Speaker 1: Here it is your Channel nine first warning. Weather forecasts
Speaker 1: going to be a sunny day to day, less humid
Speaker 1: than yesterday eighty eight for the high, a few clouds
Speaker 1: over night sixty six to low independence day, lots of
Speaker 1: sun high in ninety one. Humidity they say will not
Speaker 1: be an issue, which is good. Dust temperature eighty degrees
Speaker 1: perfect for fireworks, and overnight low is sixty eight which
Speaker 1: is mostly clear skies. Saturday, it's a hot one ninety
Speaker 1: four for the high, with humidity climbing and currently sixty
Speaker 1: eight degrees. Right now, let's get to trafic updating. Chuck Ingram, Chuck.
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Speaker 2: Ingram on fifty five KARC the talk station say thirty
Speaker 2: one and fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, very happy
Speaker 2: Independence Day Eve to you. Please to welcome to the
Speaker 2: fifty five KRST Morning Show from a wonderful organization called
Speaker 2: First Step Home, which you can find out information on
Speaker 2: your own by going to the website first Step Home
Speaker 2: dot com. And please to welcome to the firty five
Speaker 2: KRC Morning Show, Morgan Gibson. She's part of the management team. Morgan,
Speaker 2: Welcome to the fifty five Carsite Morning Show. It's a
Speaker 2: pleasure having you on today.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm excited to let my listeners know and let
Speaker 1: you let my listeners know what you're doing there at
Speaker 1: the First Step Home, which is I guess you're unique
Speaker 1: in that you are an addiction treatment center, but you're
Speaker 1: the only ones in the area that allow children up
Speaker 1: to age twelve to live with their mothers while they're
Speaker 1: getting treatment.
Speaker 3: We do, we do.
Speaker 4: We are providing gender specific care and we have specific
Speaker 4: programming for our pregnant, postpartum and parenting women.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: A lot of the reason people I'll call it self
Speaker 1: medicaid and quite often get addicted is because they had
Speaker 1: some underlying psychological struggle or issue they're dealing with, and
Speaker 1: so rather than trying to wrestle through it with therapy
Speaker 1: or which is the kind of thing you're providing, it's
Speaker 1: easier just to mask it with the booze or the drugs.
Speaker 1: And I but along those lines, and again correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong in my understanding. But if you're a
Speaker 1: mother and you're taking away from your children why you're
Speaker 1: getting treatment, that seems it might exacerbate the underlying mental
Speaker 1: health challenges you may be dealing with.
Speaker 4: Definitely, And that's absolutely one of the reasons that women
Speaker 4: don't come into treatment a lot of times is because
Speaker 4: they don't have care for their children. And so for
Speaker 4: them to get help, it's very important for them to
Speaker 4: be able to bring their children and keep their children
Speaker 4: with them.
Speaker 1: Well as a component of them on the path to
Speaker 1: getting rid of the addiction on their path to becoming well.
Speaker 1: Don't the children provide some measure of help along those lines,
Speaker 1: Because you're looking at someone who's dependent upon you. You're
Speaker 1: in a situation where you found yourself in treatment because
Speaker 1: you have addiction. I would think having those children there
Speaker 1: would be an inspiration for you to stay on the
Speaker 1: right path.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely a motivation for the women to do well,
Speaker 4: and the women want their children with them, and their
Speaker 4: children want to be with their moms.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, now you arranged for or children are still
Speaker 1: able to stay in school while they're living there with
Speaker 1: their mothers.
Speaker 4: Yes, And we do our best to keep the kids
Speaker 4: in the schools that they're going to.
Speaker 3: But when that's not possible.
Speaker 4: We get the children into school and the schools that
Speaker 4: are close to us.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you are located in Walnut Hills, I guess
Speaker 1: I should say that we are.
Speaker 4: We are in a nine building facility and we're located
Speaker 4: all within one block in Walnut Hills.
Speaker 1: How many women do you serve generally speaking?
Speaker 4: On average nearly about two eighty annually and eighty Yeah,
Speaker 4: and anywhere between thirty to forty children in our care
Speaker 4: during that time. Wow.
Speaker 1: Is there a sort of corollary between something underlying in
Speaker 1: these women's life? Like you can say, okay, the most
Speaker 1: of these women have experienced the following, whether it's poor childhood, upbringing,
Speaker 1: socioeconomic issues, maybe family history, a genetic history of substance abuse.
Speaker 1: I mean, have you seen a parallel or a trend
Speaker 1: from your working with these women since nineteen ninety three, Rother.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, all the things that you've listed, in addition
Speaker 4: to a significant history of trauma, lots of women who
Speaker 4: have been in domestic violence relationships, physical abuse, sexual abuse,
Speaker 4: sex trafficking, also homelessness.
Speaker 3: Definitely, all the things that you listed as well.
Speaker 1: Now in terms of addiction happens on every income level.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering you see a variety of socioeconomic mix
Speaker 1: the women that you serve and help.
Speaker 4: Yes, definitely, we've had pharmacists, nurses, doctors in our facility before.
Speaker 3: Addiction definitely does not discriminate.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, We'll pause. I want to bring you back
Speaker 1: talk about some of the services you offer outreach and
Speaker 1: this wonderful organization again first step home dot org, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they would be more than happy to take
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Speaker 1: Channel nine tells us it's gonna be a sunny day, thankfully, Well, no,
Speaker 1: slightly more humid. I was gonna say that's tomorrow. More
Speaker 1: humidity today, eighty eight for the high. Sixty six overnight
Speaker 1: with a few clowns, plenty of sun tomorrows and they're
Speaker 1: saying humidity not an issue. Tomorrow. Ninety one will be
Speaker 1: the high about eighty by dust for the fireworks beginning overnight.
Speaker 1: Low is sixty eight clear sky Saturday hot one ninety
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Speaker 1: It's time for a traffic update.
Speaker 2: Chuck Ingram from the uc HOW Traffic Center. The University
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Speaker 2: highway traffic not all back pads just to bid heaving
Speaker 2: northbound seventy five Dixie to Kyle's and southbound two seventy
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Speaker 2: in Claremont County on Nordyke at nine mile Shuck Ingram
Speaker 2: on fifty five KRS the talk station.
Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the talk station Ban Thomas pleased to
Speaker 1: have Morgan Gibson, CEO of a wonderful organization called First
Speaker 1: Step Home, which you can find online at first Tap
Speaker 1: home dot org. And what they're doing is providing that's
Speaker 1: a nonprofit, I should point interject. They're providing support for
Speaker 1: women with substance abuse as well as their children, and
Speaker 1: the only area facility that allows children to live with
Speaker 1: their mothers while they're getting this residential treatment or inpatient treatment.
Speaker 1: How does that work now? Do you is it exclusively
Speaker 1: residential or do you provide also outpatient services for women
Speaker 1: who are seeking to get help with their addiction.
Speaker 4: We provide a full continuum of care, so we have residential, intensive, outpatient,
Speaker 4: and outpatient services as well as recovery housing.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I guess you've been around since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1: I did mention that my listeners could help donate to
Speaker 1: your organization because of what the great work you're doing.
Speaker 1: But how do you survive? Obviously, it's a very large
Speaker 1: complex you have there, and that doesn't go without a
Speaker 1: lot of overhead and maintenance and upkeep and salaries and
Speaker 1: all that how do you generally cover the cost?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a mixture of things, for sure.
Speaker 4: We're definitely always looking at ways to diversify revenue. So
Speaker 4: we're primarily Medicaid funded, but we are also supported by
Speaker 4: by grants and foundations and individual donations.
Speaker 1: Good. Obviously folks are aware about you, but to the
Speaker 1: extent there's some business out there that wants to adopt
Speaker 1: a charity, I would startally encourage them to reach out
Speaker 1: to you. We do have a significant substance abuse problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, are the numbers on the rise?
Speaker 1: Do you see any positivity in the numbers or is
Speaker 1: it a static thing over the years you've been doing this.
Speaker 1: Where are we right now?
Speaker 4: So there's definitely been some increases in different substances, so
Speaker 4: different substances will be higher at different points. For sure,
Speaker 4: we're definitely seeing increase in alcohol use in the.
Speaker 3: Community and.
Speaker 4: Definitely trying to just help in any way that we
Speaker 4: can with whatever that comes at us.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 1: Now you involved with the court system, the family courts
Speaker 1: for example, are you getting referrals from you know, women
Speaker 1: that are in front of the judge because well, either
Speaker 1: it was the substance itself that got them there or
Speaker 1: a substance related problem that led them on some criminal enterprise.
Speaker 1: It's got them involved in the criminal justice system. Do
Speaker 1: they're aware of you in Hamilton County and elsewhere?
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: We're also connected with the local drug courts and the
Speaker 4: family courts and change court and definitely with children's services.
Speaker 1: Now, what type of treatments are involved and is there
Speaker 1: sort of a generally accepted rough time frame that this
Speaker 1: you'll be involved with counseling if you're a patient or
Speaker 1: someone seeking counseling there.
Speaker 4: It's very individualized, so it really depends on how much
Speaker 4: treatment someone's had.
Speaker 3: In the past, and.
Speaker 4: So they can be in treatment anywhere between thirty days
Speaker 4: to a year or more.
Speaker 1: Really, and in terms of overall long term success rate,
Speaker 1: it's like a cancer diagnosis. You know, you're in remission
Speaker 1: for five years and that's considered a success. Is there
Speaker 1: a high recidivism rate in terms of the drug treatment
Speaker 1: of people entering back into the program.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 4: Statistically speaking, we're looking at individuals entering treatment anywhere between
Speaker 4: four to seven times before getting long term recovery.
Speaker 1: All right, So as opposed to one on one therapy,
Speaker 1: which and I don't know if you offer that considering
Speaker 1: the number of women in the facility, but this group
Speaker 1: being together, all similarly struggling, I imagine that creates a
Speaker 1: very supportive environment for the women. They're not alone. There's
Speaker 1: a woman sitting right next to them that's got the
Speaker 1: same struggles. They talk and interact among themselves. If I
Speaker 1: have sort of a picture of what's going on there.
Speaker 4: Definitely, it's definitely a sisterhood in a community. These are
Speaker 4: relationships that women are going to have for the rest
Speaker 4: of their lives. And we do offer individual therapy and
Speaker 4: group counseling, case management, psychiatric treatment, and all those things
Speaker 4: while they're in treatment with us.
Speaker 1: Now, as for the children, obviously children are quite impacted
Speaker 1: if their mother has a substance abuse problem, they may
Speaker 1: have been dealing with neglect or abuse themselves. Do you
Speaker 1: offer services for the children that are staying with their
Speaker 1: mothers there along those lines mental health or services.
Speaker 4: So we have a childcare on site to help support
Speaker 4: the moms, but for treatment services, we are partnered with
Speaker 4: wonderful agencies in the community, including Gladhouse and Cincinnati Children's Hospital,
Speaker 4: to provide any ongoing care for the kids that they need.
Speaker 1: Well that's great. Well, I can encourage, you know, to
Speaker 1: keep up the great work, and I will strongly encourage
Speaker 1: my listening audience out there to maybe pass a donation
Speaker 1: along your way first step home dot org. I wish
Speaker 1: you didn't have to be in in existence, but thank
Speaker 1: god there are organizations like you that are out there, Morgan,
Speaker 1: and keep up the great work on behalf of these
Speaker 1: women who really I guess they really are truly interested
Speaker 1: in turning their lives around.
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