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October 28, 2024 14 mins
Dr. Mary Camper is the founder of Reestablishing Hope, a licensed behavioral health clinic that provides a range of services, such as mental health and substance use treatment, anger management, trauma informed care, grief counseling, violence prevention services, veterans’ services, case management and more.

Dr. Camper's vision is to minimize gaps in services related to the social determinant of health, help individuals understand self and overcome the challenges related to mental health. She is dedicated to providing services that will reduce challenges of mental health and improve the well-being of the people she serves.

If you're having trouble with getting rid of negative thoughts, emotions or having difficulty managing impulses, the team provides a loving environment while providing you with the tools you need.

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Website: Reestablishing Hope Inc.
Phone: 815-418-6577
Email: reestablishinghope@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Danny Dean.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is actually my very first podcast for Brandley Black.
So I'm so honored to be doing this show highlighting
all of our Chicagoland at Northwest Indiana Black of businesses
in the area. And today I am joined by special
guest re Establishing Hope, Inc.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
My name is doctor Mary Camper. I'm the founder and
CEO of re Establish and Hope. We are our licensed
behavior of clinics, so we provide a range of services
on mental health, substance use, anger management, trauma, form care,
grief counseling, veteran services. We have the valance prevention piece.
This branched into our spungement piece, which can also because
we have a lot of individuals get stuff off their

(00:36):
records so they can have new beginnings. So we have
intensive case management services. So we kind of provide services
that not only that relates to your mental health, but
the whole wellness of individuals, so we kind of tap
into those social economical needs as well.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Wow, you offer a lot and we're definitely grateful for
that because we're in some trying times right now, so
we need all the help that we can get. So
what inspired you to start your business, re establishing hope.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's so interesting. Of course, I'm a spiritual person. I
have my first dictorial in divinity and my second one psychology.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
But I would sitting on the couch. I half nay
even went to school at that.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Time, and I didn't have my GD yet and I
was in my twenties. I dropped out children at the
early age and I fello law said okay, go into counseling.
And so from that time I went to school and
went to counseling and ended up getting associates and Human
Services at BSWMSW POST and Master's Certificate Inferences to Social Work,
and then I pursued my PhD in psychology in addition

(01:36):
to a number of other licenses and certification that I
do obtain.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
First of all, you go girl, all right, right, that's
what I'm talking about. I love to see us winning.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
So congratulations to you, and thank you for sharing that
with your community.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
I really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
And did you face any challenges in the beginning when
you were just getting started with the business.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh, yes, there's always a host of challenges when you
want to establish your own business. But I always tell
people you have to be a first investor a lot
of time. We want other people resources and money and time,
but we're not willing to put the same time and
effort into doing what it is we need to do
to make sure it's not just a business, but it's
a successful business.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
And so of course when you first.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Start a business, there's a lot of structures and policies,
procedures and things you have to put in place to
make sure you have a great foundation. And so I
started off working at an organization and then I kind
of I kind of been working on the found my
organization at the same time, and I told them I
will resign.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
We don't want you to resign.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
So I said, will you let me come in twice
a week, four hours a day, give me my same pay,
I'll stay. And so they was willing to allow me
to do that. So the times I would have been
going there, I was actually written out of space in
Hazer crasts our first location. It's like it's very small.
It's been in the reception area in the therapy room,
like for the independent contractor when you're doing independent work.

(02:54):
And I started going there developing policies, procedures, start trying
to find out how how do I give a license,
you know, how do I start being able to build
for insurances? How do I start applying for grants? So
behind the scenes, I started doing all of that solo,
and so I built the structure on board packet for

(03:14):
because it goal was to get staff, end up getting
my license as a license behavior of clinic, and then
we also started going through the accreditation to be able
to build insurances, Medicaid, Medicare, Popo, HBO, tray Care, all
of those things. So it was like a lot of
hands on work that I had to actually do the
work to get things started. And then within six months

(03:35):
I got my license, I was, I was in good
standing to start building insurances. I even get a proof
of some grand funding. And I was working on all
of those things at the same time, and I started
getting approved like within that six month month period. But
I worked diligently for myself as if I was working
for someone else. And that's key, and my husband to me,
you work so much. Yes, I had to build a foundation.

(03:57):
I work now and I'll play later.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I love that. We look at you now, look at
you now, You're helping so many people. I mean, and
you specialize in mental health, and you know you had
all of these challenges. Tell us what was your mental
like or how did you overcome, you know, telling yourself like, girl.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I got this, I can do this. What was your
mental like at that time?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I think it's more because I felt like it's more
of a calling versus a job or a responsibility. And
so I always had passion for helping people. People always
call me for prayer, for advice, so I was already providing,
you know, some forum accountlable more on a spiritual form
and by me looking in my life as to be
a sacrifice to Christ, I had to come to a

(04:39):
place and say, Okay, if this is what God wants
me to do, then this is greater than myself. And
oftentimes when I feel like, oh I'm tiring, I'm fe
like doing that, Lord, remind me it's not about you,
because there's so many people who are being rejected, so
many people that's broken, so many people that's going through
things that don't have the resources support, and a lot
of times, even with the body of Christ, you know,
we don't always display the love to that capacity. And

(05:02):
it helps me to see, Okay, the love to curse
half of his people in general, and a whole different
perspective when you're not just oh, just doing it from
the church aspect part of it. I'm the first lady,
so don't get me wrong, amen, but also be able
to use you know, every part and every aspect of
my life to build up His kingdom and soulment in
so many different ways. Because so many people come in

(05:24):
they may not have insurance. I feel like I'm not
going to turn you away if you need help because
you don't have insurance, you can't pay, you know. Last
year in twenty three, we service over two hundred individuals
and we provided sixty over sixty five thousand dollars for
free services for therapy and case management because we see
the need and so our goal is really been there
because we care, which is one of our slogans, but

(05:46):
to really be a support system for individuals who come
through our doors.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
So that's the impact that you want to leave on
your community. Just be in that source, absolutely and it's
absolutely needed. What do you love most about your business?

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love interaction then with the individuals that all work
with the clients, because you're teaching them coping skills and
strategy that's going to change the whole concept of their life.
So we have individuals that may be dealing with severe
mental health substances and your issues or arranging different things
with come down to the social economical. But when you
see them implementing what you have taught them and seeing

(06:22):
the improvement you know of utilizing what you taught them,
that's going to be life changing. As long as you
use your tools and you have them in your toolbox,
you'll be able to use it any time you need it.
And so really seeing the implementation of our clients, you know,
using their coping skills, stabilizing their thought process, stabilizing their emotions,
you know, improving the engagement and communication with their level ones,

(06:43):
having less outbursts. To know, outbursts that right there within
the self is rewarding because it shows me what I
do is a.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Factive And this is iHeart Media Chicago's Brandtly Black podcast.
I'm your host Danny d here with doctor Mary camp
pro founder and CEO of re Establishing Hope, a license
Behave health clinic providing a range of services and doctor Camper.
What is the first step that you would tell someone
to take when it comes to their mental health if

(07:10):
they're just going through something and they're just like, what
do I need to do first?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, the first thing is understanding that we all need help. Yes,
I tell everybody. I think a lot of times we
don't understand how the body responds to things in general, people, places,
and things within this environment. We have a not your
response to things. So I tell everybody that you know
you're gonna have thoughts, You're gonna have emotions. It's not
about those thoughts and the emotions about what you do

(07:34):
when I want to come. And so we have to
normalize that mental health comes. We all have thoughts or something.
And I tell people all the time, I ask people,
have you ever been in a situation where you thought
something was something?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
You get upset and all these emotions and you're.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Responding in a way that you know what didn't reflect
who you really are, and then later when you gather
the facts, you realize it wasn't what you thought. All
those emotion phase away and now you kind of feel
bad about what you did.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
See, the body have a.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Natural way of processing information, but the brain does not
always process information with all facts. So what we're doing
and we teach the individuals to capture those thuughts in
real time, to assess those thoughts, to minimize or reduce
the emotional response that's coming from that thoult, to stabilize it,
because once that thought is switched over to a positive
in the perception of the individual start to see things

(08:23):
in a positive way, those emotions within real time changes
from negative to positive. So we're teaching them and training
them to learn of self. A lot of time we
don't know who we are or how we are made
up and how the body have a natural way of
responding to things.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
In general, we all are worried that way.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
But when you have a level of understanding that this
is how the brain process information, this is how the
body respond to internal external stimulus that's creating those responses
or impulses inside of you, you can gain control of
that and recondition your thought process, recondition your emotions to
stabilize it so the body will adapt your coping skills
as part of a system, versus automatically assuming or responding

(09:04):
in a negative way.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wow, you are so right. Okay, you've done tall me something,
get it together. But I mean that's true. I'm not
the expert but I do know that we should pay
attention to our bodies and how we respond to certain things,
because our bodies will tell it, We'll feel it in
the pit of our stomach.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
You know, there's certain things that we feel. So we
got to pay attention to that.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
I like that. So what does this is a brilliantly
Black podcast? Okay, you're a.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Black woman who owns your business, you're helping your community.
What does it mean to be brilliantly black to you?
What does that mean to you?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think when I think of being brilliantly black, one
understanding what does brillantly mean in the concept? Not oh
just big magnitude of big you know, status is more
of to me taking approach or status to understand and
have a level of empathy to understand what is this
in front of you, not just yourself. And so when

(09:58):
you talk about being brilliant, everybody have areas of expertise.
But when you use your education, your experiences, your knowledge
to be able to enhance the things around you because
you understand what's going on around you, then to me,
that's what baldly is because you make it a greater
impact because you're seeing it as a more.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
On a more micro level.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
And so not only as I'm identifying myself, but I'm
looking at Okay, let me see what my brothers and
sisters are doing. That is what's going on in the community.
How can we make an impact within the community that's
going to bring a fact of change so individual can
have the true resources to stabilize their life in whatever
form that may be. So when you think about Brandley,
you thinking outside the box and above and beyond your

(10:41):
current circumstances situation to really tap into what's greater than
just your existence within itself.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Absolutely, because that's something that you want to live on
beyond you. You want to make that impact. You want
to be selfless, helpful, and that's most important. I like
that definition of Brandly. You go girl, so doctor campus.
So you all serve Hazel Crust in South Holland, right,
So we kind of serve in everything our license for Illinois.

(11:07):
We have two locations in one location in South Holland
for one one hundred Toy Second Street and the Heritage Building,
Sweet one O three and then one seven five seven
seven Kesey and the Professional Bounding and Sweet three Old one.
It's interesting one one O three and three ones backwards,
two different locations.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I thought this, but we service the whole Illinois. We
could service the whole Illinois.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
We partner with the Duveni Oprovation, We partner with schools,
We will partner with other organizations and hospitals. We will
partner with the Core System. So we have a lot
of partnerships that we are working with that you know,
we are able to provide resources and services for and
so so we can provide services throughout the state of
Illinois with our license. You know, of course Cook County

(11:51):
is our primary focus. Could be like right there, but
we have received referrals from Indiana and Kanka Key and
Wale County and stuff like that as well.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Oh good.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
We do virtual services as well.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
That's really good.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Because you know a lot of people are working from
home these days, so it's easy to just holp on
a computer and get that service.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yes, that's great. I love that.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well, thank you for all that you do for re
establishing Hope.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
So where can our audience find your information?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
So if you're looking for re Establishing Hope, you can
check out our website re Establishing Hope, Inc. Dot com,
or you can email us at you re Establishing Hope
at gmail dot com. Or you can visit on our
locations as a mission a moment ago for one on
sixty second Street in South Hallland, Illinois six zero four
seven three or Cazzi and one in Haze Kres one

(12:38):
one seven five seven seven East Cazzie Sweet three on one,
or you could call our office numbers eight one five
four one eight sixty five seven seven.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
And did you mention social media? Yes, so we have
social media page.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Our biggest page we are very active on is Facebook,
so you'll see majority of everything on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I guess we low old school.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
We have other social media pages where we just got
a learned to branch it to all other pages.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'll help you out.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
I'll help you get on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Need just some TikTok's going? You know Facebook's good? Okay?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
So what is your Facebook page? What's the name?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
So our Facebook page is re Establishing Hope, Inc. So
if you google re Establishing Hope, Inc. You'll be able
to see that. Of course you may see quite a
few pages from me because I did write a book
as well, looking at psychology from a spiritual land. So
also get doctor Camper consultation services as well. So I
do a lot of consultation, helping individual build the establishments
and co certations.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Brand and writing.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
There's a lot of mentoring and motivating individuals and stuff
like that, and trainings and webinars and stuff as well.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Well.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
You're amazing. You motivated me right now on this podcast. Seriously,
thank you so much, doctor Camper. We'll visit that page
I see on Facebook. You have the services that you
offer as well. Everything is there, yes, yeah, you go listen. Okay, Chicago, Land,
even Northwest Indiana. If you need any services, please please

(14:00):
contact re Establishing Hope doctor Camper. I appreciate you so
much for joining me on my very first Brandley Black podcast. Okay,
thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Thank you for the opportunity to be here. You're welcome.
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