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Washington County Mental Health's Kim Ead and recruiter Dan Errico WCMHS's new Communications and Development Director - Kim Ead with recrui · Aired Out

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  Speaker 2: following on tier Ontario temporarily suspending their planned twenty five
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  Speaker 2: Donald tr Trump vowed to raise Canadian steel and aluminum
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  Speaker 2: import tariffs to fifty percent before of course, reversing course
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  Speaker 2: last night. I'm not sure if you were following that story.
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  Speaker 2: Posted it up a little bit on Facebook, and wow,
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  Speaker 2: proposed thirty day ceasefire deal yesterday amid negotiations in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: In world headlines this morning, that one is up as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff going on, no question about it,
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  Speaker 2: both here in Vermont and across the nation and the
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  Speaker 2: world for that matter. Our guest in the Business Spotlight
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  Speaker 2: this morning, Washington County Mental Health's new Communications and development
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  Speaker 2: director Kim Eid and recruiter Dan Eriko, Good morning, and
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  Speaker 2: welcome you both. I'm so glad you're in here. Welcome guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, thanks, yeah, thank you, thanks for having Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've you've been in here before, Dan, Am
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  Speaker 2: I right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I was in your old space. It
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  Speaker 3: came with another cride, Mozelle, who has Yeah, Mozelle has
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  Speaker 3: moved on to a different agency down in Massachusetts. We
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  Speaker 3: miss her, but it's come with Kim today. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: very excited to see the new space. Talk a little
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  Speaker 3: about Washington County Mental Health and yeah, positions we have opened.
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  Speaker 2: Now you you've just met Kim, not long ago, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, Kim just started a couple months ago. We've been
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  Speaker 3: working together on a few things, which has been fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun to have some would help, you know, get
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  Speaker 3: the word out there of all the good stuff we do.
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  Speaker 2: What an introduction, Kim? Huh?
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  Speaker 4: I know, I feel How am I going to live
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  Speaker 4: up to that?
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  Speaker 2: Man? I've been hearing a lot about you from from
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  Speaker 2: Heather Slayton, who kind of I think she's always kind
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  Speaker 2: of going to be the communications lady for Washington County.
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  Speaker 2: Dan's nodding his head, Yes, she knows the ins and outs. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just in her, it's or blood, it's just who
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  Speaker 2: she is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's great.
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  Speaker 2: So you've had obviously a chance to get to know
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  Speaker 2: some staff members, Heather among them. Absolutely, what's your story
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  Speaker 2: where Obviously we're going to talk about what you do
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  Speaker 2: day to day, but where are you from? You've been here,
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  Speaker 2: You've been at this post for two and a half months. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 5: I have spent most of my career doing organizational development
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  Speaker 5: for a global nonprofit, educational institutions and activist organizations. I
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  Speaker 5: moved to Vermont in the early two thousands after grad school,
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  Speaker 5: and I fell in love with the community and the people.
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  Speaker 5: And when I saw the position for Washington County Mental Health,
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  Speaker 5: I thought this would be an interesting new challenge and
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  Speaker 5: it would give me an opportunity to dig into the community.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, I was working for a global nonprofit,
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  Speaker 5: which was great, and it definitely took me away from
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  Speaker 5: the focus of what's happening here in Vermont.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Interesting, you know there there's some staff members and Dan,
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  Speaker 2: you certainly know this. You've you've been with Washington Counting
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  Speaker 2: now for what nine years?
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  Speaker 3: Nine nine years here in this fall, it'll be nine years. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: There's some staff members that are that really take this,
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  Speaker 2: uh this this I can't say job, but job as
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  Speaker 2: as a career and embody it as like part of
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  Speaker 2: who they are and they live this and they love
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  Speaker 2: this and and there's no surprise why they've been doing
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  Speaker 2: it so long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I talk to people all the time,
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  Speaker 3: people joining the agency, and they ask, you know what
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  Speaker 3: the longevy is? And I tell stories of like Phil Wells,
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  Speaker 3: who has been with the agency for forty plus years.
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  Speaker 2: Thousands of years. Ye look at look at.
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  Speaker 3: The Guide's true. It's true, no one, no one knows
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  Speaker 3: the exact start date, but he's been here forever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of folks Children's Division have been with the
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  Speaker 3: ANCHIE following time, and across the entire division. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I can go gaming people with such a large agency
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  Speaker 3: that we have people that have been here a long time.
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  Speaker 3: They love it, it is it is their life. They
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  Speaker 3: love helping people and doing the work. I think I'm
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  Speaker 3: starting to fall into that category too. You are, I'm
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  Speaker 3: betting close to the decade mark, So I guess I'm
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  Speaker 3: one of them as well. I've been with the agency
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  Speaker 3: for nine years, started a bunch of different positions with
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  Speaker 3: the agency, from the from the children's division, working one
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  Speaker 3: on one with kiddos in our residential homes for a
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  Speaker 3: few years, to being a supervisor of some of those homes,
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  Speaker 3: and now for the past you know, several years, I've
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  Speaker 3: gotten to bring people aboard, which has been super exciting
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  Speaker 3: and tell the stories of what we do.
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  Speaker 2: As a recruiter. Yeah, you've you've lived it, you've done it,
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  Speaker 2: You've you've had your finger in it. I think that's fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: It really is. You were going to say something, Kim,
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  Speaker 2: I could see that.
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  Speaker 5: I just think that a lot of the people that
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  Speaker 5: I've met since in the last two months have demonstrated
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  Speaker 5: a huge commitment to building this community and supporting the
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  Speaker 5: people in the community that are the most vulnerable. And
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  Speaker 5: to see folks spend their time, their life, their education
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  Speaker 5: focused on supporting other people is inspiring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's also been some employees like Heather who have
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  Speaker 2: essentially kind of just pioneered a vision that they've had
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  Speaker 2: where they're like, you know what, we need to do this,
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  Speaker 2: and by God, we're going to do it. And Wellness
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday is kind of a perfect example of that. What
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  Speaker 2: do you guys, I mean, I know a lot about
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  Speaker 2: wellness Wednesday. I'm sure you do, but what do you
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  Speaker 2: know so far? I mean, this is something that's done
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  Speaker 2: the first three Wednesdays of every month.
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  Speaker 5: And there's still chair massages open for tonight, so sign
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  Speaker 5: up and reiki offerings and alternative ways of regulating systems
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  Speaker 5: so people can come in from the community for free
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  Speaker 5: generally and get opportunities to chill out and relax their
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  Speaker 5: bodies and their minds and in turn help support their
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  Speaker 5: whole wellness. So it's an amazing offering, an opportunity, and
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  Speaker 5: it would encourage all the community members to come out
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  Speaker 5: and check it out.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a great opportunity for these practitioners to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I'm an expert with, this is what
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  Speaker 2: I do, and if you want to build a relationship
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  Speaker 2: and you want to continue to do this, here's my card,
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  Speaker 2: let's make some appointments.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've taken advantage of it. I've done the massages,
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  Speaker 3: I the year acupuncture I've done.
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  Speaker 2: That's an interesting I did too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Bail them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was cool. It was it was different, but
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  Speaker 3: having yeah, the community, come in. I mean all the
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  Speaker 3: things you mentioned started the show with what's going on
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  Speaker 3: in the world seems like a crazy time. So if
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  Speaker 3: you just want to come in, you know, get some
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  Speaker 3: quiet time, shout out of a little bit. It is
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  Speaker 3: a nice time. We don't get to do that too
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  Speaker 3: much now.
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  Speaker 2: It is now. When you say shut off, you mean
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  Speaker 2: shut off, shut the phone off.
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  Speaker 3: You can shut the phone off, you can take a nap,
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  Speaker 3: you could shut.
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  Speaker 2: Off, yes a little bit and quie in there and
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  Speaker 2: like you were saying, Kim, leave the wallet at home.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is this is all free stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just Commit's open to anybody. Commit. Make an appointment
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  Speaker 2: for the Sweetish massage and the I think the the
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  Speaker 2: acupuncture and the meditation. That's just kind of walk in.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want a massage or the myofacial release
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  Speaker 2: or the or the reiche or anything, ye call ahead
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  Speaker 2: four seven nine four zero five five. Robbin's the one
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  Speaker 2: that answers the phone great.
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  Speaker 5: Late and it's a good opportunity to introduce it to
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  Speaker 5: your kids too, So don't don't leave them at home,
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  Speaker 5: because this is a way to introduce young people to
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  Speaker 5: different ways of calming their bodies calming their minds and
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  Speaker 5: it's an easy walk.
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  Speaker 2: The first three Wednesdays of every month, so that's tonight tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It starts at four point thirty goes till seven o'clock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just take advantage of this, I mean really, just do it.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, have a cup of hot tea and chill
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  Speaker 2: out for a little while. It's free.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you don't want to take advantage of
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  Speaker 3: some of the things there now come just say hello
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  Speaker 3: to some people, see what's going on. And again it's
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  Speaker 3: very frequent, so if you want to come back next
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  Speaker 3: time and actually partake in some of the practitioners, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: I love talking about wellness Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: And there's not a lack of need in the community.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like Dan was saying, like the world is
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  Speaker 5: a little upside down and we're all navigating it in
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  Speaker 5: different ways. And you know what an amazing offering that
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  Speaker 5: this agency has.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. You know, if if you want
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  Speaker 2: to just you know, and a lot of us were
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  Speaker 2: like I'd love to I would love to meditate. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you come here. You'll be showing how
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  Speaker 2: to do that, which is which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: It's a learned skill. So it's something that sometimes needs
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  Speaker 3: some guidance on sure, and so it is something and
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  Speaker 3: just have someone guy helpful.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget the first time I went to Well
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  Speaker 2: on this Wednesday, went in there with a with a
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  Speaker 2: blasting migrain and you know, I meet Balen and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: a man, it's the first time I had met you know, Balen,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't. I'm like, biling, man, I've just been hit
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  Speaker 2: by a truck. There's nothing that's as my eyes were
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  Speaker 2: barely open. He's like, well, hang on a second, let
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  Speaker 2: me just up and he's clipping this stuff onto my
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  Speaker 2: ear and ten minutes gone. I'm like, was that you?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, well, I'm telling you. I mean this
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  Speaker 2: is someone who really believes hidneys craft really does works. Yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: you Kim. You were just men sing children and how
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  Speaker 2: important that is. Let's talk about the kids a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and Washington County Mental Health On Thursdays, we have
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  Speaker 2: this Steering Committee the third Thursday every month. What is
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  Speaker 2: this about?
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  Speaker 5: The Steering Committee welcomes folks to come in and talk
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  Speaker 5: about what the need is of the community and see
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  Speaker 5: how we can support them together and get the feedback
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  Speaker 5: from the larger community.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think it's something that we we've recently
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  Speaker 3: started to pick back up. Have you come in, have
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  Speaker 3: folks come in and talk about what's going on, what
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  Speaker 3: we can do with the kato's, and what work needs
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  Speaker 3: to be done.
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  Speaker 2: So so, if your your child has some unique needs,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in the home, at school, what have you,
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  Speaker 2: it's an opportunity for you to get together with other
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  Speaker 2: parents who maybe paddling on the same river.
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  Speaker 3: Getting the same waters. I think they're the kiddos. I say,
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  Speaker 3: the kiddo division is our biggest division when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the staff we employ. So there is a great
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  Speaker 3: need out there, and like Kim said, introduction to some
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  Speaker 3: of the regulation and different things early is helpful for kiddos.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I started, That's where my passion with the
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  Speaker 3: agency began with you know, kids four to four to twelve. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think I learned a lot of skills at twenty
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  Speaker 3: two working with those kiddos that have carried me, learning
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  Speaker 3: from them and helping them navigate their their life and
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  Speaker 3: their struggles.
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  Speaker 2: Get some some critical information and ask all of the questions,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what they are, because a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't. We don't always get the answers
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  Speaker 2: that we need from the school or what have you.
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  Speaker 4: And as as a parent with a kid that.
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  Speaker 5: Is highly highly functioning, she still has unique individual needs
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  Speaker 5: and if there were community resources available for her to
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  Speaker 5: meet her needs, I would absolutely walk in and want
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  Speaker 5: my voice heard in how to move the needle forward
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  Speaker 5: to support her and all the kids ultimately.
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  Speaker 2: So this is one Thursday out of the month. It's
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  Speaker 2: the third Thursday, and it starts at five o'clock, goes
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  Speaker 2: till six thirty and Washington County Mental Health even throws
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  Speaker 2: in dinner. That's amazing, am wow, pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: What are we serving to next?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't. I don't know. But here's the
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  Speaker 2: other thing. This isn't like something that's brand new. This
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  Speaker 2: has been going on for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think we've been doing We've been doing
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  Speaker 3: this since I can remember. I know it takes some
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  Speaker 3: lolls at times.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there's been a couple of little hiatuses.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, but what doesn't have a hiatis? But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this Yeah, picking me back up, I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: great resource. Anytime we can get more involved in the community.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's something like you said, people have piloted
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  Speaker 3: in one to do, so.
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  Speaker 2: We do it. I'm gonna give you the phone number
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  Speaker 2: again if if you want some some information on this,
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  Speaker 2: it's four seven nine four zero five five four seven
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  Speaker 2: nine four zero five five. It is absolutely free again,
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  Speaker 2: there's another freebie. And and you know, if if you're
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  Speaker 2: a parent and you're coming with some kids who are young,
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  Speaker 2: they need to be with you. You don't have a babysit
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. Heather opens up the snoozelan room.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which the room is great. It hasn't if
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  Speaker 3: anyone hasn't seen it, especially after the flood and everything
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  Speaker 3: has been fixed.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: I took kittos there all the time when I when
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  Speaker 3: I work for the residentials, I I have friends friends
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  Speaker 3: who's kiddos have ASD and yeah, work work with work
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  Speaker 3: with the sensory. So I've opened the resource to them
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  Speaker 3: and explained to them that it's there, and they've taken
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  Speaker 3: advantage of it and they love it. And even the
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  Speaker 3: wellness Wednesdays, I mean, when it's open, I'll jump in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's just quiet, it's a cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously been in their kits, Yes, I have been in
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  Speaker 5: there and it's amazing and just a sneak peek.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to get in trouble
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  Speaker 4: for saying this.
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  Speaker 5: There will be a grand opening of the room again,
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  Speaker 5: so the event will be posted on our socials and
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  Speaker 5: JDU two will have that information as soon as we
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  Speaker 5: have the date for that grand opening.
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  Speaker 2: I love the Snoozelan Room. Yeah, so I won't we
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  Speaker 2: won't say grand opening anymore.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, it's a it's a new refresher well from
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  Speaker 5: the flood, right, and it was I mean, my god,
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  Speaker 5: the work that was done over there. Yep, there's been
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  Speaker 5: a lot of work that's been done, and that space
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  Speaker 5: is just so cool.
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  Speaker 4: There's the hyperbolic chamber, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 5: New as well in that space. And then the DULA
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  Speaker 5: program is also in the well Well space as well,
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  Speaker 5: which is such a great gift for folks that are
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  Speaker 5: prenatal to be able to get support.
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  Speaker 4: Through their pregnancy.
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  Speaker 5: So we're really lucky to have all of the amazing
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: programming that happens out of that space, in particular.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: As Autism Puzzle Foundation. I remember when they were like,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: we have to bring this, we have to create this
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: room here. This has to be in our community.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Can I tell you have another event that's happening.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: That's why you're here.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Great In June, Penny is putting out the Pera Palooza.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: It is a peer based conference. So if you are
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: part of an organization that uses peers to help educate
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: and support folks, you can do a presentation at peer
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: a Palooza and just contact Penny Martin.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: And I will make sure to get that information.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Sunrise Sunrise, Yeah, over on Berry Street in Mound pill Or.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: What a great place.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Wow. See the sandwiches they can put out in there,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: in the pies.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Oh here, there's cookies too.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Oh. Everything. They do such a great job over there,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: they really do. I want to talk about Treatment Associates
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: here just a little bit. Amber Thompson, great lady who
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: was working so hard, and this was a huge announcement
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: not too long ago too, that Washington County Mental Health
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: was teaming up with Treatment Associates.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're offering substance use disorder support and.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Intakes happen at the well Space.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: There's multiple other spaces around the community that folks can
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: go and do drop ins and get the support they need.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: There's counseling groups available for folks and it's a great collaboration.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: It started before I got here.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: But it hasn't been around that long as far as
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: the collaboration between treatment associates and Washington County.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: But we are growing together now and.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: It's now right at the well Space building on Summer Street,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: twenty three Summer Street. How wonderful is that? And it
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: combined with the Phoenix Recovery Group. Barry's a powerhouse man.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Washington County Mental Health is a powerhouse for this kind
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of stuff.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Trying to do a lot going on. There's a lot
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: of need out there.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, at of need. We try to provide it
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: and been around, come watch Camon Health's been around coming
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: on sixty years.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty years.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: We've had a lot of time to develop a lot
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: of things. And sure you said it earlier. We try
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: to do what we can when people want to do it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: So the Phoenix Group and again I'll give you the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: phone number if you need more information, but they meet
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings again right over at
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the well Space building used to be over at the
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: People's Health and Wellness clinic.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I think, I think so.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But now they've moved, which is so great, so great.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: The other interesting fun thing coming up against secret Squirrel
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: information special for you is that the Community Developmental Development
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Services Building is being renovated and is going to be
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: even more accessible and there will be yet another grand
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: opening celebration of that space to support folks with developmental
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: disabilities as well.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Can you tell us anymore.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Where it's on grand View Drive?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, grand View Building.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it if you're familiar, I mean Bury area,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: kind of cross street from the Granite Museum. Yeah, off
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: for interesting road all the way up to the very
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: tippy top through the residence neighborhood. And it's up there.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Looks fantastic elevator and everything. Elevator and new bathrooms. I'm excited.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I haven't got a chance to pop inside, only the outside, but.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: You'll be invited to the grand opening to be there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll be there, so it'll be exciting.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It's going to be amazing. I've seen a little bit,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: but the last time I sip there snooping around, I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: got kicked out of there.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: You know, I think what I've noticed about Washington County
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: mental health services. Is that really trying to support folks
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: in being their best selves and being independent with you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: folks with mental health issues, with developmental disabilities, whatever, whatever.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: You come in with.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: The folks at the agency are trying to help support
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: both independence and self determination. So that's been really inspiring
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: to see.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Person centered care totally. Yeah, yeah, no kidding. Uh. And
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: there's so many Uh, there's so many different tentacles that
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: come down off of so many different programs. It's it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: amazing friends helping friends. I mean, uh, the list, the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: list goes on.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the to get into the kind of the
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: work I do bring people aboard the and some of
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the events again, was talking about I'll be up at
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Norwich University next week for a job fair. Was at
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: UVM a couple of weeks ago, kind of talking with
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: college students, but to open the community as well. So
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: if you're interested in coming to say hi, we'll be
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: over it in the Armory, Norwich University on next Thursday
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: three twenty to talk about some of the positions we have.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: But we have so so many different programs things going on.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: If you want to get involved and want to be
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: a part of the agency. Feel free to check out
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: the career page that we have, or you can reach
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: out to me directly. I tell the college students the
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: same thing. Our website's got a lot going on. It
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: can be a little overwhelming because we do so many things,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: and even today we've barely touched on all the things
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: we do. I know, so if we could be here
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: all day, and we don't want to take up your
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: whole day, But if people want to talk about some
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: things they're interested in getting involved with, please reach out
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: to us because I'm always happy to talk about that.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I want you to throw your number out here in
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a second, but it's w C m HS dot org
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: slash careers.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Correct, correct, and you can reach out to me. My
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: email is Dan dot Erico E R R I c
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: O at w C m HS dot org. Or my
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: trusty cell phone is always on me eight oh two
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: five two two eight three five five. Feel free to
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: reach out there too.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And there's like literally something for for everybody. But you
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: were you were saying earlier, the Children's Youth and Family Division, Uh,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the career opportunities there are.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Ye are wealthy, Yeah, we have, we have throughout so
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: folks don't know, we have six ish major divisions. Hey,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I say when I'm talking about the agency, from our
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Developmental Services division that Kim was talking about with new
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: opening at grand View, from Children's divisions, Youth and Family services,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: from all the way from daycare age kiddos to twenty
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: two ish. We have our Center for Counsel Psychological Services
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: the CCPs. That's a lot of outpatient therapy services. It's
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: up at the building up by the hospital. We also
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: have how our ICs are Intensive care services, which is
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of emergency services. Are screeners who do great work.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And then we have a few different, few different Community
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Sport program which is folks that work with folks who
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: have severe and persistent mental health concerns. You can work
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: there too, And we have all different types of schedules
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: and schedules and compensation and part time and full time
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and volunteer work. We just do so much and if
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you want to get involved and want to help, we
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: really really try to find a space where you feel
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: like you'll be successful.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Residential community development to direct direct services, a.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Bunch of direct service folks, a bunch of and if
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you want to work with a certain certain population, a
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: certain client or consumers. We have a bunch, We do
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a bunch of work throughout the entire our community and
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: their stuff. I'm sure that I don't even know that
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: we do that. I'll figure it out for you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: From from older folks to adolescents, little kids, everything, everyone's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: we all have a unique story. And Choice Academy too.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Choice is great. Yeah. Choice Academy is grade. That's
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: our licensed middle school and high school. They have openings
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: right now where kiddos that are not traditionally successful in
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: traditional school will come and graduate from us and go
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: on to do great things after that. So it is
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: our that's our middle school and high school. We work
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: in the public schools. Yeah, we have our residential programs
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: with the Children's Division, and we have a bunch of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: a few other programs within Children's division that also do stuff.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: So Dan, do you think that it's a good opportunity
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: for folks that are just starting out in their careers
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: to find something as well as folks that are trying
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: to shift into maybe a different avenue of work.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: And then also like folks that have, you like, specifically
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: trained skills, like nursing skills, there's position for those folks too.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: So yes, like yes, it literally is offering opportunities for everybody,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: like almost out of high school, depending on the person, Yeah,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: through well into their careers.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there, there's anyone in any any stage of
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: their career. I'd encourage if you're interested in the work
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: to either reach out or poke around our website. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: jumped in right after college. I did some of the
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: work with a Howard Center program, which is another Desney
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: agency up in Chittnam County. But and I ended up
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: in this this area and work for Washington County. But
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: there's from if you ran out of high school through
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: people that want to make career change. We saw a
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: lot of folks in COVID kind of re evaluate with
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: their their value level is for what they want to
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: do for work. That's a lot of people jump aboard
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Washington County And if you if you want to help people,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I mean it's it's yeah, it's one of the one
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: of the the values of what we do. Telling people
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: that people center work community based mental health has been
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: it has been something that we we strive for every day.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: So and and and keep keep folks, you know, fostering
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: a great relationship with them, but also allowing them to
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: flourish in their in their community and be the best
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: you said it earlier, just be the best, the best
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: individual that they can their Yeah, help them with with
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: stabilizing their lives, introducing some some real wellness to them,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: giving them an opportunity to to be more interactive with
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: their community and and get out and and do something
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: that's that's practical and frankly rewarding. Whether it's assisting them
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: with with their job, maybe they've got a part time
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: job or or whatever it may be, but just making
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: them happier.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, and yourself good. It feel feels good to help people.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You and Vermont's you know, sense of community is huge
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: and that provides it. I think for all of our
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: clients and consumers, that's something that they strive for. They
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: want that sense of community and that's something I think
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: each of us in this room want to sense of community. Uh,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: working with our local community, and that's part of the
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: reason I think you join the agency is in the
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: sense of the Vermont community and the local area. And
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: we're all throughout Washington County, a little bit in Orange
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: and them Oil. So I can say I've met lifelong
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: friends from working with wash Commonal Health.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And it's so residual when you when you help someone
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: out and its it it's so rewarding. You don't really
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: feel like it's a job. Often it's it's your your purpose.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Is h is so multifolt. It helps you, it helps them,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: and it also helps their family, their family members, whether
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: it's their parents or their caregivers. You know, you're giving
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: someone some respite, whatever it may be. You're you're not
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: just helping that one person, You're helping the totality good
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: number of Yeah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I have the stories of you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: teaching a six year old to ride their bike for
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the first time, the training wheels coming off, that smile,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: waking working the residentials and you know, waking up on
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Christmas morning and they get the present that they were
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: hoping was there. Those memories are burned into my head
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: and they're all obviously very very positive or part of
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the reason I want people to join us do this
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: type of work is uh and being you know, the
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: recruiter for the agency has allowed me to expand my
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: knowledge of the rest of the things we do. Sure,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: so I've been able to see that from you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: whilst helping folks access their job to to just being
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: out in the community and maybe going to see a movie.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Just the smiles and what we can get them out,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: what get folks out to do is is fantastic.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And then Kim, You've got to bring all of this
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: goodness to to light and show people on Instagram and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: social media and Facebook everywhere.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: So that's funny that you say, you know, shed some light,
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: because the thing that I've been saying since I started
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: is I feel like I'm a person with a little
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: flashlight and I get to shine light on all.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: The good work that happens around the agency.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: And I am honestly just learning about all of the
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: pieces that we offer. Where we've been highlighting staff and
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: the good work that's happening there and the jobs and
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: positions that we have available. But that is only going
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: to grow, and it's not only on the social media spaces,
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: but in our local news, in our local radio stations.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Making folks aware of the teacher at Choice Academy who
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: made that difference, or the behavior interventionists that helped that
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: kid tie his shoes, whatever that is.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Those are feel good stories.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: That we all need because we get a lot of
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: negative news and there's a lot of horrible things that
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: go on, and I get an opportunity to show the goodness. Yeah,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: and you know, you can come work with us and
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I can show.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Your goodness too.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: In a way, I'm glad that some of our phones
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: are listening to us, because we hear the words mental
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: health so much, so much, and it's some of it's
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: of what's happening of just turning your phone on in
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the morning is so counterproductive. You know, we're trying to
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: improve our mental health, but then all you really have
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: to do is just scroll and it's and the reels
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and everything, and you know, we find ourselves going, are
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: you kidding me? Right now? And then the blood pressure
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: starts ticking up, and we're distracted, and we're we're starting
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to carry around weight that we really shouldn't be carrying around.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: We should be focused on prioritizing what's really most important
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: in our lives and what makes us happy. Mental health is.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: You know, someone was like, well, I'm going to go
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: up forty thousand feet to mental health, and I'm like, oh,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: hell no, that's more like one hundred thousand feet maybe more.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: And it's everybody's struggles like it's everywhere, like no matter.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: You know, we help folks that are trying to find
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: tools and resources to support themselves. But everybody deals with
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: mental health and struggles with trying to maintain balance because
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: of reading backs of the world.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: You know, how many times have you each heard this
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: winter from anyone co workers, friends, family, whatever. Oh man,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I'm done. I'm done with this winter, done with that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I'm done with the potholes. Yeah, you know, it's just
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'm done with the clouds and cold and you.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Know, holidays and holidays, everything that goes, and I'm done.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I want the sunshine. Yeah, that's we. We we talked
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: about all the great work we do. We always. We
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: also like to say if you are struggling, JD do
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: great job of providing folks from your page with our
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: information and feel free to jump on our website. We
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: have the you know, the crisis hotline on there. You'll
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: see some of the stuff posted around around Bury in
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: a surrounding area is about how to reach us. But
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: everyone has struggles day to day, and everyone everyone, everyone
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: and some people. If you feel like you need some
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: more support, we're here sure.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: And just so that number is a two two two
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: nine five nine one. If you are struggling anytime any day.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Twenty four to seven, you can give us a call.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there'll be somebody to talk to you.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I also want to talk about the the Access Hub,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: which is pretty amazing, open from seven am to seven
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: pm Monday through Thursday and eight to four on Fridays
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: at thirty four Berry Street the Downing Street side in Montpillier.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: There.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: This is something if you need some brief treatment, some
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: safety planning, you need some questions answered, you need assessment.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: You don't really want to get up to the hospital
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: and get tangled up up there. Yeah, you know this
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: is wonderful that this one is. It's wonderful.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: We have a ton of folks who who have jumped.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: I don't have the most recent numbers, but we have
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: a ton of folks that access services there that did
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: not access services from us before. You just need to
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: be above the age eighteen to pop in. It's similar
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: to a mental health urgent care in terms of you
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: can pop in if you need to talk to someone
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: about something, like you said, kind of triage, what your
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: next steps may be, how you're feeling. There's folks there,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: clinicians there that are ready to talk to you, ready
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: to work with you about whatever you may need. So
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: it's right in that same area with the Sunrise program. Yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: and Maple House, the peer run peer run bed and
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: so it's all in the same building right there, am
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: on Pillier. So courage folks to drop in if they
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: feel like you need to talk to someone. It's a
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: great resource. Hanmy in the group over there are fantastic.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just thinking of you know how you're You're
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: cruising through life. Everything is generally going okay, and then
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden it can hit the fan and
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: things can can get stacked up against you real real
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: fast to anybody, all walks of life. So to have
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the access hub right there and have someone available to say, hey,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: it's it's all right, let's let's figure this out. Yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: let's compartmentalize things and let's just take a deep breath here.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna help you.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: And a lot of us just that's what we need
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: to hear, man.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: For sure, I mean a lot of us, me myself.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: You never know how close you are to your day
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: to going through that cycle of how you're feeling and
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: day to day we all live very hard lives. You
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: all have our own struggles and if there's someone there
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: that can, you know, help pick you up when you
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: fall down, or help talk you through through a process
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: where you may feel like you don't have total control,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: that's that's what they're there for.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: First responders too, you know, folks that are just.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: So I was just as you said, first responders. The
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Montpellier's School, High school staff, we're all certified as mental
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: health first aid aiders recently, so that's exciting the whole staff,
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: and we're doing you know, in addition to direct service,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: we are doing a lot of educational work out in
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: the community.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: There was a.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Movie this past week at sugar Bush about small mountain
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: towns and the the impact on mental health and suicide rates,
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: as well as this coming Friday at I think it's
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Montpelier High School or theater I will find out for sure.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: Is Ophelia Lives. It's a take on Hamlet and one
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: of the high school students has produced this show and
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: we are helping to co sponsor that too, raising awareness
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: about both mental health and suicide. We are going to
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: middle schools and sharing information about wellness and how to
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: support kids at a much younger age, So trying to
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: get infused within the communities. The messages of there are resources,
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: there are support, you are not alone, and there's an
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: educational component to what we're doing to help the community.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have our agency trainer, Kara. Kara is fantastic.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: She was a clinician in the Choice Academy for many,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: many years and she's now is training our agency on
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: different things, but also working with community partners on training
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: from mental health first aid, two different things, different things
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: along those lines. So if there's businesses or schools or
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: teachers that are interested in, you know, not getting that training,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: we can we can hook you up with carriage. She
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: can let you know what what she can do for you.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Kars are wicked, Go get her.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she's great.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Back to Treatment Associates Montpellier, Morseville, and again right here
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: in Barry on Summer Street. What a remarkable collaboration between
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Washington County Mental Health and t A. I mean they
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: are really doing it and trying to chip away at
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: substance use disorders which AREVAI. Yeah here here and fromont
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: and and everywhere, but in our little green Mountain state,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: we've got some huge issues and they're not going to
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: be going away tomorrow. So to have treatment associates available
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: here right here in Perry for screenings, referrals, coordinating care.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I mean this is really critical stuff. Oh, in a big,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: big deal.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: And there's there's counseling groups that are both online and
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: in person. Yeah, right, to help navigate through that struggle.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two two nine five nine one for Washington County
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Mental Health to get in touch with an intake navigator
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: again two two nine oh five nine one. And there's
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: also twenty four to seven crisis and suicide lines that
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: are available for for anybody.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, we and I'm happy to bring some back
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: and job small here, Jay, I think you've seen them.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: We have our Survivor's Guide that I like to hand
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: out any community event we tried to where it's got
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: phone numbers for the Christ's lines, but other things like
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: domestic violent shelters, food shelves, warming centers, it's got phone numbers,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: addresses times for things like that. It's just a piece
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: of paper to take. We hand them out all our
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: job fares and a bunch of our events. So we
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: were happy to leave some here. But those are the
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: Survivor's Guide, and that's I just like to carry it
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: around in case you never know when you may need
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: to make a phone call.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm going to put that in the comments here
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: for for everybody to see.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: There's a link as well on our website if you
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: want to pull it up.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's so important. And you know, even
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: even if you you know, even if if you yourself
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: think that this isn't anything that you may personally need,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: it's good to have this information. Frankly, it's great to
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: have the magnet on your fridge because you can have
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: a friend who all of a sudden finds themselves in
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: a really serious situation. And I said earlier, stacked up.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, so many of us get things that are
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: stacked up against us.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all on a razor thin edge. I think
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: that's there's one one thing can happen that cascades into
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: a few. I just keep the number of the Christ's
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: number saved in my phone. Yeah, it's a good number
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: just to have if you ever need to send it
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: text to somebody and be like, hey, sh having a
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: hard time. Here's a phone number to call if you
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: don't want to talk to me about it, right. It's
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: just it's nice to provide people that resource and know
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: that there's someone out there they can talk to. Twenty
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: four to seven. Yeah, that isn't necessarily Sometimes people don't
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: like going family or friends to have those conversations. Sure
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: to have someone professional you can call to talk to,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: or just we have business cards that have them too,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: if you just want to, you know, leave it in
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: a mailbox. Sometimes that's that's all you need to do.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Sometimes the problem are the family and friends.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: That's true too, You got to go somewhere else.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Amen, Amen, so so true. Yeah.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: I was just thinking it's kind of like Greenou in
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: power when the lights go off, You're like, oh no,
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I need to find that number, and you're looking around
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: for the fridge magnet or the you know, how do
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: we get the lights back on?
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good analogy right there. Yeah. True. And you know,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: I think the thing that Washington County Mental Health pushes
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: above anything else is regardless of what it is that
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you're going through, you're not alone, and believe it or not,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: we may be able to help you and shed some
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: light on this and take one hour at a time
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and you might be seeing the light here. Things might
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: be improving for you. Just give us the opportunity to
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: walk with you for a little while.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here, you're not alone. Help us right here.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: I want to I want to just ask you, Dan,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: what are some of the the benefits to being an
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: employee of Washington Accounting? Mental health are endless? The health benefits,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. Yeah, but my god, I mean,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: you know, you go into the admin building, yes, and
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: you got a massage chair there for you as.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, and people don't use it. I have three times
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: I have.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: It's attention out of your back. It makes you feel
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit better. You can't get to one this Wednesday.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: But yeah, there's I can go into. We have. You know,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: we've recently raised our compensation rates, so that's that's something
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: to take a look at. Those are all posted out
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: out on the internet for folks to take a look
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: at what they're looking for. You have our benefit package.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: I'm more than happy to share that with folks. It's
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: a very large, thirty page package for people to look
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: through and see see what they're looking for. There's benefits
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: where if you're looking for you know a lot of
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: folks get out, especially in Vermont, and like doing things
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: in the community and getting out and not necessarily sitting
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: at a desk every day. We do have that. We
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: have the alternative schedules too, between the residentials and some
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: of our direct service work, where if you're looking for
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: a couple hours a week to do something help some
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: people are in a little extra cash, we have that.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: If you're looking for overnight hours or weekend hours, we
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: have that. And we have all the full time we
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: have traditional you know, school or business bank hour schedules
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: as well. Yeah, and then the intrinsic value of we
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: we've talked about and helping people is something that I
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: still have the memories of, you know, doing first with folks,
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: or the smiles that come across people's faces and the
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: friends I make when you work through those hard times.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: So that's that's what I talked about. When folks ask
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: me what I remember, you.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: Forgot one thing, the really cool people that you get
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: to work with, like me and.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Dad, don't before came in that list.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Don't leave me hanging.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Geez, you know, I mean, there's there's so many great
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: people up there. I mean, just look at look at
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Joe in the learning.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Collaborse talk about a fun person, I'm just gonna say wow. Yeah, Yeah,
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Joe's great.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: He's such a great guy. That's everyone.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons I'm excited for going to
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: be to open again.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: When you walk, when I walk in there and they're
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: cooking something, Yeah, smells better than my walk when I
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: walk into my own house.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: So and Brittany too, Brittany's great.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Everybody. Yeah, I'm it's it's I think it's something that
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: we get the benefit of. We're a very large agency
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: at seven hundred and seventy five different positions, one of
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: the largest employers in central Vermont so and we have
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: thirty five ish different buildings, so we have a ton
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: going on.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Something that me and Kim get to do is talk
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: to different people from different divisions and different jobs they do,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: and different clients and consumers daily with the work that
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: we get to do and I and that's something I
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: am very thankful for that I get to see and
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: talk with all these fun people.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: I also think something that you talked about earlier is
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: that I've noticed folks seeing a need, coming up with
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: an idea and being able to implement the idea to
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: support that need. So there's some innovation and creativity that
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: can come out of lots of different positions folks are
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: working in.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: It's not stagnant.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I mean, Joe up there. Have you been
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: over to the learning yet?
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: The building hasn't been open.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true. True they've they've been in a in
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: a kind of a satellite area. But once it's open,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I mean it's like it if it's a rainy, crappy day.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I mean they're in there too, and we bowling they're doing.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: The karaoke.
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: I want to do karaoke. You just don't want to
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: be around for it.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Trace Akins or anything like that.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: But I don't know who that is. That's why.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're there. It's there's lot of fun.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I love. I love about it though,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: is even if you are horrifically bad at.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Bowling, Oh I am that too.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Everyone's happy for you. They cheer you on. And I'm
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: not just talking about the we bowling. We go over
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: to you know twins, twin City lanes and games too,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: and you know pizza, get the pizza in the left
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: hand bowling ball on the right. That's a good day,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: right there, very good day.
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'd do better if I had the pizza in
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: one hand. Yeah, I think I think that.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's happy now. And in the field trips that
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: that that Joe coordinates, you know everywhere.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did. Joe do stuff out in the community.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: The children's division. I would say, they go camping and
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: you go to Red Sox games and different the beach
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: beach Maine.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna say we don't have a beach.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Well, they shoot all the way over to New Hampshire
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: or Maine State Park.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they go Hampton beachs go up to Brillington Boulder Beach.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: So we do a bunch of fun stuff.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's such a great place to work at
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: and there's are going to apply. You never know, you
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: never know.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: I might need a communications assistant one day.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: You know. I just encourage folks to get in touch
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: with with Dan or or anyone in recruitment and just
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: hop on the website.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the website's good. WMHS dot org backslash careers, Yeah,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: we got We do a lot of stuff. So if
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: you have any question about any of it, don't have
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: to stay to reach out.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Great health benefits too, great insurance benefits.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Six thousand Vermonors directly or indirectly every year.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Six thousand plus.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Rely on Washington County Mental Health. Yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, forty eight different programs, give or take thirty four buildings,
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: seven hundred plus employees. So we have a lot going on.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of fun. If you're interested, check
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: out the website. And if you need a little bit
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: of help too, sure check out the website.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Too, right, So, yeah, I'm so interested to see what
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: you're going to be doing.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: I'm going to make some magic watch out and also
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: follow us on the social media because we need more
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: followers to see the good work that we're doing and
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: to know the resources and where to find them.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: So it will be on our website.
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: It's on our Instagram and our Facebook pages. So check
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: it out. See what we've got going on. Take the
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: tips from the therapists. On Friday, we do self help
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: tips and then see some profile jobs every week and
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: it's just a good place to see what's going on
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: and find some fun and informative activities.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: And get yourself over too wellness Wednesday tonight, Yeah, tonight's
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: starting at four thirty. Keep your wallet at home. It
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: is free. And trust me, when you leave there, you'll
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: be able to maybe breathe a little bit better.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: We're touch your toes, Touch your toes, smile a little wider. Yes, yes,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: that's it.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Shake your beoty a little bit.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: It's so great. Maybe we are honest. It's the again,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: the first three wednesdays of every month. We are so
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: so blessed in our community to have that. And I'm
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: not sure if all the credit goes to Heather Slayton
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: or not for for spearheading this, but it's it's really
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: it's it's a group effort.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Now huge, No, ye, she does a great job, does
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: a great job. Great space over there, they do a
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: fantastic job. So if you you'll have some time this evening,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: pop over there see what it's all about you. If
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: you don't want to partake things today.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Just to see what it's like, just walk in.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Check it out, check it out. Say ai.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to be talking more about the Steering
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Committee events. We're going to be just pushing everything.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: We love doing that too. So thank you, guys, and
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: thanks to Washington County Mental Health for continued to be
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: a presenting sponsor of the Aired Out podcast for a
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: long time. Now, Oh, we forgot to give kudos to
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Beth Zeidler.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we love Beth.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Our new director.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the new CEO. Beth just started back over the summer.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: You see, uh, you'll see some stuff out there. She
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: she loves to talk to folks and she she's she's great.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: That's been awesome. So she's excited with all new things
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: we're doing. And sure, you know, keeping this train rolling,
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: helping people and do what we can do.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: And you know, Beth's also over rattling the cages under
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the Golden Dome.
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, she is out talked to the legislators, trying to
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: get the support that the organization needs to keep it going.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: She comes in, she's got Washington County mental Health on
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: her badge.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, she wears it browdly.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: That's that's something that's that's massive because mental health is
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: a crisis everywhere and we need to be doing more
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: here in the great state of Vermont. And we will.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we're working on.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I love it. Thank you guys so much for coming
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: in here and listen, let's do it again. It okay
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Dan or no Dan?
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: All right Dan? No Dan? Kim or no Kim.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: You got anytime you get there.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Seriously, anytime. I love I love talking about Washington County
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Mental Health and all you do.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: Obviously, I would like to bring if I come back on,
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: I'd like to bring somebody else on here to that
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: you know is kind of in the trenches with folks.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: What are you saying? If?
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: When?
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: When?
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: When I'm back, I'm going to bring a friend, please too,
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: I'll bring Dan to.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I love, I love it. I can just say hi,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: and Dan knows how to reach me, and and if
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: you know, if he's if he's got something that he
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: wants me to push out on the air, I'll do it.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: I'll let you know.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it.
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: Fun Collins, stillness, stillness fun. I'm saying, sail.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I falliness, the battle fell, anything final, anything, no filing
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