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Talk-Line: Andy Jackson, Sinnissippi Centers of Dixon · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Thursday. It's
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Speaker 1: February the twenty seventh. The year is twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and it's time for another informational additional talk line here
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Speaker 1: at AM fourteen sixty and FM ninety five one wyax in.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Steve Marco. It is time for our
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Speaker 1: monthly look at news and information from Sennissippi Center, serving
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Speaker 1: not only Dixon Lee County, Sauk Valley, but all of
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Speaker 1: northern Illinois. Sinnissippi Centers has grown, and we've talked about
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Speaker 1: the growth with our good friend, the marketing manager of
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Speaker 1: Sennissippi Centers, who joins us live at the microphones for
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Speaker 1: the latest from Sennissippi. Our good friend Andy Jackson is
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Speaker 1: with us this morning here at Wixent. Good morning, sir,
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Speaker 1: Good morning. Good to have you with us, Good to
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Speaker 1: be here. You have brought along a special guest. I
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Speaker 1: am going to let you introduce this special guest to
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Speaker 1: our audience. Please.
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Speaker 2: Oh you're going to make me do that.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be no.
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Speaker 2: We kind of want to let people know some of
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Speaker 2: the We talk a lot about it a lot of
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Speaker 2: different things, but what we don't talk about is so
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Speaker 2: many of the different programs at Sennissippi Centers. There's a
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Speaker 2: limited amount of time, but we want to kind of
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Speaker 2: try to take time out to do that. And Stevie
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Speaker 2: Rinneck Kearney is here with us. She's a super that
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Speaker 2: stands for us. That's the Illinois Department of Substance Use
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Speaker 2: Prevention Recovery. I'm not used to that one still yet,
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Speaker 2: but she's a super Recovery Services I'm sorry, Recovery support specialist.
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Speaker 2: Super Recovery Support specialist.
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Speaker 1: And live with us in studio as well. Stevie, good
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Speaker 1: morning to you. It is nice to have you with us.
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Speaker 1: Man are we As a matter of fact, we have
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Speaker 1: a plethora of information that we are going to share
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Speaker 1: with you. Andy is going to talk about February a
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Speaker 1: little bit later on in the broadcast today, and also
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Speaker 1: some really exciting news about a new fundraiser that we
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Speaker 1: are going to talk about today here at I don't
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Speaker 1: think we did that last but I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: I don't either. I think we maybe just kind of
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Speaker 1: tasted the waters, or so to speak, you know, tested
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Speaker 1: the waters with it. But Andy's got the full story
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Speaker 1: for you this morning, and that's a little bit later
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Speaker 1: on in the morning here at a fourteen sixty FM
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Speaker 1: ninety five one. Stevie Renee Carney is the super Recovery
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Speaker 1: Support like that the acronym is great. I think it's great.
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Speaker 2: Super. Yeah, it.
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Speaker 1: Works righted to the you know the what what the
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Speaker 1: you know what the initial stand for and Andy pointed
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Speaker 1: that out. It's a very important area of Sinissippi. Is
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Speaker 1: it a new area, Stevie, or is this you know,
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Speaker 1: an area that's you know, been on the books with.
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Speaker 3: Well, we have as we call it, the super Team,
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Speaker 3: which is great. We have many people in many different
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Speaker 3: areas to hit every aspect that a person needs in
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Speaker 3: recovery from addictions. So we start, you know, with the
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Speaker 3: peers with experience such as I. We have a great
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Speaker 3: peer team and so when and then we have the clinicians.
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Speaker 3: We have the m a R. Which is Medical Assistant Recovery.
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Speaker 3: So we're meeting clients where they need to be and
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Speaker 3: they don't have to go through it alone anymore. All
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Speaker 3: the bases are covered. We have a great super Team.
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Speaker 1: Just just kind of a brief overview of what this
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Speaker 1: group does for Sinissippi and for our area. But I
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Speaker 1: want to learn a little bit more about Stevie renee Carney.
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Speaker 1: How long have you been with Sinissippi Now.
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Speaker 3: I've been with Sinsissippi for a little over a couple
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Speaker 3: of years and it's been wonderful, wonderful experience, and I
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Speaker 3: plan on sticking around.
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Speaker 1: You are originally from our area.
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Speaker 3: I'm from Morrison.
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Speaker 1: Good good, good for you. Well, so your homebred and
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Speaker 1: know the area, and that's good, you know that, you know,
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Speaker 1: with an important group like this, with an important area
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Speaker 1: like this, it's good to know the area. Let's get
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Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into the This is a state
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Speaker 1: funded area, right, It's it's from the state of Illinois
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Speaker 1: that this is established. Right, So so talk about you know,
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Speaker 1: the association with the state and you know, you know
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Speaker 1: how it all works. I mean you mentioned, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of an overview, you know, with your team and all,
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Speaker 1: but you know what what does it really entail? You know,
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Speaker 1: you're talking about substance abuse prevention and recovery. That seems
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Speaker 1: to be a large umbrella.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's a very large it's a very large umbrella.
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Speaker 3: So we have intensive outpatient which is IOP classes. We
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Speaker 3: have one on one where they're meeting with clinicians and
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Speaker 3: we have the medical Assistant recovery, and then we have
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Speaker 3: our peer services. So the peer services are more out
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Speaker 3: in the community, working with people from the first day
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Speaker 3: of their recovery, trying to get them in twelve step meetings,
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Speaker 3: supporting them through the county Drug Court, supporting them through
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Speaker 3: their medical services. And then there's always there's always a
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Speaker 3: peer around. There's always a peer in the intensive outpatient classes,
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Speaker 3: someone that they can go to easier, so they're not
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Speaker 3: going through it alone. So we're covering many many bases
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Speaker 3: in recovery.
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Speaker 2: If somebody doesn't already know or hasn't already assumed, why
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Speaker 2: don't you let them know what a peer is? What
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Speaker 2: is that?
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Speaker 3: So a peer it's somebody who has lived experience, who
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Speaker 3: has gone through the addiction or alcoholism or drug addiction,
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Speaker 3: and they have been in recovery themselves. So there's a
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Speaker 3: there's three of us. I am a little over seven
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Speaker 3: years sober, and I have a great team leader, Patrick McHugh,
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Speaker 3: he's a little over nine years. And then we have
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Speaker 3: Kevin Johnson who is going on three years.
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Speaker 1: Good, good, good, and all have experienced yes, So again
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Speaker 1: you're relating your experiences, what you've gone through to these
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Speaker 1: individuals that need or seeking assistance.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so we've gone through the trial and error
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Speaker 3: with our own recovery. We didn't have peer services like
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Speaker 3: they do now when we got sober, and we remember
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Speaker 3: the lonely experiences, the walls we'd every time we turn
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Speaker 3: around to try to make our life a little better.
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Speaker 3: So we have the experience and we try to incorporate
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Speaker 3: and make it recovery easy for us.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, and I'm sure that it was more difficult. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it was more difficult that not having this area to
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Speaker 1: work or at least be associated with more on your
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Speaker 1: own than right, you had to go at it more
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Speaker 1: on your own, uh than with the than with the
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Speaker 1: assistance of something like the I'm going to call it
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Speaker 1: the super Recovery Services area. Is that okay?
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 1: That then, because it's easier for me to do that,
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Speaker 1: to trigg it out in that you know that, we're.
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Speaker 3: Very proud you'd be the super team.
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Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think it's great. I think
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Speaker 1: that again much needed. Obviously, this has been an existence,
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Speaker 1: you've been there for a couple of years. Was it
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Speaker 1: in existence before you took the.
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Speaker 3: Peer support services weren't. But I did go through treatment
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Speaker 3: through Sinissippi over seven years ago. I did go through
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Speaker 3: the intensive outpatient classes and then twelve step meeting.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and this is kind of all associated with this now, right, and.
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Speaker 3: Now all the people that helped me recover now my coworkers,
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Speaker 3: and it's very rewarding to me.
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Speaker 1: That's terrific. It is called the super Recovery Services Area
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Speaker 1: of Sinissippi Centers. You reach out, do you go? I
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Speaker 1: mean we've talked about your expansion, you know obviously.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, expansion overall, but yeah, especially in these services,
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Speaker 2: especially with Senissippi, but overall, I think across the state. Steve,
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Speaker 2: you could talk to that a little bit more. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: like she's saying, they weren't there before and now they are,
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Speaker 2: and we have a lot of peer services going on
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Speaker 2: now at Sinissippi.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you know, it's interesting. It's great to you know,
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Speaker 1: again showcase you know, the areas that we might not
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Speaker 1: know a whole heck of a lot about, but I
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Speaker 1: think it's great that we talk about it. Andy does
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Speaker 1: frequently here at A fourteen sixty and FM ninety five
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Speaker 1: to one. But you also said you associate with other entities.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Drug Court. You know you're so you're
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Speaker 1: connected with a lot of other entities, right.
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Speaker 3: You're connected with many people in the community. I know
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Speaker 3: that Sinissippi also is a part of White Say County
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Speaker 3: Drug Court, Lee County Drug Court. We work a lot
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Speaker 3: with Sock Value Voices of Recovery. We're just all trying
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Speaker 3: to you know, go ahead on first with this together
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Speaker 3: and try to help people get a better life.
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Speaker 1: What is the first and this is this is always
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Speaker 1: seems to be the sticking point and Andy I talk
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Speaker 1: about this frequently when we have Andy on the era
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Speaker 1: here at AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five to one
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Speaker 1: with our spotlight. Seems to me like the first and
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Speaker 1: most important is the initial connection for somebody in need.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you make the effort to go out and
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Speaker 1: seek these you know, seek these situations out, but it's
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Speaker 1: probably the connection between that individual getting wanting to get
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Speaker 1: the help.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it can be very intimidating, and there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of year from somebody coming from substance addictions to wanting
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Speaker 3: to get into recovery services. So it's really rewarding to
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Speaker 3: see a peer be able to go out to their
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Speaker 3: home to have that conversation to be able to help
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Speaker 3: walk them through any fears they may have, and they
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Speaker 3: feel comfortable because we can go in there and say
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Speaker 3: this and we've we've done this before.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and.
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Speaker 3: People feel more comfortable and that fear really gets dismissed absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Uh. You know, when you're talking with a person that
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Speaker 1: has just experienced it before in the past and can relate,
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously, that's you know, you know, steps above
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Speaker 1: I think, you know talking you know, officials try to
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Speaker 1: do the best they can with what they have available,
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Speaker 1: but it's not until you have experienced.
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Speaker 3: And I think it's wonderful because we do live in
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Speaker 3: a smaller community. I mean us peers are going in
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Speaker 3: too many counties, but people that are using substances usually
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Speaker 3: talk among each other. So the super Recovery Support Team
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Speaker 3: is very well known and other addicts are saying, hey, listen,
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Speaker 3: this peer helped me get to this point. And so
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Speaker 3: it is a community activity.
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Speaker 1: That's great, you know, you know, it's it's one person
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Speaker 1: talking to another. It's one you know, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: connection to another that makes it work even better. And
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Speaker 1: we're in a small community, as you mentioned, Stevie, But
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Speaker 1: smaller communities experience just as much of this problem as
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Speaker 1: the urban areas as the larger areas. You know, we
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Speaker 1: we relate to that as well, you know, the Chicago's,
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Speaker 1: the Saint louis Is, the Quad Cities, even Rockford. But
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Speaker 1: we're in Dixon, Illinois. And but but again, the problems
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Speaker 1: just is great here.
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Speaker 3: Right, yes, yes it is. Sometimes it feels worse here
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Speaker 3: than it does in other areas. Is drugs and alcohol
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Speaker 3: are very powerful and it's taking over many lives, and
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Speaker 3: we just want to help give back. But I will
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Speaker 3: say our smaller community is a very powerful community.
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Speaker 1: When a person makes maybe a hotline call, and we
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Speaker 1: mentioned the hotline number, Handy, the three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five day, twenty four hour day phone number at Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: are they put in touch with the super area immediately
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Speaker 1: or what? How does that? How does that trans I mean,
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Speaker 1: how does that work?
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Speaker 2: I mean? Sure, well, when you when you call that number,
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Speaker 2: if it's during business hours, you'll get one of our offices. Okay,
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Speaker 2: if it's outside of those hours, you'll you'll get a
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Speaker 2: service that will then get in touch with somebody, depending
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Speaker 2: on what that crisis is, and then they'll they'll we
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Speaker 2: have a staff on call for crisis at all times.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. As I've always said, you know, three
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five days a year, four hours a day.
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Speaker 2: So whatever that's particular crisis situ. If it's a mental
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Speaker 2: health crisis, obviously we're gonna we're going to dispatch a
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Speaker 2: mental health clinician for that. But there can be folks
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Speaker 2: in crisis with with substance use, you know, so the
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Speaker 2: appropriate person will then be you know, they'll be connected
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Speaker 2: with the appropriate person in that case.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and associate. And then again the track moves further.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just moves ahead into your area then uh,
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Speaker 1: and and the again UH, education information and the help
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Speaker 1: is then given by your area to these individuals seeking
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Speaker 1: it out at SCIP. I think it's great, uh, and
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Speaker 1: I think it's great to talk about it. It's called
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Speaker 1: the super Recovery Services Area of Sinissippi Centers. UH. It's
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Speaker 1: through the state of Illinois. So again we're we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the Department of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery Area,
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Speaker 1: but it is under to the guise of.
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Speaker 3: The state of al and we also have overdose prevention program.
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Speaker 3: I just want to mention that get off air overdose
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Speaker 3: is a really big thing going on in this world,
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Speaker 3: in this country, and so we have grants for free
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Speaker 3: narcan and free test strips. So if you are out
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Speaker 3: using please contact us and we will get you any
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Speaker 3: supplies you need.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it is the first initial contact with a group
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Speaker 1: likes the super recovery services. That's always the most important,
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Speaker 1: and we talked to Stevie about that today here at
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Speaker 1: AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one great area of Sensissippi.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for spotlining it this morning, and we appreciate your spotlining.
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Speaker 1: It will stick with us because we've got more information
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Speaker 1: and you may be able to lend help to Andy Jackson,
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Speaker 1: who's going to take over after news First. We're going
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Speaker 1: to take a break for news at the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the hour, but this is an expanded Sinnissippi talk line,
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Speaker 1: So Andy's going to talk about the month of February,
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Speaker 1: a great fundraising event that Sinnsippi has put together.
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Speaker 2: Stay with us.
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Speaker 1: Tim Lee next with News first, and then more from
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Speaker 1: Sinissippi after that on WI Accent and we continue our
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Speaker 1: conversation with our friends from Sinnissippi Center. The marketing manager
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Speaker 1: of Sensissippi Centers is live with us in studio this
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Speaker 1: morning after a great conversation with a representative and that
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Speaker 1: again was featured earlier this morning on our Susiness SIPP
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Speaker 1: Spotlight for February of twenty twenty five. Andy Jackson is
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Speaker 1: still with us here at wix N. Good morning, Good morning. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is nice to have Andy with us. Andy kind
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Speaker 1: of gave way to Stevie ray Kearney and we thank
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Speaker 1: her so very much for making us a part of
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Speaker 1: her day. I know it's a busy day, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: for Stevie ray Renee Carney.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: The super Recovery Support specialists at work at Sinetaia sounds
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Speaker 1: like a great, great, great group and a great area
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Speaker 1: it is.
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Speaker 2: And you and I've talked before about, yeah, about the
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Speaker 2: aspect of family, friends, support or support from employer or
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Speaker 2: whatever for somebody facing mental in the substance use disorder
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Speaker 2: or something like that. This is a big extension of
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Speaker 2: that support. I mean, there's a lot of support that
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Speaker 2: is given by the super Team, and it is it's
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Speaker 2: very vital. As anybody that was listening to that, you know,
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Speaker 2: heard what that's like and how that wasn't there before
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Speaker 2: and now peer services are kind of kind of a
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Speaker 2: bigger thing, much bigger thing at Mississippi that's grown quite
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Speaker 2: a bit. That support is just amazing.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, they really are.
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Speaker 2: You know, we joked all round about a little bit
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Speaker 2: about it. They are super and you know because that's
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Speaker 2: the abbreviation from the department, but they are really a
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Speaker 2: super team.
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Speaker 1: And it's nice to have Stevie Rene Carney join us
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Speaker 1: in talking about that area of Sinsissippi. Earlier this morning
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Speaker 1: here at AM fourteen sixty and FM ninety five one,
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Speaker 1: we wanted to mention a couple of other areas of
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Speaker 1: Sinnissippi today. One, let's talk about it. You're involved in
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Speaker 1: a new fundraiser that's coming our way. A sinneceud to
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Speaker 1: talk about this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure. It's going to be our first annual
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Speaker 2: gathering for Good. It's a new, very fun fundraising event
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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five. Our unofficial theme is party like
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Speaker 2: your mental health depends on it. So it was actually
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Speaker 2: named by our staff. So the event and that kind
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Speaker 2: of unofficial theme, and it's going to take place Thursday,
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Speaker 2: May fifteenth, from six to nine at the Dixon Elks Lodge.
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Speaker 2: We're going to have how to Go. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if anybody knows about them, but they're very talent, high energy,
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Speaker 2: all requests, dueling pianos group from Chicago. Yeah, and how
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Speaker 2: Will at the Moon is their permanent kind of location
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Speaker 2: in Chicago and very very popular show. They are great,
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Speaker 2: and so how to Go that we're going to have
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Speaker 2: is the traveling version of that permanent show there in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: But the event also features light or dirvs, where as
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Speaker 2: my mother used to say, horses dovers. I'll never forget
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Speaker 2: that light. I don't know what that was. Light or dirves,
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Speaker 2: cash bar, a dessert auction, a silent auction. And then
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Speaker 2: how to Go is great because all tips given that
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Speaker 2: night for playing the music, which they usually get a bunch,
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Speaker 2: will also be donated back to San Sippie Centers. So
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Speaker 2: they really are they're really a great outfit. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: love having them. Funds raised will benefit needs of sinn
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Speaker 2: Sippi Center's clients through a variety of program some of
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Speaker 2: those we've talked about over time. People may or may
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Speaker 2: not remember those, but basically there things that don't get
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Speaker 2: funded but have a heavy impact on a person's mental
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Speaker 2: wellness and mental health and then we'll have full information
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Speaker 2: on our website soon. We've got most of it there.
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Speaker 2: We don't have the registration up just yet. We're finishing
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Speaker 2: up those materials as we speak right now, so getting
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Speaker 2: those ready for a mailing very soon. And then we'll
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Speaker 2: have a Facebook event you can share if you want,
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Speaker 2: but there will be there be an option to download
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Speaker 2: a PDIA form for attendance or an online option that
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Speaker 2: you can get quote unquote tickets. We won't have physical tickets,
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Speaker 2: but get admissions or even a sponsorship you can do
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Speaker 2: online and pay online. So yeah, we'll have that up
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Speaker 2: and so yeah, we're really excited. I think it's going
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Speaker 2: to be a lot of fun and looking forward.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the first annual, it's a brand new fundraiser offered
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Speaker 1: through Senecipiti centers and obviously from March through April and
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Speaker 1: well probably not May, but March and April we'll have
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Speaker 1: updates that Andy will absolutely you know, and more information
17:53
Speaker 1: obviously just getting started with you know, putting the fundraising
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Speaker 1: information out and getting in information out about registration. That
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Speaker 1: will come a little bit later, but again we'll have
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Speaker 1: again reports in March in April with Andy right here
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Speaker 1: on AM fourteen sixteen FM ninety five one again the
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Speaker 1: first annual Gathering for Good fundraiser through Sinnesippy Centers. Andy
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Speaker 1: talks about that this morning and it kind of takes
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Speaker 1: the wraps off of it here at AM fourteen sixteen
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Speaker 1: FM ninety If I want to appreciate that, wanted to
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Speaker 1: focus and are a latter portion of the talk line
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Speaker 1: today about the month of February. February is American Heart Month. Really,
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Speaker 1: you know, heart disease and Sinsippi Centers. Now, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: is there a connection here? Andy? I think there is,
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Speaker 1: And I think we've talked about this before.
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Speaker 2: And you wanted to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: We have.
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Speaker 2: We've talked about before. The link between heart disease and
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Speaker 2: depression is not as well known, and so we talk
18:45
Speaker 2: about that side of it. The American Heart Association does
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Speaker 2: a fantastic job about promoting heart health, particularly during February
18:51
Speaker 2: but throughout the year. But yes, there is a link.
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Speaker 2: It's well known. It's well established by research. I believe
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Speaker 2: they're still looking into the why. I don't know I
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Speaker 2: know the why of the link, but there is a
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Speaker 2: link between depression and heart disease, and both of those
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Speaker 2: really are probably among if not the most disabling diseases
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Speaker 2: that we face, and they're both in general widespread among
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Speaker 2: the population. So it's important to talk about both of those,
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Speaker 2: but particularly from our side on the depression side, and
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Speaker 2: that link and what that means.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the connection Andy, and you connect it the
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Speaker 1: problems that people go through with heart disease, heart ailments.
19:33
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, the link to depression, and this is
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Speaker 1: where Sinnissippi comes into play.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty to thirty percent of CARDIACT patients have depression,
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Speaker 2: and individuals diagnosed with depression are at a higher risk.
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Speaker 2: Don't know the percentage on that, but they are definitely
19:47
Speaker 2: at a higher risk. That also is driven by research
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Speaker 2: for developing heart disease than the general population. So it's
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Speaker 2: a two way connection. And again, like I said, they
19:56
Speaker 2: don't know why, but they do know that they are connected,
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Speaker 2: though there's been a wealth of research. However, I think
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Speaker 2: one of the pitfalls of this is then we talk
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Speaker 2: about that, but then people oh, Okay, I have heart disease,
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Speaker 2: so I got depression. I'm you know, no big deal.
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Speaker 2: Although I don't know that anybody would say no big
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Speaker 2: deal if they have depression. But the point I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to make. Maybe I didn't say it the right way.
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Speaker 2: Don't think of that as a normal part of the
20:20
Speaker 2: heart disease that goes untreated. So if you do, if
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Speaker 2: you are diagnosed with depression, look into the heart disease.
20:26
Speaker 2: And you have heart disease, look into the depression side.
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Speaker 2: And then if you do have the depression, get that
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Speaker 2: treated just like you do the heart disease with treatment
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Speaker 2: and or medications. So they both require professional attention.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yes, is what I was trying to get at,
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Speaker 1: and and and again. Carrying it even further, andy into
20:46
Speaker 1: you know, a serious situation where somebody may you know,
20:50
Speaker 1: be you know, involved in a heart attack. You know,
20:53
Speaker 1: in that regard, you wanted to punctuate that area as well. Well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because having a heart attack or other heart disease
21:01
Speaker 2: can impact more than just your just your heart your
21:04
Speaker 2: physical health. It's good. It's like everything else. Everything is connected,
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Speaker 2: So our mental wellness is going to be connected with
21:11
Speaker 2: other things that are going on in our lives. And
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Speaker 2: if you have a disease like heart disease, it's good.
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Speaker 2: This thing could affect your attitude and mood, your sense
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Speaker 2: of certainty about the future, certainly it's going to rock
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Speaker 2: your world, absolutely most likely. Uh, and and and put
21:24
Speaker 2: you in a little bit different you know, footing where
21:26
Speaker 2: where what's going to happen you know in the future,
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Speaker 2: might affect your confidence about your ability to do what
21:33
Speaker 2: you do every day, being an employee, a parent, those
21:35
Speaker 2: kind of things.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
21:37
Speaker 2: Maybe feelings of guilt, although we shouldn't do that, but
21:39
Speaker 2: we're always our own worst critics. Maybe feelings of guilt
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Speaker 2: about some of the habits we did that may have increased,
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Speaker 2: you know, our risk. And then maybe embarrassment, self doubt
21:49
Speaker 2: over you know, those diminished physical capabilities. We don't like
21:52
Speaker 2: that even as we age, even as if it's just
21:55
Speaker 2: a natural process. Let alone, you know, we have a
21:58
Speaker 2: heart attack, but you know it's something we have no
22:01
Speaker 2: control over. And and so again we're our own worst critics,
22:04
Speaker 2: so you know, try not to do that either. And
22:07
Speaker 2: and and if you're having difficulties there, you know, even
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Speaker 2: even briefly talking with the clinician, even if it's not
22:11
Speaker 2: a regular thing. You know, Sinesippi is there for for things.
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Speaker 1: Like that exactly the you know, and I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: how how much a general practitioner can assist, but possibly
22:23
Speaker 1: you know, if if you know, you know, you're going
22:26
Speaker 1: for regular visits and and and treatments and things like that,
22:29
Speaker 1: and you you know, discover that you know, you're right,
22:32
Speaker 1: not feeling up to snuff and not feeling.
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Speaker 2: A primary care providers are wonderful, but they don't do surgery. Right.
22:38
Speaker 2: There are specialties and mental health and substance uses of specialties.
22:42
Speaker 2: So that's something that you would want to see a
22:43
Speaker 2: specialist like a Sinicipi for exactly.
22:46
Speaker 1: And again there are connections and Andy, you can connect
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Speaker 1: with Sinissippi centers. Uh, you know by you know, contacting
22:55
Speaker 1: and and and getting the need. But again it's that
22:59
Speaker 1: initial it's that initial step. And we talked to Stevie
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Speaker 1: about this before. It's the initial step making it all
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Speaker 1: happen and making it.
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Speaker 2: Well, making that first phone call, it a first first contact.
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Speaker 2: It is hard. It can be hard. Uh, and so
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Speaker 2: but once you do, you know that you're on that
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Speaker 2: path treatment, recovery and all of that and getting back
23:17
Speaker 2: that quality of life. A lot of people depending on
23:19
Speaker 2: what it is, but uh, particularly for the substance use
23:22
Speaker 2: that we talked about, I've heard this a lot. But
23:24
Speaker 2: but for other things, for mental health, Uh, you know,
23:27
Speaker 2: people report, you know, I'm me again. I got myself back.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: That's probably one of the more or most common ones
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Speaker 2: that I hear amongst our clients when I get the
23:38
Speaker 2: privilege to talk to them. Uh, is I got myself back.
23:43
Speaker 2: That's big. Yeah, that's a big thing they feel. That's
23:45
Speaker 2: what they feel like. They feel like they weren't themselves
23:48
Speaker 2: and now they've got themselves back.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And that's you know, the recovery aspect that we've
23:54
Speaker 1: of course talked about many times and actually you know,
23:58
Speaker 1: is spotlighted through areas of spy. Now it's it's brought back.
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Speaker 1: And now we're talking about the success stories at Sinissippi
24:08
Speaker 1: in that regard. So you know, it's great that and
24:11
Speaker 1: and and we wanted to point out again especially since
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Speaker 1: this month of February is American Heart Month, the connection
24:17
Speaker 1: is there if you're in, you know, if you're ailing,
24:19
Speaker 1: if you I'm not sure if you even have to
24:22
Speaker 1: you know, you know center stage, you know, heart problems.
24:25
Speaker 1: It could be any kind of ailment that could cause
24:28
Speaker 1: you to you know, fall into this category and sure
24:32
Speaker 1: maybe seek out.
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Speaker 2: Sure dealing with a chronic disease, heart disease, I think
24:37
Speaker 2: captures a lot of things. Would Uh. I don't know
24:40
Speaker 2: if they consider hypertension part of heart disease, but if
24:42
Speaker 2: you have high blood pressure that you have to manage
24:45
Speaker 2: for the rest of your life, that's a chronic disease. Uh.
24:48
Speaker 2: Branching out from that, diabetes is a chronic disease. When
24:51
Speaker 2: you're dealing with that, that that has impacts on your
24:56
Speaker 2: mental wellness exactly.
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Speaker 1: We spot like this area because it is February and
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Speaker 1: and that's why we're doing it because February is American
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Speaker 1: Heart Month, and that's why we're making the connection in
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Speaker 1: this regard to the services at Sinsissippi Center. But they're
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Speaker 1: available as Andy mentioned twenty four to seven with the
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Speaker 1: hot line number again regularly Sinisippi Centers offers needed areas
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Speaker 1: of services, including the super recovery support services that Sinssippi
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Speaker 1: specializes in that we talked about this morning here at
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Speaker 1: great talk line today Cinteesippi Centers. You can get more online.
25:32
Speaker 1: You can get more through in their Facebook area. It's
25:34
Speaker 1: practically updated every day through Cineesippi Centers. Talk about the
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Speaker 1: hotline number.
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Speaker 2: What's the hot line sure eight hundred two four two
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Speaker 2: seven six four to two. Yep, we said earlier during
25:44
Speaker 2: office hours you can get in office hereing crisis so
25:47
Speaker 2: that we'll be taken care of. If it's after hours,
25:49
Speaker 2: we have an answering service that will then get you
25:51
Speaker 2: connected with the right Senesippie person for your crisis. And
25:56
Speaker 2: then if if you don't, nine eight eight's a quick
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Speaker 2: wondering number two you can call that and there's a
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Speaker 2: local connection between nine and eight calls and local providers
26:07
Speaker 2: like Sinnissippi Centers. It's that that that connection is getting
26:10
Speaker 2: even tighter where you could even if you could down
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Speaker 2: nine and eight, you might just get somebody from Sinnissipi
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Speaker 2: pretty quick. So but eight hundred two four two seven
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Speaker 2: sixty four to two. That's on the website at Sinnesippe
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Speaker 2: dot org and you can go there for lots of information.
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Speaker 1: And of course and you touch his base with this
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Speaker 1: fourteen sixteen f M ninety five. One great talk line today, sir,
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Speaker 1: thank you so very much executing us. Andy Jackson is
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Speaker 1: our marketing manager of Sinnissippi centers. That's our spotlight for
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