Community Affairs with BGBG Collective, The Learning Center, & Homeward Bound AZ

Priscilla sits down with three amazing non profit organizations in the valley to highlight the good they're doing in the community.

Check their organizations out on their websites below:

https://www.instagram.com/bgbgcollective

https://www.instagram.com/learningcenterphx

https://www.instagram.com/HomewardBoundAZ

Episode Transcript

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What's up, guys. It's Priscillafrom Priscilla and Joey right here on Mix
ninety six nine. You can catchus in the morning Monday through Friday for
five am to noon. And thenof course if you don't know, I
have an organization called the Community Comadresand we pride ourselves on being an action
group that helps elevate other causes inthe community by providing services, volunteerism,

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resources, platform, you name it, we got it. And I'm so
excited because, as you guys know, the Community Platform is such a passion
of mine and something that means somuch to give back. So the first
organization that I'm so excited to introduceis the Black Girl, Brown Girl Collective
and the founder Rock is in here. Good morning, Hello, how are

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you. I'm well, thank youso much for having me. Of course,
well, thank you so much forbeing here. So let's just dive
right into it. For those thatdon't know, tell us first of all,
what is the Black Girl, BrownGirl Collective? Yeah, so,
the Black Girl Brownco Collective is anonprofit organization or a tax exempt and we
do arts programming in South Phoenix.We do it either highly discounted or extremely

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free and we have annual events.So we have an open mic called Her
Voice, and then we have anart gallery called Queen's Rise, and in
addition to that, we run artsprogramming throughout the year called her Arts and
Crafts, so women can come togetherin community and just learn a new craft
together. So when you say arts, does that mean like anything in arts
or is that specific like paint orwhat include what's included in Absolutely? Yeah,

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so it's open on any type ofarts. We do really focus on
like the media arts media typically orspoken word or dance, but we're open
to anything and everything that's considered anart for sure. Okay, so you
founded this organization, right, Meand the other women also founded Okay,
so tell me a little bit aboutLet's start from like grassroots, the beginning

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where you in your head were likeI want to do this, Like what
made you want to create this organization? Yeah, so we initially started,
Um, we all come from highereducation, and so we had an event
in the past called the Her Voiceopen Mic and it was such a good
vibe. It felt nice. Thewomen came together and they just performed,
they spoken word, dance, whateverthey needed to do to express themselves and

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it just felt so good and soright. And so when we left the
organization, I had a couple ofyears later, I was like, I
need something like that. I wasI was missing that connection and I didn't
know where to get it. SoI was like, if you can't find
it, you make it. Yeah, And so I had this epiphany.
It's kind of kind of sound alittle bit funny, but I was.

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I was driving in the car andI just had this kind of vision and
it was like, you need tostart this organization. You need to bring
women together, you need to bringthe community together. And it was in
the height of the pandemic, youknow, so you're a newer organization.
Amazing, Yeah, and so umI just called the girls back and I
was like, Hey, are y'alldown to do this? And they were
and we had our first event intwenty twenty one, and then from there

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we just kind of kept going andthe vision changes. Right, we want
to continue to grow. Our goalis to hopefully have a facility in the
future, but we just want tocontinue to provide And I think the thing
that I appreciate about the organization iswe're helping, but we also get so
much back just like you know whatI mean exactly. Yeah, they're just
so full um and I hopefully youknow this is something that we do full

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time in the future as well.So you shared with me that this is
you target South Phoenix because we dotell me why, Like, is that
where you grew up? Is thata place close to your heart? What
made you pick like this is weneed to serve this serious community. Yeah,
absolutely, so I moved to SouthPhoenix. I'm Arizona bread We're actually
most of us are from Arizona.But I didn't move to South Phoenix until
about eight years ago. And thatis the only place I've lived in Tempe

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and Mason and other parts of Phoenix, but it's the only place where I've
felt community. I see people wholook like me. I can go to
the store and they know my name. I go to you know, Early
Bird Vegan and Crystal knows my name. So there's there is just so much
connection and community and families and um. In addition to that, there's not
enough rest is there and there's nota lot of arts program I mean there
there's some great organizations. Don't getme wrong, there's some great organizations that

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are doing work um South Phoenix CollectiveSCUM, but we don't see as many
focused on women, and so wesaw a need, you know, there
was a need for that, andyou specifically are targeting women of color.
We are targeting women of color.All women are welcome and the everyone's welcome
to our annual events, but we'refocusing on women of color. We ourselves

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are black and brown women. It'simportant that we service our community and then
we feel like, you know,that they can have their voices heard,
their art shared, and they knowthat they have somebody that can reach out
to and be supported by. Andthat's that's who we are and that's what
that fills our cup too, youknow. UM just you know, helping
our people to be in community withone another. And again it is open
to all women, but we weensure that our artists, we could give

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priority registration for our women of colorartists. We make sure when we're bringing
in an organization that it's a womenowned business, like we are manufacturing that
purposefully. Yeah, and so yeah, that's extremely important to us. I
like that because as you know,I have, I started my organization Communical
Matters, and it's one of thoseorganizations where everyone is welcome from every background,

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but it's going to run through myLatina lens because that's my identity,
right and you know, I wantto invite everyone into our culture and just
truly show how beautiful and inclusive itis. And you're more than welcome to
come celebrate that. You're welcome tocome be a part of that. We
want to show you how much wewant you in this and so that's why
that speaks to me, because I'mlike, I get you, girl,

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I know what you're trying to do, so I love it. So it
is we need those spaces absolutely,So tell me what some stuff that you
guys are working on right now.Yeah. So we're going to continue to
her Arts and Craft series, Sothat's going to continue throughout next year.
Thankfully we got some funding for that. So we're so appreciative to our donors,

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Amazon and the Arizona Commission for theArts. I want to shout them
out for that. So we're goingto continue her Arts and Craft series.
We're gonna run a screen printing class. We're doing a bath and Body I'm
sorry, bath and Body. Umwhat those body butters? Oh? Yeah?
The bath bomb, bath Bomb,thank you, bath Bomb. Just
a lot of different crafts. Butthe big thing that I wanted to emphasize

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is we have that Queen's Rise Artwalk. It's on October fourteenth. Again,
we showcase local artists, all women, local artists. Everyone's welcome to come
the artists, don't. They justfirst come, first serve. It's free
for everyone. Artists don't have topay to showcase with us. Audience members
can come in and then we showcaselocal women vendors so they can shop with

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them. We have music entertainment throughoutthe night, and then at the end
of the event um, everybody cankind of come in to get engagement.
We ask them to vote on thepiece that resonates within the most okay,
and then after that we give theartists selected some a little token to be
able to continue their arts. That'sSpiritiful. That's Queen's Rise, ye okay.
And then the next one is herVoice that's November fourth Okay. It's

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an open mic again, same thing, artists first come first or women vendors.
That one I think we're gonna do. Ah if I think we're just
going to pick a name for theartists in that case, okay, and
then they'll be able to get somestudio time to record or whatever they need
to dope. Yeah, so thatone will be that. So that's the
big, big events that we havegoing on. Okay, wonderful. And
then say, somebody wants to bea part of your organization. Are you

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guys like accepting volunteers or like,how can someone be like this causes dope
and I want to help out?How can I do that? Yeah?
So we do accept volunteers. Ifthey are interested, they can email us.
It's just BGBG Collective at gmail dotcom. So if they're interested in
volunteering, we'll take volunteers. Weneed them for the annual events. Other
than that, our group is ait's a closed group or board ran Yeah,

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but yes, absolutely if we willaccept all the volunteers we can.
I love it. Well, isthere anything else we want to leave us
with before I feel like I wantto keep talking about our time is running
out, But I'm like, let'swhat else do you want to say?
Just no, just thank you forhaving us, thank you for highlighting our
organizations. Just shout out to mysisters as part of the members, all
of them. I can't do thiswork, we can't do it without each

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other, and then the community memberswho are just showing up for us,
and then shout out to the southSide, south Side. Yeah, thank
you, yeah, thank you forcoming in. You can check them out.
Your instagram is BGBG Collective, soBlack Girl, Brown Girl Collective and
they're doing a lot of great things, So check them out in the valley.
All right, we'll be back injust a sec, literally just a
second, in case you missed it. My name is Priscilla. I host

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the morning show. I'm Mix ninetysix nine with Priscilla and Joey. You
can catch me on social media atPriscilla on Air. And I also have
an organization called Community Go Madres.You can learn all about it there.
But I'm so excited to be herehighlighting all of these organizations, and I'm
excited to introduce the next organization,the Learning Center. We have Josephine and

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Keenan in the house. What's up, guys. Thank you so much for
being here. Thank you, Priscilla. So, Josephine, we were chatting
a little bit before we jumped onthe mic, and you actually founded the
Learning Center, right, So forsomeone that like just here's the name and
they're like what's what's the Learning center? Like, tell us exactly what it
is and why you started it.So the Learning Center is actually a program

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that we created through the nonprofit.The nonprofit is Carbon Hall Sisters, fighting
for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Soit was developed because as a school teacher,
I'm a high school teacher, Inoticed things going on with kids like
they were you know, they didn'thave school supplies, they their clothes weren't

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always the cleanest clothes. Things thatI didn't understand what was going on because
when you register your child, weusually get information that tells us, you
know, here's heads up. Therewas never any heads up about children with
an incarcerated parent. And that's atough way to grow up exactly, And

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that's what developed the nonprofit. Soyou guys originally started as a mission right
right, and then you helped inkids with incarcerated parents, and then it
evolved into the boxing gym. Yes, okay. So then Keenan, you're
here and that's your mama. SoI heard a little word on the street

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that you fought professionally, right,yeah, I'm still you're still fighting professionally.
Okay. Tell us a little bitabout your career, like your accomplishments,
what you fight, like, thewhole thing. All right. So
I'm the I'm in the featherweight divisionOkay, currently the WBC Latino Champion,
the IBF Latino Champion, and theIBO International Champion. Good route to a
road title shot. Okay, I'monst the top road road road rated road

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rang featherweight in the featherweight division.So that's proud mama right there. Absolutely.
Yeah. Okay, So then what'syour role in the learning center?
Obviously then you started the boxing gym. Then it's because you have a passion
for boxing and you want to helpthese kids. Yes, exactly so,
um so I'm an ambassador for thefor the nonprofit the Carboro Sisters fighting for
children to their parents. Um.Through that, um, I volunteer in

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my time at the learning center asa trainer, yes okay. Yeah.
And also on top of that,I speak, I speak out events and
set up events to bring a moreawareness to the mission. So tell me
what is the learning center? Like, I know it's a boxing gine,
but what is everything that it includes? How is it helping the youth?
Like? What is your most proudestpart about it? You know, our
train and tutor program. Okay,so what is that? So like my

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baby, Yeah, he's like forever. So he runs the train the training
portion. Um. He trains thekids and then I tutored them. So
every three weeks they bring in progressreports, um, and we get to
look at the assignments they're missing.I reach out to their teachers, we

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help. I call other teachers too, they're willing to help. They volunteer
our math teachers or science teachers.So it's the train and tutor program that
we're most proud of currently, butwe're also trying to implement a family reunification
program. What does that look like? It is that it's a program where

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the caregiver of the child and thechild and the caregiver come together and they
get educated on what's it gonna looklike when you go see your mom or
your dad. That's so beautiful,yeah, because that I mean, you
don't even think about the emotional tollfor these kids on having to go visit
an incarcerated parent and how that's goingto affect them, you know what I
mean. So to provide that issuch a beautiful thing. So let me

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ask you this, what if someonecomes in and they're so they're listening to
this right now, right, andthey're like, Wow, this sounds like
something I want to be a partof. But I don't know if I
can afford something like this. Idon't know if I can pay for it.
Like what does that look like forfamilies like that? So I'm glad
you asked that. So right now, we have a goal, and our
goal is to get a hundred kidssponsored by the community. We want to

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allow the community to help build ouryouth. So, like I said,
we are on the or we weretalking earlier about the Miracle Mile. We
have lots of businesses and so mynext move is to just go face to
face and let them know who weare, well we're about, and how
they can help UM. Once weget a hundred memberships, then it's free

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to the kids. Because when theylose a parent, yeah, financial hardship
kicks in absolutely yeah, and theydon't have the opportunities and the experiences that
maybe a traditional childhood or kid wouldhave. Right right, So, Keenan,
tell me what your favorite part isabout being a trainer at the learning
experience. It's very fulfilling to watchthe kids UM develop a confidence, Like

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I can think of certain members thatcompared versus the first day that they walked
into. Now they're walking in withtheir chests up there like they're just completely
proud to be there. And theythey've developed a camaraderie being there, like
the members of the gym are allthey like click up and like really like
hey guys, let's do this,and hey, did you do did you
do? Did you did you doyour exercises? Did you do your okay,

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so they hold each other account Yeah, it's like a team exactly.
The accountability and the discipline that thesport instills in you alone that is shared
a shared um experienced experience, yes, amongster memberis and it's a beautiful thing
to witness. And then, likeI said, just the overall growth of
each kid, like they they theyreally practice these things, like I teach

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them three times a week like whatto do, and then I see them
like and they'll come in like,hey, I was practicing this over over
the over the break, I waspracticing over over the weekend. And I
really see it because when I whenI do the mids with them, like
oh, dude or dude, you'reyou're really getting sharp, Like you're really
you're really getting there. Yeah,how many kids? Okay you or what
age group are you guys accepting?Like what is the school or the learning

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center accept So the learning center isopen to five year old and all the
way to adults. Oh wow,okay. So the reason we were so
bold about children incarcerated parents, likewe threw the name out there because a
lot of times they're really embarrassed.They don't want people to know their parent
is incarcerated. So we had todo that because there are the underserved overlooked,

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but it really we are open toothers, but that was our target
because I felt that that's where theneed that that's where the most need.
One. Well, yeah, Ifeel like because I have personal friends that
have had incarcerated parents, right,and I feel like, because they're underserved
and there aren't as many resources,you feel alone in that space. And
then you feel like their incarceration isyour incarceration and you almost feel responsible for

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their whatever they're in there for.Right, And so you guys provide an
opportunity to help separate that. Sothese kids learn like just because that's what
your life story is or that's howit turned out, doesn't mean that is
your identity right right, and that'ssuch a beautiful thing. You know.
Do you guys have any like eventscoming up? Right? I know you
guys are trying to fundraise to sponsorthe kids, but what do you guys

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have coming up that's going to help, like, you know, uplift you
and make you known out there inthe community. So we have a low
writer show coming up, Yes,girl, tell me more. We have
a low rider show coming up.We are just getting started on it.
We happened to hook up with acouple of car clubs and they heard about

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our mission and their full force.They want to go full force. So
okay, yeah, I'll be ableto give you a lot more details on
our page. We have a Instagram. It's a learning center phs. So,
Josephine, before we wrap up,you gave me a stat that was
wild, and I don't think peoplerealize just the magnitude of how many people
are affected, how many kids areaffected by incarcerated parents. Can you share

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a little bit more about that?Yes, there are two point five million
children that have a parent incarcerated.Wow. So the message I would say
is just come overcome to the learningcenter, don't worry about money, don't
worry about anything. We are herefor you. Will make it happen.
Yeah, we will make it happen. Yep. What about you. Yeah,
earlier you asked me what my favoritepart of the learning center is.

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You know, the mission is verydear to my heart because my trainer,
the one my thought that the onethat taught me everything about boxing, there
was a time where he was inprison and I was so that feeling of
being alone and the hardshifts and adversitiesare very relatable. I've been through it
and through it all like I alwayshad my mom. I had my mom
and the guidance and the comfort thatshe provided I'm able to provide through the

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gym. So that's a beautiful thing. And like you said, not a
lot of kids have even a motherthat can help be that support system.
And then you guys can provide that. Especially when it's so near to dear
to your heart, you feel moreinvested and it's like this is something that
I know you can overcome, becauseclearly you did. You're about to be
some champion out there in the world, you know what I mean? Like

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that, So that's big and it'sjust such a beautiful thing. What you
guys are doing for our community.So thank you for that. Thanks for
having us, Yes, thank youfor coming in you guys. Check them
out on Instagram. They're doing somany great things. They're located on the
Miracle Mile. If you want tohelp donate to their cause, check them
out on instagramm it's the Learning Center. All right, guys. I'm so
excited for our next organization, HomewardBound. We have Chelsea and Rucks and

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in the studio. Good morning,guys. Good how are you guys doing?
Good morning, I'm doing great.How are you feeling you can talk
at the same time? Okay,good morning, I'm doing really well.
It's a very chill. Invite fewladies for coming in today. Absolutely,
So let me ask you this,um, Homeward Bound, What exactly is
that? Because I think of that, I think of like, wasn't there

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a Disney movie Homework Bound with theDogs? Right? Yeah, we get
we get confused a lot with youknow, pet shelters, yeah, adoption,
pet adoption agencies. But we arequite the opposite of that. So
tell us exactly what your mission is. Yeah, So our mission we are
dedicated to serving families facing homelessness inthe valley. Um. You know,
we're dedicated to meeting every family's uniqueneeds on their journey home. And so,

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you know, we we have avision that every every family in the
valley as a home, every individualhas a home. So we really work
towards, you know, making surethat we are providing services and shelter for
those families facing homelessness. So whostarted the organization? So do you want
to take that way? Yeah,So homer Bound was started in nineteen ninety

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It was started by a group ofcommunity volunteers stakeholders, and they started with
one house, one family, onesponsor. It's kind of the saying.
So throughout the nineties they purchased differentproperties so they were all throughout the valley
and then in nineteen ninety nine theybroke ground on our campus, which is
that twenty third Avenue and Culture andso we had both for a while,

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but now we have our campus andso it's a combination of two and four
bedroom apartments for the family so thatwe can meet a variety of different family
dynamics, sizes, and situations.So let me ask you this when you
because I think of like traditionally mostpeople think of homelessness as somebody that's on
the side of the road or thatis literally has no home. But that's

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not traditionally what unhoused means, right, that's not traditionally the people that come
to you. Right, you haveno idea how nice it is to hear
you say that. Yeah, becausebecause in our line of work, you
know, we constantly see that,we see the stigma of people on the
street. And I think for thelongest time that's what Homeward Bound has always
tried to do, is, youknow, educate that families coming into us

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aren't necessarily on the street. Theyare probably living out of their car,
They're in a hotel, they couldbe CouchSurfing at a family's house. It's
just that they don't have a stableliving situation. They have full time jobs,
their kids are in school, theyare you know, citizens of society.
They just are in a situation wherethey are not able to keep stable
housing. Yeah, that's why Ithink also it's important to make that shift

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from homelessness to unhoused because it showspeople like because like you said, the
stigma of homelessness side of the street, but unhouses like they are these people
that really contribute and they don't wantto be without a home or a house.
And it could be several situations,right, like sometimes at circumstances loss
of job, maybe I'm leaving arelationship. Like you see a variety of

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reasons why people are in between homes, correct, you know, yeah,
I'll let you kind of. Yeah. Absolutely. We see families too that
they you know, go into anapartment and they're doing good, and then
it's time to renew the leads andsuddenly the rent has been increased fifty percent.
Yeah, and so we had Ihad a conversation with a client about
that last year. But I've hadthat conversation hundreds of times where people are

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like, hey, my rent wentup, you know, from eleven hundred
dollars to sixteen hundred dollars, butmy pay didn't increase that much. I
can't afford that between you know,all of my other expenses, my food
for my family, diapers, youknow, hygiene items, gas, to
get to work, whatever it isthat they need to get their life,
you know, continuing and going forward. That's probably another important piece too,

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is probably people think the people thatneed this service might think they don't qualify
because they're not on the street right, and you guys are like, that's
a great message to put out there. It's like, you don't have to
be on the street to have yourservices. So what does someone need to
do to qualify to be like thatyou'd be able to help. Yeah,
So we have a couple of differentprograms for our emergency shelter. It does

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go through a coordinated entry called theFamily Housing Hub, and the system basically
works in a way where somebody whois in need of shelter can call and
they got on a list that multipleshelters can call. That way, they're
not calling every single shelter trying toget on a list, because that's a
lot of work, right. Absolutely. So you know, as we look
through that list throughout the week,we'll call the families and say, hey,

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do you want to schedule an intakecome in. But we also have
a prevention program that was introduced intwenty twenty one, and so we have
rent only antility assistance for residents ofthe City of Phoenix, And if someone
is in need of that assistance,they can go to our website, which
is Homeware bound asy dot org tosee the eligibility criteria and fill out an
online pre screen to see if theymay qualify for that assistance. Yeah,

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and not only that, you know, the rental systances and utility assistant is
huge because that's just that's I thinksecond part of our mission is to try
and keep families and individuals in theirhome. Yeah. So as our shelter
is more family based, we doonly accept families in the shelter. Our
prevention programs actually open up to theentire community. Wow, so individuals included.

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And on top of that, there'swe have a housing navigator that can
help them find affordable housing in thearea, a workforce development team that helps
individuals and our families on campus findhigher paying jobs so that they are able
to get a higher wage to qualifyfor affordable housing, and you know,
find places that you know they canafford. So there's there's so many different

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levels of what our program is doingto help individuals and families at the same
time. What is so you saidyour campus has two and four bedroom homes
or apartments, correct, what isthat short term housing or how does that
work? Is that like a transitionhousing or so that is our emergency shelter.
We have a very limited amount oftransitional housing, but they all go

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through that same number that people callfor assistance. Okay, wonderful. So
do you guys, what support doyou guys usually request from the community,
Because I know that's a big one, right, That's not something that you
guys just automatically come up with themoney and the resources and the supply.
So where when you guys are like, all right, we need this,
what are some things that you usuallyrequire from the community or need help with.

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Yeah, and you know it startswith I mean, obviously the biggest
things are partnerships and you know,community grants and fundraising, like that's the
biggest side of it to keep ouradministration in programs going for these families.
But you know, a lot oftimes we're looking for in kind donations.
We do diaper drives here and there, canned food. We also look for

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toiletries, household items because a familiescoming in, they're coming into a fully
furnished apartment, so we look forfurniture. We look for partners to you
know, donate new lightly used furniture, betting, towels, those types of
things. So those are kind ofall of our in kind you know,
processes and what we would like fromthe community. But volunteerism is another huge

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one. We have a lot ofvolunteers coming in and out of our shelter
to organize our pantries, help withour diaper donations, take inventory, and
just kind of work around our facilityto just make sure it's clean and healthy
and safe for our clients. Andlastly, you know that we do have
the monetary donation side. We actuallyhave a monthly giving program called the Thread.

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Okay, so what that is isyou join the Thread, make a
monthly donation, and you get alittle more updates, you're kind of more
involved, you have more volunteer opportunities, and you're just one of the threads
that is holding all of our familiestogether. That's beautiful because that helps in
ways that maybe somebody can't donate theirtime, they can help donate by funding

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it. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Do you guys have any
like events or projects coming up thatyou guys need community support in. Yeah,
so, um, we actually havewe have a fundraising event coming up
in October, October fourteenth, whichis Toast. That's our largest fundraising event
of the year and our only andso you know, people can come that
can be their way of supporting um, we need volunteers for that, but

(26:11):
you can also attend and you know, during the holidays are probably the biggest
time of year for us. Wesee, you know, we need an
influx of canned food, household itemsand products. We actually work really closely
with the Thunderbirds Okay, yeah,yeah, they're a huge partner of ours.
They throw a huge holiday party andthey work with all of our kids

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and stuff, and so we alwaysneed volunteers to kind of help with what
goes around the holidays. I loveit. And so how could people reach
out to you if they want tohelp, they want to donate whatever they
want to, you know, contributeto your organization. How would be the
best way to get in touch withyou? Yeah, I think the best
way is definitely visiting our website.We have a contact us page and it
goes you know, if you clicka certain department, it'll go to that

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department. UM. Our website iswww dot Homeward bound Azy dot org and
that would be the best way tofind out all the information about our organization
and to contact us to get involved. Awesome. Well, thank you Roxanne
and Chelsea for coming in and sharingof course and doing so much good in
the valley and our community, andwe appreciate you. Thank you. And

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there you have it, three reallygreat organizations that are doing so many amazing
things around the valley. Thank youso much for hanging out with me today
while we highlight these amazing people.It just fills my cup so much again.
I am Priscilla hosts the morning showI'm Mix ninety six nine Priscilla and
Joey in the morning Monday through Fridayfrom five am to ten am. And

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don't forget, I also have anorganization called Community Go Madres where we are
an action group that helps support othercauses in the valley and create networking and
community building opportunities for women in thevalley. So make sure to check that
out at Community Go Madres. Thanksagain for hanging out with me, Priscilla
from Mix ninety six nine.