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Welcome back I'm here with and Constantino
she is the President of C. R. C. C.

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And welcome and thanks for being here today
thank you for having me so let's talk

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about C.R.C. See that that formally was
children's respite care center which

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a lot of people might recall that name
changed the name when you say in two

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thousand and sixteen seventeen seventeen
two thousand and seventeen you've been

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there since two thousand and
sixteen. So let's share

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a little bit of the background of this
organization really important decision well

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we were founded by two incredible sisters
Terry Fitzgerald Christine Johnson thirty

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years ago almost one nine hundred ninety
and it came about from Christine working

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in the hospitals and seen these children
that had really complex medical means as

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they were getting ready to discharge those
kids the families were fine mean very

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little options for those children and so
Christine said you know we really need to

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do something about this and so that is
how children dress but care center was

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founded in one thousand nine hundred K.

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. So I remember that because that's when
I started Metro magazine I mean that's

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when I started so I kind of like grown up
with this organization. Tell us I mean

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how is it grown today because I mean it's
growing by leaps and bounds it certainly

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has so we started with six children back
in one thousand nine hundred and that's OK

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And so those children had very significant
medical needs and so there were nursing

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cares that were needed to be able to
support the children and we quickly were

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finding that families in this community
were recognizing and finding out about us

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and so that need continued to grow we were
getting referrals from the hospitals in

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the physicians and that kind of thing for
these children that really needed some

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additional support so in addition to obviously
serving more children in the in the

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years since we've also expanded the services
that we offer it's part of our role

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and I say this every day and our
organization is to help simplify life for

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a very complex family and so we do whatever
we can to really bring resources to our

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center to be able to provide those services
so parents can our guardians can drop

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off their children in the morning know
that they're going to get all the services

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that they need throughout their day and
then pick them up after work and they can

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go home and be

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a family together in the evenings and not
having to go run into lots of different

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appointments so we've expanded our services
to include providing physical therapy

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occupational therapy speech and feeding
therapy behavioral health and that's in

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addition to the nursing carers
that we provide every day in

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a classroom education setting so we're
also providing that early childhood

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education that so valuable really important
and it's also unique that it includes

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typical siblings talk about that because
that's unique it is unique it is unique

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and it does go along with that mission of
helping to simplify life yes families so

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many of our families have children that
have these complex medical needs they also

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have typical children as well typical
children and instead of having to run one

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child to one daycare or childcare facade.
And the other to us we actually embrace

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all of those children were
in our center and that is a

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a very very important part of child
development as well having that peer modeling

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available that goes both ways is so incredibly
and I love that I did not know that

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. I just think that is amazing.
Do families do they have to

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wait for

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a spot to get into your program and to get
into your pool it really depends on the

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classroom to be honest with you so our
school age classrooms do have wait lists on

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them but we do have

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a veil ability in the infant to six years
old right right now and so if families

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are in need of the services they can reach
out to us and we can get them through

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this center and give them into or kind of
see what we're all about and then we can

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move from there where we have less than

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a minute so I wanted to know how can
people connect with you. So if folks have

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a need for our services they can contact
us at the center and I think you've got

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the contact information as that's available
so they can contact us at the center if

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you have folks that are wanting
to help volunteer and be

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a part of our story on our journey we would
love to have that we have opportunities

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to come in and read stories and opportunities
to donate to our Christmas holiday or

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our holiday party lots of ways
that way and if folks have

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a desire to help support us financially
we do not turn away any children on their

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ability to pay and so we do raise money
from a philanthropic standpoint we have

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a patient assistance fund that really helps
to be able to provide that so folks can

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contact us at that number and be able to
connect in any way that they would like to

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I know you're also in our annual giving
guide so there's lots to lots of

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information there and then
you're also coming back in

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a few months to talk about an event coming
up so well we'll talk more about that

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when you're back here or I think February
March that's right the events March

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thirteenth Yes So so I know we'll be talking
to more about that so it's one thank

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you for coming on and thank you it's been
a pleasure and we will be right back.