age of youth. The floor
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Crider and Floressa, you know, start the wheels turning,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. But obviously I would think Laura in
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  Speaker 1: diagnosing and getting Florisa involved at that stage of development.
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  Speaker 1: Does it take parents, moms and dads to kind of say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know something maybe is a miss or something going
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  Speaker 1: on here or how does that work? You know, to
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  Speaker 1: get Floria involved in that area.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely so parents can and families can absolutely call
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  Speaker 2: in to find out about services and see if an
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  Speaker 2: evaluation would be appropriate at that time. But we have
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  Speaker 2: a large number of referrals from medical providers throughout Northern
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  Speaker 2: Illinois as well as schools because families are usually talking
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  Speaker 2: about struggles with their teachers or with their doctors, and
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  Speaker 2: so through that process they kind of let families know
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  Speaker 2: about Florisa, and then when families call us, we take
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  Speaker 2: it from there, depending on what their questions are.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And as as doctor Gunbinder just pointed out, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: through Florissa, Uh, perhaps you know aid to those again,
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  Speaker 1: children in need. Uh may have a you know, a
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  Speaker 1: symptom or an ailment, right Uh, Laura, that that you
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  Speaker 1: know kind of has passed on as you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just something now you know that that is wrong
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  Speaker 1: or or something that's just not you know, gelling with
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  Speaker 1: a certain certain youngster. Uh, that that maybe has kind
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  Speaker 1: of passed off now and then and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not diagnosed.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah. I mean when families have some concerns, whether
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  Speaker 2: they're concerned about learning struggles or some attention things or
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  Speaker 2: some new disregulation, and they talk about it with their
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  Speaker 2: school or provider, then sometimes they might say, oh, you
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  Speaker 2: know that's typical for this age, or oh you might
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  Speaker 2: want to reach out to get more information. And we
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  Speaker 2: have a wonderful family coordinator at Florissa. I want to
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  Speaker 2: give a shout out to Jannet gone Off. So families
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  Speaker 2: talk to her first, and sometimes she's just connecting them
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  Speaker 2: with resources. You know, they might just want some services
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  Speaker 2: or they don't even know what their options are, so
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  Speaker 2: she will walk the families through that process.
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  Speaker 1: And through the age. Again care that Florissa offers, Laurie,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned at a very early age. I mean what's
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  Speaker 1: what's your upper level, I mean, what's the cutoff age
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  Speaker 1: that Florissa then, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: Through the age of twenty two we would service Okay,
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  Speaker 2: most of the I would say most of our evaluations,
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  Speaker 2: Steve are school age, yes, I mean, of course we
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  Speaker 2: see younger and older, but the primary ages very good.
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  Speaker 1: The Florissa Center here for our needs and worthwhile center
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  Speaker 1: again available for services is Doctor Gumbinner just pointed out
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  Speaker 1: many services offered a very busy schedule that the Florissa
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  Speaker 1: Center keeps through Crider's services and their aid especially to
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  Speaker 1: those indeed autism again and those ailments that may be
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  Speaker 1: associated with that spectrum development, things like that again through
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  Speaker 1: the Florissa Center at Crider Services located still on North Court,
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  Speaker 1: is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, right here in Dixon, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: On North Court, North Dixon. That's where the Florista Center
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  Speaker 1: location is, and continue to service us from that area
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  Speaker 1: for the youth of our area. Doctor Laura Gumbinder is
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  Speaker 1: our guest today on the KRIDER talk line for September
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Here at WYXM, Doctor Gumbinder, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to again shift our attention to some very
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  Speaker 1: exciting news that came our way from the Florisa Center
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  Speaker 1: through Criyder Services and that has to do with a
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  Speaker 1: grant opportunity tell us about this, Yes, so I do.
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  Speaker 2: First want to say the timing of this announcement could
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  Speaker 2: not be more perfect because September is FETO Alcohol Spectrum
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  Speaker 2: Disorder Awareness months. In September ninth, yesterday is actually the
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  Speaker 2: International Awareness Day for FA seeds or FETO alcohol spectrum disorders,
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  Speaker 2: and our grant is specifically to help service families who
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  Speaker 2: are impacted by FETO alcohol and the child may or
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  Speaker 2: may not have a diagnosis, but regardless, the grant is
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  Speaker 2: going to give us funding to support the families.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so now how will this now? Well, well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, give us a little background of how this
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  Speaker 1: came about and where the monies you're going and how
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  Speaker 1: they are going to be used and all of that
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  Speaker 1: good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So. Our clinic is unique as it's in
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  Speaker 2: northern Illinois and we provide diagnostic evaluations and we provide
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  Speaker 2: evaluations for any concern that a family might have. We
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  Speaker 2: originally Florisa was known well that's not correct. The evaluations
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  Speaker 2: were known for autism specifically, but with the development of Florisa.
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  Speaker 2: The goal was to expand services because families have all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of concerns that they want assistance with. And through
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  Speaker 2: that process and education, we became very aware of substance
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  Speaker 2: exposure in utero. You know, almost let's see, it's about
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  Speaker 2: forty to forty five percent of pregnancies are not planned.
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  Speaker 2: Families are not trying to get pregnant and so they
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  Speaker 2: don't realize they're pregnant for a certain amount of time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just through general regular activity, no stigma
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  Speaker 2: applies the family. The child might be exposed to some substances,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's alcohol or marijuana or cigarettes, et cetera. And
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't mean there will be any problems, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a potential possibility. If the families come in and they're
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  Speaker 2: reporting a lot of difficulties, then we'll look into more
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  Speaker 2: about developments because we want everyone to be able to
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  Speaker 2: understand the full child. So anyway, we learned all about
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  Speaker 2: this and we do offer that service to families. But
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  Speaker 2: where we found difficulty is what do families do after
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  Speaker 2: they know that their child has the diagnosis of the
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  Speaker 2: feedo alcohol spectrum disorder. Services are very limited around the country.
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  Speaker 2: It's not unique to hear but of course in rural
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  Speaker 2: areas too. So we became aware of the Intelligence Community Initiatives.
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  Speaker 2: They're based out of Iowa. They're the nonprofit portion of
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  Speaker 2: a healthcare intelligence company and they offer funding in forest states,
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  Speaker 2: Illinois included specifically to help promote or develop healthy families.
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  Speaker 2: So we wrote a grant all about what FASD is
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  Speaker 2: and how we provide evaluation, but there's really more services
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  Speaker 2: for families beyond that. So we submitted the grant. We
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  Speaker 2: were so excited to find out we were one of
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  Speaker 2: the awardees and this will take place over two years.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So monies from the grant will be put
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  Speaker 1: then into the into Florisia Center. Is that correct, Laura?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Well, let me clarify that, okay. So the
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  Speaker 2: funding will go specifically to two portions. So the project
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  Speaker 2: itself is to create an SASD informed system of care,
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  Speaker 2: so really to help providers in northern Illinois really understand
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  Speaker 2: what the diagnosis is and how you convect support families.
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  Speaker 2: So there's two parts to it. The first part is
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  Speaker 2: training for providers mental health and medical all about the
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  Speaker 2: importance of screening and how do you refer on for
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  Speaker 2: an evaluation or for services. That's part one, and I
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  Speaker 2: will be conducting that and so some of the funding
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  Speaker 2: goes for that time and time with the providers. Then
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  Speaker 2: Part two is to pay for training for mental health
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  Speaker 2: clinicians to get kind of the only evidence based treatment
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  Speaker 2: for families. It's a very expensive program. It's called Families
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  Speaker 2: Moving Forward. But the grant will also pay for providers
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  Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm so proud that it is
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  Speaker 2: and it's for providers beyond just Florista. We want families
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  Speaker 2: in several counties, regardless of resource. So whether they have
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  Speaker 2: private insurance or Medicaid or private pay there's no options
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  Speaker 2: at all. We want them to have providers available to
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  Speaker 2: them who can give them the service. So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to pay for the training for the providers so they'll
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  Speaker 2: be able to provide it. And during the two year cycle,
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  Speaker 2: some of the families will also have funding covered for
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  Speaker 2: the service.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent, very good, exciting. This is exciting news, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: And it kind of focuses then the Laura on newborns families,
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  Speaker 1: you know, expecting and newborns, right, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we're concentrating this effort then.
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  Speaker 2: With correct well you yet and know by training providers
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  Speaker 2: about the importance of screening and knowing potential incomes that
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  Speaker 2: will absolutely help families, pregnant individuals, and newborns. The service
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  Speaker 2: that the therapist will provide that part two is really
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  Speaker 2: once if there starts to be problems, and at that
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  Speaker 2: point the kids are usually school aged. Okay, because that
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  Speaker 2: therapy is for six to thirteen year olds, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think, okay, very good, So again it covers a wide
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  Speaker 1: age group though, starting with newborns and proceeding as Laura mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: through those that are school age and actually in school
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  Speaker 1: having problems that may arise. But again this grant money
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  Speaker 1: will be used to focus on these areas and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: help in combating those situations that doctor Gunbiner just pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: very exciting that Chrider has this and very exciting through
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  Speaker 1: Flarissa that we are able to tell you about it today,
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  Speaker 1: and especially like doctor Gumbinner mentioned, the timing is right
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  Speaker 1: in this month of September because it is all focused
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  Speaker 1: in this month of September, and so we make the
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  Speaker 1: focus with doctor Laura Gunbiner from Florissa's Center through Crider's services,
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  Speaker 1: very exciting Laura, thank you so very much for sharing
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  Speaker 1: the news. Will be obviously looking forward to you know
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  Speaker 1: how this is going to progress. As you mentioned, it's
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  Speaker 1: a two year grant, so again things will be put
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  Speaker 1: in play. When when does it start then, Laura, does
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  Speaker 1: it start immediately?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? The funny cycle started in July. Okay, okay, July
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  Speaker 2: twenty five through June twenty twenty six. So the first
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  Speaker 2: part is all about pepping to do those training for
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  Speaker 2: medical and mental health providers and myself. I'm also going
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  Speaker 2: through this therapy training so that I can inform the
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  Speaker 2: future clinicians who are going to do that sort of
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  Speaker 2: how it works in the timeline.
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  Speaker 1: Pet drap very good. It's all through the Florisia Center
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  Speaker 1: at Crider Services and again doctor Laura Gumbinder are clinical psychologists.
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  Speaker 1: The psychologist there has given us this exciting news right
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  Speaker 1: here on wi X. And doctor Gumbiner, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: so very much for stopping by and telling us all
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  Speaker 1: about this during our September broadcast from Crider Services and
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  Speaker 1: don't be a stranger please, I hope to get more
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  Speaker 1: visits with you down the line from Services as we
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  Speaker 1: spotlight Florissa and their activities today on wixent, doctor Gumbiner,
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor lor Gumbiner with Crider Services and the Florisa Center
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  Speaker 1: our guest today on wix in. Let's go to press
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  Speaker 1: next News First at WIAC.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Charlene Bilama for Shaw Local News Focus House, one
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