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TOPIC: The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh Sunday Morning

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  Speaker 1: And welcome in. This is a public affairs program shedding
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  Speaker 1: the light on the interest, issues and concerns of the
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  Speaker 1: greater Pittsburgh Gary. Good morning to you. My name is
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  Speaker 1: Johnny heart Well your host. Today we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about one of my favorite subjects, the Children's Home
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. And let's welcome Bethany Bartleson, Program relations manager.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you again. How are you good to
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  Speaker 1: see you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And you brought a friend. Nicole Wallach, human resources manager,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome to our studio program. Here.
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  Speaker 1: See Bethany is an old pro, she's been on this
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  Speaker 1: program quite a bit, so the pressure is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here though, So listen everybody. If
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking a little bit about the Children's Home,
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  Speaker 1: but if you're looking for a job, or looking for
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  Speaker 1: a newer job or something, if you're interested in employment,
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  Speaker 1: we've got we've got quite a bit to talk about today,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why you're here, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: But first let's cover off what exactly the Children's Home
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  Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh really is. Where you are, what you do
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  Speaker 1: and let's go to Bethany, what's tell us everything we
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  Speaker 1: need to know about your organization?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 3: So the short answer is we create pathways for stronger futures.
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  Speaker 1: Did something that I love that that is so cute
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  Speaker 1: because you really do you do a lot of pathways.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard to describe, but yeah, I like the new slogan.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of neat, yes, and it really does encompass
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  Speaker 3: everything that we do. We create pathways to stronger futures
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  Speaker 3: in all of our programs. People sometimes think that we
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  Speaker 3: are just have one program under the Children's Home umbrella,
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  Speaker 3: but really we have six specialized programs that are very unique.
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  Speaker 3: We have our Pediatric Specialty Hospital that cares for children
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  Speaker 3: that have complex medical needs and with that no family
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  Speaker 3: ever leaves with a bill. We have our Child'shad Daycare,
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  Speaker 3: which is a duly licensed daycare for children with complex
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  Speaker 3: medical needs that has a nursing component and is a
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  Speaker 3: four to four Keystone Star facility for early education that
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  Speaker 3: serves kids from birth all the.
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  Speaker 2: Way up to the age of twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: We have therapy services so physical, occupational, speech, therapy, and
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  Speaker 3: early intervention services for youth for children from birth all
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  Speaker 3: the way to twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: We have a.
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  Speaker 3: Counseling program for all ages, from our youngest members of
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  Speaker 3: the community to our oldest members of the community. Our
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  Speaker 3: Adoption and Parmancy program was our founding program over one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty years ago, so we still do that,
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  Speaker 3: but really our heart is facilitating adoption from foster care.
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  Speaker 3: And then we have a program called Pediatric View that
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  Speaker 3: cares for children with a brain based visual impairment called
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  Speaker 3: critical visual impairment.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I love about your organization is the
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  Speaker 1: amount of programs that you have. The problem is describing
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  Speaker 1: everything in a in a concise kind of way, And
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  Speaker 1: I bet people kind of confuse you with Children's Hospital,
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  Speaker 1: which is just down the road from where you guys are.
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  Speaker 1: You don't necessarily you work together with Children's Hospital, but
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  Speaker 1: you're not really affiliated at all, right, correct.
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  Speaker 3: They are such a wonderful partner of ours, and I
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  Speaker 3: hope that we are to them as well.
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  Speaker 2: But we starce up to a different purpose.
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  Speaker 3: So we'd license as an acute care hospital in our hospital,
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  Speaker 3: but we work as a transitional care hospital.
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  Speaker 2: We're educating caregivers to.
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  Speaker 3: Be the very best expert in their child's care, so
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  Speaker 3: they can go home safely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I love the fact that how passionate you
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  Speaker 1: are about the organization. But because we started talking to you,
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  Speaker 1: what three or four years ago, and it was your
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  Speaker 1: first time on the radio, we're so nervous and now listen,
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  Speaker 1: she just throws us out the statistics. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: say it. She speaks better than I do. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you aren't familiar with the Children's Home of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you find out about some of
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  Speaker 1: these particular programs if you're interested in adoption or therapy
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  Speaker 1: and the you know, what they do is amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you get a tour of the
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  Speaker 1: facility because it look I got goosebumps just thinking about
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  Speaker 1: just visually going through the tour of the of the building,
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  Speaker 1: because once you go in, you kind of realize, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, they do so much for the city of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: the community, and it's it's such a place that we
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  Speaker 1: ought to be proud of. And certainly I highly recommend
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  Speaker 1: that you support the Children's Home. Now, one way you
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  Speaker 1: could support the Children's Home is by working at the
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  Speaker 1: Children's Home, and the people that you employee probably have
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  Speaker 1: a certain calling. I mean, everybody I've talked to has
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  Speaker 1: a certain amount of pride of the organization, what they
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  Speaker 1: do and they what they facilitate. So, as human resources manager,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of people are you looking for? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of opportunities do you have?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean in our hospital, we hire patient care technicians.
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  Speaker 4: We hire registered nurses who are directly providing patient care
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  Speaker 4: to patients and families. We are hiring licensed mental health counselors,
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  Speaker 4: early childhood educators, in our daycare, teachers' aids, We're hiring
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  Speaker 4: nurse practitioners, therapists. I mean, we hire a huge amount
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  Speaker 4: of healthcare personnel.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe this is a question for either one of you.
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  Speaker 1: How many people do you employee? How many people are
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  Speaker 1: working at the You.
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  Speaker 2: Have about one hundred and sixty right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I'd say we're a medium sized nonprofit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but all those people and it's not a small
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  Speaker 1: building by any stretch. But then again, it's not children's
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  Speaker 1: hospital big, So that's a lot of people, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So what kind of people are you looking for?
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  Speaker 4: We're looking for individuals who are passionate about the pediatric population.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we serve the pediatric population, but We do
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  Speaker 4: serve adults when it comes to our counseling program, but
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  Speaker 4: really like the pediatric population. If you're within our hospital
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  Speaker 4: with if you're within our daycare setting, you're working with
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  Speaker 4: the pediatric population. So having that passion, having a passion
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  Speaker 4: for being in a healthcare field is really what we're
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  Speaker 4: looking for. But also someone that is motivated and just
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  Speaker 4: has a passion for nonprofit work.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, once you get a tour of the facility,
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  Speaker 1: that passion is is probably easy to facilitate. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So why work at the Children's Home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just a very close knit group.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when I walked in there seven years ago
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  Speaker 4: for my interview, I'm like, I need to work here.
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  Speaker 2: I need to work here.
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  Speaker 1: And what were you doing before you came to.
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  Speaker 4: The Yeah, I was an HR consultant at a larger
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  Speaker 4: healthcare organization in the Pittsburgh area, and then prior to that,
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  Speaker 4: I was actually in hospitality management as HR. Okay, so
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  Speaker 4: transitioned to the healthcare field. But I remember walking into
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  Speaker 4: the Children's Home. I looked around and I said, I
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  Speaker 4: need to work here, Like this is just a home feeling,
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  Speaker 4: and it truly is.
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  Speaker 2: We're just a close knit group.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone really gets to know each other, whether you're in
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  Speaker 4: the pediatric hospital, the daycare, the counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Leap in the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, and you really get to know everyone, and
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  Speaker 4: everyone truly cares about each other.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me ask you take me back seven years ago,
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  Speaker 1: prior to your interview at the Children's Home. What was
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  Speaker 1: your expectation, what did you think? What did you think
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  Speaker 1: they did? And then once you found out what exactly
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  Speaker 1: the programs and everything I do, So what did that
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  Speaker 1: change your perspective of what they do?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I mean when I applied for the position, I did
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of research on the website, saw that
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  Speaker 4: they had the adoption program, the hospital, and Child's Way.
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  Speaker 4: At that time, we only had three programs. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: that opened my eyes to okay, they have these three programs.
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  Speaker 4: But when you walk into that building and I got
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  Speaker 4: a tour of the facility, to see everything that they
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  Speaker 4: were doing at that time, really gave me a feel
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  Speaker 4: for I want to work here. I want to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of this mission and make an impact for
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  Speaker 4: the community.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but some of the facilities when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about all right, so let's talk about daycare. It's not Bethany,
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  Speaker 1: tell me the difference between regular daycare and what you
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  Speaker 1: guys are able to facilitate.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, So many of the kids who attend Child's Way
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  Speaker 3: would not be able to attend a typical daycare.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have the staff.
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  Speaker 3: Or the means to care for the complex medical needs
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  Speaker 3: that these children have. Some of them are very complex.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them are on home ventilator systems. But they
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  Speaker 3: come to our daycare every day, and.
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  Speaker 1: Parents work and they have lives. Yeah, and then here's
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  Speaker 1: a child that needs care twenty four hours a day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The amount a peace of mind that we are able
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  Speaker 3: to provide these parents who know their child's complex needs,
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  Speaker 3: and they're able to drop their child off in the
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  Speaker 3: morning and go to work or go continue their education,
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  Speaker 3: knowing that their child is in the very best hands possible,
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  Speaker 3: while also receiving the best education that they can. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's invaluable. There's nowhere else like the Child's Way
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  Speaker 3: at the Children's Home, although there are other pediatric extended
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  Speaker 3: care facilities that handle medical complexities as a daycare, but
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  Speaker 3: not with that educational component. So we're licensed by both
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services,
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  Speaker 3: and that is what sets us apart and our staff.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things that sets you apart. That's just
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  Speaker 1: one of.
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  Speaker 2: The things that particular program.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because Pediatric View and you know, all the things
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  Speaker 1: that you do is kind of cutting edge.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and that's something that's very unique as well. So
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  Speaker 3: each program it's special alone standing alone, but once integrated
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  Speaker 3: with our other programs, counseling touches all of our programs.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, Pediatric View.
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  Speaker 3: Now the children in Child's Way can be assessed and
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  Speaker 3: if they have cortical visual impairment, get treated while they're
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  Speaker 3: at their daycare. I mean, every program is integrated in
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  Speaker 3: such a beautiful way that makes the care so robust
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  Speaker 3: for these families.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if somebody is looking for, you know, employment opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: they can just go to your website, which is Children's
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  Speaker 1: Home pgh dot org. Correct. Correct, But you are having
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  Speaker 1: a job fair coming up in September. We are, we
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  Speaker 1: are so is that like with medieval nights and eating
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  Speaker 1: parties are exactly so the job ere on September second,
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  Speaker 1: But people don't have to wait until September to find.
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  Speaker 4: Out, Okay, they can go directly to our website to
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  Speaker 4: see all of the open positions that we have.
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  Speaker 1: All right, times, what type of positions are available?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, register nurses for new grads or experienced nurses, patient
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  Speaker 4: care technicians, counsel nurse practitioners, teachers, teachers' aids. We have
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  Speaker 4: a wide range of open positions.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's cut to the chase. People want to
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  Speaker 1: get paid and they want to know what kind of
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  Speaker 1: benefits that they might get. Can you talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about that? Sure?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, we offer medical dental vision benefits. I will say
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  Speaker 4: the one perk of working at the Children's Home is
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  Speaker 4: we pay for your entire deductible. So whether you are
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  Speaker 4: an employee or you're on a family plan, we pay
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  Speaker 4: for your entire deductible. You are not responsible for any
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  Speaker 4: part of your deductible at the Children's Home. You're only
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  Speaker 4: responsible for your biweekly deductions and any co payments, which
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  Speaker 4: are reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there are any other benefits that you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, PTO four oh one K. We offer life insurance
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  Speaker 4: supplemental free parking, which is huge in the Pittsburgh area,
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  Speaker 4: so you don't need to worry about a parking garager shuttle.
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  Speaker 4: We have free on site parking right in at our building.
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  Speaker 1: Now the only thing you got to work on the
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  Speaker 1: road that's in front of yees all.
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  Speaker 2: The construction right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How long is that going to last?
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  Speaker 2: I think of another two years.
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  Speaker 3: But we have a back way into the children's so
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  Speaker 3: we're secting you to still not bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you want to get through the Garfield
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  Speaker 1: section of the town, you need to work at the
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  Speaker 1: Children's Home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, nobody that you can speak there now?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So let me ask you, Bethany, what makes
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  Speaker 1: the Children's Home different?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 3: I think that we fill gaps in healthcare that otherwise
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  Speaker 3: would not be filled. We do it in such a
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  Speaker 3: unique way, And even myself, as a marketer, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I could tangibly see the difference that that I
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  Speaker 3: make in the lives of children or family and any
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  Speaker 3: other realm other than the Children's Home. Every day I
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  Speaker 3: get to see families whose lives are impacted and children's
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  Speaker 3: whose lives are impacted. And I might not be the
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  Speaker 3: one delivering that care, but I know what I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: is affecting that family, and that to me is why
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  Speaker 3: I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the comparisons of children's hospital and the
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  Speaker 1: Children's Home, even though you're fairly close together and you
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  Speaker 1: do work together. Yeah, but is there anything any kind
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  Speaker 1: of facility like the Children's Home anywhere in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 2: There is not.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, there's really nothing like the Children's Home in the
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  Speaker 3: entire state.
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  Speaker 2: There's no other model that is quite like us.
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  Speaker 3: We are, like I said, filling these gaps that aren't
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  Speaker 3: filled in other places. Many children that come to our
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  Speaker 3: hospital would typically end up in long term care because
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  Speaker 3: their families are not learning their care. Or we're creating
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  Speaker 3: kind of like a village of care for these patients
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  Speaker 3: and families where we won't just teach parents, We'll teach
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  Speaker 3: their grandparents, will teach a neighbor, anybody who's in that
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  Speaker 3: child's life who is going to support them and help
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  Speaker 3: learn their care. We make sure that they understand that
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  Speaker 3: care and are equipped for success.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you have a number of programs, so it's imperative
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  Speaker 1: that you hire the right piece, correct, which is why
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of talking about this today. So what kind
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  Speaker 1: of education is needed to work at the Children's Home.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a pen based off of the position,
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  Speaker 4: but for you know, a nurse, you have to have
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  Speaker 4: a nursing license. For a counselor, you have to have
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  Speaker 4: a counseling license as well. Now for a patient care
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  Speaker 4: technician role, you just need to have a high school diploma.
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  Speaker 4: You don't have to have an associates or bachelors. You
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  Speaker 4: can come directly in. We do the training for five
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  Speaker 4: week training for you at the bedside and then you
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  Speaker 4: will be on your own after that. But you don't
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  Speaker 4: need any sort of degree for that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, once you start working at the children's home, you're
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  Speaker 1: almost it's a job, but you're also being welcomed into
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  Speaker 1: the family exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you build those relationships.
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  Speaker 4: What's the atmosphere like like I said earlier, very close
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  Speaker 4: knit group. You get to know everybody you're working with
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  Speaker 4: because we are smaller. You know who you're working with
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  Speaker 4: on the unit for that day, where you know, if
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  Speaker 4: you're working another facility, you might not know everybody that
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  Speaker 4: you're working with. But just very close knit group. We
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  Speaker 4: truly take care of each other. Family oriented atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say that Nicole and her team provide
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  Speaker 3: a lot of employee appreciation events, so food trucks, they
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  Speaker 3: provide a great you know sacre employee appreciation event.
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  Speaker 2: And this year it was a Dave and Busters.
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  Speaker 3: In the past it's been at P and C Park,
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  Speaker 3: but they always show how much they value everyone that
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  Speaker 3: works there, and that is felt for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So how often do you have a job fare? And
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  Speaker 1: you have one coming up on September second, so how often.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have We haven't had one in about three years,
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  Speaker 4: So we're looking to take that step and have a
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  Speaker 4: job fare specifically at our facility. So why now, It's
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  Speaker 4: very competitive out there with the nursing positions, so we
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  Speaker 4: want we want people to come to us and actually
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  Speaker 4: tour the facility, meet the hiring managers, learn about our
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  Speaker 4: program talk to those program directors face to face while
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  Speaker 4: they're with us, and just you know, Bethany's amazing at
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  Speaker 4: the tours, so going on a tour with her just
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  Speaker 4: to see these programs and the positions and being able
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  Speaker 4: to just step into that actually see what's going on
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  Speaker 4: day to day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So this is the first job there in
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  Speaker 1: three years? Yes, So what's the priority? What position is
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  Speaker 1: a priority for you?
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  Speaker 2: Registered nurses?
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  Speaker 3: Really, I will say, and Nicole explained that it is
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  Speaker 3: very competitive right now for nurses and we do understand that.
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  Speaker 3: But once you step foot into the Children's Home. I
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  Speaker 3: mean you do take a tour. Like you said, there
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  Speaker 3: is something very special about working at the Children's Home,
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  Speaker 3: something special about the kids that we care for, the
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  Speaker 3: families that we see that provides this great quality of
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  Speaker 3: life for an employee to work there, you know that
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  Speaker 3: you are making a difference and you have this pride
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  Speaker 3: in you.
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  Speaker 1: You're giving back to not just families and children, but
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  Speaker 1: also the community.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, so tell.
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  Speaker 1: Us a little bit about what let's kind of reset
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  Speaker 1: things for people who are just tuning in. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: to Bethany and Nicole from the Children's Home. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about a hiring event, a job fair
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  Speaker 1: coming up on September second. But you don't have to
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: wait till then. You can actually get employment information at
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  Speaker 1: their website at Children's Home pgh dot org. But for
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: those who are just tuning in and missed us, kind
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  Speaker 1: of introducing the Children's Home tell us everything we need
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  Speaker 1: to know.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, so, the Children's Home has been around for one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty years. We serve this great community benefit
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  Speaker 3: and make such an impact in the community through our healthcare.
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  Speaker 1: How have you been around for one hundred and thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: But the facility is fairly new, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It is so the facility was built in around twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a couple different locations in PO.
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  Speaker 1: We take very good care of it. It's very very nice.
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought it would be newer because it's
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  Speaker 1: a very very nice facility.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, sorry for Dana rupt but you were describing
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  Speaker 1: about everything that the Children's Home is about.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so we provide a lot of different services. Are
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  Speaker 3: six to be exact, our hospital for children with medical complexities, our.
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  Speaker 2: Daycare for children.
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  Speaker 1: We'll stop you there, so describe exactly what that is
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  Speaker 1: because I want to. I want to make sure people
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  Speaker 1: understand the difference between the Children's Hospital and what you do.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely so many of the children who admit to our
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  Speaker 3: Pediatric Specialty Hospital have very complex medical needs. They've typically
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  Speaker 3: spent a lot of time in a hospital like children.
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  Speaker 1: Like Children's, and then they come to you, guys, have
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  Speaker 1: to ask you.
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  Speaker 3: And that is for several reasons. Sometimes they just need
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more time to get stable before going home.
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  Speaker 3: Many times their caregiver, their parent needs to learn their
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: complex medical needs and their care for that so that
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  Speaker 3: could be on a home ventilator, on a new gtube,
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  Speaker 3: wound care, child who just recently had a trans plant,
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  Speaker 3: or is waiting on a transplant cardiac needs. Really, the
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  Speaker 3: list goes on and on, and our nurses and our
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  Speaker 3: physicians are really just jacks of all trade. They have
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  Speaker 3: to know it all and they do it with such compassion.
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  Speaker 3: They it's a one nurse to every three patient ratio,
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  Speaker 3: which is.
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  Speaker 1: Very why so important to employ the not only employed nurses,
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  Speaker 1: but the right nurse correct.
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  Speaker 3: These nurses take such time and care with the families
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  Speaker 3: that they see, teaching them and providing them with all
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  Speaker 3: the resources that they need in order for them to
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  Speaker 3: take their child home and care for them in the
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  Speaker 3: right manner.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a specialty hospital, so you need a specialized
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  Speaker 1: nurse or is that as there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: training involved.
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  Speaker 3: There is training involved, so, like Nicole said, they do
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  Speaker 3: have to have the licensure, but once they're with us,
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  Speaker 3: we do have several weeks of training for them to
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  Speaker 3: understand the patients that they see and realize that each
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  Speaker 3: patient is different with very complex needs and have to
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  Speaker 3: care for each of them all right, And.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the specialty hospital. There's five other programs,
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  Speaker 1: so continue with those.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So Child's Way is our day care for children with
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  Speaker 3: medical complex needs, and it's staff with half nurses and
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  Speaker 3: half teachers, so that while they're getting all of their
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  Speaker 3: medical needs met, their educational needs are met as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Nicole, what kind of teachers would you
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  Speaker 1: need or hire?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we typically look for early childhood education teachers or
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  Speaker 4: special education teachers. We serve birth through twenty one, so
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  Speaker 4: just having that experience and degree of early childhood or
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  Speaker 4: special ed.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We talked about the specialty hospital and the daycare.
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  Speaker 3: What other programs we have therapy services, so that's physical therapy,
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  Speaker 3: occupational therapy, speech therapy there, and we provide early intervention
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  Speaker 3: services both in our daycare and then out in the
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  Speaker 3: community as well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Nicole, what kind of people are you looking
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  Speaker 1: to fill those kind of roles?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, same thing, pediatric experience preferred, but also having your
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  Speaker 4: license for speech therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, but having
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  Speaker 4: some sort of pediatric background.
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  Speaker 1: All right. All right, so we are going to the top.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the specialty hospital and the daycare, and
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  Speaker 1: then the therapy what are the programs did you want
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  Speaker 1: to mate?
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  Speaker 3: We have a full service counseling agency with that. We
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  Speaker 3: it's one of our only programs that doesn't just serve pediatrics,
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  Speaker 3: but the oldest members of our community and anyone who's
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  Speaker 3: having a difficult time in life. We just walk alongside
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  Speaker 3: them to help them support their mental health needs.
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  Speaker 1: And again, what kind of people are you looking for?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're looking for so we you know, based off
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  Speaker 4: of the counselors we do have, they each specialize in something.
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  Speaker 4: So whether that's you know, children or adults, we have
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: we serve you know, kids all the way to adults.
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  Speaker 4: So just having some sort of experience when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to counseling is what we're looking for, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So now the next program, doubt.
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  Speaker 3: Bethany, We'll go to our founding program, which is adoption
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  Speaker 3: in Permanacy. We do help families looking for infant adoption,
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  Speaker 3: but the majority of our adoptions are facilitated through foster care.
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  Speaker 3: So we work with a statewide adoption network and help
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  Speaker 3: use that are in the foster care system find permanent homes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Same thing though with our social work team is having
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  Speaker 4: background in social work, whether you're in the hospital in
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: a social work atmosphere or very similar to what we're
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: doing as social work out in the community. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we really are a variety diverse when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: different backgrounds with social work.
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  Speaker 1: We either need less programs or a longer program here
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, because you guys do a lot. What
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  Speaker 1: programs did we leave out?
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  Speaker 3: So our final program is Pediatric View, which cares for
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  Speaker 3: kids that have cortical visual impairment, a brain based visual impairment.
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  Speaker 3: These children see the world kind of like a kaleidoscope.
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  Speaker 3: But this program provides screenings and interventions that help improve
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  Speaker 3: these children's vision.
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  Speaker 1: And this is such a unique, very unique not only
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  Speaker 1: is it unique to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, but nationally in
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  Speaker 1: the world. It's it's it is.
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  Speaker 2: I will give our director a little bit of a plug.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Christine Reminliancy, she developed the tool that measures a
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: child's functional vision called the CBI Range Assessment. And this
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: tool was just put through a clinical study with Children's
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: LA and through the study it was deemed reliable and valid.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: So now it shows up in clinical journals. And so
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  Speaker 3: this program, Pediatric View is really the cutting edge of
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: care for children with cortical visual impairment, and that is
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity with someone looking for employment.
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  Speaker 2: You can't find anywhere else.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, our practitioners are seeing kids all over the world,
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  Speaker 4: all over the world, and we have four practitioners right now.
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  Speaker 4: So think of all the individuals out there that need
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  Speaker 4: our service and they're seeing these kids all over.
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  Speaker 1: So is there a particular kind of practitioner you're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it would need to be someone with the teacher.
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  Speaker 4: It's a teacher of the visually impaired, so they have
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: to have some sort of background in their education with
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  Speaker 4: visual impairment.
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  Speaker 1: It's a unique program, so you need unique practitioners exactly. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're talking with Bethany and Nicole from the
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  Speaker 1: Children's Home. They are having a job fair coming up
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  Speaker 1: in September. But you don't have to wait to then.
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  Speaker 1: You can if you're looking for a job or looking
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: for another job, go to the website Children's Home pgh
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  Speaker 1: dot org. So what's the what's the process of when
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: somebody applies, what do they need to do? What can
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: they expect?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so when they go to our website, they would apply.
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  Speaker 4: They go directly to our careers page. If they find
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the position. They can apply directly there, they would need
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: to upload their resume and then if they are getting
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: scheduled for an interview, our HR assistant would reach out
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  Speaker 4: to them to schedule that with myself in a hiring
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: me manager. From there, we also do job shadowing opportunities,
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  Speaker 4: So if we feel like they're the right fit, we
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: bring them in for a job shadowing opportunity to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that they think it's the right fit for themselves
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  Speaker 4: as well, and then from there, if we if the
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  Speaker 4: shadowing opportunity goes well, they also think that, then we
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: make that offer for them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one source of pride of Pittsburgh is the
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  Speaker 1: amount of medical facilities that we have here in town.
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  Speaker 1: But that also makes it very competitive to find these
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  Speaker 1: kind of individuals that you're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, very competitive, so you have to be very creative
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  Speaker 4: in how you get these candidates to apply, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: myself and our HR team we go out to job
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  Speaker 4: fairs and universities to make sure that we're getting our
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: name out there and attracting those candidates to apply directly
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  Speaker 4: to the Children's Home.
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  Speaker 1: So what makes why why would they want to work
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  Speaker 1: for the Children's Home?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're just we're small, close knit group, and it's
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  Speaker 4: the direct patient care that you're providing. The impact that
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: you make every day. Whether you're direct patient care or
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: whether you're similar to Bethany and I in our positions
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  Speaker 4: in you know, an admin type position, HR and marketing,
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  Speaker 4: you see that direct impact you're making too children and
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  Speaker 4: families every day.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you each of the same question. What
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  Speaker 1: do you love about working at the children's home. We'll
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: start with Bethany.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely adore going into Child's Way and seeing these
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  Speaker 3: beautiful children just laughing and learning. They're so smart and funny,
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  Speaker 3: and they are just so full of life. Knowing that
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  Speaker 3: they have these challenges, the medical complexities that they have,
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  Speaker 3: and they are so happy and.
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  Speaker 2: Just so just exuberant.
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  Speaker 3: You can't you cannot help but to feel proud of
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  Speaker 3: what you do by working there.
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  Speaker 1: Is she the cutest to the same question to you, Nicole.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say similar to what I said earlier.
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  Speaker 4: You know, with my position, I'm more behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not you know, working with these kids one on
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: one seeing them day to day. But I will say
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  Speaker 4: one thing that I love is when we do have
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  Speaker 4: a child discharging from our hospital, we do a celebration
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  Speaker 4: down our hall and.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, I thought, this is one of my favorite things.
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  Speaker 4: And everyone gets involved, I mean the hospital, child's way, staff, marketing,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: HR we all get involved and we all have these
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: little pom poms line the hallway. Yeah, we line the hallways.
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  Speaker 4: And that is honestly one of my favorite things that happens,
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  Speaker 4: because yes, I'm behind the scenes, but at the same time,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: what I'm doing is making a huge impact on these
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: families being able to go home.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: All right, we only have a couple of minutes left,
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  Speaker 1: So is there any information that we left out or
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is there something else that you want to stress something
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  Speaker 1: we discussed. But you want people to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they know what you do for the job there.
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  Speaker 3: I strongly suggest you go to www dot Children's Home
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  Speaker 3: pgh dot org. Take a look at our website see
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: what we do. On their look up careers. There are
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: so many, just a large variety of opportunities. There are
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: also volunteer opportunities, So if you're not sure that you
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: want to make the leap into a career at this time,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: try volunteering for a while. Look at what we do,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: and I promise it'll have your heart very very shortly, and.
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  Speaker 4: Even if you're not sure of applying and you want
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: to shadow first, you are more than welcome to shadow
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: in any of our positions before you decide whether or
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: not you would like to apply for a position.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: All right, we have just enough time to talk about
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: upcoming fundraisers. Are you working on Shake your Booties twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven? What other fundraisers do you have coming up?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: So, Shake your Booties is always in the works. We
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: just ended in April and we started planning.
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  Speaker 2: Already for next day, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Great party, but it's for an even greater cause. So
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  Speaker 3: please stay tuned to our social media and our website
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: to learn more about what's coming up for the twenty
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: twenty seven Shake your Booties.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to talk about the Children's Home
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. You guys do so much for the community,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you both for everything that you guys do.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having much Bethany Martlson and Nicole Wallach
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  Speaker 1: of the Children's Home of Pittsburgh. If you're looking for employment,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: make sure you check out their website Children's homepgh dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Nicole thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: As always, if you have any comments of concern or
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: an idea for our future program, please email us from
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: this radio station's website. Now, I'm Johnny Hartwell, thank you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: so much for listening.