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Talk Line 08-27-2026: Andy Jackson shares updates from Sinnissippi Centers · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, Sock Valley.
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  Speaker 2: You're with The Waking Crew here on FM 95.1 and
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  Speaker 2: AM 1460 WIXN. It's 8.15 on your Thursday morning, and
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  Speaker 2: it's time for Talk Line. I'm joined in the booth
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  Speaker 2: once again by our good friends from Cinesipi Centers, Andy Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: making his way in the studio today. Sir, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good. How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Busy as always, but what do they say? Idle hands
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  Speaker 2: are the devil's plaything. He has no strings on me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm too busy.
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  Speaker 1: The guy can't keep up. You doing things when your
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  Speaker 1: hands are idle that you shouldn't be doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's why I had to learn to play the banjo, man.
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  Speaker 2: Keeps your fingers busy. But yeah, it's better that than bored.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, a night on the couch will be
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  Speaker 2: for when I run out of energy.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, speaking of wellness and recovery in so
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  Speaker 2: many aspects, that is the bread and butter of Sinissippi Centers.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to start our conversation today.
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  Speaker 1: Wellness and Recovery Celebration. So celebrating wellness and recovery. It's
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  Speaker 1: an annual event. It's going to take place Friday, September 18th.
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  Speaker 1: So that's coming up quick on us now. From 3 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: to 6 p.m. at Dixon, Illinois' John Dixon Park. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where it's going to be. That's when it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be. It's open to anyone. It's a free event.
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  Speaker 1: It's open to anyone in recovery from a mental illness,
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  Speaker 1: substance use disorder, anything related to behavioral health. You're welcome
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  Speaker 1: to come. Also open to family, friends. others that support
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  Speaker 1: them in their recovery. So it's all about celebrating that
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  Speaker 1: recovery and being there to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, come a long way in the mental
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  Speaker 2: health space as a people and a society. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether you've been affected by it or as
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  Speaker 2: you said, you know, maybe your family or friend knows somebody,
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  Speaker 2: even if you haven't, quite honestly, it's just a good
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  Speaker 2: thing to get out and support. It is.
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  Speaker 1: The figure is one in five people have a diagnosable
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  Speaker 1: mental illness in any particular year. So you kind of
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  Speaker 1: alluded to, you probably know somebody, you do. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a certainty when you're talking 20% of the population.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely. And again, it's a free event, like I
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  Speaker 1: said before. We'll feature a peer speakers panel, which has
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  Speaker 1: been very powerful testimonies about treatment and recovery. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is really the highlight of the event. Very Very powerful,
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  Speaker 1: hard-hitting in a good way. You know, presentations in that way.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have food, games, other features. So details are on
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  Speaker 1: the website and on our social media now. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: be posting a little bit more on social media as
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  Speaker 1: we get closer. But we are getting pretty close. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the year's going by, man. School is back in session.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. It's a bit of a double-edged
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  Speaker 2: sword in my house. So as a parent, I love
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  Speaker 2: that structure. And order and schedules are back in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the summer chaos rains during those months. So I'm loving that,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, our kids are involved.
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  Speaker 1: In so much. It is a run, run, run, ride.
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  Speaker 2: To hear what's the event, who's going to be there,
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  Speaker 2: can we make this one, who's going to have the schedule.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so funny because we went from, we have
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  Speaker 2: a blended family of eight children, and so we went
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  Speaker 2: from just these, these massive things. And now we've only
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  Speaker 2: got two kids left in school. Um, only three living
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  Speaker 2: at home and everybody gets up in the morning, go,
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  Speaker 2: my wife and I, you know, we go to our
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  Speaker 2: jobs here, we've got the store. And so we're usually
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  Speaker 2: not back at night. And then the kids they're at sports, uh,
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  Speaker 2: plays are coming up. So they'll usually, you know, they're,
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  Speaker 2: they're doing football and then it's off to the play
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  Speaker 2: practice and then home by like nine or so everybody's
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  Speaker 2: eating a late dinner and uh, Hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And then you go to bed and it's repeat all
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  Speaker 2: school year long.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, That's my long blather about schools back in, but I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Here for it. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: What we're also here for knows what commemorated on August 17th,
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  Speaker 2: but always something to appreciate is National Nonprofit Day because
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  Speaker 2: without nonprofits.
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  Speaker 1: We'd all be in a bad way. Sure, yeah. The
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  Speaker 1: day did pass, but we certainly want to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: National Nonprofit Day is commemorated on August 17th each year,
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  Speaker 1: right on that date. to recognize nonprofit organizations, what they
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  Speaker 1: do for the community, the services they offer. If you
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  Speaker 1: ever volunteered, if you've ever maybe received services, those kind
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  Speaker 1: of things, I'm sure you're aware of the significance of
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  Speaker 1: charitable organizations. Nonprofits throughout the country work to promote awareness,
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  Speaker 1: kind of what we're doing now, and offer assistance to
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  Speaker 1: individuals who otherwise might not be able to get those services.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of gaps that are filled in by
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  Speaker 1: organizations that are nonprofits that that would otherwise not serve
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  Speaker 1: those unmet needs so it's a very big deal and
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  Speaker 1: so it's a day to be celebrated honestly maybe it
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  Speaker 1: should be a month but we kind of treat it
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  Speaker 1: as a month in terms of talking on the radio
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  Speaker 1: about it we'll talk about it all month even though
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  Speaker 1: it's you know like i said it's passed on the
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  Speaker 1: 17th but i think it deserves um it.
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  Speaker 2: Deserves that spotlight Yeah, you know, it's kind of amazing
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  Speaker 2: to think where we've come from in a country recently
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  Speaker 2: celebrating the 250th, right? I mean, that's a short amount
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  Speaker 2: of time. We're looking at it. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: live that long. But 250 years is the blink of
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  Speaker 2: an eye, a microsecond in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 2: We've went from the king's coin is the king's coin,
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  Speaker 2: and you should have thought about that before becoming a
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  Speaker 2: peasant in the words of Yzma. If you don't know that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you might have got that reference.
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  Speaker 1: I vaguely think I remember hearing that, yeah. Emperor's new groove, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a large child.
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  Speaker 1: I like a lot of the shows I had my
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  Speaker 1: kids watch.
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  Speaker 2: But the point is, is that now we've come to
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  Speaker 2: a point where we have nonprofits who are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the whole dedication is finding ways, holes and gaps in
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  Speaker 2: society to that we can fill without having to turn
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  Speaker 2: everything into some kind of monetized business that's purely for profit.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's amazing, honestly, again, in the short
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  Speaker 2: amount of time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and federal assistance is important always, but I think
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  Speaker 1: federal assistance is kind of generalized across the nation. Nonprofits
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  Speaker 1: can look at those specific needs in their specific communities
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  Speaker 1: and serve those needs very, you know, tailor it to
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  Speaker 1: the local community, I think. is what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 1: So I think they serve that role as well. Not
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  Speaker 1: every community is the same. There are many things that
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  Speaker 1: challenges in communities that are the same, but then at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, they can be different in each of
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  Speaker 1: those communities too. So I think that's another thing that
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  Speaker 1: nonprofits can do. They can zone in on those differences
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  Speaker 1: and really kind of custom tailor what they're doing in
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  Speaker 1: those communities to serve those needs. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And gives people a space and a way to get
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  Speaker 2: involved as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just think of the difference between rural and urban,
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  Speaker 1: for example. It could be the same challenge in a
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  Speaker 1: community the size of ours or the community the size
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago, but it's going to manifest different and the
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  Speaker 1: solutions are going to be different. So they definitely can
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  Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a good fair number of these things
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  Speaker 2: throughout the country, right? Like What is it, one and
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  Speaker 2: a half million registered?
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  Speaker 1: One and a half million registered nonprofit organizations in the
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  Speaker 1: United States offering just a wide variety of services that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I could even catalog all of them.
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  Speaker 1: But I can give it a try. You know, things
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  Speaker 1: like behavioral health care. Okay, Sinissippi Centers. We're a nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: and we provide behavioral health care. Medical care. There are
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  Speaker 1: some nonprofit medical care. Food banks, a big one that
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people know about. Affordable housing,
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  Speaker 1: legal counsel. It's a Prairie State. Prairie State. Legal is
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  Speaker 1: one of those, I think. Legal counsel, education, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after school activities, daycare centers. There's all kinds of things
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  Speaker 1: that nonprofits do and services that they provide. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of registered nonprofits, 1.5 million that do things
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  Speaker 1: all over the United States. And think about it, there
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  Speaker 1: are nonprofits doing things across the world. So we're just
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  Speaker 1: able to talk about the United States here in this conversation. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And it's, again, it's just a vital resource that if
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have these, I'm not quite sure where the
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  Speaker 2: support they provide would come from, if we'd even be
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  Speaker 2: able to at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And I think that is why those needs get
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  Speaker 1: served by nonprofits, because the need is identified and then
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  Speaker 1: the nonprofit can be formed and serve that need. And exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So that is kind of how that does work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And, you know, all these things coming a long way,
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  Speaker 2: behavioral health care coming a long way. And that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people, you know, take that
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  Speaker 2: behavioral health care as a glance word, especially, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you think Mississippi, you think that immediately, but Cinesipi has
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  Speaker 2: such a broad range of services.
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  Speaker 1: We do.
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  Speaker 2: It really is worth looking into because I know behavioral
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  Speaker 2: health care kind of encompasses it, but I think folks
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  Speaker 2: would be surprised when they actually start digging in and
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  Speaker 2: peeling back the layers to know.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly what's available. Sure, and that's understandable. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have conversations and you do know about Mississippi Centers. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know you do mental health treatment. We also do
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  Speaker 1: substance use treatment. And sometimes that is most of the
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  Speaker 1: time that's known, but it's not always known. Or we
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  Speaker 1: have a Healthy Families Illinois program that helped new mothers
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  Speaker 1: and expecting mothers. We have just all kinds of services.
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  Speaker 1: Peer services are huge. That's been a big one. And
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric services, services for all ages. You know, early childhood
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  Speaker 1: mental health. We have services that are provided in schools,
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  Speaker 1: crisis services, psychiatric services, if I didn't mention that one already. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is a very wide variety. And that is why
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  Speaker 1: that term behavioral health care is such an umbrella term
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  Speaker 1: for so many of the comprehensive services that agencies like Sanford.
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  Speaker 1: will offer.
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  Speaker 2: And it fits better on a brochure.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose it does. That's why we have websites. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you mean all the, yes, all the services. Not, not
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  Speaker 1: the name behavior. Okay. I misunderstood you at first. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's why that's a brochure instead of just a, exciting
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  Speaker 1: little thing yeah lots of lots of services kind of
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  Speaker 1: like our agency brochure that kind of lays out not
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  Speaker 1: even all of our services in our brochure but it
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  Speaker 1: lays out most of them.
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  Speaker 2: So absolutely and that's why you know some of the
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  Speaker 2: best way there's you know there's the website but i
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  Speaker 2: always say i you know i know in this generation
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  Speaker 2: people love trying to find a way to where they
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  Speaker 2: don't either have to have a face-to-face conversation or a
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  Speaker 2: phone call because so many folks are kind of People shy,
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  Speaker 2: as I guess I want to put it. But I always, again, advocate,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to know more in the best way,
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  Speaker 2: would honestly be, I think, to, you know, give Cinesipi
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  Speaker 2: Centers a call, set up in a, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: a maybe some kind of initial, what, like consultation appointment
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  Speaker 2: for what you're looking for, to really be able to
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  Speaker 2: dig into the nitty gritty of what's available, what is
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  Speaker 2: the best route for you, Um, but of course there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there is always, you guys have your, your website.
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  Speaker 1: Where you have your information. Absolutely. And, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: during COVID, I mean that, that had, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had to rely on remote, you know, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: services quite a bit. And some people preferred that actually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we found that out, but not everybody prefers that.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody has their preferences and that's okay. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you like to, if you like digital, go on
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  Speaker 1: the website. Um, If you like talking on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: give us a call. And then make that initial appointment.
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  Speaker 1: Like you say, come in and talk to us. If
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  Speaker 1: you think something, you know, in the back of your mind,
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  Speaker 1: you think something's going on, you might have a mental illness,
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  Speaker 1: substance use disorder, any of those things that we serve,
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  Speaker 1: and you think you might, then, yeah, get in contact
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  Speaker 1: with us one of those ways and set up that
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  Speaker 1: initial appointment. And then you can go from there. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And like Andy said, one in five is the statistic, right?
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  Speaker 1: One in five that has a diagnosable mental illness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So you're not alone, okay? So many folks are
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  Speaker 2: dealing with this. Even if you're not, you may deal
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  Speaker 2: with it at some point in your life. Things happen.
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  Speaker 2: And the best way to do it is really to
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  Speaker 2: go have that conversation, get started. The sooner you start,
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  Speaker 2: the better off you're going to be all the sooner.
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  Speaker 2: So anything else you want to share, Andy, while we've
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  Speaker 2: got a couple minutes?
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  Speaker 1: No, we just appreciate this. As a nonprofit, we appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the support that we get because there's some things that
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  Speaker 1: we do. So our golf open, sadly, had to be
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  Speaker 1: canceled due to weather. It was a safety issue. Lightning
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  Speaker 1: high winds were forecast. And by golly, the rain started
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  Speaker 1: right around 11 when check-in would have been starting. So
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  Speaker 1: that's one of our fundraisers, though, is the point. And
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  Speaker 1: we do fundraisers because there are unmet needs still that
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  Speaker 1: aren't provided by our funding sources that we raise money for,
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  Speaker 1: like with the Gulf Open, or we've talked about Gathering
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  Speaker 1: for Good, which is our spring event. And in other ways,
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  Speaker 1: we raise money to serve those unmet needs. And so...
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  Speaker 1: we just appreciate that support and that we get, we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate all the support that we get because as a nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nonprofits will often work together and collaborate so
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  Speaker 1: that they're not duplicating services, but they're, they get that synergy,
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  Speaker 1: that word synergy, but you get, the whole is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get more things done by gathering together and, and doing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, little parts of a bigger project. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of collaboration between nonprofits too. I think that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't talk about here that, uh, That is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal as well, particularly in our area, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's everywhere. But there is a lot of collaboration
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  Speaker 1: between nonprofits and where we work together to solve problems
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  Speaker 1: and serve needs.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Many hands make light work and like minds come
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  Speaker 2: up with better ideas. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Andy, thank you so much for coming on the show,
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  Speaker 2: sharing this information and all the work that you and
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  Speaker 2: everybody over at Sinissippi Centers does to provide these services
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  Speaker 2: for our area because there are A lot of communities
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  Speaker 2: out there, especially rural, that don't have the kind of
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  Speaker 2: robust services that we have here in the Sauk Valley.
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  Speaker 2: So we do appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we appreciate the time to talk to your
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  Speaker 1: audience and all of that. And we appreciate their support.