August 25, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss, and this is Insight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. When I
was a kid, that was like a hundred years ago,
I remember one, maybe two kids in my class that
came to school. Well, how could I say this? Maybe
they weren't dressed as nicely as some of the other
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kids in my class. And these kids never brought their lunch.
They brought the little that they did brain was in
paper bags. And when we all had field trips, the
same kids stayed behind in the classroom because their parents
didn't have the extra five bucks to pay for the trip.
One other thing is that in those days, we never
heard the word poverty. To us, those kids were poor kids.
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Another thing we didn't know about back then was that
about twenty five percent of Americans were considered poor. We
didn't know about it because we didn't see much of
it in small town America. At that time. Much of
the poverty in this country was invisible, affecting blacks and
urban navys and whites in depressed rural areas. So you
see middle class American kids like me, we never saw
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the misery of other sectors of American society, and the
one or two poor kids I grew up with. I
remember going home and talking to my mom about them,
to see what I could do to help them. I
found out that most of the help they got came
from churches. Actually, that's where people who needed support got churches,
or got when they got their support from churches when
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the country first started. You know, over the years, I
learned a lot about how poverty in our countries change.
One of the main things is that poverty is no
longer a matter of location, it's everywhere. What's truly sad
is these days there are members of society who view
poverty as a moral failing. These people tend to believe
that those who are poor and often homeless, must have
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made bad choices that led to their situations. Their solution
go find a job. Being poor is a very complicated
issue right now in twenty twenty five, things like the
high cost of healthcare, rents that have doubled mental health issues,
and as far as getting a job, well, many who
are considered poor do have a job, sometimes two or
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even three jobs, and they still can't make ends meet.
There's one very good thing that hasn't changed, and it's
that there are still organizations out there in our local
communities right here in central Pennsylvania that have dedicated themselves
to not only providing some of the most important needed
services to low income men, women, and children in Lancaster,
Dolphin in Lebanon Counties, they also fully understand why being
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poor is such a complicated issue. I have a dear
friend of the station who is also the development director
at a place called Hope Within Ministries in Elizabethtown, Laurie Riker, Hey, kidle,
how you doing great?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Thank you for having me again. I appreciate it. We
do this every so often. It's really good to see you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well. You know what. It's funny. Laurie used to work
HP in sales and she was kicked button sales. But gause, Laurie, you,
even though you were good in sales, you I could
see you ending up doing something like this because you
were always concerned about people in the area. You have
a huge art. As I said at the top of
the program, taking care of people in this country became
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the regular thing for churches because the government didn't get
involved at that time. As far as Hope Within ministries.
Can you tell us how you began? That was back
in the two thousand and five, in two thousand and six,
how did you begin? And why did your founder who
passed away earlier about a year ago?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Is it that long ago? He was just a young
guy too.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Don't think it's been quite that long, so it would
have been this year. But it was founded with Danita
and Brian Sturgis as a vision in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Why did they do it?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And I think they did it because I think they
saw a need obviously, and they were just following God's directions.
I believe a lot of it is you know, again,
we're faith based, so I think it was God's calling
for them to have a vision to establish a medical clinic.
It's primary health care clinic. Later on was added dental
and of course counseling, but initially it was primary healthcare
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clinic for that reason because there's people that are I
only want to use the term at risk, but low income,
you know, and quite honestly people at risk because they
don't have the means to get health coverage. It's expensive
health care coverage well, health insurance is best that I
can remember and I used to sell it many many
years ago. Is never it was never very affordable, you
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know what I mean. Even if you work for an
employer that had it, you probably share the cost.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, even what I'm told from people that know about
this is a family that is making it without in trouble.
All you need is one huge health care issue and
it wipes out.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And the scary part is that if you think think
about and I don't know what the stats are now,
but it used to be that folks that are comfortable
and also just say comfortable right, have a good income
and they have insurance. But one major, yes, one major
incident can wipe somebody out, and I mean wipe out
their savings, you know what I mean. So somebody that
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that is, you know, I don't know, forties, fifties, and
they have a nice nest egg that they're building and
because of you know, certain illnesses and certain things deemed experimental.
I've known people in the past that'll put twenty five
thousand and fifty thousand dollars out of pocket just for
medical expense because it's considered experimental. So what we're looking at, though,
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is just a general population folks that are without an
insurance for multiple reasons. Right, it could be holding down
two or three part time jobs and none of those
employers offer insurance, so.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You provide insurance for them. You broke, How does it work?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No, I mean it's primary healthcare. So they come in
without the insurance. There is an eligibility application and hope
within dot org. Okay, so generally speaking, two hundred and
fifty percent federal already level or below, and they're generally
individuals under the age of sixty five. I always say
that because once you're on sixty five, you can get
Medicare exactly. And there's all kinds of programs. I came
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from the medicare industry of recent So I mean there's
a ton like overwhelming amount of health insurance out there
for people aged sixty five and over. If somebody's on
disability for twenty four months and going into that twenty
fifth month, they can go on Medicare. So we're really
looking at people that are in between the cracks, right,
they're in the gaps there. Yes, you're looking at folks
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that don't have medical coverage through their employer. They're holding
down two or three jobs. You know, maybe they're ten
ninety nine, which means they're independent, right, independent contractor and
maybe them or their spouse neither one has insurance because
you may have a family. There was two people that
are doing kind of their own thing, right ten ninety
nine or subcontractor, and there's no really means or vehicle
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to get insurance. Now you can purchase it. I know
Y talks about, well you can purchase it, you know,
Affordable Care Act and marketplace. It's expensive, you know, personally,
I know how expensive it is. So it's it's tough sometimes.
But the clinic open its stores in two thousand and six, okay,
and it did open up as a primary healthcare clinic
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staff with volunteers and they are medical.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's amazing. And that's the thing. I mean, the whole
place and the people you serve all volunteers. I want
to talk about that too, not only your staff, but
the people, the professional people that they're providing the services.
So if someone fills out in an application, you said
two hundred and fifty dollars or percent under the poverty level,
is that would that be compared to an individual and
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a family, you know what I ask household house? Yeah, okay, okay,
I see me so what does that cover.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So in terms of the primary health care, Yeah, all
the all the normal things that you would expect for
primary healthcare, So your screenings, some of your preventive incidences,
some of the preventive measures that are taken, you know,
as a for instance, immunizations, We offer certain immunizations that
are available to really like the fluid immunization comes to mind,
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but there's also childhood immunizations that can be offered.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And what about older people as far as their medications,
because that's a tough for older people.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, and again generally speaking, though, if they're on Medicare,
you know, generally they seek their medications through their insurance.
And that's a whole other ballgame. And certainly anybody that
dabbles or is involved in Medicare insurance, that's a whole
separate universe.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And know and I'll tell you what those people are
saying those advantage plans are blowing. I don't think they are.
I pay nothing. I have an advantage plan. It's fantastic nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And that's a whole other and that's another spent several
years with a very large company in that world. Yes,
So it all depends and one thing with that is
it does allow even husband and wives to choose to
diferent plans and different coverages that suit them. But you
don't necessarily have that in the general let's say the
general population, right, I'll just say that age eighteen to
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sixty four, you don't have that. And oftentimes, if you're employed,
and even if you are employed with an insurance or
the employer provides insurance, you're usually covering some of that
cost out of your pocket. There is some exception to that,
but most of the time you're covering some of it
out of your pocket. We're talking about the individuals that
have no insurance, no means to get insurance because they're
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not qualified and they don't in other words, they're under medicaid. Okay,
And even that's a whole separate issue as things change
on a grand scale, right, I'll just stay on the
federal level, which filters down to the state level, which
that filters down to individuals. So really the landscape at
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this point looks very questionable in terms of what's ahead
for people that may have subsidy subsidized, Yeah, what's ahead
for them? So if there's no subsidy.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Or that means that you're gonna own shows an increase, right,
and it's kind of like the tsunami on the tsunami
on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You're saying to yourself, you know, we already have such
demand for our services, and our clinic is generally open.
Even though the clinic is open more or less four
days a week because we have counseling services too. The
medical portion of that, generally speaking, is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
And we do have volunteers physicians that come in volunteer time.
Some are retired, some are still actively employed by health
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systems in the area.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And you can find out all of that when you're
going to find out or to fill out an application.
Even that people help you fill out the application. Gets
stuff right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And it's in multiple languages on our website hope within
dot org, but it's in multiple languages as well. And
actually we use translation services, yes, yes, because we service
people from all over the world, not just Lancaster, Leven
and Dolphin Canys, but we do have folks from over
the world that come through our doorway.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Wow, okay, I want to review against some of the
services you talk about. Chrime disease management. Does that mean
like somebody who has a bad heart checking their heart
things like that, diabetes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, so we actually have insolent on site too.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, so what about things for kids?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Right? So as far as the children, I mean that
goes from both the you know, preventive stuff, the screen stuff,
the childhood amuisations, and also dental services. Now I have
to say something about dental because we do have three
dentists at volunteer time, which was tremendous. We're always in
need of additional dentist the volunteer, which I know is
really tricky because most of them are under such demanding
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schedules anyway for their own practices right or under the
practice of someone else. And hygienists, so we could always
use additional hyghgests. We use students out of hack to
help with the high general hygiene. But yes, just the
demand the need for dental is also hard.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You're jumping ahead of me. Let's go. That's hard, That's
all right. Uh. Pregnant women and other services for women things.
A lot of this is prevented, which is wonderful because
no matter how much, if you're in a situation where
you can't afford insurance or matter if it's at the
high end or the low end. Anybody toucha I thought,
you know, I've been talking about this for years. All
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of a sudden, preventative medicine is the big deal. Well, yeah,
you're you wouldn't get something taken care of immediately. You're
not thinking about preventative medicine. But you guys offer that,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, we have again volunteers to help with that in
terms of certified nurse partection practitioners rather, and we have
other folks that help out with that as well. And
the gynecological so exams and screens, mammograms that are referred out.
So yes, that's okay. So it doesn't cost right, Yeah,
Pennsylvania's free exactly, so even though we all do them
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on site, they can be referred out.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, that's great. Yes, okay, let's talk about the teeth. Okay.
Dental services is that for everybody? I mean men, women
and children?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, but let me so let me clarify. Yes, we
have dental services, and we do have a dentist that pediatric, right,
and when we have dentist that does extractions, we have
a general dentist that can see you know, everybody right
from on up kids on up to adults and has
done so for us. So it is a broad reach
or broad scale, right. Okay, here's the challenge, Sylvia. The
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challenge is that because we you know, there's two things,
so we're sometimes limited by volunteer and staffing to be
able to accommodate more dental patients to the public. And
the other challenge that I believe that we have and
we're gonna have to look at that and maybe look
at that in terms of strategy over the next couple
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of years, next five years, is we're limited by size.
So our clinic is at forty seven forty eight East
Harrisburg Pike.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And okay, now how do I get there? If I'm
coming from.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Harrisburg Harrisburg tw eighty three East, you could get off
at toll House Road, make a left there and it's
literally like two miles down on the left hand side
Blancaster and then likes to right if you're coming the
opposite way, you're coming out of Elizabethtown proper, we're on
the right hand side. And again it's it's in an
area on Route two thirty. I mean, people travel it
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so fast that you blink it and all you're passing.
And I've ad so many people say I drive through
here every day and I never see it, you know,
and there's a sign, but it's not those big blinking signs.
You know that that can be really intrusive or annoying.
But the dental services, I just wanted to say that
at this point because there is such a demand for it.
We see our medical patients, we offered them dental service. Yeah,
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the ones are already in our medical plan. We then
offer them dental services. That's a dull and child. So
the dream is that if we could get enough volunteers
and we have the ability that is to have more
have we actually have a chair, a dental chair in storage,
so we just have place to put it. We would
then be able to increase the amount of people we
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can see because I believe there is a tremendous demand
in the public because a lot of people have major
med right either through employer or through Medicare right. But
even under Medicare programs doesn't necessarily the dental Now, if
you have Medicare advanage, you may, but if you're just
a Medicare supplement plan, you may not have dental. So
that is that's just the genuine general concern.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And even if you have the best dental insurance out there,
are they still only paying up to one thousand dollars
a year. That's the where it used to be. And
then they do things like, you know, real cheap, like
if you need your teeth clean, so many things you
get for free a year, but if you really need something,
it's like orthodostic out pocket.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh well, I have dental implants. You know, I had
to because I've had issues since I was a child.
And then you know, I always say I'd like the
fifty thousand dollars mouth because I had issues as a
child that I didn't take care of until I got
out of college, had my first job, right, and they
have had issues with it ever since. So a lot
of that, yeah, is out of pocket, and it still is.
It still is whether you're on Medicare or whether you
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are sourcing dental coverage through your employer. A lot of
that is still, unfortunately our pocket. But we're talking about
trying to do at least with youngsters right who are
in our medical system or patients. So the big thing
is the screenings, right, the ceilants and in some cases extractions,
but also education for young people. So we even have
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these little hygiene kits that the kids take out when
they leave, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, you know something else I think is important to mention,
Laurie is and I'm sure you know this from doing
all this, that you can tell you if you have
heart disease, they check your key.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, yeah, there's great. There's a great between oral health
and just general all overall body health, right, internal right,
internal medicine really and oral health. So yes, there was
an individual actually that she needed to have heart surgery
done and the surgeon said, I can't take you until
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you have this corrected with you. Oh yeah, paradonal right,
I mean really it was more of dental paradontal, like
you need to have this work done. And she didn't
have insurance and she was already you know, at risk
or low income, right, So our dentist was able to
with her assistant, they were able to do a lot
of work to take care of that for her. So
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she gets her surgery scheduled, but.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You are not. You don't provide dentures or braces or
no orthodonic.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's a whole different Yeah, yeah, no, and we don't
have any volunteer orthodonic. And then I will say, Sylvia,
the biggest expense with our dental though, is a disposables.
You don't really think about it. I never did, so
I started to work with the clinic and understand that
a big expense beyond medical expense is just the disposables
with dental because when you think about it, the PPE
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rise like PPE well, personal protective equipment, right, and then
all the stuff that's associated with doing just general screenings
and cleanings, right, and all that is disposable. So that's expensive.
So yeah, and like I said, I didn't realize either.
So that's one of our biggest costs is disposables. So certainly,
if anybody's listening and you know you're with a practice
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and you know you're going to like change brands or
you're going to throw stuff out by all means, you know,
contact Hope within because if it's something we could use
that would save us a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, you know, the other thing I want to talk
about that I see because it's the number one issue
in this country for so many reasons, is mental health. Yes,
and you're counseling, I know you offered to couples, you know,
because you're faith based and everything. If you see people
who are depressed for many reasons, have anxiety, learning disabilities,
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that these things are incredible because if you aren't this
might sound disgusting, but if you're not right in the hand,
everything else is doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Right, So the counseling services have really if I looked
at the numbers, and actually when I pulled the numbers up,
my director had pulled the numbers together for me for
twenty twenty four and when I compared that to twenty
twenty three, they almost crippled in terms of business, what
I mean. And there is a growing need there. So
the counseling services are really by sliding scale. So what
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we mean by that is what people can afford. So
you may have a counseling session that's five dollars, or
you're paying ten dollars for a counseling session that is
open to the public. It is, like I said, it
continues to grow, so that is available for folks that
may not be medical patients, but we still have the
medical application again in our system, and then they can
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go for counseling services and even telehealth in that case,
we do. So there are some you know, virtual counseling
sessions as well, but generally speaking counseling. They even use
part of our medical facility on Mondays and Tuesdays. That's
generally when there's staff there that handle the counseling sessions.
So generally speaking, that may be available on like a Monday,
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right because we don't have medical services on Mondays typically,
so they may use medical exam rooms because you may
have such a dema and you have counselors that can
easily see somebody even if it's like here, have a
chair or ever sit next to the exam table, yeah,
or if you lay down, lay it on the exam table,
you know. Yeah, but seriously you know that again is
even though they have a separate wing, they use the
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whole facility sometimes because the demand.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is so high and it's very private.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It is everything confidential, highly confidential. And like I said,
they have a separate wing. They even have a separate entrance.
But you know I've seen, Yeah, if I'm there on Tuesday,
generally speaking, if I try to get there like one
day week and if I'm in the in the because
I just mean to stay out.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Of the way for your appointment.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Well generally speaking, just you know, as the director development,
I'm out and about and you know, and taking advantage
of folks like yourself. They allowed us to put ourselves
out there and allow people to know who we are,
which is huge. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well, this is the kind of information that I hear
people questioning all the time about oh my gosh, this
like I need this. Where am I going to go? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And I don't know. They don't know because we are
aware that where we are and the clinic is into
the twentieth year, so it opened doors two thousand and
six and again into the twentieth year, and people still
don't know that it exists. So part of my job
is always to raise awareness. And I do appreciate the
hos do that because we have tremendous services available and
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these volunteers that go over and above. And that's medical
and non medical.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, that was going to be my next question. The dental,
the physicians, the counselors, where did they come from? And
as you said, these are highly qualified and registered that
what's the word license?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Right? Oh yeah, no, right. Every year, my director and
callister has to go through and get everybody recertified, like
basically it's like any other medical clinic. Everything has to
go through the state. And then we also have the
National Association of Free Charitable Clinics and we have the
gold standard on that as well, so that's every year
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you apply for that, and we've had the gold standard
for the past. We're into the seventy year on that,
so that also has to be taking care of. So really,
the volunteers come from all over, okay, quite honestly. We
have volunteers from our physicians, some of them are retired,
some are still active with healthcare systems. We also have
affiliations with healthcare systems like Penn State Health so that
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we do have medications, so there is a medical dispensary
okay on site. So but if there is something in
particular that we don't have or we're short on that
we do have, thankfully those collaborations with our healthcare systems
to try and get folks their medications because that doesn't
cost the patient anything exactly. Okay, yeah, and that's huge.
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So really the nations that come in are mostly individuals,
and we also have church partners or partnerships with churches
and businesses to help.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Glad you mentioned that we know, when you think about it,
we look at all the ills in the world, in
our country and everything else. But I'm from the research
I've done, you start risk some of these issues and
things change. How would you think or how would you
put this in words? What you you were offering, the
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changes it's made to our local communities in what way?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well, it's really so. You hear about testimonials all the time,
and you know, I think about the people that have
come through our doors over the years, and I've only
been there a year, so a lot of times it's
folks that have traveled through our doors that I've never met.
But then if I reach out to them and somebody says, hey,
you need to talk to so and so, because they
can tell you what they've been through and how much
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Hope within has helped them. So overall, hope within has
provided people with the love and caring and God's sharing
right of love. God is a great physician. But for
the time being, it's it's moral. Moral people like ourselves, right, It's.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You know, that's the part that burns me up. There
are a lot of people out there who say they
love God, they're at church every Sunday, but then they
have this attitude towards people that don't have what they have.
You know, well, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I understand what you're saying. Some people can be very
and I know I guess a hypocrisy is probably how
you would word that. Yeah, but in our situation, no,
I mean, it is definitely sharing the love of God
and sharing you know, sometimes a prayer and sharing God's
love with an individual, especially if they are going through
a tough time. Like you mentioned before about chronic illnesses, right,
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if you are helping somebody through their chronic illment and
anything it's chronic is long term, right, not an easy fix.
So we do have physicians that may be unlike a
government medical facility, they can pray with the individual. So
that's not because it doesn't cost a penny exactly, but
it goes a long way because people feel not the
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way are they taking care of physically but spiritually and mentally? Right,
It's I call it. The whole well being of an
individual is addressed, including their spiritual well being. And for
some people that's all they need, you know what I mean,
I mean, they need the physical part too, don't get
me wrong, sure, but that spiritual well being to know
that they have somebody at love and cares for them,
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that that really is reaching out and to try to
help them. That's huge because that comes across all the
time with people that have come through our doors.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, you need a couple of bucks to keep this
thing going too, and when you've done some cool things,
but you have something coming out on October October second,
which is I think it's really cool talk to us
about that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
See, yeah, I really wanted to mention you know, we're
as part of my job is to try to bring
dollars in the door obviously, right, and we're not government funded,
so we really rely on those business partnership individuals donating.
And then also we're looking at doing an event and
actually it should be hopefully everything goes well, but October second,
it's going to be a nice day and don't have
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to worry about the weather. Should be hopefully early enough
in October. We don't have this stuff, the snow flying.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I know it's early October, but it's called Tastes in
the Nations and it is an event where there will
be food samplings from ten different countries. So where's it
going to be, Starbarn, Stone Gables Estate and Etown.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's in the it's in the evening.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's in the evening, but it's a really evening, so
six o'clock and again it'll be in the Starbarn in
the main level.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Everybody knows where that is.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, you know, there's still some people I found that
didn't know where it was or that would most moved.
They're still thinking it was like off the two eighty
three in Middletown. They've done a beautiful job. The Able
family has done a beautiful job and getting the moved
years ago right restored and it is this gorgeous venue
and that's where it's going to be held. So if
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you can picture, it's a fairly big size inside area
which probably would have been used at one point the
store equipment or hay right back in the day. And
they used to trade horses there too in the back
in the day, the history of it. But that's where
the food tables will be, so they'll be around the
perimeter room of course was seating in the center, some
high top but it would be different countries such as Thailand, China, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Kenya, Afghanistan,
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just to name a few.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Do you know any of the foods from these countries?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I leave that up to our volunteers who are the
food preparers and the food servers, and they've got some
really interesting I actually had them right down the name
of the food item, because you know, you hear it
and then you're like, well, you do.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You remember any of them?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If I ask you, I know some of them are
going to be like dumplings, different dumplings.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What about it? Tell me what's I don't know the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, no, that some of these are going to be
like the best I could tell you is they're almost
like dumplings, but they're they're filmed. No no, not no,
no no. And then some of them are gonna be
I know with one it's gonna involve, you know, using
lamb and that might be my folks from Ireland that
will do that one. So it is it's an opportunity,
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you know, I can't use the word. So it's an
opportunity to taste foods from different countries under one roof
for one evening.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, and there's music, well, so I will have recorded music, okay,
but from the different cultures.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Right, Well, I am gonna have you ever heard of
Bostonova a resilient jazz.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You're so old? Mentioned that was like in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay, so maybe we'll revive it. But it's a nice
soft jazz music background and it's Bazilion, so yes, we'll see. Well,
I wasn't around in the I know you weren't, but
that was in the next decade. I know I was sixties.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Chi there was a song blaming on the Boston No.
But that's all there. Do you know what? We're running
out of time again? I want to mention that it's
at the Star Barn. It's called Taste of the Nations,
a cultural, a cultural and culinary experience October second, from
six to eight thirty at night at the Star Barn.
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And if you want information about anything that we talked
about today, get in touch with FRI And what is
your website, Laurie Hope.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Within dot org that's an already events section and you'll
find all the information about Tasting the Nations. And we
have tickets on sale and the early bird runs out
August thirty one.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Awesome. Listen again for our listeners, and don't forget. If
you can't catch Inside on one of our ten nheart
stations this weekend, you can always find in on your
favorite podcast step. I'm Sylvia Moss. Thank you, Laurie. This
has been insight Thanks so much for listening. See you
next week.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
The pres
Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss, and this is Insight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. When I
was a kid, that was like a hundred years ago,
I remember one, maybe two kids in my class that
came to school. Well, how could I say this? Maybe
they weren't dressed as nicely as some of the other
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kids in my class. And these kids never brought their lunch.
They brought the little that they did brain was in
paper bags. And when we all had field trips, the
same kids stayed behind in the classroom because their parents
didn't have the extra five bucks to pay for the trip.
One other thing is that in those days, we never
heard the word poverty. To us, those kids were poor kids.
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Another thing we didn't know about back then was that
about twenty five percent of Americans were considered poor. We
didn't know about it because we didn't see much of
it in small town America. At that time. Much of
the poverty in this country was invisible, affecting blacks and
urban navys and whites in depressed rural areas. So you
see middle class American kids like me, we never saw
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the misery of other sectors of American society, and the
one or two poor kids I grew up with. I
remember going home and talking to my mom about them,
to see what I could do to help them. I
found out that most of the help they got came
from churches. Actually, that's where people who needed support got churches,
or got when they got their support from churches when
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the country first started. You know, over the years, I
learned a lot about how poverty in our countries change.
One of the main things is that poverty is no
longer a matter of location, it's everywhere. What's truly sad
is these days there are members of society who view
poverty as a moral failing. These people tend to believe
that those who are poor and often homeless, must have
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made bad choices that led to their situations. Their solution
go find a job. Being poor is a very complicated
issue right now in twenty twenty five, things like the
high cost of healthcare, rents that have doubled mental health issues,
and as far as getting a job, well, many who
are considered poor do have a job, sometimes two or
(02:12):
even three jobs, and they still can't make ends meet.
There's one very good thing that hasn't changed, and it's
that there are still organizations out there in our local
communities right here in central Pennsylvania that have dedicated themselves
to not only providing some of the most important needed
services to low income men, women, and children in Lancaster,
Dolphin in Lebanon Counties, they also fully understand why being
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poor is such a complicated issue. I have a dear
friend of the station who is also the development director
at a place called Hope Within Ministries in Elizabethtown, Laurie Riker, Hey, kidle,
how you doing great?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Thank you for having me again. I appreciate it. We
do this every so often. It's really good to see you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well. You know what. It's funny. Laurie used to work
HP in sales and she was kicked button sales. But gause, Laurie, you,
even though you were good in sales, you I could
see you ending up doing something like this because you
were always concerned about people in the area. You have
a huge art. As I said at the top of
the program, taking care of people in this country became
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the regular thing for churches because the government didn't get
involved at that time. As far as Hope Within ministries.
Can you tell us how you began? That was back
in the two thousand and five, in two thousand and six,
how did you begin? And why did your founder who
passed away earlier about a year ago?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Is it that long ago? He was just a young
guy too.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Don't think it's been quite that long, so it would
have been this year. But it was founded with Danita
and Brian Sturgis as a vision in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Why did they do it?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And I think they did it because I think they
saw a need obviously, and they were just following God's directions.
I believe a lot of it is you know, again,
we're faith based, so I think it was God's calling
for them to have a vision to establish a medical clinic.
It's primary health care clinic. Later on was added dental
and of course counseling, but initially it was primary healthcare
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clinic for that reason because there's people that are I
only want to use the term at risk, but low income,
you know, and quite honestly people at risk because they
don't have the means to get health coverage. It's expensive
health care coverage well, health insurance is best that I
can remember and I used to sell it many many
years ago. Is never it was never very affordable, you
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know what I mean. Even if you work for an
employer that had it, you probably share the cost.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, even what I'm told from people that know about
this is a family that is making it without in trouble.
All you need is one huge health care issue and
it wipes out.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And the scary part is that if you think think
about and I don't know what the stats are now,
but it used to be that folks that are comfortable
and also just say comfortable right, have a good income
and they have insurance. But one major, yes, one major
incident can wipe somebody out, and I mean wipe out
their savings, you know what I mean. So somebody that
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that is, you know, I don't know, forties, fifties, and
they have a nice nest egg that they're building and
because of you know, certain illnesses and certain things deemed experimental.
I've known people in the past that'll put twenty five
thousand and fifty thousand dollars out of pocket just for
medical expense because it's considered experimental. So what we're looking at, though,
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is just a general population folks that are without an
insurance for multiple reasons. Right, it could be holding down
two or three part time jobs and none of those
employers offer insurance, so.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You provide insurance for them. You broke, How does it work?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No, I mean it's primary healthcare. So they come in
without the insurance. There is an eligibility application and hope
within dot org. Okay, so generally speaking, two hundred and
fifty percent federal already level or below, and they're generally
individuals under the age of sixty five. I always say
that because once you're on sixty five, you can get
Medicare exactly. And there's all kinds of programs. I came
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from the medicare industry of recent So I mean there's
a ton like overwhelming amount of health insurance out there
for people aged sixty five and over. If somebody's on
disability for twenty four months and going into that twenty
fifth month, they can go on Medicare. So we're really
looking at people that are in between the cracks, right,
they're in the gaps there. Yes, you're looking at folks
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that don't have medical coverage through their employer. They're holding
down two or three jobs. You know, maybe they're ten
ninety nine, which means they're independent, right, independent contractor and
maybe them or their spouse neither one has insurance because
you may have a family. There was two people that
are doing kind of their own thing, right ten ninety
nine or subcontractor, and there's no really means or vehicle
(06:57):
to get insurance. Now you can purchase it. I know
Y talks about, well you can purchase it, you know,
Affordable Care Act and marketplace. It's expensive, you know, personally,
I know how expensive it is. So it's it's tough sometimes.
But the clinic open its stores in two thousand and six, okay,
and it did open up as a primary healthcare clinic
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staff with volunteers and they are medical.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's amazing. And that's the thing. I mean, the whole
place and the people you serve all volunteers. I want
to talk about that too, not only your staff, but
the people, the professional people that they're providing the services.
So if someone fills out in an application, you said
two hundred and fifty dollars or percent under the poverty level,
is that would that be compared to an individual and
(07:40):
a family, you know what I ask household house? Yeah, okay, okay,
I see me so what does that cover.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So in terms of the primary health care, Yeah, all
the all the normal things that you would expect for
primary healthcare, So your screenings, some of your preventive incidences,
some of the preventive measures that are taken, you know,
as a for instance, immunizations, We offer certain immunizations that
are available to really like the fluid immunization comes to mind,
(08:08):
but there's also childhood immunizations that can be offered.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And what about older people as far as their medications,
because that's a tough for older people.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, and again generally speaking, though, if they're on Medicare,
you know, generally they seek their medications through their insurance.
And that's a whole other ballgame. And certainly anybody that
dabbles or is involved in Medicare insurance, that's a whole
separate universe.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And know and I'll tell you what those people are
saying those advantage plans are blowing. I don't think they are.
I pay nothing. I have an advantage plan. It's fantastic nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And that's a whole other and that's another spent several
years with a very large company in that world. Yes,
So it all depends and one thing with that is
it does allow even husband and wives to choose to
diferent plans and different coverages that suit them. But you
don't necessarily have that in the general let's say the
general population, right, I'll just say that age eighteen to
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sixty four, you don't have that. And oftentimes, if you're employed,
and even if you are employed with an insurance or
the employer provides insurance, you're usually covering some of that
cost out of your pocket. There is some exception to that,
but most of the time you're covering some of it
out of your pocket. We're talking about the individuals that
have no insurance, no means to get insurance because they're
(09:31):
not qualified and they don't in other words, they're under medicaid. Okay,
And even that's a whole separate issue as things change
on a grand scale, right, I'll just stay on the
federal level, which filters down to the state level, which
that filters down to individuals. So really the landscape at
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this point looks very questionable in terms of what's ahead
for people that may have subsidy subsidized, Yeah, what's ahead
for them? So if there's no subsidy.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Or that means that you're gonna own shows an increase, right,
and it's kind of like the tsunami on the tsunami
on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You're saying to yourself, you know, we already have such
demand for our services, and our clinic is generally open.
Even though the clinic is open more or less four
days a week because we have counseling services too. The
medical portion of that, generally speaking, is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
And we do have volunteers physicians that come in volunteer time.
Some are retired, some are still actively employed by health
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systems in the area.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And you can find out all of that when you're
going to find out or to fill out an application.
Even that people help you fill out the application. Gets
stuff right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And it's in multiple languages on our website hope within
dot org, but it's in multiple languages as well. And
actually we use translation services, yes, yes, because we service
people from all over the world, not just Lancaster, Leven
and Dolphin Canys, but we do have folks from over
the world that come through our doorway.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Wow, okay, I want to review against some of the
services you talk about. Chrime disease management. Does that mean
like somebody who has a bad heart checking their heart
things like that, diabetes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yes, so we actually have insolent on site too.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, so what about things for kids?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Right? So as far as the children, I mean that
goes from both the you know, preventive stuff, the screen stuff,
the childhood amuisations, and also dental services. Now I have
to say something about dental because we do have three
dentists at volunteer time, which was tremendous. We're always in
need of additional dentist the volunteer, which I know is
really tricky because most of them are under such demanding
(11:40):
schedules anyway for their own practices right or under the
practice of someone else. And hygienists, so we could always
use additional hyghgests. We use students out of hack to
help with the high general hygiene. But yes, just the
demand the need for dental is also hard.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You're jumping ahead of me. Let's go. That's hard, That's
all right. Uh. Pregnant women and other services for women things.
A lot of this is prevented, which is wonderful because
no matter how much, if you're in a situation where
you can't afford insurance or matter if it's at the
high end or the low end. Anybody toucha I thought,
you know, I've been talking about this for years. All
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of a sudden, preventative medicine is the big deal. Well, yeah,
you're you wouldn't get something taken care of immediately. You're
not thinking about preventative medicine. But you guys offer that,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, we have again volunteers to help with that in
terms of certified nurse partection practitioners rather, and we have
other folks that help out with that as well. And
the gynecological so exams and screens, mammograms that are referred out.
So yes, that's okay. So it doesn't cost right, Yeah,
Pennsylvania's free exactly, so even though we all do them
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on site, they can be referred out.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay, that's great. Yes, okay, let's talk about the teeth. Okay.
Dental services is that for everybody? I mean men, women
and children?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, but let me so let me clarify. Yes, we
have dental services, and we do have a dentist that pediatric, right,
and when we have dentist that does extractions, we have
a general dentist that can see you know, everybody right
from on up kids on up to adults and has
done so for us. So it is a broad reach
or broad scale, right. Okay, here's the challenge, Sylvia. The
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challenge is that because we you know, there's two things,
so we're sometimes limited by volunteer and staffing to be
able to accommodate more dental patients to the public. And
the other challenge that I believe that we have and
we're gonna have to look at that and maybe look
at that in terms of strategy over the next couple
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of years, next five years, is we're limited by size.
So our clinic is at forty seven forty eight East
Harrisburg Pike.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And okay, now how do I get there? If I'm
coming from.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Harrisburg Harrisburg tw eighty three East, you could get off
at toll House Road, make a left there and it's
literally like two miles down on the left hand side
Blancaster and then likes to right if you're coming the
opposite way, you're coming out of Elizabethtown proper, we're on
the right hand side. And again it's it's in an
area on Route two thirty. I mean, people travel it
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so fast that you blink it and all you're passing.
And I've ad so many people say I drive through
here every day and I never see it, you know,
and there's a sign, but it's not those big blinking signs.
You know that that can be really intrusive or annoying.
But the dental services, I just wanted to say that
at this point because there is such a demand for it.
We see our medical patients, we offered them dental service. Yeah,
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the ones are already in our medical plan. We then
offer them dental services. That's a dull and child. So
the dream is that if we could get enough volunteers
and we have the ability that is to have more
have we actually have a chair, a dental chair in storage,
so we just have place to put it. We would
then be able to increase the amount of people we
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can see because I believe there is a tremendous demand
in the public because a lot of people have major
med right either through employer or through Medicare right. But
even under Medicare programs doesn't necessarily the dental Now, if
you have Medicare advanage, you may, but if you're just
a Medicare supplement plan, you may not have dental. So
that is that's just the genuine general concern.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And even if you have the best dental insurance out there,
are they still only paying up to one thousand dollars
a year. That's the where it used to be. And
then they do things like, you know, real cheap, like
if you need your teeth clean, so many things you
get for free a year, but if you really need something,
it's like orthodostic out pocket.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh well, I have dental implants. You know, I had
to because I've had issues since I was a child.
And then you know, I always say I'd like the
fifty thousand dollars mouth because I had issues as a
child that I didn't take care of until I got
out of college, had my first job, right, and they
have had issues with it ever since. So a lot
of that, yeah, is out of pocket, and it still is.
It still is whether you're on Medicare or whether you
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are sourcing dental coverage through your employer. A lot of
that is still, unfortunately our pocket. But we're talking about
trying to do at least with youngsters right who are
in our medical system or patients. So the big thing
is the screenings, right, the ceilants and in some cases extractions,
but also education for young people. So we even have
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these little hygiene kits that the kids take out when
they leave, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, you know something else I think is important to mention,
Laurie is and I'm sure you know this from doing
all this, that you can tell you if you have
heart disease, they check your key.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, yeah, there's great. There's a great between oral health
and just general all overall body health, right, internal right,
internal medicine really and oral health. So yes, there was
an individual actually that she needed to have heart surgery
done and the surgeon said, I can't take you until
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you have this corrected with you. Oh yeah, paradonal right,
I mean really it was more of dental paradontal, like
you need to have this work done. And she didn't
have insurance and she was already you know, at risk
or low income, right, So our dentist was able to
with her assistant, they were able to do a lot
of work to take care of that for her. So
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she gets her surgery scheduled, but.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You are not. You don't provide dentures or braces or
no orthodonic.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's a whole different Yeah, yeah, no, and we don't
have any volunteer orthodonic. And then I will say, Sylvia,
the biggest expense with our dental though, is a disposables.
You don't really think about it. I never did, so
I started to work with the clinic and understand that
a big expense beyond medical expense is just the disposables
with dental because when you think about it, the PPE
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rise like PPE well, personal protective equipment, right, and then
all the stuff that's associated with doing just general screenings
and cleanings, right, and all that is disposable. So that's expensive.
So yeah, and like I said, I didn't realize either.
So that's one of our biggest costs is disposables. So certainly,
if anybody's listening and you know you're with a practice
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and you know you're going to like change brands or
you're going to throw stuff out by all means, you know,
contact Hope within because if it's something we could use
that would save us a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, you know, the other thing I want to talk
about that I see because it's the number one issue
in this country for so many reasons, is mental health. Yes,
and you're counseling, I know you offered to couples, you know,
because you're faith based and everything. If you see people
who are depressed for many reasons, have anxiety, learning disabilities,
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that these things are incredible because if you aren't this
might sound disgusting, but if you're not right in the hand,
everything else is doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Right, So the counseling services have really if I looked
at the numbers, and actually when I pulled the numbers up,
my director had pulled the numbers together for me for
twenty twenty four and when I compared that to twenty
twenty three, they almost crippled in terms of business, what
I mean. And there is a growing need there. So
the counseling services are really by sliding scale. So what
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we mean by that is what people can afford. So
you may have a counseling session that's five dollars, or
you're paying ten dollars for a counseling session that is
open to the public. It is, like I said, it
continues to grow, so that is available for folks that
may not be medical patients, but we still have the
medical application again in our system, and then they can
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go for counseling services and even telehealth in that case,
we do. So there are some you know, virtual counseling
sessions as well, but generally speaking counseling. They even use
part of our medical facility on Mondays and Tuesdays. That's
generally when there's staff there that handle the counseling sessions.
So generally speaking, that may be available on like a Monday,
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right because we don't have medical services on Mondays typically,
so they may use medical exam rooms because you may
have such a dema and you have counselors that can
easily see somebody even if it's like here, have a
chair or ever sit next to the exam table, yeah,
or if you lay down, lay it on the exam table,
you know. Yeah, but seriously you know that again is
even though they have a separate wing, they use the
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whole facility sometimes because the demand.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Is so high and it's very private.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It is everything confidential, highly confidential. And like I said,
they have a separate wing. They even have a separate entrance.
But you know I've seen, Yeah, if I'm there on Tuesday,
generally speaking, if I try to get there like one
day week and if I'm in the in the because
I just mean to stay out.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Of the way for your appointment.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Well generally speaking, just you know, as the director development,
I'm out and about and you know, and taking advantage
of folks like yourself. They allowed us to put ourselves
out there and allow people to know who we are,
which is huge. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Well, this is the kind of information that I hear
people questioning all the time about oh my gosh, this
like I need this. Where am I going to go? Right?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
And I don't know. They don't know because we are
aware that where we are and the clinic is into
the twentieth year, so it opened doors two thousand and
six and again into the twentieth year, and people still
don't know that it exists. So part of my job
is always to raise awareness. And I do appreciate the
hos do that because we have tremendous services available and
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these volunteers that go over and above. And that's medical
and non medical.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, that was going to be my next question. The dental,
the physicians, the counselors, where did they come from? And
as you said, these are highly qualified and registered that
what's the word license?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Right? Oh yeah, no, right. Every year, my director and
callister has to go through and get everybody recertified, like
basically it's like any other medical clinic. Everything has to
go through the state. And then we also have the
National Association of Free Charitable Clinics and we have the
gold standard on that as well, so that's every year
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you apply for that, and we've had the gold standard
for the past. We're into the seventy year on that,
so that also has to be taking care of. So really,
the volunteers come from all over, okay, quite honestly. We
have volunteers from our physicians, some of them are retired,
some are still active with healthcare systems. We also have
affiliations with healthcare systems like Penn State Health so that
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we do have medications, so there is a medical dispensary
okay on site. So but if there is something in
particular that we don't have or we're short on that
we do have, thankfully those collaborations with our healthcare systems
to try and get folks their medications because that doesn't
cost the patient anything exactly. Okay, yeah, and that's huge.
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So really the nations that come in are mostly individuals,
and we also have church partners or partnerships with churches
and businesses to help.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Glad you mentioned that we know, when you think about it,
we look at all the ills in the world, in
our country and everything else. But I'm from the research
I've done, you start risk some of these issues and
things change. How would you think or how would you
put this in words? What you you were offering, the
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changes it's made to our local communities in what way?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Well, it's really so. You hear about testimonials all the time,
and you know, I think about the people that have
come through our doors over the years, and I've only
been there a year, so a lot of times it's
folks that have traveled through our doors that I've never met.
But then if I reach out to them and somebody says, hey,
you need to talk to so and so, because they
can tell you what they've been through and how much
(23:33):
Hope within has helped them. So overall, hope within has
provided people with the love and caring and God's sharing
right of love. God is a great physician. But for
the time being, it's it's moral. Moral people like ourselves, right, It's.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
You know, that's the part that burns me up. There
are a lot of people out there who say they
love God, they're at church every Sunday, but then they
have this attitude towards people that don't have what they have.
You know, well, I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I understand what you're saying. Some people can be very
and I know I guess a hypocrisy is probably how
you would word that. Yeah, but in our situation, no,
I mean, it is definitely sharing the love of God
and sharing you know, sometimes a prayer and sharing God's
love with an individual, especially if they are going through
a tough time. Like you mentioned before about chronic illnesses, right,
(24:26):
if you are helping somebody through their chronic illment and
anything it's chronic is long term, right, not an easy fix.
So we do have physicians that may be unlike a
government medical facility, they can pray with the individual. So
that's not because it doesn't cost a penny exactly, but
it goes a long way because people feel not the
(24:47):
way are they taking care of physically but spiritually and mentally? Right,
It's I call it. The whole well being of an
individual is addressed, including their spiritual well being. And for
some people that's all they need, you know what I mean,
I mean, they need the physical part too, don't get
me wrong, sure, but that spiritual well being to know
that they have somebody at love and cares for them,
(25:07):
that that really is reaching out and to try to
help them. That's huge because that comes across all the
time with people that have come through our doors.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, you need a couple of bucks to keep this
thing going too, and when you've done some cool things,
but you have something coming out on October October second,
which is I think it's really cool talk to us
about that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
See, yeah, I really wanted to mention you know, we're
as part of my job is to try to bring
dollars in the door obviously, right, and we're not government funded,
so we really rely on those business partnership individuals donating.
And then also we're looking at doing an event and
actually it should be hopefully everything goes well, but October second,
it's going to be a nice day and don't have
(25:49):
to worry about the weather. Should be hopefully early enough
in October. We don't have this stuff, the snow flying.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I know it's early October, but it's called Tastes in
the Nations and it is an event where there will
be food samplings from ten different countries. So where's it
going to be, Starbarn, Stone Gables Estate and Etown.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
It's in the it's in the evening.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's in the evening, but it's a really evening, so
six o'clock and again it'll be in the Starbarn in
the main level.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Everybody knows where that is.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, you know, there's still some people I found that
didn't know where it was or that would most moved.
They're still thinking it was like off the two eighty
three in Middletown. They've done a beautiful job. The Able
family has done a beautiful job and getting the moved
years ago right restored and it is this gorgeous venue
and that's where it's going to be held. So if
(26:40):
you can picture, it's a fairly big size inside area
which probably would have been used at one point the
store equipment or hay right back in the day. And
they used to trade horses there too in the back
in the day, the history of it. But that's where
the food tables will be, so they'll be around the
perimeter room of course was seating in the center, some
high top but it would be different countries such as Thailand, China, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Kenya, Afghanistan,
(27:06):
just to name a few.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Do you know any of the foods from these countries?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I leave that up to our volunteers who are the
food preparers and the food servers, and they've got some
really interesting I actually had them right down the name
of the food item, because you know, you hear it
and then you're like, well, you do.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You remember any of them?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If I ask you, I know some of them are
going to be like dumplings, different dumplings.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What about it? Tell me what's I don't know the Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, no, that some of these are going to be
like the best I could tell you is they're almost
like dumplings, but they're they're filmed. No no, not no,
no no. And then some of them are gonna be
I know with one it's gonna involve, you know, using
lamb and that might be my folks from Ireland that
will do that one. So it is it's an opportunity,
(27:59):
you know, I can't use the word. So it's an
opportunity to taste foods from different countries under one roof
for one evening.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, and there's music, well, so I will have recorded music, okay,
but from the different cultures.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Right, Well, I am gonna have you ever heard of
Bostonova a resilient jazz.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You're so old? Mentioned that was like in the fifties.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Okay, so maybe we'll revive it. But it's a nice
soft jazz music background and it's Bazilion, so yes, we'll see. Well,
I wasn't around in the I know you weren't, but
that was in the next decade. I know I was sixties.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Chi there was a song blaming on the Boston No.
But that's all there. Do you know what? We're running
out of time again? I want to mention that it's
at the Star Barn. It's called Taste of the Nations,
a cultural, a cultural and culinary experience October second, from
six to eight thirty at night at the Star Barn.
(28:55):
And if you want information about anything that we talked
about today, get in touch with FRI And what is
your website, Laurie Hope.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Within dot org that's an already events section and you'll
find all the information about Tasting the Nations. And we
have tickets on sale and the early bird runs out
August thirty one.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Awesome. Listen again for our listeners, and don't forget. If
you can't catch Inside on one of our ten nheart
stations this weekend, you can always find in on your
favorite podcast step. I'm Sylvia Moss. Thank you, Laurie. This
has been insight Thanks so much for listening. See you
next week.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
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