Speaker 1: Eight thirty two in the morning, Kevin brdon in for
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas fifty five KRC, the talk station. I want
Speaker 1: to welcome to the program Lindy Zimbrotz. She is the
Speaker 1: executive director of care Net Northern Kentucky and I had
Speaker 1: an opportunity this past Monday to tour their cold Spring
Speaker 1: facility and what a great organization. I'm glad that I've
Speaker 1: found you over the years from a mutual friend of ours,
Speaker 1: and I truly believe this is an organization is doing
Speaker 1: great work in the area for anybody that is finding
Speaker 1: what they refer to as a pregnancy or well anyway,
Speaker 1: Letty you explain better than I do about your organization.
Speaker 2: Well, we're a christ centered organization that meets people where
Speaker 2: they are when they're facing pregnancy. We offer support before, during,
Speaker 2: and after that unplanned pregnancy, and during that time we
Speaker 2: uplift the sactity of human life. And we have three
Speaker 2: centers in Northern Kentucky. We offer a pregnancy test, an ultrasound,
Speaker 2: and then we provide any of the services that they
Speaker 2: would need beyond that, such as parenting education classes, great
Speaker 2: relationships classes, looking at adoption, or even helping them to plan,
Speaker 2: you know, for the new for the new baby they
Speaker 2: bring into into this world.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, and that is call it crisis
Speaker 1: pregnancy centers. But this is when somebody is is pregnant
Speaker 1: and there they are in a a I guess a
Speaker 1: panic situation for lack of a better term. There aren't
Speaker 1: the options for them. There are too many people that
Speaker 1: want to push the one particular option, and that is abortion.
Speaker 1: But they don't realize that how many people out their
Speaker 1: care as you just described, all the services that you provide,
Speaker 1: and how many things that you can do not only
Speaker 1: through the pregnancy, but after the pregnancy and follow up
Speaker 1: and making sure even to the extent of adoption and
Speaker 1: so on. And the fact that some of these organizations,
Speaker 1: like Planned Parenthood, they take people in the most vulnerable
Speaker 1: period of time and just give them one option and
Speaker 1: try to force something down their throat where years later
Speaker 1: or months later, weeks later, they may say, what the
Speaker 1: hell did I do? That was the worst decision I
Speaker 1: ever made. And to take somebody who's vulnerable and prey
Speaker 1: upon that vulnerability, I think, well, is criminal in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. And the fact that they don't help
Speaker 2: and helping them pick the pieces up or provide healing
Speaker 2: for that situation. They just deny that there would be
Speaker 2: any emotional turmoil after choosing to end the life of
Speaker 2: your own child. We do provide a post abortion healing
Speaker 2: and we work with women who have you know, undergone
Speaker 2: and experienced abortion and we help provide healing to them.
Speaker 2: And we're very compassionate because we know many of these
Speaker 2: women often find themselves they've had an abortion, now they
Speaker 2: wish to carry a pregnancy, and when they begin to
Speaker 2: look at the fetal development during their pregnancy, then they're hit,
Speaker 2: you know, right in the face with the fact that
Speaker 2: they've ended the life of their child because they did
Speaker 2: not they weren't provided that information. So we're there to
Speaker 2: offer them all of the information about their options. And
Speaker 2: what we see is when we provide that information to them,
Speaker 2: they will choose life ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we need to take quick break here, but
Speaker 1: I just do want to mention this is the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, when somebody, you know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know how somebody wouldn't have a situation that if
Speaker 1: they end a pregnancy, that they know when the possible
Speaker 1: due date was or at least approximately when they see newborns,
Speaker 1: when they see a one year old, a two year old,
Speaker 1: a three year old, four year old after their abortion,
Speaker 1: how that can't affect them at some point in time,
Speaker 1: whether it's immediate or whether it's down the road. There's
Speaker 1: got to be some mental problems with that, or some
Speaker 1: guilt or whatever. And the one thing I would stress
Speaker 1: more than anything else is that anybody that has had
Speaker 1: an abortion, if you are thinking in terms of this,
Speaker 1: if you are being stressed by this, if you are
Speaker 1: feeling depressed about this, speak to somebody. Go out find
Speaker 1: the compassion and people like Carnet to speak to, because
Speaker 1: they are not going to judge, they are there to help.
Speaker 1: And of course my guest is Lindy zimbro She is
Speaker 1: the executive director here in Northern Kentucky. We'll pick this
Speaker 1: up on the other side of the break. I'm Kevin
Speaker 1: Gordon in for Brian Thomas fifty five KR see the
Speaker 1: talk station eight forty one in the morning. Kevin Gordon
Speaker 1: in for Brian Thomas, fifty five krs the talk station,
Speaker 1: speaking with her on the phone, and my guest, Lindy
Speaker 1: Zembroch is Zembroch. She is executive director of Northern Kentucky
Speaker 1: Cairnet and again during the facility there on Monday, was
Speaker 1: a big pleasure learning about all the services that you provide.
Speaker 1: And thanks for hanging with us. Certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Kevin.
Speaker 1: You've got a banquet coming up on May the eighth.
Speaker 1: There's still some availability or open spots possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a few spots. We're down to the
Speaker 2: last minute planning, but if we have cancelations, we're able
Speaker 2: to work people in. So someone's entertd in attending the banquet,
Speaker 2: they just contact us online at CARNETNKY dot org and
Speaker 2: they can submit, you know, a request. We have a
Speaker 2: waiting list right now, but we have over eight hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have over eight hundred guests that attend. It is
Speaker 2: to sit down dinner. It is a fundraiser, and we
Speaker 2: will be hearing from one of our clients that evening
Speaker 2: that's experienced care Net who is now an employee at
Speaker 2: care Net and works with us.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're so glad to have her. She's bilingual and
Speaker 2: she's able to help us with German, also Spanish. But
Speaker 2: we're we're going to feature her because you know, she's
Speaker 2: she's a single mom and she's experienced it on both
Speaker 2: ends and now she's there to help other people. But
Speaker 2: we do have some spots and this, like I said,
Speaker 2: this is a fundraiser, and if you can't get in,
Speaker 2: go to care nky dot org and help us with
Speaker 2: some of the things on our wish list. All of
Speaker 2: our programs are incentivized, so after someone makes a decision
Speaker 2: to carry a pregnancy, and they weren't expecting, of course,
Speaker 2: to carry a pregnancy, there's a lot of work that
Speaker 2: needs to be done to help them be ready to
Speaker 2: welcome a child into their home, everything from teaching them
Speaker 2: about their pregnancy. For fathers, we also have a fatherhood program,
Speaker 2: but we want to walk alongside of them. They're assigned
Speaker 2: a mentor. It's a mentoring program and they earn items
Speaker 2: as they go through the program. They'll earn diapers, they
Speaker 2: are a safety item, which is a car seat in
Speaker 2: a baby bed. So you know, these programs can be costly,
Speaker 2: and what's really great is the community of people step
Speaker 2: up because they want to see people succeed and overcome
Speaker 2: and be able to provide for their children. And what
Speaker 2: we do is try to help establish a family unit
Speaker 2: that's very stable. And then from there, you know, we
Speaker 2: help the workforce too, so you know, it's just a
Speaker 2: win win for everyone. We don't want to see people
Speaker 2: continue to be poverty stricken, so we're there to cheer
Speaker 2: lead them for higher education, for trade school and just
Speaker 2: you know, job placement. But we also we want to
Speaker 2: be there to provide the nurturing and the bonding that
Speaker 2: they need to learn how to initiate to the children.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, one of the things you mentioned when I
Speaker 1: was there on Monday that you mentioned that you have
Speaker 1: people that are fluent in Spanish and you said that
Speaker 1: there is a need in your organization for people that
Speaker 1: speak French that could possibly volunteer some time and volunteer.
Speaker 2: We actually have one paid position open to okay, who
Speaker 2: are yeah for our French speaking We need some help
Speaker 2: with some translation, and also you know, it's it's just
Speaker 2: a great way to help the populations that we see
Speaker 2: within a certainly certainly a call out to anybody that
Speaker 2: has some time and that could possibly either volunteer or
Speaker 2: looking for a paid position to do some of this translation,
Speaker 2: because we certainly want to get that position filled.
Speaker 1: But if anybody is interested in donating or at least
Speaker 1: learning about the organization and learning about what you do.
Speaker 1: The website would be again.
Speaker 2: Care net nky dot org.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I would encourage anybody that, at any stage,
Speaker 1: if you have, if you have kids, learn about this organization.
Speaker 1: Let your kids be familiar with this organization, because you
Speaker 1: never know when you might need this organization. And it
Speaker 1: certainly beats the alternative. And when you talk about I mean,
Speaker 1: I just heard a comment the other day when they're
Speaker 1: talking about this immigration and people being deported and so on,
Speaker 1: somebody made the comment that, well, just think somebody that
Speaker 1: was deported, that may be the person that becomes the
Speaker 1: scientist that cures cancer or that has this. Oh really, well,
Speaker 1: what about the number of children that have been aboarded
Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy three? How about how many of those
Speaker 1: were scientists and possibly could have been productive. How many
Speaker 1: of them would have been productive members of society. So
Speaker 1: I don't want you know, it's just ah, all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I just it just infuriates me.
Speaker 2: Well, we know that through our ultrasound program, we know
Speaker 2: that we've been able to rescue over two thousand and
Speaker 2: seventy six children from the hands of abortion and we
Speaker 2: know that the parents that had those children were invited
Speaker 2: and equipped to be the best parents possible or to
Speaker 2: make an adoption plan.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I think one of the biggest and the
Speaker 1: best tools that you have is somebody coming in there
Speaker 1: and doing the ultrasound, because when you look at the
Speaker 1: at the graphic, when you see with the ultrasound and
Speaker 1: realize that as early as seven weeks there is a heartbeat.
Speaker 2: Well that we can actually see that at six weeks
Speaker 2: in five days thereabouts. Yeah, then we can bring those
Speaker 2: women in early for that ultrasound and providing that type
Speaker 2: of service also connects them into that early ob care
Speaker 2: so that they're actually getting you know, getting the care
Speaker 2: that they need health wise, so that they're getting their
Speaker 2: prenatal vitamins early, will start them out with their prenatal vitamins.
Speaker 2: Fantastic you to really help them with that pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Lenny, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I hope, well,
Speaker 1: I know, I'll see you at the banquet on the eighth,
Speaker 1: May eighth, it's a Thursday, and uh looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you and seeing all the great and the other
Speaker 1: people that are there and the other services that are available.
Speaker 1: It's a wealth of knowledge, and I think it's well
Speaker 1: worth everybody's attention to attend and to get more information
Speaker 1: about your organization.
Speaker 2: So thank you for Kevin, have a blessed, have a
Speaker 2: blessed good Friday.
Speaker 1: You do the same, our guest, Lindy Zumbroke, Executive Director,
Speaker 1: Karen net Northern Kentucky. Phone numbers five, one, three, seven four,
Speaker 1: and I will probably try to squeeze in a few
Speaker 1: phone calls before the top of the hour. I'm Kevin
Speaker 1: Gordon in for Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, The
Speaker 2: Talk station fifty five KRC