Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It is time now for our community connection program right here on K one, the one you trust. We have our friends in from Neamiyah House. Please introduce yourself, young Manhi.
I'm Mike Sorenson on the program director with the Amya's programs.
I'm Jennifer King. I am a peer recovery support specialist, and I wear some more hats.
She's busy, folks, Just trust me.
I got worn out and just listening to the title. Wow, you're busy, But we've got one busy, busy, busy activity coming up here in just a little bit now. The last time you were on, we talked about taking the old Emerald hotel, right, and we're turning that around to make that to housing, transitional housing. We also have another purpose for it this weekend.
Yeah.
So yeah, this so the work we do. We try to transition people. They're coming out of addiction, they're coming out of mental health. Some of them have legal issues. They're coming out of jail and get into mental health court, drug court, and homelessness, and so we're working with them hands on, partnering with them to help them move.
Into independent living. So that's our goal.
We're helping them get driver's license, we're helping them find a job, save money, all those kind of basic skills in addition to any out of recovery issues they have. So in doing that, we were raising money for the participants, probably their housing fees and stuff.
When they come in. We're trying to.
Make sure that they have the ability to focus on the program for the first thirty to sixty days. So we're trying to scholarship out because they come in and we don't really want them work in the first thirty days at least because there's usually a lot of stuff for them to work on, and so if they jump into work right away, then we're not seeing them very much. We don't have a chance to work on the issue who's keeping them away. But then they're building up debt
because they have housing fees to pay. So we're trying to scholarship that. So we've been, you know, raising some support on that, and then in doing that, Jen had a great idea of like, hey, why don't we just do a big rummage sale and to raise money, And so we put the idea out there and we've had.
A huge response. I can let her talk about.
There you go, yeah, I mean you had to this baby. What do we got going on?
So we we put it out there that we needed donations for this wonderful cause raising money to help the participants not get behind in their rent so that they're not worried about their housing costs and not worried about stacking up debt. So we put it out there and we got so many donations like antiques, furniture, housewares, everything you can think of, except for clothing. That's a whole nother thing. But the amount of donations that we got
has just been amazing. The hearts of the people that want to donate and want to help me and Maya has been a tremendous help. And we're going to have that rummage cell Friday and Saturday the eighteenth and nineteenth and come out and see what we've got. We've got some beautiful furnitures, some beautiful housewares, some decors all the way to toys and luggage and everything.
Where are we going to do this?
So it's at our the old Emerald Hotel site, So that's what we're going to be renovating. But we've got all this big open space out front of it. So if they drive down seventy five up, you know, once you pass, once you pass Frank Phillips on seventy five, you're going to see a gigantic banner.
Because we're going to put that up.
But it's going to be right out front. So yeah, we're right on seventy five, very visible. We're going to have all the stuff out front going on all day Friday and Saturday.
Like she said, there's so much stuff. We got people.
Some gave us some big workout equipment, you know, different things like that. I mean all kinds of things. It is a we've been running out of room. We have a few more to pick up today. And one of our participants like, where are you going to put it in there? It's punch base, it's but if it's valuable, we will take it. But yeah, we're we're transitioning this week to get it all priced and get it all out there.
And I think there's a lot of good deals.
There's some really nice antique stuff that people donated to It's people, really quality things, and so we're excited that this is our opportunity to raise money to serve our participants. It takes a load off of them and helps our budget because we're always.
Willing to step in to help them.
Sometimes it's just getting closed for a job interview or things like that.
There's all kinds of costs that.
Come in for them and they come in with nothing a lot of time, and so we're we're trying to make that transition smooth for them and so.
People can come out.
They can find a lot of good deals on stuff, but they can also you know, support the cause and you know they want to come out. Just look around even if you don't find anything, and if you want to give, donate and help out our participants. Learn a little more about what Neamayah does well. We're happy to educate people to talk to him about what we do
in town. I know, you know, sometimes we hear a lot a lot of people heard our name or heard the things that we're doing, or they see this hotel and they're like, what exactly is going on with that? I'm like, it'll be a good opportunity too. I'll be out there all day both days. I'm like, come ask me.
I'm happy to I'm excited about what we're doing. We can show you, introduce you to our participants.
We will all be out there working and serving, you know, to just learn a little more about the work that we're doing in town. I think doing some important work to help people learn how to live independently. We're not trying to just it's not just like a shelter situation or.
Something like that. We're were working with them because we.
Want them to launch out on their own and be able to have their own job, their own apartment, their own car, all those.
Kind of things.
And you know some of our people, we have Jen here who is a perfect example of somebody who came through our program and is now working for us and doing all.
That I wanted to Jen. I want people to come out there. I want them to look you up, and I also want them to maybe ask you a few questions that that.
Would you too, Yes, I would absolutely be okay with that. I'll be sitting at the I'll be the lady you pay for your items, so I'll be sitting there also. Just coming and talk to me. I'll let you know what me and Mayah has done for me. I have actually gone through the program myself. I was a thirty year drug addict and I went through the program. NEA Mayah held my hand. I got my driver's license back, I got my I kept my daughter through all of this.
I got. I am now peer recovery support specialist, a behavioral health wellness coach. I am the house lead at the at the Women and Children's Home, I'm a life coach. I and I just I love doing all the things. I even am the events coordinator, so I coordinated this event. So it's me and Mayah walked beside me and helped me through through some hard times. And I just want to be there for other people when they need it.
Thank you and thank you Neamiyah. Hell boy, this is great. I tell you what, Folks be out there Friday Saturday at the Old Emerald Hotel bargains will planning and it goes for a great cause. Thanks for being with us today. Thank you, sir, folks, You've been watching and listening to our community connection.
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