September 8, 2025 • 17 mins
Brice Eyerly is the Executive Director of CHAP, Community Health Access Project. The organization was formed in 1999 and helps people in several area counties: Richland, Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Knox and Morrow.
CHAP helps individuals remove risks like food insecurity, lack of housing and transportation by linking people with community health workers.
Learn more about CHAP and Brice Eyerly, who is an Ontario native, on the podcast.
CHAP helps individuals remove risks like food insecurity, lack of housing and transportation by linking people with community health workers.
Learn more about CHAP and Brice Eyerly, who is an Ontario native, on the podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CEOs you should know here from local leaders in the community,
made possible by Witcom and hess CPAs and financial advisors.
The CEO you should know. We're excited this morning as
our guest in studio is Bryce Eierly. He is executive
director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. Bryce, good morning
(00:23):
and thanks for coming in. How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, we appreciate you reaching out here as we are
learning about organizations here in the local community and you're
one of those here you were telling me off there.
We'll get to your story.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Long time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know, family ties to the area, but maybe for
the first time, and we were having new people move
into north central Ohio, but maybe for the first time
they're hearing about CHAP Community Health Access Project. Can you
explain what you guys do?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Absolutely so to understand CHAP, you have to really look
at the history of Richland County. You look back to
the late eighties in the early nineties, and you look
at doctors Mark and Sarah Reading. What they did was
once they were fresh out of medical school, they actually
moved to Alaska, and while they were working in a
small village, they realized something kind of phenomenal that there
(01:14):
was an individual health worker that was working for an
entire family. We think of that as kind of, you know,
what we would expect at this point, but it was
novel at the time. So they came back to Richland
County and they started to see that a lot of
the issues they saw in Alaska were very similar to
issues they were seeing right back here in town. So
(01:34):
a decade later, when they came back to Mansfield, they
had taken some of the lessons they'd learned while they
were in Alaska and they realized that in neighborhoods with
high poverty rates, we were also seeing high rates of
infant mortality. And that's what started CHAP, this grassroots idea
that if we start to remove barriers to care, maybe
(01:56):
not specifically medical, we can help people be healthier. So
CHAP was created with the idea that every social need
needs to be addressed before we can actually fulfill holistic
care for the individual. So what does CHAP deal A
long winded way of answering that question, but we help
individuals remove risks. Those risks are things like food, insecurity,
(02:20):
lack of housing, lack of transportation, and we do that
removal of risk through a certified pathway hub model where
we link people in the community with community health workers
who walk alongside them and help them remove those barriers
to risk and live an independent, fulfilling life.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You're hearing the voice this morning of Bryce Eierley, executive
director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. You mentioned a
little bit of the history. How long has CHAP been
around now?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, So CHAP has been around since nineteen ninety nine,
and we've moved around the area quite a bit. But
we started out in the oc Hill building over on
the North End where now in the Marion One building.
But you know, the idea started and in my office.
If you come and visit, you'll see it was a
grassroots campaign, a door to door tracking of census tracks
(03:11):
five and six over on the North End, where we
plotted out on a map people that had social needs
and we worked with them individually. Back in nineteen ninety nine,
if you saw a lady what they would say, a
lady in a red jacket, you would know that that
was a community health worker. They could help you find resources.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
All right, now, let's ask you this question. You really
have a good coverage area. People think, hey, we're talking
in a studio in Mainsfield. But you guys cover a
good portion of the area. Talk about your coverage.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Area absolutely, So you know we cover Richland, Ashland, Crawford
here on, Knox and Morrow County, so you know, if
you need help in any of those areas, you know
we can deploy community health workers to come meet you
where you are to help you work through and modify
those risks. I'm using the raise risks a lot, but really,
(04:01):
when you think about it, we want to help you
be independent and be empowered. So if you need help with,
for example, pregnancy, we will walk with you along your
entire pregnancy and post pregnancy will walk along you and
your newborn. So it's a really really intricate program that
allows us to help just about everybody in the community.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The voice you hear is Bryce Eroley with CHAP Community
Health Access Project, where he is executive director. So you
are based out of Mansfield. You mentioned maryon one building
and I'm just thinking, you know, somebody may wonder, oh,
you know, is there a certain qualification or anything to
be able to get help from CHAP. Could you explain
(04:44):
that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Absolutely, No, there are no prerequisites to receiving services from CHAP.
We help anybody and everybody. As doctor Mark Redding used
to say, we help folks from twinkle to wrinkle. So
the ability to help and walk through those pathways is
is kind of what makes CHAP a unique service here
in the area.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, because people here about you know, taking care of
their health and things like that, and sometimes there are
they don't know where to turn to, who to turn to,
how can they get some help? And the first step
would be to call you guys, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You can call us four one nine five two six CHAP,
or you can visit our website chapdash Ohio dot com.
On there, we have a referral form it's very easy
to fill out to help you get connected with the
community health worker. You can also visit us in the
Marion one building. We're open five days a week and
we're on site. We have people pop in and out
all day long and it's it's great to work, you know,
(05:41):
hands on with the community.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're hearing from Bryce Irolee this morning again our featured
CEO you should know this week, executive director of CHAP
Community Health Access Project. You were telling me off the here.
Now the mics are on, let's talk a little bit
about this. You help so many people, but you have
people in your organization that go and meet people places
like you know, maybe they're not going to come to you,
you go to them. Maybe you meet somewhere I would
(06:03):
say neutral. You know, you never talking about maybe at
a restaurant or something. But talk about the process as
they get started with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, absolutely, So once you enroll with CHAP, we're going
to connect you with the community health worker at one
of our partner agencies. And what's neat We were talking
off the air about the partner agencies that we're working with,
agencies like Third Street Family Health Services, Ruby's Women's Group,
Catholic Charities, Project One, and others in the community and
the various counties. We'll connect you with the community health
(06:31):
worker that we think is best to fit your need.
That community health worker will then come and meet you
where you are. They'll meet you at McDonald's if you
want to have a conversation there, and it's not an interview.
We don't want to interview and we don't want to
put you on the spotlight. What we want to do
is we want to work with you to learn what
you want to help with. So if you need help
getting to a doctor, getting to a dentist, we want
(06:51):
to help make that possible, and we're going to walk
with you through those steps. What makes CHAP different is
that we're not just going to hand you a phone number.
We're not just going to give you a list of resources.
We're gonna walk with you through getting that risk resolved
and hitting the goals that you want to achieve.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, you are telling me again, Bryce Iroley, Executive director
of CHAP Community Health Access Project. You know, emailing and
talking with you, you know, schedule you to come in here.
You guys, you want to have an impact on the community,
and it sounds like you guys are really working hard
to make sure people know that you're there and you're
there to help them.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Absolutely. So, Richland County specifically is what we would consider
to be resource rich. The issue with being resource rich
is a lot of people don't know how to find
those resources. What my organization does and what CHAP does,
is we help connect the people with the resources they need.
Do you need diapers for your children? Do you need
specific items for your house? Do you need to find
(07:48):
a medical specialist? Do you need to go to a
primary care doctor. We're gonna help you find those items
that you need and make sure that you can be fulfilled.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Terrific information, very important information today again from Bryce Ireley
with CHAP, he's executive director of Community Health Access Project.
All right, let's step away from where I can find
out a little bit more about you. I teased at
the beginning his family's been in the area for a
long long time. But if you would, we would love
to have you share all about that. Let's begin with
(08:20):
you know, where were you born, high school and all
of that, So tell us the story of Bryce Ireland absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So. You know, I'm from Mansfield, born at the time
at Med Central but now Ohio Health, and I've lived
here my entire life. I'm an Ontario High School graduate
from there. I went to Ohio State here at the
Mansfield branch and got my undergraduate degree in English. I
thought at the time that I was going to be
(08:46):
a teacher, but we see how we shifted into the
nonprofit sphere from there. You know, I got a job
working over at Worcestern Community Hospital as their manager of
patient Access. While I was there, I got my master's
degree in business from Mountain and I got the opportunity
to step into a role as a director of operations
at Third Street and that's really where I got my
(09:07):
nonprofit CHOPS, working with Peggy Anderson and some others there,
I got the opportunity to really focus on safety net care,
focus on helping people who might not otherwise have the
ability to be helped. From there, you know, I took
a little bit of time off and this role at
CHAP kind of kind of fell into my lap, or
I fell into its lap, and it's been something that
(09:30):
this county and the surrounding county is so desperately need
to help continue to provide that safety net support, that
care coordination and really helping make the community healthier.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The voice you hear is Bryce Iriley again. He is
executive director of CHAP Community Health Access Project and our
featured CEO you should know. This week, he brought a
photo into the studio and showed me. Was it grandparents farm?
And it's funny, he told me, And he explained it
right as he was showing me. I would have never
(10:03):
have guessed, you know, the area he was telling me
because he was showing me a photo for like Meyer
and things are now in Ontario. Your family explained had
a farm many of yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a really neat so I at home.
I have a three year old and my three year
old loves, absolutely loves my grandparents, so she spends it
one day with them a week. My grandmother, both my
grandparents are you know, from the area as well, lived here.
The ier Leys have been here since you know, the
(10:33):
early nineteen hundreds. But on my grandmother's side of the family,
at the intersection of Walker Lake Road and Lexington spring
Mill right there where sun Belt is all that land
used to be a farm and it was it was
beer farm, and that's where my grandmother grew ups, where
my grandparents met. They've told me stories about walking cattle
(10:54):
up to where Cinemak is now. There used to be
a little pond back there, but that all used to
be I mean the photo I show you, it's dirt
roads and that was farm. That was farm area that
that my family used to used to take care of.
It's a really neat historic piece of of Ierley and
Beer history.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Interesting Walker Lake Road, Lexington spring Mill Road. What people
think about, you know, what they see now years ago
and you told me that You're very much into history,
right you enjoy that?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, I do so. On my grandfather's side, his
grandparents actually grew up on the corner of thirty nine
and Bowmen, So, you know, kind of all over just this,
this Richland County area, and I want to see the
area you know, thrive. It's the community I live in.
I have a three year old. I'm raising her here.
It's really neat to see some of the social change
(11:42):
that a lot of organizations like mine are doing. Well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Let's continue to learn about Bryce ier Lee Community Health
Access Project. He's executive director of CHAP. So I heard
you say you have a child, So tell us a
little more about Bryce and the family.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I have a three year older name is Harper
and she she rules our household. She is a little redhead,
a spitfire. So you know, we uh we live in
Ontario and you know, spending a lot of time chasing
her around. My wife, Emily is is a calf lab
nurse over to Vita, so you know, still working in
(12:21):
different levels of healthcare, but still trying to help as
best we can.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, So I'm assuming spare time and hobbies, Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Spare time a lot of it revolves around uh, doing
what the little one wants. But no, I I really
enjoy I like to fish when I get the chance,
which is a very often. I like to Uh. I
like spend time outside. So we uh, you know, go
to the pool and just spending time with the family.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
All right, terrific. Well before we let him go this morning,
want to circle back to work again. Bryce Eireley from
CHAP Community Health Access Project, he's executive director, he's our CEO.
You should know in terms of maybe an event, I'm
sure you guys go out and about it in the community.
Right somebody may see CHAPP in the community where they
could talk to somebody at some kind of an event.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Absolutely, I'm glad you brought that up. We have our
annual Community Baby Shower open to the public coming up
on October sixteenth from twelve to four at the Middle
Ohio Conference Center, and this is an opportunity for moms
to be to come in and get all the services
they need, all the help and support that they might need.
Under one roof. We're partnering with agencies like rich In
(13:29):
County Youth and Family Services. A lot of our local
OBGYN offices are going to be there, a lot the
hospitals are going to be there, and really what this
is is it's free to the community. A lot of
moms might not be able to get a baby shower,
and then there is some stigma behind, you know, a
baby shower for a second, third, or fourth children. But
that doesn't mean that moms don't need help. So this
baby shower is focused specifically on a one stop shop
(13:53):
for resources and help that any pregnant mom or to
be mom might need. At the same time, if mom
can't be there because she has to work, it's open
to the public, so grandma can come, family can come,
and we want to make sure that we are helping
those women in the area get those items that they
need to have a healthy and safe pregnancy.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You mentioned open to the public. They don't need to
register or anything to show up or do they need
to register.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So we would love it if they registered. We do
have a on our website chap dash Ohio dot com.
We have a registration link that you can go to.
If you don't register, that's okay, you know, we're not
turning anybody away. But the more people that do register
is the more idea of the supplies and the items
that we'll have on hand.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Could you give us that date one more time?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Absolutely? So. That is the Community Baby Shower October sixteenth,
twenty twenty five at the Middle Ohio Conference Center from
noon to.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Four, right down the hill from the radio stage. You
can almost see it again. Our chat this morning been
a good one learning about Community Health Access Project better
known as CHAP with executive director Bryce Eery. Anything we've
missed that you feel the public should know about your organization.
They think about, you know, access you know, to health care,
(15:04):
and you mentioned there's so many different things that they
might need that they don't know where to turn. They
reach out to you guys. But if somebody maybe has
never connected with you guys before that they don't know
who to turn to. Just go ahead and encourage them
to stop and see you guys. Give you a call
absolutely at your website.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah. So, you know, the whole idea behind CHAP is
that small social change can make huge societal impact. So
if you need help, we're here to help you. We're
here to walk beside you. The services are free, you
won't be charged for any services. And really the idea
is to empower folks in the community. We don't want
(15:41):
somebody to have a community health worker for their whole life. Instead,
what we want is for you to get the help
you need to resolve risks, and once they're resolved, to
be independent and to be able to, you know, go
out empowered as as a community member. The more of
these social risks that we resolve, the healthier the community
overall all becomes in the happier we are as a community.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So just a couple of quick questions for somebody that
missed it earlier. You cover a lot of counties in
the region. Could you list those who all you cover?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Absolutely? We cover Richland, Ashland, Crawford here on Morrow and
Knox County.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're based in Mansfield in the Marion one building, Marion Avenue, YEP.
Go ahead and give us the phone number and the
website for chap if somebody wants to get a hold
of you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Absolutely. If you want to reach us, first of all,
you can always come to the Marion one building. We're
on the what's considered the third floor, but we're easy
to find. There's plenty of signage and we're there Monday
through Friday eight to five. If you want to give
us a call. You can call us at four one
nine five two six CHAP which is four one nine
five two six two four two seven, or you can
(16:45):
go to our website which is Chapdashohio dot com. On
there you can refer yourself as a participant and we
will reach out typically within the same day to chat
with you about what kind of services you need and
how we can help. We try to be very proactive
so there is not there's not a wait for us.
(17:05):
We typically call them the same day if you reach out.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
All right, it's been great learning about your organization very
important this morning. Our featured CEO this week is Bryce Iyer,
Lead executive director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. Well, Bryce,
it was great to learn about you and all the
great work you guys do. Thank you so much for
being with us and we wish you continued success.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me.
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The CEO you should know. We're excited this morning as
our guest in studio is Bryce Eierly. He is executive
director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. Bryce, good morning
(00:23):
and thanks for coming in. How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, we appreciate you reaching out here as we are
learning about organizations here in the local community and you're
one of those here you were telling me off there.
We'll get to your story.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Long time.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know, family ties to the area, but maybe for
the first time, and we were having new people move
into north central Ohio, but maybe for the first time
they're hearing about CHAP Community Health Access Project. Can you
explain what you guys do?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Absolutely so to understand CHAP, you have to really look
at the history of Richland County. You look back to
the late eighties in the early nineties, and you look
at doctors Mark and Sarah Reading. What they did was
once they were fresh out of medical school, they actually
moved to Alaska, and while they were working in a
small village, they realized something kind of phenomenal that there
(01:14):
was an individual health worker that was working for an
entire family. We think of that as kind of, you know,
what we would expect at this point, but it was
novel at the time. So they came back to Richland
County and they started to see that a lot of
the issues they saw in Alaska were very similar to
issues they were seeing right back here in town. So
(01:34):
a decade later, when they came back to Mansfield, they
had taken some of the lessons they'd learned while they
were in Alaska and they realized that in neighborhoods with
high poverty rates, we were also seeing high rates of
infant mortality. And that's what started CHAP, this grassroots idea
that if we start to remove barriers to care, maybe
(01:56):
not specifically medical, we can help people be healthier. So
CHAP was created with the idea that every social need
needs to be addressed before we can actually fulfill holistic
care for the individual. So what does CHAP deal A
long winded way of answering that question, but we help
individuals remove risks. Those risks are things like food, insecurity,
(02:20):
lack of housing, lack of transportation, and we do that
removal of risk through a certified pathway hub model where
we link people in the community with community health workers
who walk alongside them and help them remove those barriers
to risk and live an independent, fulfilling life.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You're hearing the voice this morning of Bryce Eierley, executive
director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. You mentioned a
little bit of the history. How long has CHAP been
around now?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, So CHAP has been around since nineteen ninety nine,
and we've moved around the area quite a bit. But
we started out in the oc Hill building over on
the North End where now in the Marion One building.
But you know, the idea started and in my office.
If you come and visit, you'll see it was a
grassroots campaign, a door to door tracking of census tracks
(03:11):
five and six over on the North End, where we
plotted out on a map people that had social needs
and we worked with them individually. Back in nineteen ninety nine,
if you saw a lady what they would say, a
lady in a red jacket, you would know that that
was a community health worker. They could help you find resources.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
All right, now, let's ask you this question. You really
have a good coverage area. People think, hey, we're talking
in a studio in Mainsfield. But you guys cover a
good portion of the area. Talk about your coverage.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Area absolutely, So you know we cover Richland, Ashland, Crawford
here on, Knox and Morrow County, so you know, if
you need help in any of those areas, you know
we can deploy community health workers to come meet you
where you are to help you work through and modify
those risks. I'm using the raise risks a lot, but really,
(04:01):
when you think about it, we want to help you
be independent and be empowered. So if you need help with,
for example, pregnancy, we will walk with you along your
entire pregnancy and post pregnancy will walk along you and
your newborn. So it's a really really intricate program that
allows us to help just about everybody in the community.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
The voice you hear is Bryce Eroley with CHAP Community
Health Access Project, where he is executive director. So you
are based out of Mansfield. You mentioned maryon one building
and I'm just thinking, you know, somebody may wonder, oh,
you know, is there a certain qualification or anything to
be able to get help from CHAP. Could you explain
(04:44):
that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Absolutely, No, there are no prerequisites to receiving services from CHAP.
We help anybody and everybody. As doctor Mark Redding used
to say, we help folks from twinkle to wrinkle. So
the ability to help and walk through those pathways is
is kind of what makes CHAP a unique service here
in the area.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, because people here about you know, taking care of
their health and things like that, and sometimes there are
they don't know where to turn to, who to turn to,
how can they get some help? And the first step
would be to call you guys, right absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You can call us four one nine five two six CHAP,
or you can visit our website chapdash Ohio dot com.
On there, we have a referral form it's very easy
to fill out to help you get connected with the
community health worker. You can also visit us in the
Marion one building. We're open five days a week and
we're on site. We have people pop in and out
all day long and it's it's great to work, you know,
(05:41):
hands on with the community.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're hearing from Bryce Irolee this morning again our featured
CEO you should know this week, executive director of CHAP
Community Health Access Project. You were telling me off the here.
Now the mics are on, let's talk a little bit
about this. You help so many people, but you have
people in your organization that go and meet people places
like you know, maybe they're not going to come to you,
you go to them. Maybe you meet somewhere I would
(06:03):
say neutral. You know, you never talking about maybe at
a restaurant or something. But talk about the process as
they get started with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, absolutely, So once you enroll with CHAP, we're going
to connect you with the community health worker at one
of our partner agencies. And what's neat We were talking
off the air about the partner agencies that we're working with,
agencies like Third Street Family Health Services, Ruby's Women's Group,
Catholic Charities, Project One, and others in the community and
the various counties. We'll connect you with the community health
(06:31):
worker that we think is best to fit your need.
That community health worker will then come and meet you
where you are. They'll meet you at McDonald's if you
want to have a conversation there, and it's not an interview.
We don't want to interview and we don't want to
put you on the spotlight. What we want to do
is we want to work with you to learn what
you want to help with. So if you need help
getting to a doctor, getting to a dentist, we want
(06:51):
to help make that possible, and we're going to walk
with you through those steps. What makes CHAP different is
that we're not just going to hand you a phone number.
We're not just going to give you a list of resources.
We're gonna walk with you through getting that risk resolved
and hitting the goals that you want to achieve.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, you are telling me again, Bryce Iroley, Executive director
of CHAP Community Health Access Project. You know, emailing and
talking with you, you know, schedule you to come in here.
You guys, you want to have an impact on the community,
and it sounds like you guys are really working hard
to make sure people know that you're there and you're
there to help them.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Absolutely. So, Richland County specifically is what we would consider
to be resource rich. The issue with being resource rich
is a lot of people don't know how to find
those resources. What my organization does and what CHAP does,
is we help connect the people with the resources they need.
Do you need diapers for your children? Do you need
specific items for your house? Do you need to find
(07:48):
a medical specialist? Do you need to go to a
primary care doctor. We're gonna help you find those items
that you need and make sure that you can be fulfilled.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Terrific information, very important information today again from Bryce Ireley
with CHAP, he's executive director of Community Health Access Project.
All right, let's step away from where I can find
out a little bit more about you. I teased at
the beginning his family's been in the area for a
long long time. But if you would, we would love
to have you share all about that. Let's begin with
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you know, where were you born, high school and all
of that, So tell us the story of Bryce Ireland absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So. You know, I'm from Mansfield, born at the time
at Med Central but now Ohio Health, and I've lived
here my entire life. I'm an Ontario High School graduate
from there. I went to Ohio State here at the
Mansfield branch and got my undergraduate degree in English. I
thought at the time that I was going to be
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a teacher, but we see how we shifted into the
nonprofit sphere from there. You know, I got a job
working over at Worcestern Community Hospital as their manager of
patient Access. While I was there, I got my master's
degree in business from Mountain and I got the opportunity
to step into a role as a director of operations
at Third Street and that's really where I got my
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nonprofit CHOPS, working with Peggy Anderson and some others there,
I got the opportunity to really focus on safety net care,
focus on helping people who might not otherwise have the
ability to be helped. From there, you know, I took
a little bit of time off and this role at
CHAP kind of kind of fell into my lap, or
I fell into its lap, and it's been something that
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this county and the surrounding county is so desperately need
to help continue to provide that safety net support, that
care coordination and really helping make the community healthier.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The voice you hear is Bryce Iriley again. He is
executive director of CHAP Community Health Access Project and our
featured CEO you should know. This week, he brought a
photo into the studio and showed me. Was it grandparents farm?
And it's funny, he told me, And he explained it
right as he was showing me. I would have never
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have guessed, you know, the area he was telling me
because he was showing me a photo for like Meyer
and things are now in Ontario. Your family explained had
a farm many of yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a really neat so I at home.
I have a three year old and my three year
old loves, absolutely loves my grandparents, so she spends it
one day with them a week. My grandmother, both my
grandparents are you know, from the area as well, lived here.
The ier Leys have been here since you know, the
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early nineteen hundreds. But on my grandmother's side of the family,
at the intersection of Walker Lake Road and Lexington spring
Mill right there where sun Belt is all that land
used to be a farm and it was it was
beer farm, and that's where my grandmother grew ups, where
my grandparents met. They've told me stories about walking cattle
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up to where Cinemak is now. There used to be
a little pond back there, but that all used to
be I mean the photo I show you, it's dirt
roads and that was farm. That was farm area that
that my family used to used to take care of.
It's a really neat historic piece of of Ierley and
Beer history.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Interesting Walker Lake Road, Lexington spring Mill Road. What people
think about, you know, what they see now years ago
and you told me that You're very much into history,
right you enjoy that?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, I do so. On my grandfather's side, his
grandparents actually grew up on the corner of thirty nine
and Bowmen, So, you know, kind of all over just this,
this Richland County area, and I want to see the
area you know, thrive. It's the community I live in.
I have a three year old. I'm raising her here.
It's really neat to see some of the social change
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that a lot of organizations like mine are doing. Well.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Let's continue to learn about Bryce ier Lee Community Health
Access Project. He's executive director of CHAP. So I heard
you say you have a child, So tell us a
little more about Bryce and the family.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, I have a three year older name is Harper
and she she rules our household. She is a little redhead,
a spitfire. So you know, we uh we live in
Ontario and you know, spending a lot of time chasing
her around. My wife, Emily is is a calf lab
nurse over to Vita, so you know, still working in
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different levels of healthcare, but still trying to help as
best we can.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right, So I'm assuming spare time and hobbies, Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Spare time a lot of it revolves around uh, doing
what the little one wants. But no, I I really
enjoy I like to fish when I get the chance,
which is a very often. I like to Uh. I
like spend time outside. So we uh, you know, go
to the pool and just spending time with the family.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
All right, terrific. Well before we let him go this morning,
want to circle back to work again. Bryce Eireley from
CHAP Community Health Access Project, he's executive director, he's our CEO.
You should know in terms of maybe an event, I'm
sure you guys go out and about it in the community.
Right somebody may see CHAPP in the community where they
could talk to somebody at some kind of an event.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Absolutely, I'm glad you brought that up. We have our
annual Community Baby Shower open to the public coming up
on October sixteenth from twelve to four at the Middle
Ohio Conference Center, and this is an opportunity for moms
to be to come in and get all the services
they need, all the help and support that they might need.
Under one roof. We're partnering with agencies like rich In
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County Youth and Family Services. A lot of our local
OBGYN offices are going to be there, a lot the
hospitals are going to be there, and really what this
is is it's free to the community. A lot of
moms might not be able to get a baby shower,
and then there is some stigma behind, you know, a
baby shower for a second, third, or fourth children. But
that doesn't mean that moms don't need help. So this
baby shower is focused specifically on a one stop shop
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for resources and help that any pregnant mom or to
be mom might need. At the same time, if mom
can't be there because she has to work, it's open
to the public, so grandma can come, family can come,
and we want to make sure that we are helping
those women in the area get those items that they
need to have a healthy and safe pregnancy.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
You mentioned open to the public. They don't need to
register or anything to show up or do they need
to register.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So we would love it if they registered. We do
have a on our website chap dash Ohio dot com.
We have a registration link that you can go to.
If you don't register, that's okay, you know, we're not
turning anybody away. But the more people that do register
is the more idea of the supplies and the items
that we'll have on hand.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Could you give us that date one more time?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Absolutely? So. That is the Community Baby Shower October sixteenth,
twenty twenty five at the Middle Ohio Conference Center from
noon to.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Four, right down the hill from the radio stage. You
can almost see it again. Our chat this morning been
a good one learning about Community Health Access Project better
known as CHAP with executive director Bryce Eery. Anything we've
missed that you feel the public should know about your organization.
They think about, you know, access you know, to health care,
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and you mentioned there's so many different things that they
might need that they don't know where to turn. They
reach out to you guys. But if somebody maybe has
never connected with you guys before that they don't know
who to turn to. Just go ahead and encourage them
to stop and see you guys. Give you a call
absolutely at your website.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah. So, you know, the whole idea behind CHAP is
that small social change can make huge societal impact. So
if you need help, we're here to help you. We're
here to walk beside you. The services are free, you
won't be charged for any services. And really the idea
is to empower folks in the community. We don't want
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somebody to have a community health worker for their whole life. Instead,
what we want is for you to get the help
you need to resolve risks, and once they're resolved, to
be independent and to be able to, you know, go
out empowered as as a community member. The more of
these social risks that we resolve, the healthier the community
overall all becomes in the happier we are as a community.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So just a couple of quick questions for somebody that
missed it earlier. You cover a lot of counties in
the region. Could you list those who all you cover?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Absolutely? We cover Richland, Ashland, Crawford here on Morrow and
Knox County.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You're based in Mansfield in the Marion one building, Marion Avenue, YEP.
Go ahead and give us the phone number and the
website for chap if somebody wants to get a hold
of you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Absolutely. If you want to reach us, first of all,
you can always come to the Marion one building. We're
on the what's considered the third floor, but we're easy
to find. There's plenty of signage and we're there Monday
through Friday eight to five. If you want to give
us a call. You can call us at four one
nine five two six CHAP which is four one nine
five two six two four two seven, or you can
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go to our website which is Chapdashohio dot com. On
there you can refer yourself as a participant and we
will reach out typically within the same day to chat
with you about what kind of services you need and
how we can help. We try to be very proactive
so there is not there's not a wait for us.
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We typically call them the same day if you reach out.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
All right, it's been great learning about your organization very
important this morning. Our featured CEO this week is Bryce Iyer,
Lead executive director of CHAP Community Health Access Project. Well, Bryce,
it was great to learn about you and all the
great work you guys do. Thank you so much for
being with us and we wish you continued success.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
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Speaker 2 (17:33):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
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