June 6, 2025 • 43 mins
WDIA's Stan Bell spoke with Latasha Harris and Arika Williams with Memphis Medical District Collaborative.
This organization is helping 11th & 12th graders to get careers in the Healthcare field. They spoke with Stan about their 4th Career Launch Academy.
This organization is helping 11th & 12th graders to get careers in the Healthcare field. They spoke with Stan about their 4th Career Launch Academy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis born and bred, walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the stand Belle Morning Show weekday morning from six
to ten AM on the Heart and Soul of Memphis
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IA. All right, and then I think we're good. All right,
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gather around the campfire. We live on the radio on
this beautiful Friday, lem we look out and.
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y'all see that sun.
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Shote out there, then see that's how I get a
weather forecast. I don't do that, you know, the formal stuff.
I just look at the window.
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
All right, WDI listeners, thank you so much for being here.
Definitely no exception on this Friday. We've got some wonderful
guest and we're excited. We have the Memphis Medical District Collaborative,
and I've got a work force specialists in here, and
I got a senior director in the building in this studio.
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We're gonna make it happen. And before I do that,
let me just say, before we get into what we
want to talk about this morning. And you know what
take what made my ears perk up? What made me
get excited about this? When they start talking about young
people and talking about jobs and talk about training and
getting them skills and getting them a little chick on the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Side, I was like, why they do that a part
of my graandmar then.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, but they say they do it at the
Memphis Medical.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
District Collaborative. And how am I doing? Ladies? So far?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, thank you so much? Can I say welcome to
you all? Welcome? Welcome? Why?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you for being here? Ladies look good, perky, got
the glow going on? Y'all over there again going over there? Look,
you know I could you know, I would be remiss
if I didn't, you know, if I didn't invite you
your ladies on here to talk about something that's positive,
you know. And that's what that's what it's all about.
(01:49):
This Friday show is about positivity and moving our city
forward and helping our young folks. So two most important
words in the language, thank you, Yeah, most important words
we and the least important word I. So what I'm
gonna do right now?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Those wd?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I listen WI listeners who are glued to the radio.
Welcome to the studio. My guests, Latasha Harris, Senior director
of Workforce Strategies at Memphis Medical District collaborator and Erica
with an aid, Erica Williams, workforce specialist.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm going so far it's I did in my home.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Now, come on now, Yeah, just just because I left
the school system with it, don't mean I'm leaving. I
don't mean I'm gone. So I got to be proper
decent in the autumn. They came this morning to share
information about hire local programming. Your your hire local programming.
(02:50):
That's an action already, and talk to us about this
career launch academy of course. So I've got missus Williams
and I've got miss Harris in the studio.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So let me do this about Eric right here, right,
I got you, I know not. How's the family.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Doing great?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They proud of what you're doing. You How long you've
been working with the m m d C in Memphis
Medical District. Yeah, yeah, brink how I'm doing family good?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Family doing great.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Mom and dad, proud of your your parents still with us.
I'm just checking anybody in celestial Okay, I just checking
make sure nobody was in the Celestial City.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I do that every every Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I gotta check old family, first family first, even before
this great information goes forth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Uh so they proud, they're happy. Are your native Memphire.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
No I am not.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The windows steady the gold. You know about the dad
Ryde you took it. You got the Dad ride to
come to Memphis. Now I just go to little Hair.
I just better take that. That's that's about nine ten years,
about nineteen hours.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Driving that drive is something else a little different now
when we're moving, I'm so tired of the Howard from
the shy the dad right, yeah, fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Then you have to jump back on. Get the eyes
and Howard to come back. See talks there. You know
about the eyes and hours been there a couple of times.
Take my boys to the Navy pier.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I know you've been one hundred. I know you've been
a hundred times.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Been a hundred times.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Suspensive matter at boardwalk, no joke.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We're so happy to have you in Memphis, though, because
we know that you're making a difference.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ms.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Harris, what's up?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is she a good employee?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
She's absolutely a great employee. She's an OG been with
us on the workforce team for about four or five
years and we just couldn't do this work without it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah. So yeah, yeah, you your o G.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You've been on job long in four years, I said.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
These days.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, and U that's a good compliment coming from.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I guess your boss.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Senior Director of Workforce Strategies at Memphis Medical District collaborator
Latasha Harris.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Thanks for being here. How's ther family?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Hey, family's doing well. Listen, Thank you so much for
the opportunity to do this. First of all, my mama
and my daddy wanted me to tell you good morning
and hello.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They are proud.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Graduates of UT and they went to Martin with you,
and so anyways, they tell us stories all the time
about how y'all used to cut up in college. But
just glad to be here. I'm not a native Memphian,
but you know, my mama is she's from south side
Lorna righta Paris, That's right, that's right. She was a
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south side scrapper, grew up in South Memphis. So I've
had family roots in Memphis for forty years or more.
We've lived all over the country, though, and so I
came back to Memphis about twenty years ago to go
to school.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So I went to college here.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I chose to come to Memphis and I went to
Rhodes College, and after that, I decided to stay here
in Memphis and make a difference here. Been working with
children and families. Absolutely love what we do. And by
the way, I'm happy that workforce is on the mic
one two one twoo.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Just right. You are definitely here, and.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm telling you, oh wow, I know when I pulled
you out of the green room and now you're having
such a good time. You said, well, hey, I got
to tell you about my mom and my dad and said,
I know you off the time. Yeah, I'm telling you
I appreciate you. I know they're proud. Yeah, that's wonderful.
So there you go. When we come back, WI listens,
we're going to talk about just what they're doing at
the Memphis Medical District Collaborative. I've got my special guest again,
(06:43):
Araca Williams, workforce specialists and of course, the senior director
of Workforce Strategies at the MMDC in the studios this morning.
And I will ask you this before I take this break.
Y'all still got openings.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yes, it's not too late.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Plans to start on June the sixteenth, and so especially
if there are any students that have just recently graduated.
All you need is a high school diploma and a
driver's license. And if you do, we have an employer
that will hire them and teach them to be EMTs.
And so we've got about ten seats left for that class,
and we probably have a handful of seats left for
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upcoming twelfth graders who want to do healthcare discovery.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
But stay tuned, we'll talk more.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'm telling you will. WDIA, thank you so much for
being here. Stand special people, spotlight this morning deathly informative
and want you to get some takeaways from this because
these ladies have come with a purpose. The Career Launch
Academy offers free healthcare training for juniors and seniors. Am
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I right about I'm turning to mic back up eleventh
greatest twelfth graders and right before we take our last break,
you say too, it's not too late, So June sixteen
right through how long it depends.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It depends on what class they're in.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So if there are folks listening in who are about
to be seniors, this fall, they could actually enroll in
our Healthcare Discovery class.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
That class runs from June sixteenth through July the eleventh,
and it's all about exploring careers in healthcare.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So they're going to be doing lots of field trips.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
They're going to spend time at Southwest, They're going to
Baptist Health Sciences, they'll be at UT and really they'll
be looking at careers like radiology, nursing, physical therapy, medical
lab sciences. Our goal for that group is to expose
them to things that they've probably never heard of. Traditionally
we think about doctors and nurses and they're important, but
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there are lots of other job roles that are critical
for healthcare ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So they need to come with the open mind, but
they already need to know they want to be in
healthcare field.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, that class is really meant for young people who
are maybe on the fence. They think they might want
to go into healthcare. But by the time they finished
doing simulations and meeting people in the field, we hope
by the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The summer they'll have a really.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Good indication of if healthcare is the right career.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
For Okay, so mimss Harris, let me ask you this,
how long is how long are the courses?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How long is it going to take to get through.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
For healthcare Discovery.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
It's only about four weeks, so June sixteenth through July eleventh. Okay,
there are no prerequisites. So as long as they're going
to the twelfth grade this year, we've got at least
a handful of slots left. They need to go to
our website Hire Local nine oh one dot com.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Let's say that again.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
They need to go to Higher Local nine to oh
one dot com more time, Higher Local nine oh one
dot com and click on youth programs and they'll be
able to do our little interest form.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, all right, so miss Erica, Miss Williams, Healthcare Discovery,
Now what's that? So versus pre EMT? So you got
to be a senior a rising scene to be in
a pre EMT. But Erica, so I know you work
for specialists. Health care Discoveries just for the juniors coming up.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Those are for the so so we don't want folks
to get confused. So Healthcare Discovery is for anybody that
is going to the twelfth grade in the fall. However,
we have two other classes that ms Erica can tell
you about and for people that just graduated, and it's
pre E M T and CNA.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Okay, yes, so those are pre M c N c NA.
So those CNA, YESNA Certified Nursing Assistance. So they help
our our ns.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Don't help our register nurse.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They help the RIN.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes, So what's an LPN.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
So that's a licensed practitioner nurse. Okay, and that's right
after RIN.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
When you say after, that means what I thought rechid
nurse was the.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Highest before you the.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Rich.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The nurse is the high. But they work alongside each.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Other, Okay, gotcha, and they learn to do all of
that in this.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yes, no, not exactly what an LPN or our n do,
but what a CNA would do to help them guide it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And they get paid, Yes, they get paid. Talk to
me about money. Let me turn your way up.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
So if they come to this LA program, my Career
Launch Academy, they get paid during the summer. So we
don't want you to go work and just work and
that's it. When you leave school. We want you to come.
We want you to get on this ladder to the
medical field and we want you to get paid while
you're doing it, So we're not just gonna have you
coming and learning like you in school and not getting paid. No,
(11:38):
we want you to be able to get gas and
clothes and if you want to get a new PAS
shoes before you go back to school in that school.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
What y'all pay eight? Nine, ten hours? How much?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh? Wait a minute, hello?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Eight?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Were want you to higher around fifteen?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
For them to get paid to go through our summer program. Yeah,
what I know, it's amazing right now.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now, that's a lot of money now for you know,
the junior singing high school. So you get a paid stipend, yes,
to go through the prison hour spent in training?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yes, yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All right? What else you do over there? Y'all do
field trips stuff?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Like we do field trips.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
We have trips going to bat Yes, we have field
trips going to Baptist University of University.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I'm just science Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Health science schools going through my head, sennes See health science.
But they do take field trips to explore those health
care options. UT Health Sciences is actually doing simulations, so
they've got a whole simulation center, which is absolutely amazing,
and so our Discovery students are going to spend about
four days on their campus doing patient care simulations, which
(12:52):
is going to be so much fun. They're gonna do
three D printing and all kinds of all kinds of stuff. Uh,
and so that class is really really hands on. Are
certified Nursing Assistant class. They're going to get a state
license when they finish, and we already have employers that
want to hire students. So everything that our higher Local
program does is employer driven. So we don't just train people,
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but we want to make sure that there are job
opportunities for people that are ready when they finish. That
applies to both our adult programs and our youth programs.
So CNA's will interview at Methodist or Baptists when they
finish this summer. Also, for pre EMT students, there's an
employer that is going to hire them.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Their class is only two weeks.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Okay, we're going to go through some driver's ed stuff,
but that particular class and employer is going to hire
them and put them into the six month EMT program. Wow,
all right, and it's all expenses paid, so there's no
excuse if you just graduated high school and you're not
sure what to do this summer. We still have open seats,
especially for pre emt and all you need is high
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school diploma and a driver's license. And again, how you
sign up hire Local nine oh one dot and select
youth program.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, we're talking about our local programming and action right
now this morning, as well as the Career Launch Academy.
My special guest, Latasha Harris, Senior director of Workforce Strategies
at Memphis Medical District, collaborator at miss Oraka Williams Workforce Specialists.
We want to take another break, come back, we'll talk
a little bit more about these opportunities for our young people.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Shout out to Whitney Lucas in up building take care
of the business. She always got some cameras or something
around and she's getting footage and video and clips, sound
bites and making stuff go viral. We're glad to have
us our former skills. She wus say President back in
the day, you know, we were talking about skills USA. He's
speaking of workforce and all of that. That's what a segue.
(14:45):
We were talking about skills US.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
A caller.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Rang my bell on the phone yesterday on the show
saying some about skill. I think it was Corey from
Como and he said, Man, my daughter is the president
of Skills USA, Germantown.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
That's so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Uh and uh, that's great. And the first thing came
in my mind was champions at Work. Man Whitney Lucas
is in the building, former president, Exkills USA officer, all
the good stuff, competed, did everything, she got the camera,
an now journalist, all that stuff. What do you remember
that the of those things just say what they call it,
the objectives, the mission, what they call it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I believe in the dignity of work. I believe in America.
You remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I believe in all that stuff high moral and spiritual stands.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You remember that. I believe satisfaction to chieve about good work.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Speaking of jobs, man, Career Lots Academy is ready to launch.
Program is going into his third year.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And grown. What's that big E word, exponential?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Talk to us about that when you say grown, your
program has grown exponential.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sure, sure we'll get into later some of our adult programs.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
But we are adults. We serve adults. We serve adults.
So there's something for everybody.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
We started the program is called Higher Local nine oh one,
and under it sits our Youth Program, which is the
Career Launch Academy in the our adult programs. But we
started the Career Launch Academy because when we look at
all of the folks that are going into health care
and finding themselves into health care work, we realize that
young people are not in that group, not in a
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large way, and so we wanted to create opportunities for
young people to number one, just get aware. Become aware
of all of the careers in healthcare that are available
to you. Right healthcare is booming in our city. It's
a tremendous need, and so we want them to come
out and learn about what health care careers are there.
But not just that, we want them to get industry
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credentials so that when they're leaving high school or going
into college, they have a skill they can put to
work and that they can make a living way so
that they can take care of themselves and their families.
We want them to go on those vacations they see
on TikTok and Instagram and live the life that they
want to live. Healthcare has the kinds of jobs that
help people live their dream.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So it's like a bridge. What's they getting a bridge
and your healthcare trading? When they get into your luge academy,
it's not over there, It over not.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That's not the last time, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
So we have young people that finish our Career Launch Academy.
Some of them start in the eleventh grade, come back
for twelfth grade to do a certification, and then some
of them are now in adult programs.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And so we've got us so what.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Time does this happen?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So when they get out of school, they go straight
to you, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Hoes that work?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
So Career Launch Academy right now is all done in
the summer months, right only. But let's say they finish
up our program in July and maybe they're not ready
to go to college yet in the fall, or they're
not sure they can roll in one of our adult programs.
And so I know Miss Erica will talk all about
what adult programs we have coming up, but they're taking
advantage of it. And just like the youth programs, adult
(17:54):
programs are tuition free. We're providing stipends. They're getting success
coaches and other supports.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
To be successful.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
All right, thank you, Miss Harris and miss Williams. Yeah, words, yeah,
please continue, man, this is great.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yes, those adult programs. So at first when we started
this whole thing, it was just C and A.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We trained cn A, c n A, c N A
and that was it. We pushed it. Now we have
new new training pathways.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
So we have em T of course, we talked about that,
the Emergency Medical Technician. We're also going to have ev
D Emergency Vehicle Driver. And now we also have an
m A class which is medical assistant like yep, vehicle driver.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yes, so you got to have somebody to dry the people.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, and yeah, certified how to navigate.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yes, So we also have that and our m A
program is also going on now as well.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And yes, medical assistance.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And that we have going on now and that's online
with the University of Memphis. Yes, so we have that
as well, and later on this year we'll have still processing.
We are excited about that. So that is later on
in the fall, if I'm not mistaken. And everything is
also listed on our website hire Local nine oh one
(19:15):
dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So what's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
WDI listeners were talking about connecting residents with valuable job
opportunities within the medical district and of course across Memphis,
and you guys are definitely strengthening, strengthening our local workforce
and you're helping businesses find the talent they need.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So that's important. It's vially important.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You don't want to help the businesses find the talent
because they looking, they're looking, they don't have time to,
you know, interview all these folks and everybody just coming
in Willie nil. But when they say they've been through
the career Launch Academy speaks volumes right and hire local
nine oh one. Thank you, miss Williams. I think this
is a great initiative and I know it's a game changer.
Just talk We talked abou earlier about that long adverb
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exponentially you started off this is just a third year, right, yes,
so you started.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What I know, started from the bottom. Now we're here.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
How mine is a started with a students back in
what twenty what twenty ten?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
That would have been twenty twenty two. This is actually
our we're going into our fourth year. We started with
eight students and we wanted to do a pilot just
to see if young people were hungry for this and
what we found between the first and the second year.
Second year we went to forty three students is that
students are really hungry to train. You know, bump the
stereotypes and all that. Young people do want to train.
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They do want to do something useful with their time.
They don't want to be bored and just go to
lectures and things of that nature. So they're ready to
work on industry skills. So eight forty three, last year
we had seventy three students, and this year we're really
close to one hundred. That's our goal this year, one
hundred students. And they're getting hands on experience in healthcare.
(20:55):
They're getting connections to folks who are in the healthcare
industry that they other.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Wise wouldn't have. And we all know it takes a village.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
So it's not enough just to want to do and
to be in this career field, but you need to
be connected to other people who've been where you're going.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So let me let me siund the Clarion call on
this radio station to my listeners. Grandparents, you know, mama's, daddy's,
you know, loved ones, guardians, caregivers. This program is Miss
Harris said, going into the fourth year, it's grown exponentially.
They train rising high school seniors and new high school
(21:31):
graduates while paying them a living way.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yes, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You call it the CLA Career Career Launch Academy. And
if you want to be equipped with the essential skills
and training that is so much needed, it's vitally needed
for in demand careers. You're talking to the ladies who
can make it happen for you right here in the
studio and right in our community.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh, this is a game change.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
This initiative has been around three four years and I
don't see any topic.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
So we're looking for young Memphians, right, you know, I
know your adults and stuff, but you're looking for young
Memphians to start or advance their professional journeys.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Right, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Anybody got a question, If you have any question, you
call all right, could do me a eric, could do
me a favorite? Can you call those numbers out so
these people can talk to you all on this radio.
Call all three of them out, start up.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Okay, the first one that I'm gonna call loud nine
zero one five three five nine three four two. Say
then again on nine zero one five three five nine
three four two.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, keep going, and.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
The next one is one eight hundred five zero three
nine three four two and eight three three five three
five nine three four two.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You sound like a disc jockey. You're gonna change your major. Yeah,
all right, you just gave the numbers. You got a
question for our special guest, question too.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm sure they love to take it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Latasha Harris, the senior director of Workforce Strategies, she loved
to come, you know, she loved to talk to you
on the phone. You got a question and think anything
that We've only made to make sure you give us
a call. Natasha Harris is here, and of course Erica Williams,
who just gave the numbers, here and happy to share
more information. We're gonna take a break. Can we're back, everybody,
Thank you so much for being here. We're talking with
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the Memphis Medical mmd C. That's how I can say
it like that, DC, the Nation's Capital District Collaborator.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And Miss Williams is in the building.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Miss Harrison in the building, Erica and of course Latasha.
We're so happy to have them over across the control
console from me and ready to take some questions. In
just a matter of moments, let me go to my
email first, of ladies, before I go live on the
radio with a caller. This WI listener writes, good morning,
standing to your guest. Do you hire the handicap who
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has two years of college and thirty plus years of age?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Ladies, Absolutely, our organization we're not hiring people.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
However, our employer partners are.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
So we're working with major healthcare institutions here in the city,
and so absolutely they hire folks that have various handicaps
and things of that nature. So yeah, don't let that
be a hindrance to you going into the program, right.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You know, the more we know about your situation and
the types.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Of accommodations you need, you know, employers need that information.
But yes, healthcare institutions have all kinds of folks working
for them with various needs.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fantastic, Thank you so much, Thank you missus Jones for
that inquiry via email. Let's go delicately to the phone lines.
WD I a good morning. You're in the radio with
my special guests.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You only air jack click.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Maybe I need to click a button too. It should
have had a V eight. Remember that's old school good
morning the radio. You're with us special guests.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Hi, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yes? Okay, Hi, this is Barbara Williams. Hey Barbara, good
morning Erica, Good morning air.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I just wanted to give just a little kick because
I'm getting ready to hit this clock now. But two
or three years ago, I'm young in heart, but I
was a part of the adult program, y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I do remember. Yes, you're hearing you.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Yeah, And I just want to throw this out for free.
Thank you. Thank you for brushing me up in the
areas where I needed areas even with my resume, but
I became a thirty five nurse and assistant because of
my mom. I wanted to take that care of her
and at Stan Belle was saved September eleven, but last
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years she went on to the Celestia City. But thank
you for the training. And I can say whenever I
needed you, you were there, but it was via email,
buy a phone. And I think this is a great program.
I had no idea that people all would be on
this morning. So I want to tell my grandson about it.
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So I will look through my emails and I know
you still have the same email. How long nine o one,
But I just want to say thank you, and I
also standing there during my training, not just to see Nay.
I went through another I want to say about six
weeks while I was brushing upon my career. They dropped
me off a little some from too. We weren't just
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there as adults. Was just not there and know it
was it was it was good, but they dropped us off.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And I still stay in contact.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
With these ladies and during I want to say, during
the Christmas, they have something they think enough of me
to invite me. And when I see those young people,
when they recognize them, I mean, I'm like, oh my,
and I just thank God bring you all. And I
think some of what you're doing and I'm asking I
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pray that he continued to pour intinue to bless even more.
But when I see the young people, the adults, but
when the young people the program, I was throwing my clothes.
I got to get in here, and I'm glad I'm
able to get through. I love your nade.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
This love you to stand there, keep on doing what
you do.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
I got to hit this podcast. I'm gonna need a
stive THESM.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
This is Barbara, all right, Miss Barbara Williams. Have a
great one. Yeah, good testimony right there. Yeah, personally and
it's working success.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
But you know what she spoke to say the importance
of community because once you go through our programs, you're
part of our family. Whether you're a young person and
you finished the Career Launch Academy and now you're going
into the adult Higher Local programs. We continue to track
and monitor our participants at least for a year after
our programs, and once you're an alumni, you can take
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advantage of new programs.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So yeah, yeah, love love that story.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I love it too.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And you know what the best part of all this
program is not only free for students, and they also
paid a living wage during during not after check laid one.
I probably get you during Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, they paint their living wage during the training. Man
and man. With that being said, go and get some
shout outs to your awesome sponsors.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
If you don't, oh absolutely so.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
We would be remiss if we did not shout out
our title sponsor for this year's Career Launch Academy, which
is fed Ex.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Woo.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
We appreciate the fed Ex team for all.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Of their support.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Not only do they support the CLA, but they also
support Higher local, and so we just appreciate them for
believing in this. You know, healthcare isn't their industry, but
they're always investing.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
In the community until we appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I want to shout out some of our partners that
are participating this summer, Sincere Healthcare, t CAT Memphis, Memphis
Methodist Labata Healthcare, Baptist Memorial Healthcare, ut Health Sciences Center,
Baptist Health Science and Center, Oryan Federal Credit Union, and
a bunch of a bunch of others.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We just couldn't do this work without them.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's real nice. Thank you, Miss Harris.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Now again, Eric, we needs you to call those numbs
out just a little bit more and a little bit more,
just one last time, I should say, just in case
people are just joining us.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You're ready, You're ready?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Oh I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That first number is nine zero one five three five
nine three four two. And that number again is nine
zero one five three five nine three four two. The
next number is one eight hundred five zero three nine
three four two. Again, that's one eight hundred five zero
three nine three four two. That last number is one
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A three three five three five nine three four two
Again one a three three nine three four.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Two sounds good. You never can call that number enough,
so think again. Miss Williams. Now got to ask you.
You guys just hosted an orientation session, right, and how
does that go? Student's excited, no doubt right, So talk
to us about that, Miss Harris and Williams. That orient
When was it the orientation session? Was it last week?
Week before coming up?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, it was the week before last.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
So that orientation that gets the parents in the children
and so the parents can come with them.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So it's exciting orientation.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
So we also had we had Orian there, We had
the banks there. They can sign up to get bank accounts.
No money, yeah in the bank.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
They can get a bank account and started off.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
For free, so they can grow that and of course
we encourage them to go ahead and put their stockings
in it. But they can do what they want to
do with.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
The Okay, let's go go delicately back to another phone call.
They will to talk to you all this morning. I
WD I gome on you live on the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Your turn.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Yeah, hey, hey, good mornunderstand what's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Fine?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Thank you comed man. You in the building with these
wonderful ladies with all right.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Good morning to good morning to the ladies. Morning. I
wanted to say something real quick, good morning. I wanted
to say something real quick about the certified nursing assistance.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I understand.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
I went to, Uh, do you remember Right's College that
was on Union years ago?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, sir, Yeah, that twenty five hundred block, I believe,
somewhere up in there on the corner Union.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And is that Hollywood maybe?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, Well I went there and uh, I think yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I went there and had that course back in the
early eighties, and I went to clinical and everything, got
my certifications, and I sadly decided that that was the
work that.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I wanted to do.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
However, after I had that, after I sup the brain
to her and went into rehabilitation, I recognized how important
the certified nursing assistant is. We need those people, and
you never know when you might need one. So I
would say to anybody that is interested, we need the
certified nurses, and anybody might need one one day. And
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I want to say thank you to the latest for
what you are offering these opportunities for people, and we definitely, again,
we definitely need those certified nurses systs.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They're very important.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So much coming man. I appreciate that. Man, Man, that's
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Man. I like when you said, you said, sadly you
didn't you didn't jump on it when you should that
when you thought you should. But then but look, you
really understand how vitally important the program is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Information going forth this morning, talked about the CLA program
and man, you all have an adopted student program too, Well.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Y'all got lostuff going on? Is that?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I mean, I mean designed to fund the c l
A for next year. Growing, Hey, we want to keep
this thing going. I mean, you know we have right
now so many young people on waiting lists that want
to do program across the city. Here's the reality. In
order for us to continue to do this, we need
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financial supports. So yes, we are gearing up for a
fundraiser event on July the eighteenth. It's going to be
from nine to eleven at Labona Children's Hospital. But it
is an event for us to get the word out
to the funding community, to corporations, healthcare institutions that want
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to invest in their future healers, and so you know,
we hope to raise funds for next year's Career Launch Academy,
so that we can continue to make this free to
students and we can continue to provide them wrap around
supports and stipends so that they can go and be great.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Okay, So when they get this training, I know you
guys are. It's a brick and brick and mortar building
where you guys work out of on Madison.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Right, Yeah, we're on Madison, but the training happens with
our partner campuses. So some of our students will be
training at Southwestern we C Community College, will be over
with since your Healthcare or with Baptist Health Sciences this summer.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, so that's how that works. But if folks want
to donate, can I share a text to give?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (34:11):
All right, So if you like to text to donate
to the future healthcare training for young people, you can.
You can text train nine oh one to four four
three two one. So if you're hearing something and you
want to donate to future training for our healthcare healers,
you can text train nine zero one to four four
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three to one.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All Right, we're talking with our special guests from Memphis
Medical District Collaborative on the radio.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
We're gonna it wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
We on the waiting moments of the Standale Morning Show
featuring these very talented ladies who are definitely getting worried
out about Career Launch Academy, the adopted student program, and
the series of classes for entrepreneurs and developers. Yah, it
sounds good to my you know, I hit those call letters,
I get excited.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
The voice of.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
God all right, before we get out of here. We're
in the waning moments of the show. It is a
beautiful it looks good out the Friday morning, June sixth,
twenty twenty five. Shoutout to all the Gemini's you got
a birthday, you got one coming up and just passed whatever,
but look enjoy and just to enjoy. Let me be
a shout out since I'm talking about birthdays and becoming
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another year older.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Some of my Facebook friends of my lawyer ol wd
I listeners dedicated listeners. A Lisa Rankin probably rocking out
aka Periphernea on her birthday this morning. A Lisa Rankin, Yeah,
doing a thing in city of Memphis. And every now
and then I see over there at Saint John Church
over there on six forty Advance Avenue right around from
Saint Jude over there on tree right, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Have birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Lisa Ranking aka also sed Dric J. Dorsey is another
older today June sixth. Carissa Richard's son is another year
older today. Happy birthday, my man, Christopher Griggs June sixth,
Also today, Charlene Bragg seventy two.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Whoa ring the bell?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That's she over the promise three score and ten plus
two places of Gravy. I gotta do a live commercial, man,
we said something, my grave man, I bet I gotta
do a live commercial. Uh, miss hed, I'm sure for real,
I'm gonna have you do. Uh might have you do
(36:26):
a live commercial at the Mint.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Now, no problem, my gotcha.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm gonna give you some cliff notes and then you
go from now.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
But what is next to your sponsors?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Speaking of place of gravy?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, that's the promise, how you promises seventy so happy
birthday to you, Charlene Bragg. R. B. Armstrong my guy,
and we call him the Godfather.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He's a DJ to R. B. Armstrong from Como.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
When I set in some some parties he did, he
let me get on the ones and two. We cut
up in there. God the Godfather. R. B. Armstrong. Yeah,
at birthday, my man, I had to get back down
there and see you somewhere that Baseville Como area. Rock
the club Man Jacqueline Williams speaking of six forty Advance Avenue,
former first Lady of Saint John Baptist Church, Old Van's missus,
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Jacqueline Williams.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
That's Robert's wife. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
And today v Mac the comedian, my man, Michael Leach.
I don't know if you have an eight over at
Michael leach Is. Back in the day Leech Family restaurant. Man,
they used to throw down and make you want to
slap somebody with that good food, Michael Leach. But now
I'm going to shop and save, so it's all good.
You're gonna tell us about that a little bit. Also, uh,
former iHeart colleague Earl Augustus, I call him Earl d Yeah,
(37:45):
Earl the Pearl, Earl Augustus, Earl the Pearl Augustus artist
extraordinary at birthday Earl. Yeah, all right, so we gotta hello, Yeah,
we gotta do this. We'll give you a live commercial.
Uh So Latasha Harris you ready, am, I'm gonna give
you a little track, so you can you can you
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talk due to do this live commercial on the air.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
You ready ready live in.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
The radio, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Natasha Harris, all right, we're talking about shopping Save Deli.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
You can get lunch or dinner from eight am to
seven pm. They're located in fourteen ninety nine South third Street.
You can call them at nine oh one ninety four
six forty three oh three. Looks like they've got breakfast plates, y'all.
You can go in and get lunch or dinner. Looks
like today they got catfish, the zagna chili max is
the most.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Of it's almost lunchtime. I know where I'm going. Where
you going? It's also vegetarian friendly.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, I like that. You got you got?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
Can you tell me about the male stimulants up there?
And I sure kill.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
For the male stimulants.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
It looks like they've got coffee honey capsules.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
They've got lemonade.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
It's one hundred percent herbal and no side effects.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Come on, y'all, go get what you need.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Where they need to go again.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
You need to go to Shopping Save Deli at fourteen
ninety nine South third Street give them a call at
nine oh one ninety four six four to three zero two.
They are open Monday through Saturday, y'all from six a m.
To seven pm and Sundays from seven am to six pm.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
You hand everybody, now, you come over here, whatever you
get through it, District Calarium, you got another corel lord.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Lazy gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
That's a Latasha Harris on the microphone. Oh with your
bad sir, Well them fans.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Okay, right now.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Save Tony Wallas. How was that pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
She got that, got the message across so Erica. Let
me say thank you. You see how we do it
behind the scenes in the studio. Now you see how
we stupid for real. No, I'm just skimming. I don't
have to be dignified. When I get out of here,
put my tie back on street. But uh, it's been
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a pleasure to have you. Before we go, shout those
sponsors out and tell us when this program starts again,
and then we'll batch you a farewell information done.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Okay, a few more sponsors to shout out. We want
to shout out Kimin's, Wilson Family Foundation, Truant Foundation, Auto Zone,
the City of Memphis, and Regions Bank.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
All right, now, I'm gonna say it like the preacher
you on Sunday mornings on the Communion Sunday, have we
omitted anyone?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I believe we got everybody?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Now, you got Sincere right, you got faitex right.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We did?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
And did we title sponsor.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Anything else you'd like to impart before we go? Uh,
Miss Williams, you know we appreciate you either work for
Specialist MMDC. Thank you so much for what you do,
what you said, this information that has gone for I
believe you helped somebody this morning, Erica.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yes, I hope I helped a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
One thing I cannot stress enough this program is free
you all.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
It's free. All you have to do.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Is come to us with a passion, a drive, and
a dream to want to work in the medical field.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
So long as you like.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Helping people, don't want to work, we can help because
we love to help people. That's why we're in the
position that we are in. So we want you to
go to higher Local nine on one dot com. We
want you to apply, We want you to pick your
career because now we have more than CNA. Once again,
after CNA, you can come back, come back to be
a medical assistant, come back to be MT, come back
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to be EVD, come back for stale processing. Also come
back for LPN. We want you to climb that career
ladder and go Hi is you want to go? Like
Latasha mentioned earlier, we want you to take those trips
you see on tikts talk in Instagram because guess what,
I want you all to see media because I want
to be.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
There with you.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Town.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So that's town almost.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
We want you to get these jobs.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
And field these hospitals up.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
That's all shot.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
We want you all to come on.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Yeah, that's Erica Williams from the MMDC Workforce Specialist. Before
I'm I'm senior manager. I guess I'm called senior director.
Kind of gets to mic. I got a question, this
listener wrote in via the email. So, good morning, Stan.
Can you ask your guests what's the age cut off
to be accepted into this program?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Mims Harris, Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
So for the Youth Career Launch Academy program, you have
to be at least seventeen. So we're looking again for
students that are going to the twelfth grade in the fall,
or students who just finished high school here in May.
The cutoff of that group would probably be around age nineteen. Now,
for the adult programs, we have folks from eighteen all
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the way up to seventy six in the adult programs.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
So don't let your age stop you.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
If you can't fit the adult programs, you are probably
eligible for the youth programs again. Go to hire Local
nine on one dot com, apply y'all, and then we'll
help you take it from there.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Well, thank you so much, ladies.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
It's been a plump please sing, preplice planning, all that stuff.
Ruber Thomas was saying, they have you on my Friday
show today, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
When you have a wonderful weekend. He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
IA. All right, and then I think we're good. All right,
part to.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Old the Memphis AM ten seventy WD. I a gather around, everybody,
gather around the campfire. We live on the radio on
this beautiful Friday, lem we look out and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Make sure we get a little sun shot out there. Lady,
y'all see that sun.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Shote out there, then see that's how I get a
weather forecast. I don't do that, you know, the formal stuff.
I just look at the window.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yes, I'll see the shout out nor shine.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
All right, WDI listeners, thank you so much for being here.
Definitely no exception on this Friday. We've got some wonderful
guest and we're excited. We have the Memphis Medical District Collaborative,
and I've got a work force specialists in here, and
I got a senior director in the building in this studio.
(00:54):
We're gonna make it happen. And before I do that,
let me just say, before we get into what we
want to talk about this morning. And you know what
take what made my ears perk up? What made me
get excited about this? When they start talking about young
people and talking about jobs and talk about training and
getting them skills and getting them a little chick on the.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Side, I was like, why they do that a part
of my graandmar then.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
You know, but they say they do it at the
Memphis Medical.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
District Collaborative. And how am I doing? Ladies? So far?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh, thank you so much? Can I say welcome to
you all? Welcome? Welcome? Why?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you for being here? Ladies look good, perky, got
the glow going on? Y'all over there again going over there? Look,
you know I could you know, I would be remiss
if I didn't, you know, if I didn't invite you
your ladies on here to talk about something that's positive,
you know. And that's what that's what it's all about.
(01:49):
This Friday show is about positivity and moving our city
forward and helping our young folks. So two most important
words in the language, thank you, Yeah, most important words
we and the least important word I. So what I'm
gonna do right now?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Those wd?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I listen WI listeners who are glued to the radio.
Welcome to the studio. My guests, Latasha Harris, Senior director
of Workforce Strategies at Memphis Medical District collaborator and Erica
with an aid, Erica Williams, workforce specialist.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm going so far it's I did in my home.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Now, come on now, Yeah, just just because I left
the school system with it, don't mean I'm leaving. I
don't mean I'm gone. So I got to be proper
decent in the autumn. They came this morning to share
information about hire local programming. Your your hire local programming.
(02:50):
That's an action already, and talk to us about this
career launch academy of course. So I've got missus Williams
and I've got miss Harris in the studio.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So let me do this about Eric right here, right,
I got you, I know not. How's the family.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Doing great?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
They proud of what you're doing. You How long you've
been working with the m m d C in Memphis
Medical District. Yeah, yeah, brink how I'm doing family good?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Family doing great.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Mom and dad, proud of your your parents still with us.
I'm just checking anybody in celestial Okay, I just checking
make sure nobody was in the Celestial City.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I do that every every Friday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I gotta check old family, first family first, even before
this great information goes forth.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Uh so they proud, they're happy. Are your native Memphire.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
No I am not.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The windows steady the gold. You know about the dad
Ryde you took it. You got the Dad ride to
come to Memphis. Now I just go to little Hair.
I just better take that. That's that's about nine ten years,
about nineteen hours.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Driving that drive is something else a little different now
when we're moving, I'm so tired of the Howard from
the shy the dad right, yeah, fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Then you have to jump back on. Get the eyes
and Howard to come back. See talks there. You know
about the eyes and hours been there a couple of times.
Take my boys to the Navy pier.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I know you've been one hundred. I know you've been
a hundred times.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Been a hundred times.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Suspensive matter at boardwalk, no joke.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We're so happy to have you in Memphis, though, because
we know that you're making a difference.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Ms.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Harris, what's up?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Is she a good employee?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
She's absolutely a great employee. She's an OG been with
us on the workforce team for about four or five
years and we just couldn't do this work without it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah. So yeah, yeah, you your o G.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You've been on job long in four years, I said.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
These days.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, and U that's a good compliment coming from.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I guess your boss.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Senior Director of Workforce Strategies at Memphis Medical District collaborator
Latasha Harris.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Thanks for being here. How's ther family?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Hey, family's doing well. Listen, Thank you so much for
the opportunity to do this. First of all, my mama
and my daddy wanted me to tell you good morning
and hello.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
They are proud.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Graduates of UT and they went to Martin with you,
and so anyways, they tell us stories all the time
about how y'all used to cut up in college. But
just glad to be here. I'm not a native Memphian,
but you know, my mama is she's from south side
Lorna righta Paris, That's right, that's right. She was a
(05:45):
south side scrapper, grew up in South Memphis. So I've
had family roots in Memphis for forty years or more.
We've lived all over the country, though, and so I
came back to Memphis about twenty years ago to go
to school.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
So I went to college here.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I chose to come to Memphis and I went to
Rhodes College, and after that, I decided to stay here
in Memphis and make a difference here. Been working with
children and families. Absolutely love what we do. And by
the way, I'm happy that workforce is on the mic
one two one twoo.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Just right. You are definitely here, and.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'm telling you, oh wow, I know when I pulled
you out of the green room and now you're having
such a good time. You said, well, hey, I got
to tell you about my mom and my dad and said,
I know you off the time. Yeah, I'm telling you
I appreciate you. I know they're proud. Yeah, that's wonderful.
So there you go. When we come back, WI listens,
we're going to talk about just what they're doing at
the Memphis Medical District Collaborative. I've got my special guest again,
(06:43):
Araca Williams, workforce specialists and of course, the senior director
of Workforce Strategies at the MMDC in the studios this morning.
And I will ask you this before I take this break.
Y'all still got openings.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yes, it's not too late.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Plans to start on June the sixteenth, and so especially
if there are any students that have just recently graduated.
All you need is a high school diploma and a
driver's license. And if you do, we have an employer
that will hire them and teach them to be EMTs.
And so we've got about ten seats left for that class,
and we probably have a handful of seats left for
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upcoming twelfth graders who want to do healthcare discovery.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
But stay tuned, we'll talk more.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'm telling you will. WDIA, thank you so much for
being here. Stand special people, spotlight this morning deathly informative
and want you to get some takeaways from this because
these ladies have come with a purpose. The Career Launch
Academy offers free healthcare training for juniors and seniors. Am
(07:45):
I right about I'm turning to mic back up eleventh
greatest twelfth graders and right before we take our last break,
you say too, it's not too late, So June sixteen
right through how long it depends.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It depends on what class they're in.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So if there are folks listening in who are about
to be seniors, this fall, they could actually enroll in
our Healthcare Discovery class.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
That class runs from June sixteenth through July the eleventh,
and it's all about exploring careers in healthcare.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So they're going to be doing lots of field trips.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
They're going to spend time at Southwest, They're going to
Baptist Health Sciences, they'll be at UT and really they'll
be looking at careers like radiology, nursing, physical therapy, medical
lab sciences. Our goal for that group is to expose
them to things that they've probably never heard of. Traditionally
we think about doctors and nurses and they're important, but
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there are lots of other job roles that are critical
for healthcare ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So they need to come with the open mind, but
they already need to know they want to be in
healthcare field.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, that class is really meant for young people who
are maybe on the fence. They think they might want
to go into healthcare. But by the time they finished
doing simulations and meeting people in the field, we hope
by the end of.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The summer they'll have a really.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Good indication of if healthcare is the right career.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
For Okay, so mimss Harris, let me ask you this,
how long is how long are the courses?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
How long is it going to take to get through.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
For healthcare Discovery.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
It's only about four weeks, so June sixteenth through July eleventh. Okay,
there are no prerequisites. So as long as they're going
to the twelfth grade this year, we've got at least
a handful of slots left. They need to go to
our website Hire Local nine oh one dot com.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Let's say that again.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
They need to go to Higher Local nine to oh
one dot com more time, Higher Local nine oh one
dot com and click on youth programs and they'll be
able to do our little interest form.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, all right, so miss Erica, Miss Williams, Healthcare Discovery,
Now what's that? So versus pre EMT? So you got
to be a senior a rising scene to be in
a pre EMT. But Erica, so I know you work
for specialists. Health care Discoveries just for the juniors coming up.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Those are for the so so we don't want folks
to get confused. So Healthcare Discovery is for anybody that
is going to the twelfth grade in the fall. However,
we have two other classes that ms Erica can tell
you about and for people that just graduated, and it's
pre E M T and CNA.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Okay, yes, so those are pre M c N c NA.
So those CNA, YESNA Certified Nursing Assistance. So they help
our our ns.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Don't help our register nurse.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They help the RIN.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yes, So what's an LPN.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
So that's a licensed practitioner nurse. Okay, and that's right
after RIN.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
When you say after, that means what I thought rechid
nurse was the.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Highest before you the.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Rich.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The nurse is the high. But they work alongside each.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Other, Okay, gotcha, and they learn to do all of
that in this.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yes, no, not exactly what an LPN or our n do,
but what a CNA would do to help them guide it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And they get paid, Yes, they get paid. Talk to
me about money. Let me turn your way up.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
So if they come to this LA program, my Career
Launch Academy, they get paid during the summer. So we
don't want you to go work and just work and
that's it. When you leave school. We want you to come.
We want you to get on this ladder to the
medical field and we want you to get paid while
you're doing it, So we're not just gonna have you
coming and learning like you in school and not getting paid. No,
(11:38):
we want you to be able to get gas and
clothes and if you want to get a new PAS
shoes before you go back to school in that school.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
What y'all pay eight? Nine, ten hours? How much?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh? Wait a minute, hello?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Eight?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Were want you to higher around fifteen?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
For them to get paid to go through our summer program. Yeah,
what I know, it's amazing right now.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now, that's a lot of money now for you know,
the junior singing high school. So you get a paid stipend, yes,
to go through the prison hour spent in training?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yes, yes, sir?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All right? What else you do over there? Y'all do
field trips stuff?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Like we do field trips.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
We have trips going to bat Yes, we have field
trips going to Baptist University of University.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I'm just science Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Health science schools going through my head, sennes See health science.
But they do take field trips to explore those health
care options. UT Health Sciences is actually doing simulations, so
they've got a whole simulation center, which is absolutely amazing,
and so our Discovery students are going to spend about
four days on their campus doing patient care simulations, which
(12:52):
is going to be so much fun. They're gonna do
three D printing and all kinds of all kinds of stuff. Uh,
and so that class is really really hands on. Are
certified Nursing Assistant class. They're going to get a state
license when they finish, and we already have employers that
want to hire students. So everything that our higher Local
program does is employer driven. So we don't just train people,
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but we want to make sure that there are job
opportunities for people that are ready when they finish. That
applies to both our adult programs and our youth programs.
So CNA's will interview at Methodist or Baptists when they
finish this summer. Also, for pre EMT students, there's an
employer that is going to hire them.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Their class is only two weeks.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Okay, we're going to go through some driver's ed stuff,
but that particular class and employer is going to hire
them and put them into the six month EMT program. Wow,
all right, and it's all expenses paid, so there's no
excuse if you just graduated high school and you're not
sure what to do this summer. We still have open seats,
especially for pre emt and all you need is high
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school diploma and a driver's license. And again, how you
sign up hire Local nine oh one dot and select
youth program.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, we're talking about our local programming and action right
now this morning, as well as the Career Launch Academy.
My special guest, Latasha Harris, Senior director of Workforce Strategies
at Memphis Medical District, collaborator at miss Oraka Williams Workforce Specialists.
We want to take another break, come back, we'll talk
a little bit more about these opportunities for our young people.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Shout out to Whitney Lucas in up building take care
of the business. She always got some cameras or something
around and she's getting footage and video and clips, sound
bites and making stuff go viral. We're glad to have
us our former skills. She wus say President back in
the day, you know, we were talking about skills USA. He's
speaking of workforce and all of that. That's what a segue.
(14:45):
We were talking about skills US.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
A caller.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Rang my bell on the phone yesterday on the show
saying some about skill. I think it was Corey from
Como and he said, Man, my daughter is the president
of Skills USA, Germantown.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
That's so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Uh and uh, that's great. And the first thing came
in my mind was champions at Work. Man Whitney Lucas
is in the building, former president, Exkills USA officer, all
the good stuff, competed, did everything, she got the camera,
an now journalist, all that stuff. What do you remember
that the of those things just say what they call it,
the objectives, the mission, what they call it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I believe in the dignity of work. I believe in America.
You remember that.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I believe in all that stuff high moral and spiritual stands.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You remember that. I believe satisfaction to chieve about good work.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Speaking of jobs, man, Career Lots Academy is ready to launch.
Program is going into his third year.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And grown. What's that big E word, exponential?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Talk to us about that when you say grown, your
program has grown exponential.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sure, sure we'll get into later some of our adult programs.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
But we are adults. We serve adults. We serve adults.
So there's something for everybody.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
We started the program is called Higher Local nine oh one,
and under it sits our Youth Program, which is the
Career Launch Academy in the our adult programs. But we
started the Career Launch Academy because when we look at
all of the folks that are going into health care
and finding themselves into health care work, we realize that
young people are not in that group, not in a
(16:25):
large way, and so we wanted to create opportunities for
young people to number one, just get aware. Become aware
of all of the careers in healthcare that are available
to you. Right healthcare is booming in our city. It's
a tremendous need, and so we want them to come
out and learn about what health care careers are there.
But not just that, we want them to get industry
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credentials so that when they're leaving high school or going
into college, they have a skill they can put to
work and that they can make a living way so
that they can take care of themselves and their families.
We want them to go on those vacations they see
on TikTok and Instagram and live the life that they
want to live. Healthcare has the kinds of jobs that
help people live their dream.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So it's like a bridge. What's they getting a bridge
and your healthcare trading? When they get into your luge academy,
it's not over there, It over not.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
That's not the last time, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
So we have young people that finish our Career Launch Academy.
Some of them start in the eleventh grade, come back
for twelfth grade to do a certification, and then some
of them are now in adult programs.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And so we've got us so what.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Time does this happen?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
So when they get out of school, they go straight
to you, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Hoes that work?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
So Career Launch Academy right now is all done in
the summer months, right only. But let's say they finish
up our program in July and maybe they're not ready
to go to college yet in the fall, or they're
not sure they can roll in one of our adult programs.
And so I know Miss Erica will talk all about
what adult programs we have coming up, but they're taking
advantage of it. And just like the youth programs, adult
(17:54):
programs are tuition free. We're providing stipends. They're getting success
coaches and other supports.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
To be successful.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
All right, thank you, Miss Harris and miss Williams. Yeah, words, yeah,
please continue, man, this is great.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yes, those adult programs. So at first when we started
this whole thing, it was just C and A.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We trained cn A, c n A, c N A
and that was it. We pushed it. Now we have
new new training pathways.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
So we have em T of course, we talked about that,
the Emergency Medical Technician. We're also going to have ev
D Emergency Vehicle Driver. And now we also have an
m A class which is medical assistant like yep, vehicle driver.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yes, so you got to have somebody to dry the people.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, and yeah, certified how to navigate.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Yes, So we also have that and our m A
program is also going on now as well.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And yes, medical assistance.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
And that we have going on now and that's online
with the University of Memphis. Yes, so we have that
as well, and later on this year we'll have still processing.
We are excited about that. So that is later on
in the fall, if I'm not mistaken. And everything is
also listed on our website hire Local nine oh one
(19:15):
dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So what's happening.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
WDI listeners were talking about connecting residents with valuable job
opportunities within the medical district and of course across Memphis,
and you guys are definitely strengthening, strengthening our local workforce
and you're helping businesses find the talent they need.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So that's important. It's vially important.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You don't want to help the businesses find the talent
because they looking, they're looking, they don't have time to,
you know, interview all these folks and everybody just coming
in Willie nil. But when they say they've been through
the career Launch Academy speaks volumes right and hire local
nine oh one. Thank you, miss Williams. I think this
is a great initiative and I know it's a game changer.
Just talk We talked abou earlier about that long adverb
(19:56):
exponentially you started off this is just a third year, right, yes,
so you started.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What I know, started from the bottom. Now we're here.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
How mine is a started with a students back in
what twenty what twenty ten?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
That would have been twenty twenty two. This is actually
our we're going into our fourth year. We started with
eight students and we wanted to do a pilot just
to see if young people were hungry for this and
what we found between the first and the second year.
Second year we went to forty three students is that
students are really hungry to train. You know, bump the
stereotypes and all that. Young people do want to train.
(20:35):
They do want to do something useful with their time.
They don't want to be bored and just go to
lectures and things of that nature. So they're ready to
work on industry skills. So eight forty three, last year
we had seventy three students, and this year we're really
close to one hundred. That's our goal this year, one
hundred students. And they're getting hands on experience in healthcare.
(20:55):
They're getting connections to folks who are in the healthcare
industry that they other.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Wise wouldn't have. And we all know it takes a village.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
So it's not enough just to want to do and
to be in this career field, but you need to
be connected to other people who've been where you're going.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So let me let me siund the Clarion call on
this radio station to my listeners. Grandparents, you know, mama's, daddy's,
you know, loved ones, guardians, caregivers. This program is Miss
Harris said, going into the fourth year, it's grown exponentially.
They train rising high school seniors and new high school
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graduates while paying them a living way.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yes, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You call it the CLA Career Career Launch Academy. And
if you want to be equipped with the essential skills
and training that is so much needed, it's vitally needed
for in demand careers. You're talking to the ladies who
can make it happen for you right here in the
studio and right in our community.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh, this is a game change.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
This initiative has been around three four years and I
don't see any topic.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
So we're looking for young Memphians, right, you know, I
know your adults and stuff, but you're looking for young
Memphians to start or advance their professional journeys.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Right, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Anybody got a question, If you have any question, you
call all right, could do me a eric, could do
me a favorite? Can you call those numbers out so
these people can talk to you all on this radio.
Call all three of them out, start up.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Okay, the first one that I'm gonna call loud nine
zero one five three five nine three four two. Say
then again on nine zero one five three five nine
three four two.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, keep going, and.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
The next one is one eight hundred five zero three
nine three four two and eight three three five three
five nine three four two.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You sound like a disc jockey. You're gonna change your major. Yeah,
all right, you just gave the numbers. You got a
question for our special guest, question too.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm sure they love to take it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Latasha Harris, the senior director of Workforce Strategies, she loved
to come, you know, she loved to talk to you
on the phone. You got a question and think anything
that We've only made to make sure you give us
a call. Natasha Harris is here, and of course Erica Williams,
who just gave the numbers, here and happy to share
more information. We're gonna take a break. Can we're back, everybody,
Thank you so much for being here. We're talking with
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the Memphis Medical mmd C. That's how I can say
it like that, DC, the Nation's Capital District Collaborator.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And Miss Williams is in the building.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Miss Harrison in the building, Erica and of course Latasha.
We're so happy to have them over across the control
console from me and ready to take some questions. In
just a matter of moments, let me go to my
email first, of ladies, before I go live on the
radio with a caller. This WI listener writes, good morning,
standing to your guest. Do you hire the handicap who
(23:54):
has two years of college and thirty plus years of age?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Ladies, Absolutely, our organization we're not hiring people.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
However, our employer partners are.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
So we're working with major healthcare institutions here in the city,
and so absolutely they hire folks that have various handicaps
and things of that nature. So yeah, don't let that
be a hindrance to you going into the program, right.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
You know, the more we know about your situation and
the types.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Of accommodations you need, you know, employers need that information.
But yes, healthcare institutions have all kinds of folks working
for them with various needs.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Fantastic, Thank you so much, Thank you missus Jones for
that inquiry via email. Let's go delicately to the phone lines.
WD I a good morning. You're in the radio with
my special guests.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
You only air jack click.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Maybe I need to click a button too. It should
have had a V eight. Remember that's old school good
morning the radio. You're with us special guests.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Hi, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yes? Okay, Hi, this is Barbara Williams. Hey Barbara, good
morning Erica, Good morning air.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I just wanted to give just a little kick because
I'm getting ready to hit this clock now. But two
or three years ago, I'm young in heart, but I
was a part of the adult program, y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I do remember. Yes, you're hearing you.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Yeah, And I just want to throw this out for free.
Thank you. Thank you for brushing me up in the
areas where I needed areas even with my resume, but
I became a thirty five nurse and assistant because of
my mom. I wanted to take that care of her
and at Stan Belle was saved September eleven, but last
(25:53):
years she went on to the Celestia City. But thank
you for the training. And I can say whenever I
needed you, you were there, but it was via email,
buy a phone. And I think this is a great program.
I had no idea that people all would be on
this morning. So I want to tell my grandson about it.
(26:16):
So I will look through my emails and I know
you still have the same email. How long nine o one,
But I just want to say thank you, and I
also standing there during my training, not just to see Nay.
I went through another I want to say about six
weeks while I was brushing upon my career. They dropped
me off a little some from too. We weren't just
(26:37):
there as adults. Was just not there and know it
was it was it was good, but they dropped us off.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
It was good.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And I still stay in contact.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
With these ladies and during I want to say, during
the Christmas, they have something they think enough of me
to invite me. And when I see those young people,
when they recognize them, I mean, I'm like, oh my,
and I just thank God bring you all. And I
think some of what you're doing and I'm asking I
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pray that he continued to pour intinue to bless even more.
But when I see the young people, the adults, but
when the young people the program, I was throwing my clothes.
I got to get in here, and I'm glad I'm
able to get through. I love your nade.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
This love you to stand there, keep on doing what
you do.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
I got to hit this podcast. I'm gonna need a
stive THESM.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
This is Barbara, all right, Miss Barbara Williams. Have a
great one. Yeah, good testimony right there. Yeah, personally and
it's working success.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
But you know what she spoke to say the importance
of community because once you go through our programs, you're
part of our family. Whether you're a young person and
you finished the Career Launch Academy and now you're going
into the adult Higher Local programs. We continue to track
and monitor our participants at least for a year after
our programs, and once you're an alumni, you can take
(28:05):
advantage of new programs.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
So yeah, yeah, love love that story.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I love it too.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
And you know what the best part of all this
program is not only free for students, and they also
paid a living wage during during not after check laid one.
I probably get you during Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, they paint their living wage during the training. Man
and man. With that being said, go and get some
shout outs to your awesome sponsors.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
If you don't, oh absolutely so.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
We would be remiss if we did not shout out
our title sponsor for this year's Career Launch Academy, which
is fed Ex.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Woo.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
We appreciate the fed Ex team for all.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Of their support.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Not only do they support the CLA, but they also
support Higher local, and so we just appreciate them for
believing in this. You know, healthcare isn't their industry, but
they're always investing.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
In the community until we appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
I want to shout out some of our partners that
are participating this summer, Sincere Healthcare, t CAT Memphis, Memphis
Methodist Labata Healthcare, Baptist Memorial Healthcare, ut Health Sciences Center,
Baptist Health Science and Center, Oryan Federal Credit Union, and
a bunch of a bunch of others.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We just couldn't do this work without them.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah, it's real nice. Thank you, Miss Harris.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Now again, Eric, we needs you to call those numbs
out just a little bit more and a little bit more,
just one last time, I should say, just in case
people are just joining us.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
You're ready, You're ready?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Oh I'm ready, all right.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That first number is nine zero one five three five
nine three four two. And that number again is nine
zero one five three five nine three four two. The
next number is one eight hundred five zero three nine
three four two. Again, that's one eight hundred five zero
three nine three four two. That last number is one
(29:54):
A three three five three five nine three four two
Again one a three three nine three four.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Two sounds good. You never can call that number enough,
so think again. Miss Williams. Now got to ask you.
You guys just hosted an orientation session, right, and how
does that go? Student's excited, no doubt right, So talk
to us about that, Miss Harris and Williams. That orient
When was it the orientation session? Was it last week?
Week before coming up?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, it was the week before last.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
So that orientation that gets the parents in the children
and so the parents can come with them.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So it's exciting orientation.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
So we also had we had Orian there, We had
the banks there. They can sign up to get bank accounts.
No money, yeah in the bank.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
They can get a bank account and started off.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
For free, so they can grow that and of course
we encourage them to go ahead and put their stockings
in it. But they can do what they want to
do with.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
The Okay, let's go go delicately back to another phone call.
They will to talk to you all this morning. I
WD I gome on you live on the radio.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Your turn.
Speaker 9 (31:00):
Yeah, hey, hey, good mornunderstand what's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Fine?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Thank you comed man. You in the building with these
wonderful ladies with all right.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
Good morning to good morning to the ladies. Morning. I
wanted to say something real quick, good morning. I wanted
to say something real quick about the certified nursing assistance.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I understand.
Speaker 9 (31:19):
I went to, Uh, do you remember Right's College that
was on Union years ago?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yes, sir, Yeah, that twenty five hundred block, I believe,
somewhere up in there on the corner Union.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And is that Hollywood maybe?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, Well I went there and uh, I think yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I went there and had that course back in the
early eighties, and I went to clinical and everything, got
my certifications, and I sadly decided that that was the
work that.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I wanted to do.
Speaker 9 (31:44):
However, after I had that, after I sup the brain
to her and went into rehabilitation, I recognized how important
the certified nursing assistant is. We need those people, and
you never know when you might need one. So I
would say to anybody that is interested, we need the
certified nurses, and anybody might need one one day. And
(32:06):
I want to say thank you to the latest for
what you are offering these opportunities for people, and we definitely, again,
we definitely need those certified nurses systs.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They're very important.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So much coming man. I appreciate that. Man, Man, that's
that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Man. I like when you said, you said, sadly you
didn't you didn't jump on it when you should that
when you thought you should. But then but look, you
really understand how vitally important the program is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
All right, a lot of.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Information going forth this morning, talked about the CLA program
and man, you all have an adopted student program too, Well.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Y'all got lostuff going on? Is that?
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I mean, I mean designed to fund the c l
A for next year. Growing, Hey, we want to keep
this thing going. I mean, you know we have right
now so many young people on waiting lists that want
to do program across the city. Here's the reality. In
order for us to continue to do this, we need
(33:05):
financial supports. So yes, we are gearing up for a
fundraiser event on July the eighteenth. It's going to be
from nine to eleven at Labona Children's Hospital. But it
is an event for us to get the word out
to the funding community, to corporations, healthcare institutions that want
(33:26):
to invest in their future healers, and so you know,
we hope to raise funds for next year's Career Launch Academy,
so that we can continue to make this free to
students and we can continue to provide them wrap around
supports and stipends so that they can go and be great.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Okay, So when they get this training, I know you
guys are. It's a brick and brick and mortar building
where you guys work out of on Madison.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Right, Yeah, we're on Madison, but the training happens with
our partner campuses. So some of our students will be
training at Southwestern we C Community College, will be over
with since your Healthcare or with Baptist Health Sciences this summer.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, so that's how that works. But if folks want
to donate, can I share a text to give?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (34:11):
All right, So if you like to text to donate
to the future healthcare training for young people, you can.
You can text train nine oh one to four four
three two one. So if you're hearing something and you
want to donate to future training for our healthcare healers,
you can text train nine zero one to four four
(34:35):
three to one.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All Right, we're talking with our special guests from Memphis
Medical District Collaborative on the radio.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
We're gonna it wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
We on the waiting moments of the Standale Morning Show
featuring these very talented ladies who are definitely getting worried
out about Career Launch Academy, the adopted student program, and
the series of classes for entrepreneurs and developers. Yah, it
sounds good to my you know, I hit those call letters,
I get excited.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
The voice of.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
God all right, before we get out of here. We're
in the waning moments of the show. It is a
beautiful it looks good out the Friday morning, June sixth,
twenty twenty five. Shoutout to all the Gemini's you got
a birthday, you got one coming up and just passed whatever,
but look enjoy and just to enjoy. Let me be
a shout out since I'm talking about birthdays and becoming
(35:19):
another year older.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Some of my Facebook friends of my lawyer ol wd
I listeners dedicated listeners. A Lisa Rankin probably rocking out
aka Periphernea on her birthday this morning. A Lisa Rankin, Yeah,
doing a thing in city of Memphis. And every now
and then I see over there at Saint John Church
over there on six forty Advance Avenue right around from
Saint Jude over there on tree right, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Have birthday.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Lisa Ranking aka also sed Dric J. Dorsey is another
older today June sixth. Carissa Richard's son is another year
older today. Happy birthday, my man, Christopher Griggs June sixth,
Also today, Charlene Bragg seventy two.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Whoa ring the bell?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That's she over the promise three score and ten plus
two places of Gravy. I gotta do a live commercial, man,
we said something, my grave man, I bet I gotta
do a live commercial. Uh, miss hed, I'm sure for real,
I'm gonna have you do. Uh might have you do
(36:26):
a live commercial at the Mint.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Now, no problem, my gotcha.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
I'm gonna give you some cliff notes and then you
go from now.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
But what is next to your sponsors?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Speaking of place of gravy?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, that's the promise, how you promises seventy so happy
birthday to you, Charlene Bragg. R. B. Armstrong my guy,
and we call him the Godfather.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
He's a DJ to R. B. Armstrong from Como.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
When I set in some some parties he did, he
let me get on the ones and two. We cut
up in there. God the Godfather. R. B. Armstrong. Yeah,
at birthday, my man, I had to get back down
there and see you somewhere that Baseville Como area. Rock
the club Man Jacqueline Williams speaking of six forty Advance Avenue,
former first Lady of Saint John Baptist Church, Old Van's missus,
(37:15):
Jacqueline Williams.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
That's Robert's wife. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
And today v Mac the comedian, my man, Michael Leach.
I don't know if you have an eight over at
Michael leach Is. Back in the day Leech Family restaurant. Man,
they used to throw down and make you want to
slap somebody with that good food, Michael Leach. But now
I'm going to shop and save, so it's all good.
You're gonna tell us about that a little bit. Also, uh,
former iHeart colleague Earl Augustus, I call him Earl d Yeah,
(37:45):
Earl the Pearl, Earl Augustus, Earl the Pearl Augustus artist
extraordinary at birthday Earl. Yeah, all right, so we gotta hello, Yeah,
we gotta do this. We'll give you a live commercial.
Uh So Latasha Harris you ready, am, I'm gonna give
you a little track, so you can you can you
(38:07):
talk due to do this live commercial on the air.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
You ready ready live in.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
The radio, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Natasha Harris, all right, we're talking about shopping Save Deli.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
You can get lunch or dinner from eight am to
seven pm. They're located in fourteen ninety nine South third Street.
You can call them at nine oh one ninety four
six forty three oh three. Looks like they've got breakfast plates, y'all.
You can go in and get lunch or dinner. Looks
like today they got catfish, the zagna chili max is
the most.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Of it's almost lunchtime. I know where I'm going. Where
you going? It's also vegetarian friendly.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, I like that. You got you got?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
Can you tell me about the male stimulants up there?
And I sure kill.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
For the male stimulants.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
It looks like they've got coffee honey capsules.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
They've got lemonade.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
It's one hundred percent herbal and no side effects.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Come on, y'all, go get what you need.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Where they need to go again.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
You need to go to Shopping Save Deli at fourteen
ninety nine South third Street give them a call at
nine oh one ninety four six four to three zero two.
They are open Monday through Saturday, y'all from six a m.
To seven pm and Sundays from seven am to six pm.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
You hand everybody, now, you come over here, whatever you
get through it, District Calarium, you got another corel lord.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Lazy gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
That's a Latasha Harris on the microphone. Oh with your
bad sir, Well them fans.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Okay, right now.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Save Tony Wallas. How was that pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
She got that, got the message across so Erica. Let
me say thank you. You see how we do it
behind the scenes in the studio. Now you see how
we stupid for real. No, I'm just skimming. I don't
have to be dignified. When I get out of here,
put my tie back on street. But uh, it's been
(40:19):
a pleasure to have you. Before we go, shout those
sponsors out and tell us when this program starts again,
and then we'll batch you a farewell information done.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
Okay, a few more sponsors to shout out. We want
to shout out Kimin's, Wilson Family Foundation, Truant Foundation, Auto Zone,
the City of Memphis, and Regions Bank.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
All right, now, I'm gonna say it like the preacher
you on Sunday mornings on the Communion Sunday, have we
omitted anyone?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
I believe we got everybody?
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Now, you got Sincere right, you got faitex right.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
We did?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
And did we title sponsor.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Anything else you'd like to impart before we go? Uh,
Miss Williams, you know we appreciate you either work for
Specialist MMDC. Thank you so much for what you do,
what you said, this information that has gone for I
believe you helped somebody this morning, Erica.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yes, I hope I helped a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
One thing I cannot stress enough this program is free
you all.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
It's free. All you have to do.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
Is come to us with a passion, a drive, and
a dream to want to work in the medical field.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
So long as you like.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Helping people, don't want to work, we can help because
we love to help people. That's why we're in the
position that we are in. So we want you to
go to higher Local nine on one dot com. We
want you to apply, We want you to pick your
career because now we have more than CNA. Once again,
after CNA, you can come back, come back to be
a medical assistant, come back to be MT, come back
(41:46):
to be EVD, come back for stale processing. Also come
back for LPN. We want you to climb that career
ladder and go Hi is you want to go? Like
Latasha mentioned earlier, we want you to take those trips
you see on tikts talk in Instagram because guess what,
I want you all to see media because I want
to be.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
There with you.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Town.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
So that's town almost.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
We want you to get these jobs.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
And field these hospitals up.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
That's all shot.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
We want you all to come on.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Yeah, that's Erica Williams from the MMDC Workforce Specialist. Before
I'm I'm senior manager. I guess I'm called senior director.
Kind of gets to mic. I got a question, this
listener wrote in via the email. So, good morning, Stan.
Can you ask your guests what's the age cut off
to be accepted into this program?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Mims Harris, Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
So for the Youth Career Launch Academy program, you have
to be at least seventeen. So we're looking again for
students that are going to the twelfth grade in the fall,
or students who just finished high school here in May.
The cutoff of that group would probably be around age nineteen. Now,
for the adult programs, we have folks from eighteen all
(43:00):
the way up to seventy six in the adult programs.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
So don't let your age stop you.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
If you can't fit the adult programs, you are probably
eligible for the youth programs again. Go to hire Local
nine on one dot com, apply y'all, and then we'll
help you take it from there.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Well, thank you so much, ladies.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
It's been a plump please sing, preplice planning, all that stuff.
Ruber Thomas was saying, they have you on my Friday
show today, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
When you have a wonderful weekend. He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
It's the Stan Belle Morning Show week dates from six
to ten AM on the Heart and Soul of Memphis
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