VIOLAS HOUSE 06-16 - Ends 06/23/23

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Episode Transcript

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And welcome to another edition of Borderline. It's a service of iHeartMedia of the
Real Grand Valley of Texas. I'myour host, Frankie D and we have
a very special guest with us today, Nyla Heckman. She's the director of
operations of Viola's House or is thatViola's House, Nila, Viola's House,
Viola's House, Nila, if youwould first before we get started, little

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background on yourself and how you cameto be with Viola's House. Absolutely,
I like to tell people I've beenworking for Viola's House my whole life.
But I am My mother had meat sixteen. My mother is the CEO
of Viola Souse End founder. Mymother had an amazing village with me at
sixteen, and I came in sayViola's House during COVID, and when I

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saw that the organization was growing,my sole mission was to make sure that
I was able to help my motherhelp this organization grow in any way that
I could. Okay, so tellus now what's involved with this organization,
it's function and what it does.Absolutely, So, Viola's House we have

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three locations. So our sole missionis to provide maternals support as well as
parental supports to mothers in need,and our maternity home where we house made
mothers from eighteen to twenty four.We have a full case management service there.
In that maternity home, we makesure that the mother gets everything that

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she needs from high school diploma,driver's license, birth certificates, even everything
that she needs for her children.Once a pregnant mother enters our program,
they don't have to purchase diapers fortheir children for the next three years.
We provide free diapers for the firstthree years of the child to life.

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We also have a Baby Benefit boutique. It's a gorgeous boutique. You'll never
know everything inside us free. Weprovide parenting classes and with those parenting classes,
our mothers are able to redeem thebaby butt and come and shop in
our store and get everything they couldpossibly need for their children from close to
shoes, to car seats, evencribs. And then we also have our

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mobile unit which will be coming toBrownsville soon. Our mobile unit goes out
and we meet the mothers where theyare with transportation and all of those different
factors. We want to make surethat we touch every single mother that is
in need. Of our help andour mobile unit goes out in services those
mothers in their community within walking distance, and we make sure to provide them

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with diapers, wipes, and anyother resources that that mom might need,
from counseling to healthcare of that's avariety of things that we are able to
put our hands on to help them. Ob and folks. So you just
heard Nila mentioned that they've got afree diaper giveaway coming to Brownsville. Now
that's happening. Believe this coming Fridayon the twenty third, is that correct?

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That is correct, from five pmto eight pm at the Brownsville Tony
Chavis Creation of the Innet folks,so you understand this is for expecting parents
and those with children too and underas a matter of fact, you can
follow them at on the internet wwwdot violashouse dot org. That's org.

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And once again, this event happeningon Friday, five to eight pm and
it's going to be at Tony GonzalezPark in Recreation. If you want to
Google map it, it's at thirtyfour Tony Gonzalez Drive in Brownsville, So
make sure you get that done forthis service, Nila, how long has
this service been around well, wehave been around since two thousand and eight,

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but our community outreach portions started intwenty twenty cities when the COVID hits.
So we've been doing this for threeyears and have served over six thousand
mothers. Terrific, Nila, isthere any other way they can reach you
aside from the website at Violashouse dotorg. Absolutely favorite thing. Follow us
from all social media platforms at Viola'sHouse, Dallas. You will get all

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the information you need on how totake advantage of our services. Alrighty folks,
again, don't don't miss out afree diaper giveaway coming to Brownsville this
coming Friday on the twenty third.Again, that's going to be from five
pm to eight pm at Tony GonzalezPark and Recreation. That's at thirty four
Tony Gonzalez Drive in Brownsville. Soyou make sure make sure you take advantage

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of that. Meet these fine folksand find out what they're all about and
get involved, you know, that'sthat's what it's all about. So,
Nila Hickman, director of Operations ofViola's House, Nila, thank you so
much for joining us. That wassome verview for having Yeah, some very
intuitive information that I think a lotof folks need to know about. Absolutely,
I am so happy to share andthank you for having me. You're

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very welcome, folks. That's anotheredition of Borderline. It's a service of
iHeartMedia, of the Real Grand Valleyof Texas. I'm Frankie d.