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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It is time now for our community
connection right here on Okay one one you

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trust just like a ray of sunshine. We have real hope in here today.

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How are we doing, Miss Jocelin
and then also miss Rada, We

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doing good? Yes, thank you
great, thank you. Well. I

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understand that you guys have a little
scoop for us today. We do have

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all let's on it. Yeah,
So what it is is, so we're

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a Bray's Child Abuse Prevention Month and
we're just trying to end that month on

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a sweet note. So we're gonna
do a here's the scoop event. So

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here's a scoop you can help prevent
child abuse. It'll be at Jared's Frozen

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Custard and Muscleman Abstract husband very generous
and they're helping us sponsor one free kitty

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Sunday per child under eighteen. So
if you'll come out and see us,

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we'll be there Tuesday, April thirtieth
from six to eight pm. I'll be

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out there with a little photo opportunity, some bookmarks that talk about body safety,

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some pinwheels, and some friendship bracelets
for the children. My goodness,

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you guys think of it all,
don't you do? Well? But you've

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been with this year the last couple
of times here and you really have all

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this just so button down, tied
up, ready to go. Your information

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is very very solid. You've been
telling us about the special month that we're

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observing, right, and tell us
a little bit about what Ray of Hope

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kind of comes in to do to
intercedeny situation, absolutely so in terms of

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child abuse and run to feel free
to step in whenever needed to. What

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we do is we're AA, We're
a child advocacy center. We're a dual

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servicing center. But primarily for this
month, we want to highlight our child

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Advocacy center and what that means is
that we help provide a legally sound and

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safe way for a child to come
and tell us a little bit about them,

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tell when there's allegations of child abuse
or neglects. So we don't want

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to re traumatize a child while telling
their story over and over again. So

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we provide kind of like a one
stop shop for DHS and for law enforcement

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to work together, come together as
a team and review the allegations. And

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then after that we really provide a
lot of ongoing victim advocacy, and so

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these families who are probably dealing with
the most difficult thing they've ever had to

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deal with, they're not alone.
We're helping them walk through that process.

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We're helping them navigate community resources and
support systems and make sure that they are

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prepared if they have to testify in
court. So we're doing all of that

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so from the time that there's an
initial outcry of abuse through the entire process,

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Ray of Hope is there to help
them to rebuild hope and move forward

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and healing. Well, this wasn't
built overnight, and these partnerships took a

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long time in coming, sure,
but they have geled so well with the

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wonderful stewardship of everyone involved with Ray
of Hope. It's not an easy thing.

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And really, you know, when
you talk about the partnership, that

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really is so important when you're dealing
with these difficult cases, because we want

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to ensure that everybody who's involved has
all of the information, who they have

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access to, the best research,
the best resources, so that we can

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get the best outcomes for kids and
families. Now, yah see, you

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do a lot of the outreach,
you do a lot of the seminars you

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do a lot of the kind of
the hands on training almost really yeah,

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and this is something that you learn
every day different things. It's not like

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you went to school and then one
day you had at all. Everything changes

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some time to tell me absolutely,
yeah, every day it's different. No

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one client's need is the same as
the next or the one before. In

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terms of the training, I think
they're great. Oftentimes we don't like to

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talk about child abuse or anything that
we deal with really a ray of hope.

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It's an uncomfortable subject. But I
have found that when I go out

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into the community and do the recognizing
and reporting training, people have great questions

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like it's something that you don't think
about, but when presented with the information,

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like have you stopped to think if
you work in an industry or with

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a program that deals with children,
or is in care or control of children,

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what's your policy for reporting child abuse? If you were to run across

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it, like are you familiar with
that? And it's just good to refresh

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that policy, either to them according
to their complete policies or let them know

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what the state says, because if
you're not thinking about it always, it's

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easy for what for that policy to
slip in the back of your mind,

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and we always want to reinforce in
Oklahoma, you're a mandate or reporter.

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It's my number one thing that yeah
from Mettenberg, that I say it about

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fifty times in the presentation. You
are a mandated reporter in the state of

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Oklahoma. But it's always good to
freshen up and recheck those policies and just

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take a look like, would you
be able to recognize childebius? Oh,

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there you go. Abusers usually have
been abusing for a long time. They're

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very sneaky, they're very diabolical,
and there are going to be times where

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even the best eyes not recognize.
Yeah. I think the research tells us

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that at least ninety percent of the
time children are sexually abused by somebody that

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they know. And so that means
that people who are intent on harming children

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put themselves in places where they have
access to kids. They infiltrate families and

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churches and community groups. And that's
uncomfortable to think about. But like Yosi

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said, when we have really good
child protection policies, when everybody has been

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trained on what to look for,
that helps protect children. And it's so

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important. Now you know, see
you where do you have your outreach programs?

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Do you go to clubs, different
organizations or different parent groups and things

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like that. Yeah? Absolutely,
if you want me to train you,

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it's it's a good time. It's
about forty five minutes to an hour.

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I can go out to you.
So earlier this month I did the BSA,

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so the Boys Scouts of America and
the cub Scouts as well. So

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I'm more than happy to go out
to any parent group, any organization that

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you know is involved with children.
And you also work with hospitals and clinics

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and things like that, and from
private doctors. Correct. Absolutely, Yeah,

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we have such a great network of
professionals who have been trained to recognize

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and respond and evaluate child abuse,
and so we're so grateful for the ways

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that they contribute to the community helping
keep kids safe through the medical community.

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Now we've got something here, Like
you said, we're going to do something

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to end this month of Awareness on
a sweet note. Let's repeat that for

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the pot. Yeah. So we're
gonna be at Jared's this upcoming Tuesday,

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August thirtieth from six to eight pm, and we're going to be out there

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with a photo back drop, some
body safety bookmarks, some pinwheels, some

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friendship bracelets. And then again Muscleman
was generous and they sponsored one free kiddy

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Sunday per a kid under eighteen.
Yeah, it'll be fun, it will

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be I think the weather's actually going
to stop rating. I know. Yeah,

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yeah, Now, if I know
that funding is a big deal because

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you can't just operate it on goodwill
and sunshine. Even though we are the

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Ray of Hope, It's going to
take a ray of dollars sometimes. If

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somebody wants to make a contribution to
the cause, you'll accept it, won't

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you absolutely will. We are a
nonprofit and so we rely on community funding

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and individuals to donate to the programs
that we run at Ray of Hope.

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If you are interested in making a
contribution, you can visit our website.

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You can learn more about the work
that we do, and you can click

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the donate now button. There's ways
that you can donate a one time gift

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or a monthly gift, or even
include us in your long term estate planning.

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We'd love to have that conversation with
you very good. I know there

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are folks that my age where that
conversations up. Yeah, it's starting to

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Yeah, it's starting to be more
important to me too. Yeah, and

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so don't put it off. Make
a phone call if you will. I

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want to thank you Ray of Hope
Advocacy Center. And where can we find

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the website that is wt Ray of
Hope ac dot org. Well there yet,

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go. I love it. I
want to thank you ladies both for

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coming in and sharing with us today. It's always a special occasion to have

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you in here. And don't forget
the big event coming up in Jared's ice

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Cream, the Big Scoop, and
that is coming up on Tuesday the thirtieth.

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Yes, right, and what's the
timeframe on it? That is six

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pm to eight pm, six pm
to eight pm. When you're eighteen,

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you get a kiddy Sunday. Yes, we all supplies. Yes, well,

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thank you for being with us today. Thank you