Good Neighbor Podcast: Union
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Good Neighbor Podcast: Union
Perspectives: Where Hope Becomes A Habit For Neurodiverse Youth
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Hope lands differently when you can feel it in the room. We sit down with Deb Geers, Amy Reed, and Mary Erickson to explore a new community hub designed for teens and young adults with developmental differences—complete with a demo apartment, kitchen, laundry, and a sensory-wise media space. It’s a place built for real-world practice: getting ready on time, handling hygiene, making meals, and learning how to navigate conversations and first jobs without guesswork.
We unpack three core programs that work together. STRW breaks daily living skills into clear, repeatable steps that reduce stress at home and boost confidence. PEERS turns social scripts into second nature, guiding teens through starting conversations, joining groups, and texting with peers in ways that actually lead to friendships. Launch brings career readiness to life with resumes, mock interviews, job coaching, and partnerships with local employers who want to support neurodiverse talent. Caregivers get training alongside their teens, so progress sticks at home, at school, and in the workplace.
What stands out is the human-scale progress: first texts that become movie nights, morning routines that finally click, a volunteer role celebrated like a championship. Employers discover that the right mentorship and clear expectations can transform a good intention into a sustainable hire. And families find a supportive community where their daily realities are understood and their hopes have room to grow.
If you care about independence, inclusion, and meaningful work, this conversation will move you. Take a tour, consider mentoring, or start a hiring conversation with your team. Subscribe for more local stories, share this episode with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help others find these resources.
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Welcome And Mission Of The Show
SPEAKER_00This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Mike Murphy.
Meet Perspectives And Its Purpose
SPEAKER_01Thanks, Charlie. Yes, I am Mike Murphy, host of the Good Neighbor Podcast. We talk to local businesses, nonprofits, uh, anybody in the community really who I think you need to know more about and need to meet. Today, with me in my virtual studio, I've got three new friends. Um these are people that I desperately want you guys to know more about. They're doing great work in the community, and they've got a new facility that I had the pleasure of visiting not that long ago uh during their grand opening event. It's a wonderful place. And what we'll do today is we'll introduce you to um perspectives, um skills for life. Now, that can mean a lot of things, and we're going to find out what that means specifically. So today with me from perspectives are we've got Deb Gears, Amy Reed, and Mary Erickson. And so not in any particular order, I'm just gonna ask you, ladies, what is perspectives? And uh let's just start the conversation there. If you introduce perspectives to somebody who knows nothing about it, what do you say?
SPEAKER_04Perspectives is a community. It's a community for individuals who have developmental differences to come and learn daily living skills, social skills, and career readiness skills. It's um an answer to a call in the community for um services for people from 11 on up to receive some help in skill development um and to feel like they belong someplace.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, I was very impressed with the building and what you've built there, and um it also brought a lot of curiosity, like, okay, what's this room used for? Oh my, they've got a lot of computers here. Wow, there's a this is a media room, you know, uh with some very nice um custom chairs and you know, very comfortable, bubble walls, I mean all sorts of things, you know. It's a very um aesthetically pleasing place and a very warm place to visit.
SPEAKER_05So that's what we wanted to hear. Yeah, well we hope that's what everyone feels.
Inside The Facility Tour Highlights
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you you you've nailed it, um, at least by the Mike Murphy standard. So um so congratulations to you. I was very impressed by what I saw. So let's start out with um just quickly, um, each of you, what are your individual backgrounds that brought you to perspectives?
The Team’s Backgrounds And Passions
SPEAKER_02So um I'm Amy. I have been actually working with these amazing women for almost 17, 18 years. Um, started in a school. So my background is in education now for 17, 18 years, starting in a preschool and then helping to open up and run a preschool through eighth grade school and just watching these amazing kids grow and seeing the need that some of these kids needed outside of a school environment, just to make the friends and maintain the friends. So I saw passion in these two ladies and I followed it, and couldn't be prouder to be on a team with them because they really they just they know how to meet these kids where they are and the need that is that is out there. And I'm so happy to be a part of that.
SPEAKER_01Mary, how about you?
SPEAKER_05Um, so I'm a speech pathologist um by trade. Um, I have done everything from early childhood to um elderly, and uh the teenage years are kind of where my passion has always been. I love puzzles. And um, you know, you've met one teenager with special needs, and you've met one teenager with special needs, and that's it. So um I love uh meeting the kids, um where they're at. I love trying to figure out what makes them tick and um how we can improve things. Um I love seeing um their eyes light up when they, you know, pick up a new skill or they do something they didn't think they could do. Um so that age group for me, the teen, like the you know, I would say 11 and up, um, has always been something that I've um specifically loved. But um, you know, really just working with kids with developmental differences is something that keeps me on my toes. And um we, you know, like they said, we saw a need. Um there are a lot of amazing programs in this community. The schools do a great job. There's lots of therapies and things like that. But we really wanted to touch more on the um the skills that maybe they don't have time to do, right? So in the schools, they're working on those academics and all the educational needs, and that's great. Um in the therapies, they are very specific to what they need. We really saw a need for socialization and career readiness and those daily living skills that um, you know, mom and dad are working, or you know, grandparents aren't allowed, you know, can't help them out right there. We're able to, with this amazing facility, work on those daily living skills that will help them become a little bit more independent, whatever that looks like um for each uh for each child. So um yeah, so I a little bit of a unique perspective in that I'm a speech pathologist, so I can help with some of the language, you know, if that's an issue or executive functioning skills and things like that. So, but um everyone here is trained to do everything that I can do. So um we we have a we have a great team here, and and um we're really excited just to to work with as many kids as we can and families.
SPEAKER_01So then Deb, um I believe you're the executive director of Perspectives, is that correct?
SPEAKER_04That's correct. Okay, that's correct.
SPEAKER_01It's a big responsibility.
Why Daily Living And Social Skills Matter
SPEAKER_04Very big responsibility. It's a lot of fun, it's very challenging. Um, I started my career as a special education teacher, um, K 12 in Indiana and moved over here to Kentucky. Um, and just really found that that that is my love is working with people with developmental differences and trying to help them find their path in life and build those skills that used to start for me when I was teaching with the academics and the social emotional development, and now kind of putting that all together and working on daily living skills, social skills, and um career readiness skills. I went from there and started preschool and um then started a school and had been principal there for a long time and saw the need for we could set up a perfect situation for a student with a developmental difference and have um people to sit with them in class, people to help them in class, people to sit with them at lunch and recess. Um, but they didn't have necessarily the skills that they needed to fully participate in the conversation or in the activity. Um, and it was really pulling at my heartstrings that we talk about educating the whole child, and we were really leaving part out that was hard for us to hit. So we needed to open a place in the community that could pull the community together as one and have families and students and teens and young adults come in, but then also have the community embrace them and um be supportive of their efforts of trying to develop more further and trying to um make a great life for themselves, but feel the support from their families, from their friends, from the schools, and then have us be that little niche that they can call and get support and we can provide the services that they need.
Program Overview: STRW, PEERS, Launch
SPEAKER_01Well, all three of you do the programs that you run there great justice. I mean, you you obviously know your stuff, and I think a lot of that comes from passion, not just education, but having worked with the kids um directly too, that just shows you how important uh what you're doing is. Now, when I think of perspectives, and I've only really known about you guys for just a small handful of months, and um there are programs I know that that come to mind, um and there may be others above and beyond these, but three that I kind of wanted to let you guys talk a little bit about um would be I think um peers, uh STRW, I don't know if you refer to that as straw internally or not, and launch. Now those are three individual types of programs that you're running there, correct? Yes. Is is is one more important than the other? Um are there others that you're that you're running to that are equally as important? What do you have there and what are the differences between these programs?
SPEAKER_04So our straw program is the foundation that we're looking at. Is it's um a program written by Dr. Amy Duncan from Children's, um, and we're the only ones right now um in this area that are certified to teach the straw program, and it teaches daily living skills, everything from getting out of bed in the morning to personal hygiene to um laundry, cooking, those basic things that a lot of us take for granted that we can just do easily. It's a very um direct one-on-one program, and it it just helps build that confidence and that look, I can take care of myself and that first step towards independence. So the straw program has been um crucial for us and very crucial for the kids and the teens to really learn and focus on I really can do this myself, and I don't need mom or dad or a caretaker to prompt me every five minutes to do things.
STRW Daily Living Skills In Action
SPEAKER_05That road to independence. Yeah, and I think it's been a little eye-opening for parents as well that hey, we can we can teach your um child to do this so that it takes some of the pressure off you, right? And um, you know, we've seen some of the most, you know, the most progress with the kids that we didn't think would do very well with it. But you give them that um, you know, that responsibility and and hold them accountable. And our families have been great, you know, the ones who are really into it and want to see the progress. Um, we have seen some kids just soar. And um, so that's exciting because we see kids who um, and I think the parents are seeing that their kid can be even more independent than they even imagined, which, you know, as a parent, that makes you feel good. You know, that's that's what we want for our kids is for them to feel successful and able to do things, you know, without us, you know, hand holding them, um, no matter how old they are. So straw's been a great program. I think um we've seen a lot of progress uh and being able to do it here, it it can be done virtually, which is um amazing part of that program. But because we have the facility we do where we have the demo apartment and we have a kitchen, um uh we're able to do a lot of the skills here, um, which makes it a little more personal, which is is a great aspect of that of that um program as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, when I took a tour of the the building there, um that really stood out to me. I wasn't expecting to go in and see a functioning kitchen. I wasn't expecting to see washer and dryer. But then when I kind of understood um, you know, what you're doing there, then it all made perfect sense. And that's a a great blessing to have access to all that right there under one roof. So, what about peers? What's the peers program?
SPEAKER_04Program teaches basic social skills, um, how to initiate a conversation, how to maintain a conversation, how to um work your way into a conversation. We're finding that a lot of the teens and young adults that um we've been working with are very lonely because the simple um skill for us that seems very simple of starting a conversation like we are right now is very hard for a lot of individuals to do. So it's breaking down the steps and teaching them the steps they need to be able to be as social as they can possibly be and to initiate that conversation with someone. And some of these kids and um teens and young adults are making phone calls and texts for the first time with people their age, and I can't tell you what that does for their self-esteem and what it's doing for their parents. And the great part of the peers program and the straw program and the launch program is there's a parent or a caregiver component to all of them. So as the teens and young adults are learning the skills, the caregivers are learning the skills at the same time to be able to reinforce everything that that teen or young adult is learning, then they can go home and practice. And it's really a win-win for the for the caregiver and for the teen.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, face it, I mean, a lot of the things you guys have mentioned in the past 10 minutes are skills that many of us, you know, we all need maybe are a little lacking in, including including some self-confidence type stuff.
SPEAKER_03Sure, yeah.
PEERS: Building Real Friendships
SPEAKER_01You know, I I remember when my my uh adult daughter uh was afraid to make her own doctor appointment. And so I mean that's kind of a common thing for for people, you know, first time doing whatever, and uh and you've got to actually do it to get comfortable with it. So, what is what is launch?
SPEAKER_04So we start right from wherever a child is, and I say child, but wherever a teen or young adult is, um, are they trying to explore career opportunities and look at what is a possible job that I can do to doing mock interviews to care to resumes? We're also working on um adding some other curriculums to the launch program where if they're going into food service, they can actually we can get a job description and have them master some of the tasks that they're gonna have to do at work before they go. It has a job coaching component to it as well. So we're really working, wanting to work with the community and say, hey, these are great individuals that can offer a lot to you. Um, are you willing to hire them, provide them with a mentor, and let them get a taste of that working environment and be part of a team? And my guess is the gift is going to be greater to those who hire these individuals than it is to the individual themselves.
Launch: Career Readiness And Job Coaching
SPEAKER_05I think one thing that we've noticed is that um, you know, there are great businesses, local businesses out there that are willing to hire these kids, but they don't know what to expect, right? And so um with us kind of trying to partner with these, um, we're we're hoping that we can partner with them and um we can have them be trained here where it's quiet and free of distractions to begin with, so that they can be more successful once they actually get into that environment. Um, I think Deb said it perfectly. We just want to be a support for these kids, um, whether they're here during our programs, but even once they leave. Um, we just want to have kind of an open door, you know, policy where they can um call us if they get into trouble at work and they're like, I'm not sure what to do. Or I had somebody who texted me and they want to get together. I don't know what to say, you know. So we're we try and keep the communication um very open and very honest with them. Um, and you know, hopefully that will help in the job uh search and the job keeping because we know a lot of these kids can get a job, but they have a hard time maintaining it because they don't know what to do when something goes awry or something is unexpectedly, you know, comes up and they're, you know, maybe not sure how to handle it. So um that's kind of what we're hoping with the launch program is just to get them started, but also once they're there, to get them to feel more comfortable about talking to the um their employers and talking to authority and knowing what's appropriate and what's not. Um, so that's where I think she said, you know, the straw program is our foundation because we do talk about personal hygiene and how important that is, and you know, how you present yourself. And if you're late for work, that doesn't look good, you know. So routines are a huge part of that, but all of it leads into um, you know, straw skills leaving into peers and peers lead into launch, and launch leads into all of them. So um we try and think of it as you know, this is where we are trying to get the whole the whole kit.
SPEAKER_01That makes perfect sense. And then just in terms of uh community partners out there that have expressed an interest of hiring some of the um, I guess, graduates of the program. Um uh do you do you have any that come to mind? Are there is there anybody out there that you'd want to just kind of shout them out for the the heart that they're showing?
SPEAKER_04And and uh we are working to find a lot of partners. Um, Kroger has been fantastic at hiring people, um, and we're really trying to change the way that we approach it in that, yes, we do want to help these individuals get employed, but we want you to be invested in them as a business partner and provide them with a mentor and work with us and things like that so that we can really ensure success on both sides. We've had a lot of learning opportunities with um conversations with a lot of companies, and they really want to hire people with developmental differences and are very open to it and see the gifts that they can bring, but want to know exactly what they need to do. So it's training on both sides. It's training the teen or the young adult, but it's also training the individuals that are going to be hiring them. So we are putting a shout out there to look for people who really are interested in hiring um and to contact us, and we will do our best to provide as much of support as we can.
SPEAKER_01Very good. Yeah, um, at the end of this um discussion and um the YouTube video that I'm going to create from this and some social media reels, I'll make sure that it's um you know uh very clear on how they can reach out to you. So that's part of the reason for this conversation today is to put a call to the community out, not only to you know tell what you do, but let others know how they can work alongside you. So, Amy, when you walk when you walk for jobs, so they want to go.
SPEAKER_05We have kids who are eager to, especially now that spring's coming, runs you know, to get some jobs. So we uh we put dealers out, but they have their ideas of where they want to work too. So we're we're really hoping to get a good call from the from the community.
Partnering With Local Employers
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah. We just got to get that conversation going, and uh there's people out there that don't know you're looking for them, but we hope to change that. So, Amy, when you walk in the building every morning, how do you spend the bulk of your day usually?
SPEAKER_02Start by, I gotta tell you, Mike, it might seem silly to some people, but my favorite part of the day is walking in here and turning on all the lights, go into the sensory room, turning it on, going to the demo apartment, making sure everything's on and looks good, go into the movie theater and putting on some calming music. First, that's how I start remote, and it frankly gives me the best feeling just walking in this building. It's amazing. Um, most of my day is consumed by operating the building, making sure everything's going okay, um, keeping track of all of our wonderful members that are coming in, getting the intake calls, helping Deb schedule because she's amazing and doing all the intakes with Mary. Um and then I actually have my own straw member that I work with, and she's a beautiful young lady who is looking for a job. So I'm helping her do that. And then I'm going to be working on the launch program, helping these kids get career readiness, working on mock interview skills, learning how to create the resume, even learning how to create Word documents and financial spreadsheets, anything that can help them forward themselves towards that independence in the career in the community. So, like Deb said, we are looking for those community partners. And if they can reach out, that would be fantastic. I've talked to a couple that, you know, I've reached out to a couple of people at some neurodiverse companies in Cincinnati. So I'm hoping to reach back out to them. Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has been amazing in trying to get us some contacts too. So that's kind of where we're at with that.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So how many kids do you? Have in the programs right now, how many are enrolled and listed?
A Day In The Life At Perspectives
SPEAKER_04Short time that we've been open, we've got a little over 50. Um, but it's a rolling enrollment, so we're adding new classes all the time and new sections of classes. Um, so individuals can call and set up an in-take appointment, and we will meet with them for about an hour, hour and a half, and get to know them and really get a sense for what the caregiver is looking for and what the individual themselves are looking for, and then craft a program that is individualized within the programs that we offer.
SPEAKER_01How have the parents felt about what you've got going on there when they come in and they see you for the first time and they want to know that um, you know, I mean, you know, you're you're helping their their special children, and you know, they feel how they feel about them, and they want to make sure that they have found them a soft place to land when it comes to helping them take these next steps. What kind of feedback have you gotten from the parents?
SPEAKER_04The most common um response that we've heard in the caregiver groups is um from peers class or straw class is oh my goodness, there's other people in that room that really get what I live in day out, day in and day out, and they understand. And I'm and I don't want to hear my child say, I'm lonely and I don't have friends and I don't have purpose. And so there's been a lot of relief, there's been a lot of tears. And I think that what perspective stands for for me is hope. Um, we all work together to with the families, with the um individuals, to try and find just a little bit more hope in that we can do things independently, um, they can be more social and hope that we can find that level of independence. And I think that's what I've experienced the most from families is that finally there's a place in northern Kentucky that specializes the way that we do, and they're finding some hope and maybe not feeling as alone on the journey.
Enrollment, Intakes, And Custom Plans
SPEAKER_01Yeah, hope is a huge, huge thing in all walks of life for any anybody. If you have hope, you have some wind behind your sails. If you have no hope, you're sort of dead in the water, I guess, at least temporarily. And so, um, and you know, we're all humans and we all kind of have our human frailties. And when you have somebody who's you you see them a little down in the dumps, you know, they're they've kind of given up a little bit, uh, even if temporarily, you've got to have others around them who can lift them up and dust them off and put them back on the on the right path. So I'm I'm sure that um you know you you three are very adept at doing that, not just for the students there, but probably for each other, because you're all human too, you know, and you you guys you guys can't afford to have down days when you've got the students coming in the door and given what you have to do. So I'm sure you support each other in that regard as well.
SPEAKER_04I think my great friends that we've well, I think one of the greatest events that we we've had some teen events, and during one of our teen events, we it was a movie event, and we had three young ladies who were sitting there talking through the whole movie and oh, they should probably be quiet and watch the movie. And no, they should not be quiet. So we pulled them out in the hallway, and from that, they took some of the skills that they had been exposed to and have been texting each other and calling each other and are getting together and doing things. And we're talking 14, 15, 16-year-olds, and this is the first time they've gotten together with other friends. So you see that that desire and that longing and that hope that maybe I can come here and find the skill and find the people who are are my people, my tribe. Um, and to see that actually happen is a real gift. And this facility has potential to be a gift to a lot of people.
Caregiver Community And Hope
SPEAKER_01So you just kind of touched on one of my questions that I had is you know, are there is there a success story that kind of stands out or a proud moment? There may be many. There may be you know a few in particular that really stand out. Do you have one that you'd like to share?
Success Stories Big And Small
SPEAKER_05Um, I don't know that I have like a specific one, but I think what I've learned, um, you know, working with this population, you celebrate even the smallest successes. And um we see things I would say every day that not just surprise us, but also, you know, sometimes things happen that we didn't even anticipate, right? Or um they're able to tell us something that um we hadn't thought of, right? Or um a parent will come in. I have I have one family who um uh he's he's 15 and um he has a lot of a lot of needs and he needs a lot of support, but he is the most joyous person I have ever. He comes in and lights up the entire building. Um and he's super excited to come. And sometimes that's the success, right? That they just come in through the door because a lot of our kids, this is the first time they've been kind of urged to do something. And it's a we do put a lot on them, you know, it's a lot of a lot of um skill development, but it's we try and make it fun. Um, but not everybody thinks what we think is fun is fun. Um, but by the time they leave, I think they're all, you know, I've never seen anybody who left and never came back. So we take that as a great success. Um, we keep seeing them week after week, which is huge. Um, but uh this this one kiddo that I have, um he has a lot to learn, but even the littlest things he gets so excited about. And um for me, that keeps me motivated, right? Because I can see the even if, like I said, the very smallest thing by somebody else's gauge, you know, may not be that that big of a deal. But for him, it means the world to him that he can complete something himself. And his he's excited to tell his mom. And his mom comes in and she's like, oh my gosh, he's actually doing it at home too. So, you know, a lot of these um kiddos aren't crazy about personal hygiene and getting up in the morning and getting to school is almost impossible for moms and dads. And so um it's an argument every morning. And so if we can lighten that a little bit, and I think that's been what I've seen with a lot of my kids is um, you know, we we put a routine into um into work, into the works, and if they do it, they get a reward. And for some kids, that's what they need. They just needed a little bit of a you know a motivation to do it. And I have kids who, you know, went to showering once a week and their parents making them to now they're showering every other day or they're showering every day and they're wearing deodorant and brushing their teeth. So um I think you just have to, you have to find the things to celebrate. Um, and sometimes it's easy and sometimes you have to look for it. But um, like I said, we they keep coming back every week. And so for us and for me, um, that right there is a success in itself.
SPEAKER_04I think one of the other successes we've seen is um we had a student who was um interviewing for a volunteer position because he really wants to give back and be part of something. And he he got the position and we got an email from the parent, and she was over the moon that her child was able to give to and volunteer and help other people versus being the one that's being helped. And I just can't wait to come back to the center, and I can't wait for him to continue to grow in the areas that he's already started in, and he's only been here for five or six weeks. And look how far we've come. So there's success every day, and and really don't have to look that hard for it because it's they're little things, but they're big in the eyes of our students and our families.
SPEAKER_05That student is actually part of our one of our peers groups, and he actually announced to everyone in our group that he got this job, and you would have thought he had won the lottery. They were all so excited for him, and I think that even helped him. Like, okay, I guess I did do a good job. Yeah, so yeah, I mean support.
SPEAKER_01You're teaching and inspiring them, but it sounds like they're doing the same for you as well.
SPEAKER_02So for us, and when they walk in the building, it's just the the feeling is over, it's overwhelming. It's just it's welcoming, it's peaceful, they're just they're just happy to be here.
SPEAKER_04For us, being part of the nonprofit community in Ireland, Kentucky has been essential and important. That if there's a student who comes through that we can't meet the needs of, um, we have other nonprofits and other places that we can call, and and they're doing the same. So it is really a unique step into a community that I had not experienced before we all just want to help. So we want to work together and make this a great community collaboratively for these individuals. And I think the more people who we can get on board with that growth mindset, the better our community overall is going to be. Um, and it's nice to be have just one little part in that.
Nonprofit Collaboration And Support
SPEAKER_01Well, I agree that um the nonprofit community um they they tend to help one another. They um in on many different levels. I'm part of a group, and I'm always gonna I'm always gonna take a opportunity to plug this group when I can. So here we go. Um Give Where You Live, Northern Kentucky. I'm on the uh board of advisors for GiveWereYou Live. And you can learn more about GiveWereYou Live by going to nkygives.org. And that's a uh program that would benefit all nonprofits uh here locally. So uh that's all I'll say about that is go to nkygives.org and learn more, and your your group could benefit from that as well. So um I would love to see one or all of you at an upcoming meeting. That's all I'll say about that. But we'd love to be there, yeah.
SPEAKER_05We're working on it.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for giving me that soapbox. So before we wrap up here, I want to make sure that there's no ifs, ands, or buts in terms of how people contact you. So I know there's the website and there's a main phone number there. Um so let's go ahead and uh let people know what's what's the website that they go to to learn more about you and what you're doing.org.
Contact Details And How To Visit
SPEAKER_02Um, you can go there. There's a submission form if you want to be part of our newsletter or just in the inquiry, um, asking for your name, email, and best phone number to reach you at. Um and or you can call 859-980-3930. Um, we can take your call that way and you know get to know you a little bit over the phone and then schedule a time to come in.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, a lot of people I think these days naturally want to take a peek behind your curtain before making that phone call, even, you know. So um the website does a good job. And then I would highly, highly encourage anybody that has an interest to come visit you. And I know you can kind of facilitate that coming in and touring the building and let people just kind of see firsthand um how you operate there and what what you're doing. So is there anything we haven't discussed before we go that is kind of on your mental punch list to make sure to talk about? So if there is, let's talk about it. We may have done a great job of talking about everything, so I'm not gonna argue that.
SPEAKER_03But I think for me is there's something here for just about everyone. And if we can't use those feeds, we're gonna find a new place and try our best.
Final Reflections And Closing
SPEAKER_04Um, but to to just take that leap of faith and give us a call is is the encouragement that I think some people need. Um, bring your teen or young adult in with you and just walk around and get a feel for what's here. Um, it's it's a great place that inspires a lot of hope and a lot of positivity. Um, so it's it's hard to make those phone calls once in a while because you've kind of been beat down as a parent that is a caregiver for one of these um teens or young adults, but it's worth making the phone call or worth getting on the website and making that inquiry because what's on the other side of this door when you walk through is is pretty incredible. And for someone to take the leap of faith and to build this facility and to let us chase this dream and make it a reality, it's it's pretty incredible.
SPEAKER_01Kind of humbling, isn't it?
SPEAKER_04It is very humbling. Very humbling.
SPEAKER_01Well, Deb, Mary, and Amy, thank you, ladies, for the great work you're doing in the community. And um, I'm glad that we could spend some time allowing you to talk to the community about it. And I hope that there are many people out there listening, not only now, but in the coming weeks, months, and years even. Because um this video is gonna be out there quite a while. Living out there in the uh land of YouTube. And so you're gonna be talking to people, you know, we we don't know yet, but this has been time well spent, I would say. So thank you all for what you're doing in the community, and thanks for joining me today. And I look forward to watching perspectives grow um and just continuing to tell your story as it develops. So thank you.
SPEAKER_02Thanks, thanks, Mike.
SPEAKER_01Have a great day, ladies. And uh I'll say to the listeners out there, this is the Good Neighbor Podcast. So until we meet again, everybody out there, please be good to your neighbor. So long, everybody. Bye-bye.
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