April 28, 2023 • 29 mins
Philadelphia City Commissioner Omar Sabir fills us in on important voter information leading up to the May 16th Primary.
www.Vote.phila.gov Omar.sabir@phila.gov
We chat about a fabulous event coming up to support the Boys and girls Clubs of Philadelphia – The Coach’s Private Reserve Dinner on May 17th. I speak to Co-President and CEO of BGCPhila Lisabeth Marziello and Sophia Marziello, Manager of Strategic Support and Systematic Development about the event and the many programs offered by the organization to empower children and youth. https://bgcphila.org/
First, for couples struggling with infertility - there is hope. I speak to Dr. Anne Hutchinson, Reproductive Endocrinologist, Shady Grove Fertility Pennsylvania about the latest advances in infertility treatment.
Website: www.shadygrovefertililty.com
Instagram: @shadygrovefertility
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ShadyGroveFertility
Twitter: @SGFertility
TikTok: @shadygrovefertility
www.Vote.phila.gov Omar.sabir@phila.gov
We chat about a fabulous event coming up to support the Boys and girls Clubs of Philadelphia – The Coach’s Private Reserve Dinner on May 17th. I speak to Co-President and CEO of BGCPhila Lisabeth Marziello and Sophia Marziello, Manager of Strategic Support and Systematic Development about the event and the many programs offered by the organization to empower children and youth. https://bgcphila.org/
First, for couples struggling with infertility - there is hope. I speak to Dr. Anne Hutchinson, Reproductive Endocrinologist, Shady Grove Fertility Pennsylvania about the latest advances in infertility treatment.
Website: www.shadygrovefertililty.com
Instagram: @shadygrovefertility
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ShadyGroveFertility
Twitter: @SGFertility
TikTok: @shadygrovefertility
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Good morning. You're listening to what'sgoing on a show about making a difference
in our lives and our communities.I'm Lorraine ballad Moral. Philadelphia City Commissioner
Omar Severer fills us in on importantvoter information. We chat about a fabulous
event coming up to support the Boysand Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. But first,
some couples struggle with infertility, butthere is hope. Infertility effects approximately
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ten to fifteen percent of couples worldwide. It's certainly a challenge for families who
want to have babies. There's somuch that's involved, so much emotion that's
attached to the biology of the processof fertility. To tell us more about
it and about the latest technology relatedto making sure that people can get pregnant.
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Doctor Anne Hutchinson, reproductive ender chronologistat Shady Grove Fertility, Pennsylvania,
Thanks so much for joining us heretoday. And how do you, first
of all, define infertility? Thankyou so much for having me so Generally,
we define infertility as a sense tryingto get pregnant and not being able
to. So there are a coupledifferent definitions that we have in place for
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what that means, depending on whereyou are in the trying process. So
for folks who are under the ageof thirty five, we usually give it
about a year of trying or abouttwelve ovulatory cycles. For folks over the
age of thirty five, we shortenthat window a little bit to six months.
But obviously there are kind of otherpopulations of folks that don't fall within
those kind of well defined windows ofregular cycles, and we're open to helping
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them as well. There are certainlylots of different causes for infertility. Let's
talk about some of the main ones, first for the woman and then for
the men. Sure, So interms of causes of infertility, there are
again, like you said, kindof a short list that we run through
for everybody. So the main causesthat we see are kind of irregular ovulations
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or irregular cycles for women, notnecessarily giving them a chance to release an
egg every month to try. Sometimeswe'll see issues that can be related to
fallopian tubes or pelopian damage, andsometimes we can see issues related to sperm
sperm counts the way that they swim. Our initial testing is going to essentially
look for all of those different parametersto try to get an idea of what
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may be affecting the couple. There'salso some risk factors that are really environmental,
things that are external that can alsoimpact I wonder if you can tell
us about some of those. Sure, So a lot of research is being
done into this as well, kindof trying to get a better idea of
what environmental impacts can affect fertility.So we know that certain substances that can
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be consumed. We know that smokingcan definitely have a detrimental effect on fertility
at the level of the ovary,at the level of the sperm, at
the level of the fallopian two.We know that excessive alcohol intake, excessive
caffeine intake has also been suggested tohave some kind of effect, although perhaps
not quite as strong as the others. We know that other environmental exposures like
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lead exposures or exposures to other kindof heavy metals can certainly have an impact
act on fertility. And then there'salso been a lot of research that's been
going into other exposures such as exposuresto plastics and things like that and how
those could potentially affect fertility as well. And we're learning a lot as we
go. All Right, So acouple has tried to get pregnant, whether
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they are a younger couple and they'vetried for a year without protection, or
they're an older couple and they waitedsix months and they have not been able
to get pregnant. What is thenext step for those couples. Sure,
So first thing we do is webring them in and we have a nice
long conversation about everything that's been goingon. So we talk about how long
they've been trying, what their cyclesare like, what their goals are,
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what their ideal family sizes, andall those are really important factors. And
then based off that, we startwith some routine testing just to get an
idea of what's going on from aphysiologic side. So we'll get an idea
of what's going on with the ovary, we'll get an idea of whether the
fallopian tubes are open, if thereare any signs of fallopian tube damage,
and we'll usually get a seem ananalysis as well, just to get an
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idea again of what's going on fromthe sperm standpoint. There's so much new
technology that has occurred over the lastthirty years. As someone who experienced the
fertility journey myself, we eventually adopted. So much has happened since I started
back in the eighties to now,and there's been so much more success with
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various techniques. Can you tell usa few of those techniques that are being
utilized in order to obtain a pregnancy. IVF is ultimately a pretty young field
when all of medicine is considered,and we were rapidly evolving field with new
technologies as they come out. Soabsolutely, I mean, looking back to
how we were doing fertility treatments andhow we are doing really early IVF in
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the eighties, we've come a really, really long way. One of the
ways that we've become so much moreefficient is our ability to get a larger
group of eggs throughout the IVF processor throughout any of our fertility treatments.
By trying to recruit more eggs andgain access to more eggs, we really
have more chances on a monthly basisor a cycle basis to try to achieve
pregnancy for a person or for acouple. We've also gotten a lot more
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efficient at the fertilization process, sowe have additional options that are available for
couples who are going through the IBFjourney where instead of necessarily letting the sperm
kind of self select and fertilize theegg independently, we have the ability to
help kind of correct for some malefactor issues and actually help that sperm directly
into the egg with a process calledintercideoplasmic sperm injection, which has been fantastically
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successful since its introduction in the nineties. Yeah, I want you to say
that five times real fast. That'squite a mindful of that term. But
go ahead, I'm sorry. Continue. Yeah, absolutely, I know we
have I use it a lot.And then I think probably the other biggest
advance in technology that we've had isthe ability once we grow embryos out in
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our laboratory will typically grow those embryosfor about five days of development, which
really just kind of recreates that fallopiantube environment that they would have been experiencing
if we're to get pregnant inside yourbody. But after those five days of
development, when we have those embryosin our laboratory, we have the ability
to buyopsy them and actually learn whichof those embryos have the correct chromosomes in
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them to really give them the bestchance of turning into a baby once they're
placed back inside the uterus, andthat testing is called preimplantation genetic testing for
ANNIE EMPLOYDY or PGTA, So somein pat it's a ton of advances in
the field. We've gotten better atbeing able to freeze additional embryos, we've
gotten better able to make additional embryos, so we're fortunately in a position now
or some couples who will come throughon their journey will be able to make
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more than one usable embryo in asingle cycle of IVF, and they'll be
able to free some of those embryosand save them for future family building goals.
I'd like to talk about the emotionaljourney that families go through because having
gone through it myself. First ofall, when you are on the fertility
journey, it can be a rollercoaster right of emotions when you go whatever
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you're going through that month, andthen at the end of it, then
you get your period and that canbe very devastating. Absolutely so the highs
are high and unfortunately the lows arelow too. And it's one of the
very special things about this field isbeing able to be there for our patients
through that entire emotional roller coaster,and you know, we are the first
to recognize that so many of ourpatients and our couples who come in to
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see us, this is not plana, this is not how they imagine
that their family would grow. Butwe're here for that too, and a
big part of what we do iskind of provide emotional support along the way,
you know, with a healthy doseof science and statistics that go along
with it too, But a lotof it is really being there for our
patients, supporting them, trying toset kind of like reasonable realistic goals moving
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forward. But yes, it isabsolutely a journey. I wonder if you
can look ahead, there's been there'sbeen so many advances in the last thirty
years. What do you see isthe future of infertility treatments? Ooh,
that's a great question. So Imean, I think that there are a
lot of very very smart people thatare out there working on a whole lot
of different projects right now. Ithink some of the big up and coming
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questions that are under that have alot of research going on surrounding them.
One is, like we talked about, right now we have the ability to
buyopsy in embryo and we can learnwhich ones are chromosomeally normal, A lot
of really smart folks have been tryingto come up with a way that we
can learn that information without necessarily havingto buyopsy in embryo, kind of like
a non invasive option for being ableto screen out which are the most ideal
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embryos for transfer, which I thinkwould be absolutely transformative in our field.
And then there's been a lot ofresearch going into well, women are born
with a certain number of eggs thatthey can use throughout the course of their
lifetime. We only have access toa certain number a month for any individual,
and we can learn that about them, but that's been one of the
most restrictive parts of our field foras long as IVF has been around.
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So again, a lot of researchhas been going into is there a way
that we can have more access tomore eggs and women giving them a better
chance of being able to achieved fertility, whether that's through stem cells, whether
that's through being able to access eggsat kind of an earlier stage of development
inside the ovary. But again,I think that would be another revolutionary finding
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to move forward. When I wasgoing through my process, medical insurance did
not cover the treatments that I wasexperiencing. I know that that has changed
for so many patients tell us aboutthe affordability of infertility treatments. Absolutely.
Unfortunately, we're seeing really great advancesin terms of insurance coverage and we have
a lot of folks who are advocatingvery very strongly for in a number of
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different states. So fortunately, withmost of our patients, we'll see some
level of insurance coverage at least forthe initial work up and for I believe
it's about sixty or seventy percent ofthe patients that we see in our practice
will have some kind of coverage forinfertility, and granted that can vary widely
depending on the insurance plan that theyhave. So, like you had mentioned,
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a big part of what we dois trying to a be very honest
and upfront from the very begin aboutwhat this process may potentially look like,
what coverage is, what cost couldand would be. But we also want
to try to make that as approachableas possible for the person or couple,
and there are a couple different programsthat Jady Grove has specifically to help with
this part of it. We havea Shared Help program, so an income
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based kind of discount program for treatmentsfor folks that are in a position where
they're paying out of pocket. Totry to make these treatments more approachable and
reasonable for them, we also havesomething called a shared Risk program, which
we're really proud of as well,so for folks that are in a position
where they're paying for their treatment outof pocket. One of the really stressful
things about the fertility journey is unpredictablethings can happen. We can go through
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an IVF cycle and we can expectthe best, but sometimes it doesn't turn
into a baby, and sometimes we'rekind of back at step one after spending
a X amount of money, anX amount of time and emotional energy,
and the idea of really reapproaching fora second cycle, at least from a
financial standpoint can sometimes be a bigbarrier. So what the Shared Risk program
allows us to do from the verybeginning for our patients is say, you
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know what, we're on this journeytogether, and it is going to end
in a baby. It is eithergoing to end in a baby, or
it is going to end in yougetting all of your money back and not
having that financial burden with you.It's a really great program that allows us
to have a little bit more leewaywith our patients and allow them to take
a little bit more of a breathof fresh air, knowing that they will
reach their goals. And finally,when they do reach their goals, what
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a joy that must be. Oh, it really is. It's just the
best thing in the world to beable to call that patient with that first
positive pregnancy test, that you know, those first normal embryos, that they're
able to make, those first obstetricalultrasounds, seeing those baby pictures. Oh,
there's nothing else like it in theworld. I have the best job.
I'm sure that when you're able togive that great news to those couples,
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I can't even imagine. It mustbe absolutely joyful. Well, doctor
Anna Hutchinson, if people want moreinformation about infertility treatments, and particularly about
the work that you do at ShadyGrow Fertility Pennsylvania, how do they find
out more? Absolutely so, ournew Patient Call Center is wonderful at trying
to help match patients with providers intheir area. And again, I'm seeing
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patients primarily in Lancaster, Pennsylvania andNewark, Delaware in the Pennsylvania region.
I would love to see anybody,but the New Patient Call Center's number is
eight eight eight seven, six oneone nine six seven. Thank you so
much for shedding light on infertility andwhat options are available to couples who maybe
having challenges having that first baby again. Is nothing more rewarding than to go
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through a treatment cycle and to beable to give birth, and wonderful that
you're able to accomplish that for somany couples. Doctor Anne Hutchinson, reproductive
endochronologist at Shady Grow Fertility, Pennsylvania, thank you so much for joining us
today. Oh, thank you somuch for having me. I really appreciate
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election. Cast your ballot on Maysixteenth to choose the city's next leadership.
The deadline to register to vote isMay first. You can be a part
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of changing the city for the betterby casting your vote and lifting your voice.
Find voter guides, reporting about candidatesand important community issues, as well
as dates for candidates forums at everyvoice dash every vote dot org. You're
listening to what's going on. Wehave a very important election coming up.
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It's the Pennsylvania primary on May sixteenth, and for all intents and purposes,
it may in fact be the electionthat will determine the next mayor the city
of Philadelphia. To tell us everythingwe need to know about getting to the
polls is Omar Saberi. He's acity commissioner and vice chair of the City's
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Commissioner's Office. Thank you so muchfor joining us here today. Thank you,
thank you, thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure of being
well. So tell us about someof the top deadlines that we need to
be aware of as a voter.Sure, so I made the first.
Is the deadline for you? Toget registered to vote or for you to
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change your registration. And that's veryimportant because Pennsylvania is a closed primary state,
so that means you have to beregistered to a specific party in order
to vote for any of the candidatesand the primary. So if you are
a registered independent, you are notgoing to be able to vote for a
Democrat, Republican candidate for mayor citycouncil, or any of the position does
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on a ballot. Now, ifpeople want to either register to vote or
to change their party affiliation, whatdo they need to do? It's very
simple. You can go to Philadelphiavotes dot com, Philadelphia votes dot com
all on word and take you toour website and you can just click on
the registration link icons right on thefirst page. Now, that is one
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deadline, but there is there area couple more deadlines for us to keep
in mind. Well, let's talkabout voting by mail. Tell us what
we need to know for that.So if you apply already, the ballots
out last week. People have receivingtheir ballots. We have eighteen convenient drop
off locations where you can drop offyour ballot or you can pitch your bollet
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in email. It's free. Apostage right now, there's enough time.
But as to get closer to theelection, please take advantage of our eighteen
eagles green drop off locations. Youcan go to Philadelphia votes dot com to
find out where locations that's nearest toyou. And maybe the ninth is the
deadline for you to apply for yourvote by mail bollet at five pm sharp,
So if you want to do that, you always can do that as
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well on our website at Philadelphia votesdot com. Or you can do a
paper application if you call our officeat two on five six eighty six three
four six two, someone from ouroffice can deliver you a paper application,
and if you require our staff towait until you get finished, we can
then collect it and turn it backin. So that's the technical deadline,
but the intelligent deadline is to doit right now. Just a case you
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make a mistake, we want yourcompleted application by me to ninth for five
pm. And if you miss thatapplication, don't worry about it. We'll
have overset one hundred polling locations locatedacross Philadelphia where you can vote in personal.
Let's talk about one other aspect aboutthe mail in ballot, and that
is I think some people sometimes getconfused. It's not that the ballot needs
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to be postmarked by election day orhow does that work exactly? You need
to get it to your office byelection day, is that right? Right?
Election day at eight pm sharp bytime and plos close and we do
not accept any postmarks. So whatdoes that basically mean. It means if
you pitch your ballot NMIL on electionday, I'm not going to receive it
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by election day. You have tophysically. We have to have it in
our possession by eight pm on electionday, and our dropbox locations will be
opened until eight pm. That's whenthey lock up by eight h one eight
or two eight pm sharp. Soplease bring us your ballot and don't hold
on to your ballot. Some peoplereceived that ballots yesterday and some people have
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a policy of holding onto ballots.Please, as soon as you get it,
please try to You know, I'mnot trying to rush you, but
you know Fila bata out bringing themback. You want to make sure that
your vote cones. Let's talk aboutthe You Are Not Forgotten initiative. Tell
us about that. Sure so collaborationof the brightest minds that works with our
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return to citizen population and we're tryingto encourage voter turnout. There are over
three hundred thousand citizens that have ourcriminal backgrounds and a significant portion don't believe
that they have the right to vote. They have been targets of misinformation for
decades and it's dislarming and we're tryingto build up morale enthusiasm amongst that population
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to vote. And why is thatso important Because in addition to the mayors
the council, you also have judicialraces and they have been every odd year
and we have an unprecedent number ofjudges that are running from municipal court all
way up into Supreme Court. Sowe're encouraging everyone to vote and to know
that even if you are incarcerated,you can still vote if you have a
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criminal background, no matter what you'vebeen convicted of. Once you have your
freedom, you are eligible to vote. So don't let anyone tell you just
because you had a felony that youcannot vote. You are a taxpan citizens.
Once you are released, your voiceneeds to be heard and you are
definitely not forgotten. That's great toknow. Philly Rises Civic engagement. You
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have a school tour tell us aboutthat. Oh yeah, So our school
tour, that's one of the firstinitiatives that we had when the first I
came to office. And as theday, we have visited over ten thousand
students as a mentorship program, wrappedup them with civic engagement as well as
a history lesson, and we haveengaged ten thousand students and we also allowed
to the Philadelphia School District of thatprogram to get a voting champion at each
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high school where they're paid by theschool district to provide voter registration, vote
by mail and pole worker recruitment toevery eligible voter in Philadelphia and it's been
going great. Our student po workerprogram has been phenomenal. We have an
unprecedented number. You could be asyoung at seventeen years old and become a
powarder. So we're definitely calling onall of our student poll workers. We
want that number to increase and gettingeven go to Philadelphia votes dot com all
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the latest information and it's just agreat program. But we definitely want to
expand a program to elementary school aswell as middle school. So we definitely
wanted a partner to want to comeinto the schools with us to do presentations
to talk to the children and berole models. If people want more information
on all the things that we talkedabout and more, again, where's the
best way to go. It's verysimple Philadelphia votes dot com, or you
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can send me an email personally atomar Oma, r dot Saber at Philad
dot gov. Omar omaar dot Saberat Philad dot gov. We always can
call us from nine to five attwo on five six a six three four
six two two on five six asix three four six two. I remember
Philadelphia the more we vote. Saber, City Commissioner also Vice chair of the
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City Commissioner's Office, Thank you somuch for raising our awareness and all the
things we need to know in orderto cast our ballot. Thanks so much.
One of the great joys of myyear is going to this wonderful event
supporting one of my favorite organizations.It's the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia
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and they're having their Coaches Reserve dinnerthat's coming up very soon to tell us
about not only this dinner, whichis absolutely fabulous, but we'll be talking
about the Boys and Girls Clubs andwhat they are doing for our kids.
Joining us right now is listus Marziello, she's co CEO of Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia, and Sophia Marziello, who's manager of Strategic Support and systematic
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Development. I'm going to start withyou, Sophia. Tell us just kind
of for those who don't know,tell us more about the Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia and what you do. Yes, absolutely, Raine, the
Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia advocatehates a bull change by providing educational and
development opportunities for the children living inPhiladelphia's most disadvantaged communities. Our mission is
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to enable all young people, especiallythose who need us most, to reach
their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. But what really
makes us unique is that our operationsare made possible by our passionate staff,
volunteers, and community leaders who trulystrive to change the landscape of opportunity for
the children of Philadelphia whose voices areoften unheard. Yeah, and you,
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in fact kind of grew up withBoys and Girls Clubs? Is that right?
Yes, Seeing the work of myparents, I've really got to witness
firsthand the difference these programs make toa child's life. And my parents always
had the motto that if the clubsweren't good enough for their own children,
they weren't good enough for anyone's children. So I grew up in these programs
and they not only enriched my lifeacademically, but they also helped me to
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foster a strong desire to give backto my local communities. And I think
that's very important to continue to cultivatethat desire in the next generation of future
leaders. And one more quick question. So there's a parent out there,
or there's a young person who's interestedin being a part of the many programs
that you offer, how do theyget involved with Boys and Girls Clubs?
They can look at our website whichis www dot Bgcphila dot org. Or
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we host many special events we offer. We love for volunteers to come in
and mentor our youth and help withclub clean up days, which make sure
that we can secure a safe placefor our kids to grow, learn and
succeed. Fantastic. Well, let'sturn to Elizabeth Marziello co CEO along with
her husband Joseph. And of courseevery year you have one of the biggest
and most fabulous gala events to supportthe Boys and Girls Clubs. Tell us
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about it. So Lorraine this year. We're excited. On May seventeenth,
the stars are aligned to go forthe gold and we're honoring John Ericson of
Precision cast Parts and Precision Castparts actuallyas are presenting sponsor, and we're very
excited to have them there. Area global corporation and really what they do.
They're the leader in manufacturing large complexstructural investment castings, air full castings
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forged components, aero structural and highlyengineered critical fasteners for aerospace applications. Wow.
I never knew that. Wow,that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.
But I guess the most important thingis that they're a huge supporter of
Woys and Girls Club. Absolutely.In fact, they have been a supporter
of the Boys and Girls Club forthe last twenty years. They were support
of ours when we're in Portland,Oregon, and then came and followed us
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here to Philadelphia, and they dohave several plants here as well, Spiss
Technologies and others. But we're excitedto have them and you'll see a lot
of that on Wednesday night the seventeenth, and we're so excited to have you
there, and of course, Coachvermil we are honored to have his presence
and have him hosts this evening withhis wines of our meal wines and our
good friend bel Josio Cheese from Marigarrikiowho comes and has been with us for
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the last thirty years. So it'sgreat to have all of our friends support
the kids and to be there.And we're going to be a bigger group
this year at the Crystal Tea Ballroom, so that to us is is something
that's going to be very special.We do have some surprises that night,
so I think you're going to seethe room is going to be transformed into
a night of stars. So we'reexcited to have you there because you're the
biggest star of ours. Well that'snot true, because there's actually often a
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lot of sports figures tend to come, former Eagles, current Eagles. You've
had all kinds of professional sports figurescome to this event, so it's kind
of a great place to star watch. Yes, and actually they will be
there again this year and some moresome new ones which we're excited about,
so it will be a night filledwith all sorts of people who support the
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kids. That's the most important thingis that they're there to support the kids.
In a good fun way. Ifyou want a party for a purpose,
this is really definitely one that youwant to attend because not only is
the food amazing, and I don'tdrink because only because I'm allergic to alcohol,
but that's the only reason. Becauseit's really a fun filled, wine
filled, delicious kind of event withlots of fun people participate. So if
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people want to get a ticket,how do they do that? So what
we do is we actually it's sponsorships, and what we'll do is they go
to our website www dot Bgcphila dotorg and they can go online there or
they can call the Boys and GirlsClub, which our phone numbers there online
as well and talk to us aboutsponsorships or what they'd like to do to
get involved. We do, youknow, have opportunity. The room's gonna
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be much bigger this year than wewere in our previous year. So it's
going to be a grand night forour grand time, Yes, grand time
for a great cause. Back toyou, Sophia. There are a number
of different programs I know you havelike a kid's cafe. You have a
literacy program that's quite unique. Tellus briefly, what are some of the
programs that you do provide through Boysand Girls Clubs. Yes. Absolutely.
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A key aspect of our programming isour literacy initiative, which teaches kids to
read and write in a multisensory approachto language, which is quite the opposite
of the linear approach often taught inour public school systems. With a linear
approach is often from point A topoint B. It's all about memorized repetition
and time testing, which is verycounterintuitive to the way many children's minds process
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information. So with the multisensor approach, it's more hands on. It's visual,
audio, and kinesthetic learning. Sotoo often is the case where our
schools are teaching our children in away their minds can process information, which
leads to discouragement, disengagement, andoften to them dropping out of school.
However, with the multisensor approach thelanguage, they have a more safe environment
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to learn in the way they deserve, and no child gets left behind with
the multisensor approach, that's great.I love it and it's wonderful, Elizabeth
to see your daughter Sophia speaks soarticulately about the mission and the programs at
Boys and Girls Clubs and clearly she'sa great well. Obviously the parenting helped,
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but being a part of the Boysand Girls Clubs clearly has made a
huge difference. Again, if peoplewant more information, Elizabeth tell us where
they need to go to www dotBGC Philla dot org. Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia having their coaches ReserveDinner. It's happening on the seventeenth.
It is an absolutely fabulous event.But also beyond that, Boys and Girls
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Clubs are making a huge difference inthe lives of our young people here in
the city of Philadelphia, thanks tothe leadership of Elizabeth Marziello along with her
co CEO, Joseph Marziello, andof course the support of Sophia Marziello,
Manager Strategic Support and Systematic Development forthe organization. Elizabeth and Sophia, thank
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you so much. Well, thankyou for having us, Lorraine, Thank
you. You can listen to allof today's interviews by going to our station
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I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrow and I standfor Service to our community and media
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that empowers. What will you standfor? You've been listening to what's going
on, and thank you. SAPTAfind fran
Good morning. You're listening to what'sgoing on a show about making a difference
in our lives and our communities.I'm Lorraine ballad Moral. Philadelphia City Commissioner
Omar Severer fills us in on importantvoter information. We chat about a fabulous
event coming up to support the Boysand Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. But first,
some couples struggle with infertility, butthere is hope. Infertility effects approximately
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ten to fifteen percent of couples worldwide. It's certainly a challenge for families who
want to have babies. There's somuch that's involved, so much emotion that's
attached to the biology of the processof fertility. To tell us more about
it and about the latest technology relatedto making sure that people can get pregnant.
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Doctor Anne Hutchinson, reproductive ender chronologistat Shady Grove Fertility, Pennsylvania,
Thanks so much for joining us heretoday. And how do you, first
of all, define infertility? Thankyou so much for having me so Generally,
we define infertility as a sense tryingto get pregnant and not being able
to. So there are a coupledifferent definitions that we have in place for
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what that means, depending on whereyou are in the trying process. So
for folks who are under the ageof thirty five, we usually give it
about a year of trying or abouttwelve ovulatory cycles. For folks over the
age of thirty five, we shortenthat window a little bit to six months.
But obviously there are kind of otherpopulations of folks that don't fall within
those kind of well defined windows ofregular cycles, and we're open to helping
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them as well. There are certainlylots of different causes for infertility. Let's
talk about some of the main ones, first for the woman and then for
the men. Sure, So interms of causes of infertility, there are
again, like you said, kindof a short list that we run through
for everybody. So the main causesthat we see are kind of irregular ovulations
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or irregular cycles for women, notnecessarily giving them a chance to release an
egg every month to try. Sometimeswe'll see issues that can be related to
fallopian tubes or pelopian damage, andsometimes we can see issues related to sperm
sperm counts the way that they swim. Our initial testing is going to essentially
look for all of those different parametersto try to get an idea of what
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may be affecting the couple. There'salso some risk factors that are really environmental,
things that are external that can alsoimpact I wonder if you can tell
us about some of those. Sure, So a lot of research is being
done into this as well, kindof trying to get a better idea of
what environmental impacts can affect fertility.So we know that certain substances that can
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be consumed. We know that smokingcan definitely have a detrimental effect on fertility
at the level of the ovary,at the level of the sperm, at
the level of the fallopian two.We know that excessive alcohol intake, excessive
caffeine intake has also been suggested tohave some kind of effect, although perhaps
not quite as strong as the others. We know that other environmental exposures like
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lead exposures or exposures to other kindof heavy metals can certainly have an impact
act on fertility. And then there'salso been a lot of research that's been
going into other exposures such as exposuresto plastics and things like that and how
those could potentially affect fertility as well. And we're learning a lot as we
go. All Right, So acouple has tried to get pregnant, whether
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they are a younger couple and they'vetried for a year without protection, or
they're an older couple and they waitedsix months and they have not been able
to get pregnant. What is thenext step for those couples. Sure,
So first thing we do is webring them in and we have a nice
long conversation about everything that's been goingon. So we talk about how long
they've been trying, what their cyclesare like, what their goals are,
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what their ideal family sizes, andall those are really important factors. And
then based off that, we startwith some routine testing just to get an
idea of what's going on from aphysiologic side. So we'll get an idea
of what's going on with the ovary, we'll get an idea of whether the
fallopian tubes are open, if thereare any signs of fallopian tube damage,
and we'll usually get a seem ananalysis as well, just to get an
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idea again of what's going on fromthe sperm standpoint. There's so much new
technology that has occurred over the lastthirty years. As someone who experienced the
fertility journey myself, we eventually adopted. So much has happened since I started
back in the eighties to now,and there's been so much more success with
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various techniques. Can you tell usa few of those techniques that are being
utilized in order to obtain a pregnancy. IVF is ultimately a pretty young field
when all of medicine is considered,and we were rapidly evolving field with new
technologies as they come out. Soabsolutely, I mean, looking back to
how we were doing fertility treatments andhow we are doing really early IVF in
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the eighties, we've come a really, really long way. One of the
ways that we've become so much moreefficient is our ability to get a larger
group of eggs throughout the IVF processor throughout any of our fertility treatments.
By trying to recruit more eggs andgain access to more eggs, we really
have more chances on a monthly basisor a cycle basis to try to achieve
pregnancy for a person or for acouple. We've also gotten a lot more
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efficient at the fertilization process, sowe have additional options that are available for
couples who are going through the IBFjourney where instead of necessarily letting the sperm
kind of self select and fertilize theegg independently, we have the ability to
help kind of correct for some malefactor issues and actually help that sperm directly
into the egg with a process calledintercideoplasmic sperm injection, which has been fantastically
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successful since its introduction in the nineties. Yeah, I want you to say
that five times real fast. That'squite a mindful of that term. But
go ahead, I'm sorry. Continue. Yeah, absolutely, I know we
have I use it a lot.And then I think probably the other biggest
advance in technology that we've had isthe ability once we grow embryos out in
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our laboratory will typically grow those embryosfor about five days of development, which
really just kind of recreates that fallopiantube environment that they would have been experiencing
if we're to get pregnant inside yourbody. But after those five days of
development, when we have those embryosin our laboratory, we have the ability
to buyopsy them and actually learn whichof those embryos have the correct chromosomes in
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them to really give them the bestchance of turning into a baby once they're
placed back inside the uterus, andthat testing is called preimplantation genetic testing for
ANNIE EMPLOYDY or PGTA, So somein pat it's a ton of advances in
the field. We've gotten better atbeing able to freeze additional embryos, we've
gotten better able to make additional embryos, so we're fortunately in a position now
or some couples who will come throughon their journey will be able to make
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more than one usable embryo in asingle cycle of IVF, and they'll be
able to free some of those embryosand save them for future family building goals.
I'd like to talk about the emotionaljourney that families go through because having
gone through it myself. First ofall, when you are on the fertility
journey, it can be a rollercoaster right of emotions when you go whatever
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you're going through that month, andthen at the end of it, then
you get your period and that canbe very devastating. Absolutely so the highs
are high and unfortunately the lows arelow too. And it's one of the
very special things about this field isbeing able to be there for our patients
through that entire emotional roller coaster,and you know, we are the first
to recognize that so many of ourpatients and our couples who come in to
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see us, this is not plana, this is not how they imagine
that their family would grow. Butwe're here for that too, and a
big part of what we do iskind of provide emotional support along the way,
you know, with a healthy doseof science and statistics that go along
with it too, But a lotof it is really being there for our
patients, supporting them, trying toset kind of like reasonable realistic goals moving
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forward. But yes, it isabsolutely a journey. I wonder if you
can look ahead, there's been there'sbeen so many advances in the last thirty
years. What do you see isthe future of infertility treatments? Ooh,
that's a great question. So Imean, I think that there are a
lot of very very smart people thatare out there working on a whole lot
of different projects right now. Ithink some of the big up and coming
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questions that are under that have alot of research going on surrounding them.
One is, like we talked about, right now we have the ability to
buyopsy in embryo and we can learnwhich ones are chromosomeally normal, A lot
of really smart folks have been tryingto come up with a way that we
can learn that information without necessarily havingto buyopsy in embryo, kind of like
a non invasive option for being ableto screen out which are the most ideal
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embryos for transfer, which I thinkwould be absolutely transformative in our field.
And then there's been a lot ofresearch going into well, women are born
with a certain number of eggs thatthey can use throughout the course of their
lifetime. We only have access toa certain number a month for any individual,
and we can learn that about them, but that's been one of the
most restrictive parts of our field foras long as IVF has been around.
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So again, a lot of researchhas been going into is there a way
that we can have more access tomore eggs and women giving them a better
chance of being able to achieved fertility, whether that's through stem cells, whether
that's through being able to access eggsat kind of an earlier stage of development
inside the ovary. But again,I think that would be another revolutionary finding
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to move forward. When I wasgoing through my process, medical insurance did
not cover the treatments that I wasexperiencing. I know that that has changed
for so many patients tell us aboutthe affordability of infertility treatments. Absolutely.
Unfortunately, we're seeing really great advancesin terms of insurance coverage and we have
a lot of folks who are advocatingvery very strongly for in a number of
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different states. So fortunately, withmost of our patients, we'll see some
level of insurance coverage at least forthe initial work up and for I believe
it's about sixty or seventy percent ofthe patients that we see in our practice
will have some kind of coverage forinfertility, and granted that can vary widely
depending on the insurance plan that theyhave. So, like you had mentioned,
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a big part of what we dois trying to a be very honest
and upfront from the very begin aboutwhat this process may potentially look like,
what coverage is, what cost couldand would be. But we also want
to try to make that as approachableas possible for the person or couple,
and there are a couple different programsthat Jady Grove has specifically to help with
this part of it. We havea Shared Help program, so an income
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based kind of discount program for treatmentsfor folks that are in a position where
they're paying out of pocket. Totry to make these treatments more approachable and
reasonable for them, we also havesomething called a shared Risk program, which
we're really proud of as well,so for folks that are in a position
where they're paying for their treatment outof pocket. One of the really stressful
things about the fertility journey is unpredictablethings can happen. We can go through
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an IVF cycle and we can expectthe best, but sometimes it doesn't turn
into a baby, and sometimes we'rekind of back at step one after spending
a X amount of money, anX amount of time and emotional energy,
and the idea of really reapproaching fora second cycle, at least from a
financial standpoint can sometimes be a bigbarrier. So what the Shared Risk program
allows us to do from the verybeginning for our patients is say, you
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know what, we're on this journeytogether, and it is going to end
in a baby. It is eithergoing to end in a baby, or
it is going to end in yougetting all of your money back and not
having that financial burden with you.It's a really great program that allows us
to have a little bit more leewaywith our patients and allow them to take
a little bit more of a breathof fresh air, knowing that they will
reach their goals. And finally,when they do reach their goals, what
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a joy that must be. Oh, it really is. It's just the
best thing in the world to beable to call that patient with that first
positive pregnancy test, that you know, those first normal embryos, that they're
able to make, those first obstetricalultrasounds, seeing those baby pictures. Oh,
there's nothing else like it in theworld. I have the best job.
I'm sure that when you're able togive that great news to those couples,
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I can't even imagine. It mustbe absolutely joyful. Well, doctor
Anna Hutchinson, if people want moreinformation about infertility treatments, and particularly about
the work that you do at ShadyGrow Fertility Pennsylvania, how do they find
out more? Absolutely so, ournew Patient Call Center is wonderful at trying
to help match patients with providers intheir area. And again, I'm seeing
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patients primarily in Lancaster, Pennsylvania andNewark, Delaware in the Pennsylvania region.
I would love to see anybody,but the New Patient Call Center's number is
eight eight eight seven, six oneone nine six seven. Thank you so
much for shedding light on infertility andwhat options are available to couples who maybe
having challenges having that first baby again. Is nothing more rewarding than to go
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through a treatment cycle and to beable to give birth, and wonderful that
you're able to accomplish that for somany couples. Doctor Anne Hutchinson, reproductive
endochronologist at Shady Grow Fertility, Pennsylvania, thank you so much for joining us
today. Oh, thank you somuch for having me. I really appreciate
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election. Cast your ballot on Maysixteenth to choose the city's next leadership.
The deadline to register to vote isMay first. You can be a part
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of changing the city for the betterby casting your vote and lifting your voice.
Find voter guides, reporting about candidatesand important community issues, as well
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listening to what's going on. Wehave a very important election coming up.
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It's the Pennsylvania primary on May sixteenth, and for all intents and purposes,
it may in fact be the electionthat will determine the next mayor the city
of Philadelphia. To tell us everythingwe need to know about getting to the
polls is Omar Saberi. He's acity commissioner and vice chair of the City's
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Commissioner's Office. Thank you so muchfor joining us here today. Thank you,
thank you, thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure of being
well. So tell us about someof the top deadlines that we need to
be aware of as a voter.Sure, so I made the first.
Is the deadline for you? Toget registered to vote or for you to
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change your registration. And that's veryimportant because Pennsylvania is a closed primary state,
so that means you have to beregistered to a specific party in order
to vote for any of the candidatesand the primary. So if you are
a registered independent, you are notgoing to be able to vote for a
Democrat, Republican candidate for mayor citycouncil, or any of the position does
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on a ballot. Now, ifpeople want to either register to vote or
to change their party affiliation, whatdo they need to do? It's very
simple. You can go to Philadelphiavotes dot com, Philadelphia votes dot com
all on word and take you toour website and you can just click on
the registration link icons right on thefirst page. Now, that is one
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deadline, but there is there area couple more deadlines for us to keep
in mind. Well, let's talkabout voting by mail. Tell us what
we need to know for that.So if you apply already, the ballots
out last week. People have receivingtheir ballots. We have eighteen convenient drop
off locations where you can drop offyour ballot or you can pitch your bollet
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in email. It's free. Apostage right now, there's enough time.
But as to get closer to theelection, please take advantage of our eighteen
eagles green drop off locations. Youcan go to Philadelphia votes dot com to
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deadline for you to apply for yourvote by mail bollet at five pm sharp,
So if you want to do that, you always can do that as
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well on our website at Philadelphia votesdot com. Or you can do a
paper application if you call our officeat two on five six eighty six three
four six two, someone from ouroffice can deliver you a paper application,
and if you require our staff towait until you get finished, we can
then collect it and turn it backin. So that's the technical deadline,
but the intelligent deadline is to doit right now. Just a case you
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make a mistake, we want yourcompleted application by me to ninth for five
pm. And if you miss thatapplication, don't worry about it. We'll
have overset one hundred polling locations locatedacross Philadelphia where you can vote in personal.
Let's talk about one other aspect aboutthe mail in ballot, and that
is I think some people sometimes getconfused. It's not that the ballot needs
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to be postmarked by election day orhow does that work exactly? You need
to get it to your office byelection day, is that right? Right?
Election day at eight pm sharp bytime and plos close and we do
not accept any postmarks. So whatdoes that basically mean. It means if
you pitch your ballot NMIL on electionday, I'm not going to receive it
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our possession by eight pm on electionday, and our dropbox locations will be
opened until eight pm. That's whenthey lock up by eight h one eight
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on to your ballot. Some peoplereceived that ballots yesterday and some people have
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you know Fila bata out bringing themback. You want to make sure that
your vote cones. Let's talk aboutthe You Are Not Forgotten initiative. Tell
us about that. Sure so collaborationof the brightest minds that works with our
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return to citizen population and we're tryingto encourage voter turnout. There are over
three hundred thousand citizens that have ourcriminal backgrounds and a significant portion don't believe
that they have the right to vote. They have been targets of misinformation for
decades and it's dislarming and we're tryingto build up morale enthusiasm amongst that population
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to vote. And why is thatso important Because in addition to the mayors
the council, you also have judicialraces and they have been every odd year
and we have an unprecedent number ofjudges that are running from municipal court all
way up into Supreme Court. Sowe're encouraging everyone to vote and to know
that even if you are incarcerated,you can still vote if you have a
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criminal background, no matter what you'vebeen convicted of. Once you have your
freedom, you are eligible to vote. So don't let anyone tell you just
because you had a felony that youcannot vote. You are a taxpan citizens.
Once you are released, your voiceneeds to be heard and you are
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have a school tour tell us aboutthat. Oh yeah, So our school
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came to office. And as theday, we have visited over ten thousand
students as a mentorship program, wrappedup them with civic engagement as well as
a history lesson, and we haveengaged ten thousand students and we also allowed
to the Philadelphia School District of thatprogram to get a voting champion at each
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high school where they're paid by theschool district to provide voter registration, vote
by mail and pole worker recruitment toevery eligible voter in Philadelphia and it's been
going great. Our student po workerprogram has been phenomenal. We have an
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the latest information and it's just agreat program. But we definitely want to
expand a program to elementary school aswell as middle school. So we definitely
wanted a partner to want to comeinto the schools with us to do presentations
to talk to the children and berole models. If people want more information
on all the things that we talkedabout and more, again, where's the
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Philadelphia the more we vote. Saber, City Commissioner also Vice chair of the
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City Commissioner's Office, Thank you somuch for raising our awareness and all the
things we need to know in orderto cast our ballot. Thanks so much.
One of the great joys of myyear is going to this wonderful event
supporting one of my favorite organizations.It's the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia
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and they're having their Coaches Reserve dinnerthat's coming up very soon to tell us
about not only this dinner, whichis absolutely fabulous, but we'll be talking
about the Boys and Girls Clubs andwhat they are doing for our kids.
Joining us right now is listus Marziello, she's co CEO of Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia, and Sophia Marziello, who's manager of Strategic Support and systematic
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Development. I'm going to start withyou, Sophia. Tell us just kind
of for those who don't know,tell us more about the Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia and what you do. Yes, absolutely, Raine, the
Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia advocatehates a bull change by providing educational and
development opportunities for the children living inPhiladelphia's most disadvantaged communities. Our mission is
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to enable all young people, especiallythose who need us most, to reach
their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. But what really
makes us unique is that our operationsare made possible by our passionate staff,
volunteers, and community leaders who trulystrive to change the landscape of opportunity for
the children of Philadelphia whose voices areoften unheard. Yeah, and you,
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in fact kind of grew up withBoys and Girls Clubs? Is that right?
Yes, Seeing the work of myparents, I've really got to witness
firsthand the difference these programs make toa child's life. And my parents always
had the motto that if the clubsweren't good enough for their own children,
they weren't good enough for anyone's children. So I grew up in these programs
and they not only enriched my lifeacademically, but they also helped me to
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foster a strong desire to give backto my local communities. And I think
that's very important to continue to cultivatethat desire in the next generation of future
leaders. And one more quick question. So there's a parent out there,
or there's a young person who's interestedin being a part of the many programs
that you offer, how do theyget involved with Boys and Girls Clubs?
They can look at our website whichis www dot Bgcphila dot org. Or
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we host many special events we offer. We love for volunteers to come in
and mentor our youth and help withclub clean up days, which make sure
that we can secure a safe placefor our kids to grow, learn and
succeed. Fantastic. Well, let'sturn to Elizabeth Marziello co CEO along with
her husband Joseph. And of courseevery year you have one of the biggest
and most fabulous gala events to supportthe Boys and Girls Clubs. Tell us
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about it. So Lorraine this year. We're excited. On May seventeenth,
the stars are aligned to go forthe gold and we're honoring John Ericson of
Precision cast Parts and Precision Castparts actuallyas are presenting sponsor, and we're very
excited to have them there. Area global corporation and really what they do.
They're the leader in manufacturing large complexstructural investment castings, air full castings
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forged components, aero structural and highlyengineered critical fasteners for aerospace applications. Wow.
I never knew that. Wow,that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.
But I guess the most important thingis that they're a huge supporter of
Woys and Girls Club. Absolutely.In fact, they have been a supporter
of the Boys and Girls Club forthe last twenty years. They were support
of ours when we're in Portland,Oregon, and then came and followed us
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here to Philadelphia, and they dohave several plants here as well, Spiss
Technologies and others. But we're excitedto have them and you'll see a lot
of that on Wednesday night the seventeenth, and we're so excited to have you
there, and of course, Coachvermil we are honored to have his presence
and have him hosts this evening withhis wines of our meal wines and our
good friend bel Josio Cheese from Marigarrikiowho comes and has been with us for
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the last thirty years. So it'sgreat to have all of our friends support
the kids and to be there.And we're going to be a bigger group
this year at the Crystal Tea Ballroom, so that to us is is something
that's going to be very special.We do have some surprises that night,
so I think you're going to seethe room is going to be transformed into
a night of stars. So we'reexcited to have you there because you're the
biggest star of ours. Well that'snot true, because there's actually often a
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lot of sports figures tend to come, former Eagles, current Eagles. You've
had all kinds of professional sports figurescome to this event, so it's kind
of a great place to star watch. Yes, and actually they will be
there again this year and some moresome new ones which we're excited about,
so it will be a night filledwith all sorts of people who support the
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kids. That's the most important thingis that they're there to support the kids.
In a good fun way. Ifyou want a party for a purpose,
this is really definitely one that youwant to attend because not only is
the food amazing, and I don'tdrink because only because I'm allergic to alcohol,
but that's the only reason. Becauseit's really a fun filled, wine
filled, delicious kind of event withlots of fun people participate. So if
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people want to get a ticket,how do they do that? So what
we do is we actually it's sponsorships, and what we'll do is they go
to our website www dot Bgcphila dotorg and they can go online there or
they can call the Boys and GirlsClub, which our phone numbers there online
as well and talk to us aboutsponsorships or what they'd like to do to
get involved. We do, youknow, have opportunity. The room's gonna
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be much bigger this year than wewere in our previous year. So it's
going to be a grand night forour grand time, Yes, grand time
for a great cause. Back toyou, Sophia. There are a number
of different programs I know you havelike a kid's cafe. You have a
literacy program that's quite unique. Tellus briefly, what are some of the
programs that you do provide through Boysand Girls Clubs. Yes. Absolutely.
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A key aspect of our programming isour literacy initiative, which teaches kids to
read and write in a multisensory approachto language, which is quite the opposite
of the linear approach often taught inour public school systems. With a linear
approach is often from point A topoint B. It's all about memorized repetition
and time testing, which is verycounterintuitive to the way many children's minds process
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information. So with the multisensor approach, it's more hands on. It's visual,
audio, and kinesthetic learning. Sotoo often is the case where our
schools are teaching our children in away their minds can process information, which
leads to discouragement, disengagement, andoften to them dropping out of school.
However, with the multisensor approach thelanguage, they have a more safe environment
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to learn in the way they deserve, and no child gets left behind with
the multisensor approach, that's great.I love it and it's wonderful, Elizabeth
to see your daughter Sophia speaks soarticulately about the mission and the programs at
Boys and Girls Clubs and clearly she'sa great well. Obviously the parenting helped,
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but being a part of the Boysand Girls Clubs clearly has made a
huge difference. Again, if peoplewant more information, Elizabeth tell us where
they need to go to www dotBGC Philla dot org. Boys and Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia having their coaches ReserveDinner. It's happening on the seventeenth.
It is an absolutely fabulous event.But also beyond that, Boys and Girls
(28:11):
Clubs are making a huge difference inthe lives of our young people here in
the city of Philadelphia, thanks tothe leadership of Elizabeth Marziello along with her
co CEO, Joseph Marziello, andof course the support of Sophia Marziello,
Manager Strategic Support and Systematic Development forthe organization. Elizabeth and Sophia, thank
(28:32):
you so much. Well, thankyou for having us, Lorraine, Thank
you. You can listen to allof today's interviews by going to our station
website and typing in keyword Community.You can also listen on the iHeartRadio app
keyword Lorraine with one R. Followme on Twitter and Instagram at Lorraine Ballard.
I'm Lorraine Ballard Morrow and I standfor Service to our community and media
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that empowers. What will you standfor? You've been listening to what's going
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