March 9, 2025 • 15 mins
We spoke with Sue Oster and Jim Power From Oak Hill about their 40 years of work experience at Oak Hill.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. Thank you for listening to Community Access. My
guest today is Sue Auster, professional development coordinator at the
Oak Hill School and Jim Power, Site supervisor of oak
Kill Community Programs. Good morning, Good morning. For people who
don't know about olk Kill, it's been around for over
one hundred years. Give me just a brief overview.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, it's almost impossible to give a brief overview right
of our services.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, as you said, we've been around for over one
hundred and thirty years. We started out as a school
for the blind, and in the seventies we transitioned to
really kind of open our doors to people with a
myriad of disabilities, and we have grown to service over
forty thousand individuals across the state. We have programs from
(00:48):
individuals from three to twenty two in our school program
and then we have adult services in our community programs
and that's throughout Connecticut. And then we have additional services
such as camp programs. We have Okill Centers, which provides
really daily supports for individuals with disabilities for assistive technology.
(01:11):
They support all of the public schools with getting our
kids the assistive technology that they need on a daily basis,
and really we've you know, we've just grown exponentially. So
we're really proud of the things that we accomplish.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And if anyone is interested in finding out more about it,
they can go to OKILLCT dot org. So what brought
the two of you to Okell.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm really you start because you were first. Well.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Back in nineteen eighty six, I had just gotten my
physical therapy assistance license and I took a job with
Oakill and the physical therapy department. And I came in
and into my orientation, I found out that they were
dissolving the department. So I was offered a job working
(01:57):
in a classroom. I knew nothing about it, I had
no experience. I said, all right, well, I've just moved
away from home, I pay rent now, and I'm going
to take the job until I find another well. I
was introduced to a classroom that was going to be mine,
and immediately a young lady came over to me and
(02:18):
took my suit coat off me and hung it up,
and the teacher in the classroom said, oh my god,
that's never happened before. And I said, what's going on.
I had no idea that it was strange and she said, yeah,
this individual does not really warm up to people, and
she has decided that you're hers. And she took my
(02:39):
hand and then she brought me to her table and
started coloring. And the feeling I got from that was
something that just opened my eyes, and I said, you
know what, I think I need to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And yeah, almost thirty nine years later, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You don't look thirty nine. Ah. Maybe it's your job.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe, I mean, it does, you know, it does keep
you going. I mean, I do so many exciting things
with my participants. It's great. I was just telling some
folks about how just two weeks ago, a week week
and a half ago, I was at the Billy Joel
concert at Muhegan Sun and just having the time of
my life. Something I would do on my own, but
my participant wanted to and you know, going there with
(03:21):
him especially, you know, his smile lights up a room
and just just going into the arena and people just
seeing him and seeing his smile attracts them to him,
and then it just starts these conversations and you just
start meeting people and it's just fun.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's really beautiful. Yeah, absolutely quality of life at your
job absolutely. You know how many people cannot say that?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, So Sue, what brought you to okil?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Not quite so noble.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So I was actually taking what the kids call now
a gap year, and I was awaiting my placement in
the corps and stumbled on Oakill.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Wow, met this guy and.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He quickly kind of hooked me into becoming a program
manager and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The rest is history. Thirty eight years later.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So yeah, it's really it's it's one of those places
that I say, I'm never, ever, ever not looking forward
to going in.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Wow. Now there's many.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Days that I leave Allison that I go I'm never
coming back. Yes, but I've never woken up and said,
like I dread going to work. And I have friends
that say they can't say that, right, you know, and
we share that we every single day look forward to
what we get to do.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What does your job do exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, So the school is, you know, really fantastic, and
we'll get hopefully get into that one we start to
talk about the programs that, you know, we're looking for
people to come and join us with. But so my
position is to support all of the education staff and
being the best at what they do. So being the brilliant, innovative,
(05:06):
creative educators, having the latest and the greatest and making
sure that they set goals for student success. And we
really are super fortunate that in our environment we have
such robust professional development for kiddos that really they just
you know, they completely glow in our environment. They just
(05:28):
they don't just survive, you know what I mean, And
in the projector they definitely get Not that we have
anything against public schools, you know, we are very close
to our partnerships with all of the public schools.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We love working with our districts.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We love integration where we can have integration, but we
create an environment in which they can be such individuals
that our educators really try to make sure that they
have the best knowledge to support them and so I
get to do that, I get to help them guide
them to be the best educators.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So there's this sense of belonging or community that the
both of you have at your hundred profession.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Absolutely, even like today after work today, I'm meeting with
like probably about twenty people that I have worked with
over the years that are still at Oakhill and some
that have moved on. It's just because it comes to
be a family. So you know, many times people will
move on to other jobs or whatever, you know, for
whatever reasons, and yet we still stay connected because there's
(06:31):
a bond that forms in and I want to say
it's OKILL. I mean, it's not something I know about
in any other field or any other job.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, I think so much of it is because we're
so mission driven, you know, and that gives us that
north star. And when you're all kind of going towards
the same vision, mission goal, it makes it easy to
kind of come back to that. And when you find
that you all have that, you know, kind of same
desire for that, it becomes your tribe and any interlopers,
(07:07):
you know, are quickly found out. You know, you just
kind of know if it's not for you, and we
just knew right away that, you know, how can you not.
When you meet the folks that we provide services to,
you learn more from them than you'll learn in any
walk of life.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, the fact that the both of you have been
there for almost forty years speaks volumes. So you would
recommend that people get a job at OKILL if they're hiring,
So go to okilct dot org. If they're thinking about
working there. Tell me about the different roles you've both
performed and how did you grow in those roles.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, Susan has had more diversity in her roles.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Gemini the twin.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You never know what you're going to get, huh.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I started off at at the time when I started,
we had a dormitory situation. Our main building was a
dorm and my hours were one to nine. I've worked
in a classroom for two hours, and then I worked
in the dormitories setting for the other six and then
we kind of closed that down. We went further into
community living arrangements, and then I just transitioned into the
(08:19):
group homes. The group homes and I've really pretty much
stayed there all along. I have taken different positions here
and there, but I always come back to just working
with the participants is my favorite part. Yeah, and being
surrounded by great people that are kind of like minded
in that way you know they're there for the same purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's more of a ministry or a calling on your
life than a profession.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I believe in things like that that there's no coincidences
that you were supposed to be working in this job
to maybe speak to this child this particular day about
this thing. You know, you can't even imagine probably the
impact that you, the two of you have had on
these students and their families over these amount of years.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We hope.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, well, as you I do get a lot of
great feedback from my families that I'm involved with. You know,
they're they're they're very supportive, very helpful. Yeah, it's it's
it's very uh kumbaya.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As an employee, how has okill helped you to reach
your goals?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
For me, I, similar to Jim, started out in the
group homes, you know, kind of a weekend position. And
when I met Jim, he had convinced me to become
a program manager for a group home and I did
that for oh gosh, about ten years. And then from
(09:48):
there I went to our training department or learning development department,
in which I was encouraged by my supervisor to do that.
That they really felt like I had a lot to
offer them organization, and that they didn't want me on
that just micro scale and just the group homes anymore.
They were like, you need to grow, you need to go,
(10:08):
you need to go do this for the organization, and
I had always admired like the training department. I thought
that's such a cool environment. And I did go and
I was there for about twenty years and loved it
and thought I'd end my career there because it really
there's nothing like, you know, first day employee, bringing them
in and being able to meet them and you know,
(10:31):
connect with them and let them know what they're about
to embark on and really wish them the best for
a long career with us.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And I loved that. I love the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But the school approached me with an opportunity that I
couldn't resist, which is where I am now. And I've
been with them for about.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The last eight years.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So I feel like, and I've said this often and
I'm not saying it tongue in cheek, I've never been
told no at okill Like, there was no supervisor that
said to me no. They said, okay, how does it
support mission?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And what are you going to do with it? And
how is that going to look? And as a result,
that was so motivating. It was one of those things
in which I went someone's actually trusting me to do
something with autonomy and they trust that I support this
mission to do that, and so I just I feel
(11:22):
really really lucky, really lucky, and I think that we
do that for others, you know. As a result, I've
been able to work to really kind of fortify career
paths with our human resources department, and we do. We
have like opportunities for people to come in similar to
the way that Jim and I came in, and you
can decide that you want to spend forty years here
(11:45):
and change your career.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You can go from being in a group home to
being in a camp program as a director, or you
can go from being in our summer camp program to
being an occupational therapist in the classroom. And we have
career paths that will support that. We have tuition reimbursement
that will support that, and then we have professional learning
that is very robust that will support that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So we really.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Want people to kind of come in and stay, you know,
kind of drink the kool aid and stay for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And you have career pathways and partnerships with colleges and universities.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And so I wrote these down so that I didn't
misquote it. So we have partnerships in which we have
discounted tuition with Quinnipiac.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
University of Hertford, WOW, Charter, Oak Goodwin, and Springfield.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We've been very fortunate to partner with them, so there's
tuition discounts and we get this concierge.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Service, which is great. So if you.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Decide that you want to go back to school and
you're an OKILL employee, and you contact one of these
schools and you say that you are an OKILL employee,
you really get concierge service so that they help you.
They find out what career path youre on. They make
sure that they align you with coursework that's going to
be really specific to that. If you're uncertain, they guide
(13:07):
you in that manner too. And then we have affiliations.
The school, i should say, has affiliations with about fourteen
other schools in which we have internships, We have teachers
in training that come in. We do really everything that
anybody needs in a three to twenty two age range.
(13:30):
For kids with special needs, we can support clinical, we
can support academic, so it's really neat. We get a
lot of students and as a result.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Of that, when I came to Okill. I didn't plan
on doing this job. I planned on doing physical therapy,
but I would never have probably gone into it thinking
I don't have education in this area. I don't know.
I'm going to be at the very bottom. I don't know,
but there's encouragement along the way all the way, and
(14:01):
it can really you can just grow and grow and
grow in this company. And like you know where I
met Susan and I was like, come on, Susan, come on,
take this job. And you can be at the at
the starting level with no experience in this But if
your heart sort of says to you, I want to
do this type of a job, it's a great place
to start because you'll get the education you need through
(14:23):
the job, through like on the job you know, training basically.
And yeah, I mean it's it's it's been my life.
So I'm grateful.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
If you want to be in touch with one of
their recruiters, just email grow at OKILLCT dot org. Again,
that's grow at OKILLCT dot org. And of course you
can just go to OKILLCT dot org. I'm speaking with
Sue Aster, professional development coordinator at the oak Kill School
and Jim Power site supervisor for the Okill Community Programs.
(14:58):
Thank you so much, you for having us
Good morning. Thank you for listening to Community Access. My
guest today is Sue Auster, professional development coordinator at the
Oak Hill School and Jim Power, Site supervisor of oak
Kill Community Programs. Good morning, Good morning. For people who
don't know about olk Kill, it's been around for over
one hundred years. Give me just a brief overview.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well, it's almost impossible to give a brief overview right
of our services.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, as you said, we've been around for over one
hundred and thirty years. We started out as a school
for the blind, and in the seventies we transitioned to
really kind of open our doors to people with a
myriad of disabilities, and we have grown to service over
forty thousand individuals across the state. We have programs from
(00:48):
individuals from three to twenty two in our school program
and then we have adult services in our community programs
and that's throughout Connecticut. And then we have additional services
such as camp programs. We have Okill Centers, which provides
really daily supports for individuals with disabilities for assistive technology.
(01:11):
They support all of the public schools with getting our
kids the assistive technology that they need on a daily basis,
and really we've you know, we've just grown exponentially. So
we're really proud of the things that we accomplish.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And if anyone is interested in finding out more about it,
they can go to OKILLCT dot org. So what brought
the two of you to Okell.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm really you start because you were first. Well.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Back in nineteen eighty six, I had just gotten my
physical therapy assistance license and I took a job with
Oakill and the physical therapy department. And I came in
and into my orientation, I found out that they were
dissolving the department. So I was offered a job working
(01:57):
in a classroom. I knew nothing about it, I had
no experience. I said, all right, well, I've just moved
away from home, I pay rent now, and I'm going
to take the job until I find another well. I
was introduced to a classroom that was going to be mine,
and immediately a young lady came over to me and
(02:18):
took my suit coat off me and hung it up,
and the teacher in the classroom said, oh my god,
that's never happened before. And I said, what's going on.
I had no idea that it was strange and she said, yeah,
this individual does not really warm up to people, and
she has decided that you're hers. And she took my
(02:39):
hand and then she brought me to her table and
started coloring. And the feeling I got from that was
something that just opened my eyes, and I said, you
know what, I think I need to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And yeah, almost thirty nine years later, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You don't look thirty nine. Ah. Maybe it's your job.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe, I mean, it does, you know, it does keep
you going. I mean, I do so many exciting things
with my participants. It's great. I was just telling some
folks about how just two weeks ago, a week week
and a half ago, I was at the Billy Joel
concert at Muhegan Sun and just having the time of
my life. Something I would do on my own, but
my participant wanted to and you know, going there with
(03:21):
him especially, you know, his smile lights up a room
and just just going into the arena and people just
seeing him and seeing his smile attracts them to him,
and then it just starts these conversations and you just
start meeting people and it's just fun.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's really beautiful. Yeah, absolutely quality of life at your
job absolutely. You know how many people cannot say that?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, So Sue, what brought you to okil?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Not quite so noble.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So I was actually taking what the kids call now
a gap year, and I was awaiting my placement in
the corps and stumbled on Oakill.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Wow, met this guy and.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He quickly kind of hooked me into becoming a program
manager and.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The rest is history. Thirty eight years later.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
So yeah, it's really it's it's one of those places
that I say, I'm never, ever, ever not looking forward
to going in.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Wow. Now there's many.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Days that I leave Allison that I go I'm never
coming back. Yes, but I've never woken up and said,
like I dread going to work. And I have friends
that say they can't say that, right, you know, and
we share that we every single day look forward to
what we get to do.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
What does your job do exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Okay, So the school is, you know, really fantastic, and
we'll get hopefully get into that one we start to
talk about the programs that, you know, we're looking for
people to come and join us with. But so my
position is to support all of the education staff and
being the best at what they do. So being the brilliant, innovative,
(05:06):
creative educators, having the latest and the greatest and making
sure that they set goals for student success. And we
really are super fortunate that in our environment we have
such robust professional development for kiddos that really they just
you know, they completely glow in our environment. They just
(05:28):
they don't just survive, you know what I mean, And
in the projector they definitely get Not that we have
anything against public schools, you know, we are very close
to our partnerships with all of the public schools.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
We love working with our districts.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
We love integration where we can have integration, but we
create an environment in which they can be such individuals
that our educators really try to make sure that they
have the best knowledge to support them and so I
get to do that, I get to help them guide
them to be the best educators.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So there's this sense of belonging or community that the
both of you have at your hundred profession.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Absolutely, even like today after work today, I'm meeting with
like probably about twenty people that I have worked with
over the years that are still at Oakhill and some
that have moved on. It's just because it comes to
be a family. So you know, many times people will
move on to other jobs or whatever, you know, for
whatever reasons, and yet we still stay connected because there's
(06:31):
a bond that forms in and I want to say
it's OKILL. I mean, it's not something I know about
in any other field or any other job.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, I think so much of it is because we're
so mission driven, you know, and that gives us that
north star. And when you're all kind of going towards
the same vision, mission goal, it makes it easy to
kind of come back to that. And when you find
that you all have that, you know, kind of same
desire for that, it becomes your tribe and any interlopers,
(07:07):
you know, are quickly found out. You know, you just
kind of know if it's not for you, and we
just knew right away that, you know, how can you not.
When you meet the folks that we provide services to,
you learn more from them than you'll learn in any
walk of life.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, the fact that the both of you have been
there for almost forty years speaks volumes. So you would
recommend that people get a job at OKILL if they're hiring,
So go to okilct dot org. If they're thinking about
working there. Tell me about the different roles you've both
performed and how did you grow in those roles.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well, Susan has had more diversity in her roles.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Gemini the twin.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You never know what you're going to get, huh.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I started off at at the time when I started,
we had a dormitory situation. Our main building was a
dorm and my hours were one to nine. I've worked
in a classroom for two hours, and then I worked
in the dormitories setting for the other six and then
we kind of closed that down. We went further into
community living arrangements, and then I just transitioned into the
(08:19):
group homes. The group homes and I've really pretty much
stayed there all along. I have taken different positions here
and there, but I always come back to just working
with the participants is my favorite part. Yeah, and being
surrounded by great people that are kind of like minded
in that way you know they're there for the same purpose.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's more of a ministry or a calling on your
life than a profession.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I believe in things like that that there's no coincidences
that you were supposed to be working in this job
to maybe speak to this child this particular day about
this thing. You know, you can't even imagine probably the
impact that you, the two of you have had on
these students and their families over these amount of years.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
We hope.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, well, as you I do get a lot of
great feedback from my families that I'm involved with. You know,
they're they're they're very supportive, very helpful. Yeah, it's it's
it's very uh kumbaya.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
As an employee, how has okill helped you to reach
your goals?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
For me, I, similar to Jim, started out in the
group homes, you know, kind of a weekend position. And
when I met Jim, he had convinced me to become
a program manager for a group home and I did
that for oh gosh, about ten years. And then from
(09:48):
there I went to our training department or learning development department,
in which I was encouraged by my supervisor to do that.
That they really felt like I had a lot to
offer them organization, and that they didn't want me on
that just micro scale and just the group homes anymore.
They were like, you need to grow, you need to go,
(10:08):
you need to go do this for the organization, and
I had always admired like the training department. I thought
that's such a cool environment. And I did go and
I was there for about twenty years and loved it
and thought I'd end my career there because it really
there's nothing like, you know, first day employee, bringing them
in and being able to meet them and you know,
(10:31):
connect with them and let them know what they're about
to embark on and really wish them the best for
a long career with us.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And I loved that. I love the ability to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But the school approached me with an opportunity that I
couldn't resist, which is where I am now. And I've
been with them for about.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The last eight years.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So I feel like, and I've said this often and
I'm not saying it tongue in cheek, I've never been
told no at okill Like, there was no supervisor that
said to me no. They said, okay, how does it
support mission?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
You know?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And what are you going to do with it? And
how is that going to look? And as a result,
that was so motivating. It was one of those things
in which I went someone's actually trusting me to do
something with autonomy and they trust that I support this
mission to do that, and so I just I feel
(11:22):
really really lucky, really lucky, and I think that we
do that for others, you know. As a result, I've
been able to work to really kind of fortify career
paths with our human resources department, and we do. We
have like opportunities for people to come in similar to
the way that Jim and I came in, and you
can decide that you want to spend forty years here
(11:45):
and change your career.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You can go from being in a group home to
being in a camp program as a director, or you
can go from being in our summer camp program to
being an occupational therapist in the classroom. And we have
career paths that will support that. We have tuition reimbursement
that will support that, and then we have professional learning
that is very robust that will support that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So we really.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Want people to kind of come in and stay, you know,
kind of drink the kool aid and stay for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And you have career pathways and partnerships with colleges and universities.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And so I wrote these down so that I didn't
misquote it. So we have partnerships in which we have
discounted tuition with Quinnipiac.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
University of Hertford, WOW, Charter, Oak Goodwin, and Springfield.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
We've been very fortunate to partner with them, so there's
tuition discounts and we get this concierge.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Service, which is great. So if you.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Decide that you want to go back to school and
you're an OKILL employee, and you contact one of these
schools and you say that you are an OKILL employee,
you really get concierge service so that they help you.
They find out what career path youre on. They make
sure that they align you with coursework that's going to
be really specific to that. If you're uncertain, they guide
(13:07):
you in that manner too. And then we have affiliations.
The school, i should say, has affiliations with about fourteen
other schools in which we have internships, We have teachers
in training that come in. We do really everything that
anybody needs in a three to twenty two age range.
(13:30):
For kids with special needs, we can support clinical, we
can support academic, so it's really neat. We get a
lot of students and as a result.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Of that, when I came to Okill. I didn't plan
on doing this job. I planned on doing physical therapy,
but I would never have probably gone into it thinking
I don't have education in this area. I don't know.
I'm going to be at the very bottom. I don't know,
but there's encouragement along the way all the way, and
(14:01):
it can really you can just grow and grow and
grow in this company. And like you know where I
met Susan and I was like, come on, Susan, come on,
take this job. And you can be at the at
the starting level with no experience in this But if
your heart sort of says to you, I want to
do this type of a job, it's a great place
to start because you'll get the education you need through
(14:23):
the job, through like on the job you know, training basically.
And yeah, I mean it's it's it's been my life.
So I'm grateful.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
If you want to be in touch with one of
their recruiters, just email grow at OKILLCT dot org. Again,
that's grow at OKILLCT dot org. And of course you
can just go to OKILLCT dot org. I'm speaking with
Sue Aster, professional development coordinator at the oak Kill School
and Jim Power site supervisor for the Okill Community Programs.
(14:58):
Thank you so much, you for having us
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