November 11, 2025 • 18 mins
On today’s episode, David celebrates the recent success of the levy and talks about the new and expanded programming the levy funds will bring. Thank you for voting YES and Continuing the Caring in Ashland County! The Board can be reached by visiting our website at www.ashlandmhrb.org/ or by phone at: 419.281.3139.
(Record Date: November 6, 2025)
(Record Date: November 6, 2025)
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode. This is David Ross, Executive director of
the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashton County, and
this is a special episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You know, I'm entitling this one Levy's success and next steps.
So we are just coming off this week the vote
here in Ashland County where the voters overwhelmingly supported our
replacement Levy. That was on and I wanted to say,
first and foremost, thank you, thank you, thank you. The
(00:45):
margins nineteen points fifty nine to forty. Really it was
just more than I could have hoped for, and that's
really important that that kind of a margin sends a
message to I think the community, but particularly our board,
about the support that this community has for mental health,
substance youse services, prevention services, everything the board's doing, has
(01:08):
been doing, and what we plan to do going forward.
But it's humbling. I've talked to several of my board
members about this. It's very humbling to know that the
community is supportive. But obviously there's expectations and there should
be expectations of the Board to continue to do the
right thing, to continue to care, which was our slogan
(01:30):
for the many years to come. So it was a
ten year replacement. We are very excited for some of
you policy folks out there. You might say, well, what
does that mean in terms of what will we start
to see? David and I want to go through some
of the programs and things that you'll see. But keep
(01:51):
in mind, this means the additional revenue will be collected
during the twenty twenty six calendar year, but the funds,
the additional funds that the levee will bring in won't
actually be realized by the Board until twenty twenty seven,
so there's a bit of delay in the actual funds
(02:14):
coming in the additional funds, but the Board has thought
that through and we have some plans in place for
bridge funding so we don't have to wait until those
funds actually start to come in. So the Board has
set aside some one time reserve dollars, but we plan
to use those to stand up some of the expansions
(02:37):
and enhancements. Knowing that now that the levy revenue will
start to come in, in twenty twenty seven because we
didn't want to wait. We don't want the voters to
vote on something here November of twenty twenty five, but
then not really see some of the improvements and promises
that we made until January of twenty twenty seven. I
hope that makes sense. Again, I can't say enough about
(03:00):
the wise stewardship that our board has shown in setting
aside appropriate reserves to do things like this. It wouldn't
be possible otherwise. So I mean, there's so many thank
you I could do the whole program on who to thank,
certainly doctor maclfresh, our Levey Chair, the Levy Committee, all
(03:22):
of the board members, our agency partners, Appleseed, CADA, Catholic Charities,
all of their staff. There's so many folks that help
make that fifty nine percent vote happened. So thank you.
And I'll say that. I mean every time you see
me for the probably the last few months, you'll hear
(03:42):
me say thank you, because I mean it it's big
for this county. I think we're positioned well to do
several things, and I wanted to talk abou a few
of those things. So Levy success, yes, but what is
some of the next steps. And again more of this
will come out as we actually implement it. But one
of the things we promised when we were campaigning was
(04:06):
that the Liaison program, the base level that Levy funds
go towards supporting haven't really increased since we started the
program some twenty five years ago. So one of the
things we're going to do is increase kind of the
level of funding that the board uses for the Liaison
program to move that up. Now, I will say, you know,
(04:29):
our schools, some of our school districts have partnered with
us and use some of their own dollars to come
alongside our levee dollars to get more out of the program.
I hope that continues, and I will talk to all
the superintendents about that individually. About our hope is as
we increase our share, that they continue either at the
same level or even more if they want to. Because
(04:50):
we just know how much good that the Liaison program
is doing throughout our county in the various districts. And
again that's a big part I think about why we
are so successful with the Levy people, whether your parent, grandparent,
young person, so many people are positively impacted by the
liaison program. They want to see it grow, continue and strengthen.
(05:14):
And speaking of strengthening our twenty four to seven crisis services,
this is something that we will use the dollars to
help shore up to make sure that we continue to
be as responsive as we can be. As many of
you have probably heard, there is a national number now
for crisis and that is the nine eight eight number.
(05:36):
The Board has done a lot of due diligence. We
are continuing to monitor the quality of the nine eight
eight number. But as I've said in all my talks
here in Ashon County, nine to eight isn't a local
number in the sense that it goes to a regional
callbank out of Lorraine County, the NORD Center and those
(05:57):
folks I think are doing a decent job. But the
folks that answer when you call nine eight from Ashland
County do not know Ashland County the way the folks
know it. When you call our local crisis number are
four one nine two eight nine six' one one. One
when you call that, number and that's the number of
(06:18):
The board has supported for over twenty, years you are
going to get that local person that is very familiar
with all the different, resources AND i still in my,
board both still feel like the local option is the
far superior. Option but if folks don't remember that number
when the crisis is, HOT i get, it call nine eight.
(06:41):
Eight there's a good chance that the person that answers
nine and eight is going to refer you back to
our local twenty four to seven. Crisis it is just
an added, step, though And i'd rather, folks particularly folks
that are in a, crisis avoid an extra. Step so
we will continue to strengthen our twenty four to seven
local CRISIS a, number awareness of that, number ease and.
(07:02):
ACCESS i, mean trust, me if there is an easy
way to turn that into a three, DIGIT i, Would
but those things are really hard to. Do, actually one
thing that is being piloted, now it's something Called Mobile
Response Stabilization SERVICES mrss is kind of an acronym for
(07:23):
That Mobile response stabilization. Services this is a. Pilot The
board isn't currently funding in. This the funds are coming
from the state at this. Point and essentially what it,
is it's almost like it's a rapid response team that
typically responds either to the homes or to schools if
there's a youth crisis as defined by the, family so
(07:48):
young person is struggling at school or in the. Home
this team can be mobilized to engage the family and
the young, person try to de escalate the crisis, situation
whatever that might, be and then offer. Resources the idea
the team isn't really designed to be involved with the
youth and family for long, term but in a short
(08:09):
term to keep things, stable to get them connected with
the needed. Resources they seem to be doing a really
good job with. That, again just started In, july so
we were only a few months into, it but we're
watching that program and that was something when we were
on the campaign trail trying to make the case for the.
Replacement this is something if it works, out it continues
(08:31):
to demonstrate effectiveness and reducing the need for hospitalizations or
involvement in juvenile court or law enforcement children's services if
it can avoid some of those negative outcomes by getting
families young people the services and supports they. Need the
board may want to fund, that but it's a very
(08:55):
expensive intervention because it's what they call a firehouse. Model,
again just like we never know where there's going to
be a, fire you have to have people ready to,
go and it's the same with this this crisis response.
Model we would have to pay folks to be ready
all the, time not knowing when or how many calls
they might get in a. Shift so it's an expensive,
(09:17):
model but if it demonstrates the kind of outcomes we
are seeing, initially that is something that the board may
want to invest levy dollars. IN i was thinking about
it this. MORNING i kind of think of it almost
like a liaisons after dark. Program NOW i hope that
doesn't sound too, sinister but you, know our school community
liaisons work during the school months and the school, days
(09:37):
but you, know sometimes families experienced challenges after school's. Over
and if they're able to employ the kinds of skills
in the sensitivities that are liaisons that work in the schools,
do but just do that in the home environment after school.
Hours that's kind of my vision for how it might
be able to work and also connect dovetail compliment what
(10:00):
we're already doing in our. Schools the other thing we're
going to do is to expand our senior services and
our veteran services to engage some of these disconnected seniors and.
Vets and this is not as easy as you might.
Think but we have been investigating looking at different models
(10:23):
out there for both these, groups And i'll just give
you the short. Version the short version with our seniors
is oftentimes seniors no seniors that might be, isolated maybe
they don't have, family they don't have family, locally and
they might be in an apartment or a, home and
they're struggling because they are disconnected from the, community from,
(10:43):
church no one's looking at, them nobody's talking with. Them
they're not able to get, out maybe as much as
they want because of all kinds of, reasons, physical, financial et.
Cetera but we want to encourage our seniors to get
involved with Our Golden center programs or our Pen pal
programs are what we call our multi generational menoring program
through the Pent pole. Program but we need to find
(11:04):
these seniors and we want to mobilize other seniors to do.
That we want to collaborate with organizations Like council On,
aging who has a home delivered meal, program which is
vital to a lot of our. Seniors but we want
to try to make sure that we can find as many,
isolated disconnected seniors as possible and get them engaged because
(11:27):
again that avoids sometimes very serious crises down the road
if we can engage them earlier and we know that population.
Exists the other group that's tough to engage sometimes is our.
Veterans and the best Advice i've gotten comes directly from
our veterans ask, us and so all the things that
(11:49):
we've done so far to support our veterans has been their.
Ideas years, ago we tried to do some things that
we thought made, sense but a lot of our veterans, said,
no that doesn't make, sense and they didn't. Participate so
we've had much greater, success like with the landing zone
At catholic charities where they meet for coffee and discussion and.
Support that was something an idea that came directly from the.
(12:10):
Veterans and so we want to engage veterans from different,
theaters different, times different war zones or, deployments AND i
don't think we're doing as good as a job as
we can with all those. Eras so sometimes that means
just sitting down with veterans and asking how we can
better be supportive to them and their. Family so that's
(12:30):
another big focus with the levy going. Forward another Thing
i've noted here we are going to triple down on
our prevention. Services for any of you that were at
the annual luncheon that The board recently, had we talked
about how a majority of our funding already goes to
prevention services versus treatment and crisis and that was by
(12:52):
design that took The board, many many years to. Do
but what that means is this is important you as
a community member to know that The board is trying
to front load prevention services such that individuals build, resilience
build skills and tools so that they don't need to
either go into the longer term treatment system or crisis system,
(13:15):
ever or if they, do maybe they spend the least
amount of time possible in. It, Right so the idea,
is let's build up people their, skills their, resiliency their
ability to manage life's, challenges that emotional, distress all the
things that we know as human beings we are going to.
Experience do as much as that prevention in building emotional,
(13:39):
muscle if you, will and such that when the individuals
do experience these things in, life their first reaction, is you,
know MAYBE i have a diagnosis THAT i need, pills but,
rather you, know how CAN i draw on WHAT i already?
Know how CAN i use my natural? Supports how CAN
i use my, family my, friends my, faith my church,
(14:00):
community other community partners to help me negotiate this difficult.
Situation but sometimes, yes people will need the formal system
help our Apple, seed Our catholic, charities OUR. Cata but
even in those, instances our hope is with the prevention
and the resiliency based. Approach the recovery, oriented optimistic approach
(14:21):
that The Ashton County board has had is that, folks
when they take advantage of those formal systems of, care
they do that on a, temporary a time limited. Basis,
okay because sometimes we all need a refresher on you
can do. This here's some, skills maybe there's some things
that you didn't know that might be helpful in your specific.
Situation so all that to, say tripling down on, prevention
(14:46):
we definitely also want to include within there's some more
around bullying prevention and education in our schools because we've
been hearing more and more reports of that being an
issue for our young. People the other thing you should
know that the levee, is and That i'll start pretty,
quickly is it Makes Ashland county. Competitive so like many,
(15:07):
industries the behavioral health care, workforce it's hyper competitive right.
Now and our board in all the community MEMBERS i spoke,
with agreed That Ashton county should not be the last
place people go because it pays the lowest in our. Region,
okay now, again hear. Me, Now i'm not talking about
(15:29):
competing With Kyga, County Franklin, county you, Know Hamilton, County,
Cincinnati columbus In. Cleveland we will never be able to
have the resource levels that those folks, do but we
do need to be competitive to the region around us
such that people Choose Ashland county because we are. Competitive,
obviously our mayor and our county commissioners are doing a
(15:51):
wonderful job and trying to create all the other things
that make this a, place a, destination a place to,
live a place to raise, families a place to, grow be,
happy and, contribute et. Cetera but we need to do our,
part and part of that is making sure that our
agencies have sufficient resources to both attract and retain a,
(16:12):
quality a high quality a bay health, workforce because, guys
so At Ashland, county you deserve, that and we want
to ensure that you have. That and you, know the
final Thing i'll mention just in passing, is, yeah we
are probably going to stop running Those dwight maclfresh commercials
on the. RADIO i tease because doctor macafresh did some
(16:35):
wonderful promo spots supporting the. Levee and we joke because
so many folks who were able to hear doctor macklefresh
in those little spots on the radio supporting the, levee
and and a lot of his friends tease, him it's,
like how much longer do we need to hear you, well?
Voters since we were so, successful we will we promised
to stop running those. Ads so maybe to wrap, up
(16:59):
let me just say thank you, Again Ashton. COUNTY i
am very much looking forward to many more episodes of
how together we are Keeping ashland. HEALTHY i love WHAT i.
Do hopefully anyone that knows, me or listen to the
broadcast for a, while can can can hear, that can
(17:21):
sense that you know AND I and that's my prayer
and my wish for for everyone that you find, employment
you find work that is, meaningful that you you wake
up in your you're joyful in doing. It you know
you see the meaning and purpose of, it because ultimately
that is what work should be for all of. Us
(17:41):
so thank you, Again Ashland. County looking forward to our
Next Keeping Ashland healthy.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
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The board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis
line Through Applese Community Mental Health. Center it can be
(18:07):
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Speaker 2 (18:19):
Healthy
Welcome. You're listening to the Keeping Ashland Healthy podcast, a
podcast production of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of
Ashland County, Ohio. Thanks for joining us, and welcome back
to another episode. This is David Ross, Executive director of
the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashton County, and
this is a special episode.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You know, I'm entitling this one Levy's success and next steps.
So we are just coming off this week the vote
here in Ashland County where the voters overwhelmingly supported our
replacement Levy. That was on and I wanted to say,
first and foremost, thank you, thank you, thank you. The
(00:45):
margins nineteen points fifty nine to forty. Really it was
just more than I could have hoped for, and that's
really important that that kind of a margin sends a
message to I think the community, but particularly our board,
about the support that this community has for mental health,
substance youse services, prevention services, everything the board's doing, has
(01:08):
been doing, and what we plan to do going forward.
But it's humbling. I've talked to several of my board
members about this. It's very humbling to know that the
community is supportive. But obviously there's expectations and there should
be expectations of the Board to continue to do the
right thing, to continue to care, which was our slogan
(01:30):
for the many years to come. So it was a
ten year replacement. We are very excited for some of
you policy folks out there. You might say, well, what
does that mean in terms of what will we start
to see? David and I want to go through some
of the programs and things that you'll see. But keep
(01:51):
in mind, this means the additional revenue will be collected
during the twenty twenty six calendar year, but the funds,
the additional funds that the levee will bring in won't
actually be realized by the Board until twenty twenty seven,
so there's a bit of delay in the actual funds
(02:14):
coming in the additional funds, but the Board has thought
that through and we have some plans in place for
bridge funding so we don't have to wait until those
funds actually start to come in. So the Board has
set aside some one time reserve dollars, but we plan
to use those to stand up some of the expansions
(02:37):
and enhancements. Knowing that now that the levy revenue will
start to come in, in twenty twenty seven because we
didn't want to wait. We don't want the voters to
vote on something here November of twenty twenty five, but
then not really see some of the improvements and promises
that we made until January of twenty twenty seven. I
hope that makes sense. Again, I can't say enough about
(03:00):
the wise stewardship that our board has shown in setting
aside appropriate reserves to do things like this. It wouldn't
be possible otherwise. So I mean, there's so many thank
you I could do the whole program on who to thank,
certainly doctor maclfresh, our Levey Chair, the Levy Committee, all
(03:22):
of the board members, our agency partners, Appleseed, CADA, Catholic Charities,
all of their staff. There's so many folks that help
make that fifty nine percent vote happened. So thank you.
And I'll say that. I mean every time you see
me for the probably the last few months, you'll hear
(03:42):
me say thank you, because I mean it it's big
for this county. I think we're positioned well to do
several things, and I wanted to talk abou a few
of those things. So Levy success, yes, but what is
some of the next steps. And again more of this
will come out as we actually implement it. But one
of the things we promised when we were campaigning was
(04:06):
that the Liaison program, the base level that Levy funds
go towards supporting haven't really increased since we started the
program some twenty five years ago. So one of the
things we're going to do is increase kind of the
level of funding that the board uses for the Liaison
program to move that up. Now, I will say, you know,
(04:29):
our schools, some of our school districts have partnered with
us and use some of their own dollars to come
alongside our levee dollars to get more out of the program.
I hope that continues, and I will talk to all
the superintendents about that individually. About our hope is as
we increase our share, that they continue either at the
same level or even more if they want to. Because
(04:50):
we just know how much good that the Liaison program
is doing throughout our county in the various districts. And
again that's a big part I think about why we
are so successful with the Levy people, whether your parent, grandparent,
young person, so many people are positively impacted by the
liaison program. They want to see it grow, continue and strengthen.
(05:14):
And speaking of strengthening our twenty four to seven crisis services,
this is something that we will use the dollars to
help shore up to make sure that we continue to
be as responsive as we can be. As many of
you have probably heard, there is a national number now
for crisis and that is the nine eight eight number.
(05:36):
The Board has done a lot of due diligence. We
are continuing to monitor the quality of the nine eight
eight number. But as I've said in all my talks
here in Ashon County, nine to eight isn't a local
number in the sense that it goes to a regional
callbank out of Lorraine County, the NORD Center and those
(05:57):
folks I think are doing a decent job. But the
folks that answer when you call nine eight from Ashland
County do not know Ashland County the way the folks
know it. When you call our local crisis number are
four one nine two eight nine six' one one. One
when you call that, number and that's the number of
(06:18):
The board has supported for over twenty, years you are
going to get that local person that is very familiar
with all the different, resources AND i still in my,
board both still feel like the local option is the
far superior. Option but if folks don't remember that number
when the crisis is, HOT i get, it call nine eight.
(06:41):
Eight there's a good chance that the person that answers
nine and eight is going to refer you back to
our local twenty four to seven. Crisis it is just
an added, step, though And i'd rather, folks particularly folks
that are in a, crisis avoid an extra. Step so
we will continue to strengthen our twenty four to seven
local CRISIS a, number awareness of that, number ease and.
(07:02):
ACCESS i, mean trust, me if there is an easy
way to turn that into a three, DIGIT i, Would
but those things are really hard to. Do, actually one
thing that is being piloted, now it's something Called Mobile
Response Stabilization SERVICES mrss is kind of an acronym for
(07:23):
That Mobile response stabilization. Services this is a. Pilot The
board isn't currently funding in. This the funds are coming
from the state at this. Point and essentially what it,
is it's almost like it's a rapid response team that
typically responds either to the homes or to schools if
there's a youth crisis as defined by the, family so
(07:48):
young person is struggling at school or in the. Home
this team can be mobilized to engage the family and
the young, person try to de escalate the crisis, situation
whatever that might, be and then offer. Resources the idea
the team isn't really designed to be involved with the
youth and family for long, term but in a short
(08:09):
term to keep things, stable to get them connected with
the needed. Resources they seem to be doing a really
good job with. That, again just started In, july so
we were only a few months into, it but we're
watching that program and that was something when we were
on the campaign trail trying to make the case for the.
Replacement this is something if it works, out it continues
(08:31):
to demonstrate effectiveness and reducing the need for hospitalizations or
involvement in juvenile court or law enforcement children's services if
it can avoid some of those negative outcomes by getting
families young people the services and supports they. Need the
board may want to fund, that but it's a very
(08:55):
expensive intervention because it's what they call a firehouse. Model,
again just like we never know where there's going to
be a, fire you have to have people ready to,
go and it's the same with this this crisis response.
Model we would have to pay folks to be ready
all the, time not knowing when or how many calls
they might get in a. Shift so it's an expensive,
(09:17):
model but if it demonstrates the kind of outcomes we
are seeing, initially that is something that the board may
want to invest levy dollars. IN i was thinking about
it this. MORNING i kind of think of it almost
like a liaisons after dark. Program NOW i hope that
doesn't sound too, sinister but you, know our school community
liaisons work during the school months and the school, days
(09:37):
but you, know sometimes families experienced challenges after school's. Over
and if they're able to employ the kinds of skills
in the sensitivities that are liaisons that work in the schools,
do but just do that in the home environment after school.
Hours that's kind of my vision for how it might
be able to work and also connect dovetail compliment what
(10:00):
we're already doing in our. Schools the other thing we're
going to do is to expand our senior services and
our veteran services to engage some of these disconnected seniors and.
Vets and this is not as easy as you might.
Think but we have been investigating looking at different models
(10:23):
out there for both these, groups And i'll just give
you the short. Version the short version with our seniors
is oftentimes seniors no seniors that might be, isolated maybe
they don't have, family they don't have family, locally and
they might be in an apartment or a, home and
they're struggling because they are disconnected from the, community from,
(10:43):
church no one's looking at, them nobody's talking with. Them
they're not able to get, out maybe as much as
they want because of all kinds of, reasons, physical, financial et.
Cetera but we want to encourage our seniors to get
involved with Our Golden center programs or our Pen pal
programs are what we call our multi generational menoring program
through the Pent pole. Program but we need to find
(11:04):
these seniors and we want to mobilize other seniors to do.
That we want to collaborate with organizations Like council On,
aging who has a home delivered meal, program which is
vital to a lot of our. Seniors but we want
to try to make sure that we can find as many,
isolated disconnected seniors as possible and get them engaged because
(11:27):
again that avoids sometimes very serious crises down the road
if we can engage them earlier and we know that population.
Exists the other group that's tough to engage sometimes is our.
Veterans and the best Advice i've gotten comes directly from
our veterans ask, us and so all the things that
(11:49):
we've done so far to support our veterans has been their.
Ideas years, ago we tried to do some things that
we thought made, sense but a lot of our veterans, said,
no that doesn't make, sense and they didn't. Participate so
we've had much greater, success like with the landing zone
At catholic charities where they meet for coffee and discussion and.
Support that was something an idea that came directly from the.
(12:10):
Veterans and so we want to engage veterans from different,
theaters different, times different war zones or, deployments AND i
don't think we're doing as good as a job as
we can with all those. Eras so sometimes that means
just sitting down with veterans and asking how we can
better be supportive to them and their. Family so that's
(12:30):
another big focus with the levy going. Forward another Thing
i've noted here we are going to triple down on
our prevention. Services for any of you that were at
the annual luncheon that The board recently, had we talked
about how a majority of our funding already goes to
prevention services versus treatment and crisis and that was by
(12:52):
design that took The board, many many years to. Do
but what that means is this is important you as
a community member to know that The board is trying
to front load prevention services such that individuals build, resilience
build skills and tools so that they don't need to
either go into the longer term treatment system or crisis system,
(13:15):
ever or if they, do maybe they spend the least
amount of time possible in. It, Right so the idea,
is let's build up people their, skills their, resiliency their
ability to manage life's, challenges that emotional, distress all the
things that we know as human beings we are going to.
Experience do as much as that prevention in building emotional,
(13:39):
muscle if you, will and such that when the individuals
do experience these things in, life their first reaction, is you,
know MAYBE i have a diagnosis THAT i need, pills but,
rather you, know how CAN i draw on WHAT i already?
Know how CAN i use my natural? Supports how CAN
i use my, family my, friends my, faith my church,
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community other community partners to help me negotiate this difficult.
Situation but sometimes, yes people will need the formal system
help our Apple, seed Our catholic, charities OUR. Cata but
even in those, instances our hope is with the prevention
and the resiliency based. Approach the recovery, oriented optimistic approach
(14:21):
that The Ashton County board has had is that, folks
when they take advantage of those formal systems of, care
they do that on a, temporary a time limited. Basis,
okay because sometimes we all need a refresher on you
can do. This here's some, skills maybe there's some things
that you didn't know that might be helpful in your specific.
Situation so all that to, say tripling down on, prevention
(14:46):
we definitely also want to include within there's some more
around bullying prevention and education in our schools because we've
been hearing more and more reports of that being an
issue for our young. People the other thing you should
know that the levee, is and That i'll start pretty,
quickly is it Makes Ashland county. Competitive so like many,
(15:07):
industries the behavioral health care, workforce it's hyper competitive right.
Now and our board in all the community MEMBERS i spoke,
with agreed That Ashton county should not be the last
place people go because it pays the lowest in our. Region,
okay now, again hear. Me, Now i'm not talking about
(15:29):
competing With Kyga, County Franklin, county you, Know Hamilton, County,
Cincinnati columbus In. Cleveland we will never be able to
have the resource levels that those folks, do but we
do need to be competitive to the region around us
such that people Choose Ashland county because we are. Competitive,
obviously our mayor and our county commissioners are doing a
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wonderful job and trying to create all the other things
that make this a, place a, destination a place to,
live a place to raise, families a place to, grow be,
happy and, contribute et. Cetera but we need to do our,
part and part of that is making sure that our
agencies have sufficient resources to both attract and retain a,
(16:12):
quality a high quality a bay health, workforce because, guys
so At Ashland, county you deserve, that and we want
to ensure that you have. That and you, know the
final Thing i'll mention just in passing, is, yeah we
are probably going to stop running Those dwight maclfresh commercials
on the. RADIO i tease because doctor macafresh did some
(16:35):
wonderful promo spots supporting the. Levee and we joke because
so many folks who were able to hear doctor macklefresh
in those little spots on the radio supporting the, levee
and and a lot of his friends tease, him it's,
like how much longer do we need to hear you, well?
Voters since we were so, successful we will we promised
to stop running those. Ads so maybe to wrap, up
(16:59):
let me just say thank you, Again Ashton. COUNTY i
am very much looking forward to many more episodes of
how together we are Keeping ashland. HEALTHY i love WHAT i.
Do hopefully anyone that knows, me or listen to the
broadcast for a, while can can can hear, that can
(17:21):
sense that you know AND I and that's my prayer
and my wish for for everyone that you find, employment
you find work that is, meaningful that you you wake
up in your you're joyful in doing. It you know
you see the meaning and purpose of, it because ultimately
that is what work should be for all of. Us
(17:41):
so thank you, Again Ashland. County looking forward to our
Next Keeping Ashland healthy.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Podcast thank you for listening to another episode of The
Keeping Ashland healthy. Podcast the podcast is a production of
The Mental health And Recovery board Of Ashland, County. Ohio
you can reach The board by calling four one nine
two eight one three one three. Nine please remember that
The board funds a local twenty four to seven crisis
line Through Applese Community Mental Health. Center it can be
(18:07):
reached by calling four one nine two eight nine sixty
one one. One that's four one nine two eight nine
sixty one one. One until next, Time please join us
in Keeping Ashland.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
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