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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty k l v I. I am your guest host,
Debbie Bridgeman, and we have a pack show today including
doctor Sid Valentine from Lamar Institute of Technology. We're going
to be talking about what's going on at LIT. We
also have Shanna with the Alzheimer's Association. The Big Walk
to End Alzheimer's is coming up in October and you
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can get involved now. And we're also going to talk
to some other place. They've got some summer activities going
on for the kiddos. So lots of stuff going on today,
but we are kicking it off in style with my
friend Jenny Angelo, the executive director of Curriculum and Instruction
at Beaumont ISD.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hey, Jenny, Hey, how are you? I am good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So school is out officially done and summer is here
and the kiddos are going to be running around crazy.
But we got to keep them strong. We don't want
them to slide during the summer. So what can we
do for kids in the summer, So we've got.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
To keep them busy and we have a lot of
things on the table for parents.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, they get excited.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
About summer and then we start getting the phone calls
about three or four days into summer going what do
you have going on? My kids need something to do.
So we have a lot of great things planned this summer.
First of all, just for anyone who has children and
they're worried about their skills, right, reading and math skills.
So we have free elementary summer school. We have spots
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still open that will begin on June ninth at the
following locations Caldwood, Charlton, Pollard and Peach MacArthur Elementary. And
so you would select the location nearest to where you live.
We have an online very easy registration form that they
can do fill out and that summer school will go
from June ninth through twenty sixth, Monday through Thursday. And
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that's on our website. I'm going to say the website
a couple of times, bmt id dot com slash summer.
Everything you need to know is on that website.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And it's a great website. There is a lot of
stuff going on this summer, not with the not just
with the ISD, but with the whole community. So literacy
is so important and you know, I know, even when
my little one was younger and he would say, Mom,
I have to read to you fifteen minutes, twenty minutes,
you know, every night.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's very very important.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What can we do to keep that just in the
forefront and are there any events or anything just to
keep that reading strong.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So, if I had to tell parents the number one
thing that they can do to help strengthen their child's
academic success, it's to.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Read every day. And it doesn't have to be for hours.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We set a limit, say twenty minutes a day, but
every single day. It's that daily practice that makes the difference,
and we really encourage parents to please do that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We have the Mayawm Digital Library, so on that line library,
every Boma ISD student pre k all the way to
twelfth grade can access that in their class link and
have thousands of books at the ready for them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Please have them read every day.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We also have literacy events at the annex so the
bisD Annix right next to Smith Middle School. We have
them on each Thursday in June, literacy cool down events
each afternoon. They can come here if they're in kinder
through eighth grade, take a r test, play games. We've
got free snow cones. They leave with free books, all
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kinds of cool stuff to encourage reading during this summer.
And then if you go to our website again BNTISD
dot com slash summer, tons of great public library events
as well going on.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, there's a ton of events that are going on.
And I know this was something that you guys did
in the spring and the fall where you would visit
apartment complexes in the area and again you'd have resources,
you'd have people doing arts and crafts, you would hand
out free books.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you guys going to be doing stuff like that
this summer? We will. We're working on a schedule for
that right now.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So we're working with the different managers of apartment complexes
and we will post that on the bisD social media
when those are active, and of course let the residents
of the complexes know when we're coming.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So besides reading, it seems like we always hear about
STEM STEM you know, science, Technology, engineering, math? What are
are there any things going on with STEM the summer.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Always love STEM and we will always have a place
for that in the summer and throughout the whole year.
So we have free STEM camps open right now for
all different ages.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Again, go to the website.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You'll see the flyer, click on the QR code, click
on the link and it'll bring you to the registration form.
Now they're filling up pretty fast, so you want to
get your spot, but sign up for that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Look and see what's offered there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
If you maybe something don't appeal to you from baumant
i Is d Lamar has some amazing stem camps going on.
L I t look at the different offerings, find something
for your child to do.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They will love it. It's so engaging, in so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And there are just tons of camps things going on
this summer. I mean, if somebody says they're bored, I
mean there really are tons of opportunities.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I know there's a lot of sports camps.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I know there's a lot of the gyms, and like
the Wellness center they have things going on. There's just
always you know, the libraries, like you mentioned, they've always
got stuff going on. We definitely want to keep the
kids active because if they're not active, we know what
they're going to be doing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They're going to be.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sitting around on their phone on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I mean that's so harmful.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know, what are some tips that you would have
for parents in regards to cell phones, and so is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It is so harmful And we're seeing so much research
coming out recent research that discusses the detriment of students
being on their cell phones all the time, immersed in
social media all the time. It literally rewires their brain.
It affects their ability to socially interact with their peers
and with adults. We see older students who don't have
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the abilities to really hold a conversation or look an
adult in the eye and have that conversation. It's directly
linked to just being completely immersed in that social media
all the time and not having that human interaction. So
if I may just a couple of things the research
shows sets students up when they're in that social media,
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like for unrealistic expectations. You see these perfect lives and
we know they're not perfect, but students don't understand that,
and so they start to impact their self confidence when
they see that very hard to build relationships with your peers,
learn reciprocal language, meaning that back and forth of communication
that takes practice, you know, and interacting with real humans.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Social media does not give you that practice.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We see students, it hits their mental health like it
leads to depression and some other considerations just not being
able to interact with others and being stuck in the room,
right in the bedroom all the time on social media
or in the house. Need physical activity, We need movements.
So just like you said, so many opportunities on the website,
track clubs, golf clubs at Brentwood, that you can take
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advantage of open gyms at our campuses that kids can
go and work out. I heard Planet Fitness has free,
free registrations. Kids can just come and work out every day.
What a great thing to do rather than being stuck
on your phone all day.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Right, Yeah, and I know, like with social media a
lot of times, you know you've seen it. You're in
the doctor's office and a parent has a kid, or
you're at church here, play on your phone, play on
your phone. You know, it's it's hard for us to
see kids without a phone anymore. And they're getting younger.
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I couldn't believe some of the kids that are so
young that have a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yes, we see I see at the store all the time.
You know, young kids just stuck the cartoon's playing on
the phone the whole time. Parents, that's a learning opportunity.
You have a chance they're in the basket with you.
Talk about the different foods, talk about the nutritional values
of them, do a little math lesson adding up as
you purchase things so that they understand the price of things.
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There's so much discussion that can happen just in a
store visit. And I understand that that phone would be
a great babysitter, but it is hurting our kids.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's too much. It's hurting our kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Speaking of the phone though and being online, I'm going
to throw in that registration for Beaumont ISD very important
and it is online.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yes, Now is there going to be do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I believe there's going to be some times where parents
that maybe don't have a phone or don't have a
computer that can get help with registering their student.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Absolutely so for summer school, for our secondary, middle and
high school registration, they have to either go to the
campus and register with the counselor. But if they're not
able to do that, we have a Saturday event Saturday,
June seventh, we have from ten am to about two
pm at the bisD annex next to Smith Middle School.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We have a registration event.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
They can come to us, receive help for that, receive
help for registering for the school year, and then we'll
also be pushing out some different summer events that we'll
be having coming up. You know, we always have some
backpack giveaways and things that or more towards the start
of the school year in July. Will be pushing that
out and parents can get support with that. But right
now they can go onto their child's campus, get support
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with registering for school, and just get that done and
out of the way. It's not a lengthy process. If
they need help, we have people to help them.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I'm going to throw into that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
If you are a parent and you like to be
on campus and volunteering and helping with field day or
whatever it might be throughout the school year going on
field trips, fill out your volunteer application. We will have
a new system that we'll be kicking off this coming.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
School year, and we really need everyone to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Just do it in the summer, just when you're registering
your child, go ahead and get it done. That way,
you're good for a whole year because it's an annual renewal.
And you know, you get those last minute calls frantic
because they didn't know and they want to be at
field day.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But we're really hoping that with registration that parents will
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Just even if you don't know if you're going to volunteer,
just get it done part of the process. Register to
be a volunteer and let us do the background check.
You're good for the year and that way, if anything
comes up and you're available and you want to help,
you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love it, absolutely. We want you in our schools.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We need the volunteers, but if you don't go through
the process, we can't have you there.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So please, that's a great point, Debbie, love it, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And we'll also be registering our partners in education, so
all of our business partners and organizations, we ask for
them to do an annual renewal as well, so that'll
be coming up in the summer. And you know, we
have over one hundred and fifty in the Beaumont area.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We would love to have more that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know, people think business partners and it's not necessarily
that we want your money. We'd love for you to
sponsor some things, but we want your time, your expertise,
We want you in the school. So like you said, Jenny,
So that's going to be coming up as well. So
one more time, we got less than a minute, remind
us the website and what's going on with summer.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Www dot b mt ID dot com slash summer and
everything you need to know will be there. And of
course if you have any questions, just reach out to
us Jenny Angela at the annex, Janngelo at BMTISD dot
com and we will get to you where you need
to be and there is going summer.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But most importantly mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, friends, family,
encourage us little ones to read just twenty minutes a day.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Encourage them to read this summer. Yes, please, And we
have lots of online programs. They can go to their
child's class link.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
We have lots of online programs they can do for
math practice and reading practice as well.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, Jenny Angelo, thank you for being a part
of the show. Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
All right, Well, be right back with the Roy West
Show on AM five sixty klv I.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And we're back with the Roy West.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. I am
your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and now we're going to
be talking Lamar Institute of Technology, and we have the
president joining us, doctor Sid Valentine.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I'm doing great, Debbie.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How are you doing really really well?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So school, you guys graduated a bunch of graduates in May.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How many walk the stage this year?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Roughly seven hundred and four students this past spring we
had two separate graduations for the first time ever in
the spring.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Wow. And you guys, the enrollment just keeps increasing.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It is right now at this day and date point
in time, we're up fourteen point six percent compared to
last summer.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So let's talk a little bit about some of the
offerings that you guys have. I know you're encouraging people
right now to enroll for summer and also fall.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Have I mean a lot of our newer programs that
we just started in our I'm sure you've seen our
new buildings, our advanced technology centers up and running, our
workforce and out at health buildings up and running. In
that new technology center, we have plumbing, we have mechatronics,
we have residential electrical robotics and automation, a full gambit
of engineering technologies including biomedical, computer, electro mechanical and all
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of those options in that new facility. So it's really
it's turning us up a notch.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the new facility did it open just this past
school year?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
It did?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It opened this past spring in I believe it was March.
And basically with our new facilities, if you have a
chance to come toward them, they're all very immersive, meaning
when you enter into one of our labs, it should
feel like you're going to work, and when you go
to leave, it should literally feel like you're changing jobs
because everything that you're touching isn't lab based necessarily. It's
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hands on, real world equipment. It's real world devices with
instructors that have been in the field field and are
teaching you not from what they've read, but from what
they experienced on a daily basis while they were working
in industry.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And it seems like nowadays too, it's like you can
learn so much by watching, you know, Google videos and
YouTube videos and you know, like maybe looking at a book,
but it's really that hands on and learning from somebody
like you said, that's been in the field. How do
you guys, like, how many professors do you have right now?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That are working at.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
LT full time, we have roughly eighty eight if you
include all of our adjuncts, we have right at two
hundred and fifty some odd instructors. So again, most of
those come from straight out of the fields, right out
of industry. So they're letting you know exactly what it's
going to be like whenever you walk into that chosen
field of study.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So what would you say, out of all of the
offerings that you guys have, what are some of the
biggest that you have the highest attendance for students that
are registering for.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, in the technology side is definitely our process Tech
program that's in our Exceonomobile building. There is roughly three
hundred students in that program alone that encapsulates p tech, instrumentation,
that sort of thing. In Allied Health, just pick the
gam but there's eleven hundred students on our Allied Health
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division alone, which is roughly one fifth of our total
student population. And as you know, with Allied Health, just
like in technology, those people walk straight out of here
straight into employment. Right now, we're teetering between a ninety
two to ninety five percent placement rate upon graduation.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's fantastic. So when students come to LIT, is it
a two.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Year or a four year?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
It's a two year program, but you can also get
a one year certificate. In our workforce side, which is
our non credit, there's programs that vary from two weeks
to six months and anything in between. That's one of
those opportunities that if you're currently in a job and
you want to be promoted in a job or get
another more expanded job within your face, you can take
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some very quick workforce training and learn how to upscale
yourself to continue to be promotable within your organization.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So tell us a little bit about your dual credit
students tuition discount that you guys have going on.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Okay, roughly right now, we have over twenty five hundred
dual credit students. And actually it's not just for dual
credit in the summer. If you're a current high school
graduate or a dual credit student, or if you're going
to be a senior this year in high school, over
the summer, you get a seventy three percent discount off
your tuition. So it is a very hearty discount just
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to either come and continue your studies over the summer,
or to stick your toes into the water on college
courses and dual credit and see what it's like again.
You don't have to be a current dual credit student
to benefit from those discounts this summer.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So how do you guys work with Beaumont ISD and
the students that are at the Career and Technical Education
Center that might be getting some credits in high school?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Do those carry over? How does that work with LT?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Well, it was carried directly into LT, but those also,
especially the general education courses, they can transfer to any
college or university within the state of Texas, and for
the most part, any of those genetic courses can transfer anywhere.
They're all on sax COOC, which is a national accreditor
accredited sax COOC is arguably the hardest accreditor in the country.
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So you don't see too many colleges that won't take
credits from a sax accredited institution. So when those students
take them and take them at discounted rates, it could
save them tens of thousands of dollars if they choose
to either complete here or move on to a university later.
Because they have in theory if they do a core
complete for example, forty two general education classes hours under
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their belt.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And I know you guys of course work with Beaumont
ISD's early college high school, and there were so many
graduates that walked not only the bisD stage on June
twenty third or May twenty third, but they also walked
across the RIT stage.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So do you do you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know if you have a bunch of those students that
are going to continue their education at RIT.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That number I don't know right now, but generally we
do because a lot of those students, as well as
a majority of our CTE students, come on to the
college complete their credential. Because even in the CTE realm,
which is different than the early college high school, if
they come here and unless say complete their certification in
HVAC or welding or whatever the case may be, they
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can make a very sizable amount of money while they're
continuing on to a university to do whatever that next
step may be. Get a business degree, learn how to
run their they're given traded a business, et cetera, and
they can come out right now. Our average way exiting
this institution is seventy two thousand dollars a year for
a two year degree or less.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Wow, and you guys just offer such an amazing opportunity
for so many people here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
So we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Students, but how about opportunities for adult learners. We mentioned
about you know, excelling if you already have a job,
but what are some other things that are going on
for the adult learners?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, I mean, again, what's nice about coming to a college?
The size and when I say the size that the
footprint of LT you're not amassed with a whole lot
of buildings and a whole lot of residential students and
you know this sort of thing. The average age of
students that co here is around twenty eight years old.
So you have a lot of adult learners. You learn
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on your pace, on your time. You have online classes,
night classes, day classes, you name it. We can work
the schedule around whatever your schedule is so that we're
not upending your life while you're trying to make your
house payment, your car payments, trade your family. And because
of that, we have a very large part time population.
And that's okay. The end goal is not to get
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everybody out of here in two years. The end goals
to make you very successful upon your exit, and if
that takes you, as an adult learner, more time to
do that, then that's what we need to do. I
love that and think we do it well.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And all the opportunities, you know, and the flexibility, because
you're right. I mean, there's a lot of people that
are like, well, I was thinking about going to college,
but I've got work. And the fact that you guys,
you know, part time, online, flexible, that's fantastic. So what
else is going on at rit Do you guys have
any big events or anything coming up?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, not so much in the fields of events, but
literally the other day the Carnegie classifications came out. They
were released yesterday. L T is one of the only
colleges in that what's the only two year college in
the region and one of the only colleges in the
expanded region that's considered an opportunity college, higher access, higher earnings.
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And what that means is that we're sending students out
with an ability to have fast social mobility, very very quickly.
You come here with a high access institution. We're an
open enrollment institution. You get your education done and when
you leave the likelihood of you doubling or tripling your
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social mobility comes into play very very quickly. So that's
again as you look at those charts, I think that
we're one of I think it was two hundred three
hundred colleges in the country, the entire country that got
that rating. So we're very proud of that. Again, it
speaks to that ninety two to ninety five percent placement
rate and exactly what the students can expect when they
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come here, when they leave here, so we're not taking
their money, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, we've got about twenty seconds left.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Most importantly, where can students go to get more information
and to enroll.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well, if they come on our main campus at the
back of the campus is our Eagles Nest, which is
our student center, we can get you information, get you
enrolled there and classes begin on August the twenty fifth
for fall.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
All right, doctor sid Valentine Lit, thank you so much
for being a.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Part of the show.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Thank you too, my friend. You have a great day
you too.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And we'll be right back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty klv I. Welcome back to
the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I.
I am your guest host and I am Debbie Bridgeman,
and we are ready to talk about the Alzheimer's Association
and their big event, their big annual event that's coming
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up in October. Please welcome my next guest, Shanna Briggs.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hi, Shanna, Hey, Debbie, how's it going? It is going?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So before we kick things off, let everybody, let everybody
know what is your role and let's talk about what
is the Alzheimer's Association.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
So, I am the Regional manager of the Alzheimer's Association
for Beaumont and Southeast Texas. So we service our community
with information, awareness, different tools that they can learn about
with the Association. Whether their family member has early onset
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symptoms or if they've been given a diagnosis, we can
help them. We have a care and support line that
people can call twenty four to seven to get information.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
If they have any questions, they can give them a call.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
We also have a caregiver Support group that meets once
a month at the RC Miller Library. So that's really
helpful for people who want to.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Learn more about.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
The disease or the situation that's going on with their
loved one and share with a you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A real safe community there. But we're just.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Here and we would love for people to join us
for our walk that's October fourth at the event Center.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And this walk.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
How long have y' all been doing this, because I
know it's an annual event.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's been years, many many years.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yes, I don't know exactly how many years, but it's
been going on for quite a while. We've been at
the event Center probably the last seven years. And it's
a really great walk.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
We have a one mile and a three.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Mile route so that people have a choice how long
that they want to walk for. And it's a great
opportunity for people to come together and support each other
that are facing this disease. And also it's a great
time for everybody. You can come with your children, you
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can come with your loved ones that are in wheelchairs,
bring your dogs. It's a really fun, family centered event.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I love that the last two years you've had
the man, the Purple Man himself, Grimace from McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I've been there. I mean, he's probably like, this is
my event.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Everything's purple another but we love do I know, I know, Yeah,
I'm so excited about Grimace.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And you're mick loving it. I'm Mick loving it.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Yes, and thanks to you you helped me out finding
that great purple creature to come over. And if people
don't know, Grimace is a taste bud and.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And so yeah, he's big and purple, just like our
walk and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, what I really like is that when you guys
kind of do the remembrance before the actual walk kicks
off and everybody can pick up one of the spinny
flowers and you have you know, green, blue, yellow, and purple.
Tell me what what does each one signify?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yes, so if you are holding a purple flower, that
is you're representing a group of people who've lost somebody
to Alzheimer's. And then a yellow flower is if you're
a caregiver, a blue flower if you have Alzheimer's for
another form of dementia. And then the orange flower is
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if you're just supporting the costs. So yes, we have
what we call our Promised Garden ceremony that kicks off
our walk and we have a report somebody holding each
flower on the stage and it's a real special ceremony
that we have that kind of pulls at your heart strings.
A little bit because everybody kind of feels connected, and
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then everybody walks with their pimil flowers along the walk,
so it's a really pretty sight to see.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I love it, and you know, the last two years
it's been really great. The Spindle Top Rotary Club and
the Rotary Club of Beaumont have teamed up together as
a team of rotarians to raise awareness and to put
together a team to walk. And last year it just
so happened that my best friend's father had passed from dementia,
so it meant even more to me to walk since
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I was walking in his honor. So for people that
want to get involved, how can they sign up?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
How can they fundraise? What can we do?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yeah, so it's really easy to register. There's no fee
to register. They can go to our website which is
act dot A, l Z dot O r g slash
Beaumont and just follow the.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Little simple steps.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I think the hardest thing to do is come up
with a name for your team, which is a lot
of fun too.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
People come up with very creative ideas.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
My team is a memory of my mom, So my
team is called Janie's Jubilee, and so it's in her honor.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
And people can get their.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Friends, families, coworkers all to sign up for your team
and start fundraising because we need these funds to help
us help you know, so many different things like research
and trying to find out new treatments that can help
people not only to hopefully find a cure, but also
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to slow the process of the disease.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And I think you did a presentation at the Big
we call them the Big Club, the Big Rotary Club.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Maybe like two years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And there's there's some misconception on Alzheimer's dementia, like is
it Can you just real briefly explain the difference.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, So if you think about a big umbrella, that
is what dementia is is a large umbrella, and then
one kind of like slice of the umbrella is what
we call like is Alzheimer's. So Alzheimer's is just the
most common form of a dementia. And just like you
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would say, heart disease would be a big umbrella and
you would go into you know, the different types of
heart disease. So there's different forms of dementia, Alzheimer's being
the most common. There you know, there's vascular dementia, there's
Louis body. My mom had a very very rare one
called cortico basal gangliotic degeneration. So that would you know,
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be like a little bit slice of this umbrella. And
so a lot of people kind of get them mixed
up the terminology. But if you just kind of think
of the umbrella and think that Alzheimer's is a form
the most common form of a dementia, well good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Like I said, your presentation really brought to light that,
you know, sometimes people get them mixed up or they
don't understand what the difference is. So what do you
guys have Again, I know you said there's some sessions
that are at the RC Miller Library. What are some
other ways to help people that you know, like you
even said with your celebration caregivers, that's very difficult for
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them too, you know, I mean it's you could lose
somebody that's close to you, but you're also caring for somebody.
So what are some more ways that you guys can
help that are affected.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, So we also have.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Community at educators that are volunteers for the association that
can put on educational programs in our community, whether it
be at a church or business, a cific organization. We
have community educators that have a whole menu of topics
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related to Alzheimer's that they can deliver, and right now
we have our community educator has a kind of a
lunche and learn at the Arcimular Library once a month
and it's the third Thursday, I'm sorry, the third Wednesday
of each month at noon, and then she also does
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she is also the facilitator for the caregiver support group.
So we offer these programs free to the community and
we want to be able to service everybody and let
them know that there's education out there so that they.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Can learn more about this disease. That's fantastic. You guys
do so much.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
We've got about a minute left, So once again, when
is the walk and how can we sign up?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Yeah, so please come and join us. It's Saturday, October
the fourth at the event center.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's easy to sign up. There's no registration fee.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Go to act dot alz dot o rg slash Beaumont
and register your team and get all your family and
friends involved. And if you raise one hundred dollars you
get a T shirt in the mail the week before
the walk.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Very nice. Well, we're looking forward to that. Big event.
And you know, even if you.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Don't have somebody affected by the disease, you know, there's
a lot of people out there that are either caregivers
or have been affected or have lost somebody and just
you know, supporting them as they walk and supporting the cause. Overall,
there's lots of ways to be involved.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Right, Yeah, please come out and support us and we'd
love to see you out in October.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
All right, sounds good. Shanna, thank you so much for
being a part of the show. Okay, thank you, Debbie.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, we'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. Welcome back
to the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. I am your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and
now we're talking some other place. Joining us is Caitlin McCarter.
(32:23):
How are you doing today?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I'm good, it's great to be here. Good.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So tell us what is your title and what exactly
do you do at some other place?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
So my technical title, I am the special Projects coordinator
here working in a nonprofit. Everybody wears many hats, so
I also kind of help oversee our social media and
outreach in the community. So you'll see me at our
booth events often, and my main role here is definitely
ever sing all of our special programs. So we have
three seasonal projects that go on every year, our back
(32:54):
to School program once we talked about today, our Thanksgiving
program and our Christmas Giving Tree program. So you see
us a lot in the community with those events because
they're really largely donation based.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Definitely, Well, we are talking back to school and it
is June first today, so I know you've got a
program that the registration actually kicks off tomorrow. So tell
us a little bit about the back to school program.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yes, so this Monday and Tuesday, June second, third, we
conduct interviews from nine to two o'clock, so people come
in and bring their necessary documents.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Our application process is income based, so we use the
food STAP criteria to assess for income. So they'll come
in register, we'll go to the application and see if
they qualify for services, and then we'll reach back out.
We'll send notice that they're availble to come get their
supplies and that distribution is going to happen on the
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sixth of August, a week before BIS goes back to school.
So when they're come in and register. They register their
kids pre K through a grade is what we're able
to tink on during that time. We get all of
their different grade levels, so we can specifically buy the
amount of backpacks that we need and make sure that
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each grade level has the right amount of supplies, so
we don't do a generic general backpack. We make sure
that every single backpack has exactly what that grade level
would need. So a lot of planning on the back
end goes into that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Nice So what are the certain qualifications?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So if somebody's listening right now, and maybe they know
a family that's in need, what would be What are
you guys looking for for somebody to qualify?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Okay, So, like I said, they need to meet our
income qualifications. We use the same level of income as
the federal government for the food stand guidelines. We always
just ask if they do receive food stands, for them
to bring their reward letter. That just makes it easier
for our application process. But a lot of people meet
that income qualification and don't receive food stamps, so if
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they were to come in, they would need to have
their pay stubs in any form of income in the household.
So if they were a dual income house hoop. They
would also need to bring their partners check stubs as well,
just so we could verify that income. As far as that,
we would just need identification of the household, so every
(35:17):
member in the household we would need either for certificate sales,
a security card or IV and I think and just
prove of address as the additional document that we need.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right, So the registration is going to be going
on tomorrow and Tuesday. And with the supplies that you get,
I mean, how do you guys, you do like a
supply drive? How do you get the supplies that go
into the backpacks?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
So back to school is actually one of our largest
extents special projects that we have. Luckily with Thanksgiving and Christmas,
we get most of our good donated it and Thanksgiving
back to school and most of it comes out of
our pocket. We do try to conduct a supply drive
of just general back to school supplies. We will put
(36:02):
that on an our our website and in our newsletter.
Put into the donations we need. We usually just generic
like the poly folders, crayons, pencils, So it's not a
large drive of ours that we do, but we do
put out in the community and saying anybody who is
willing and wants to donate those supplies that we would
(36:24):
definitely accept them. I would love to have them because
it definitely cuts at our expense on our end for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, I know you guys do some big drives.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I've been there when you have your Thanksgiving store, and
that is I'm sure that takes a lot of time
to set it up because just you know, putting all
the green beans together, putting all the box mashed potatoes together,
I mean, it takes a lot of effort. You know,
what are what are some of the things that you
guys do in the community, like like going back some
(36:54):
other place?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I mean, what exactly is some other place?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Okay, so some other place. I think recently you've seen
this a lot in the news for homelessness, just or
around election time, everything gets started up with homelessness. So
we do have a soup kitchen here that feeds five
days a week, and we have a homeless day center
that serves breakfast and gives them access to a phone,
an address, and allow them to do their laundry on site.
(37:19):
But getting away from homelessness, we have several other programs
and I think often they don't get promoted, so most
people don't know that we have them. We do a
running utility assistance program for anybody that has like a
very Bible emergency, say their car broke down. We help
and sure that they're not like in the situation that
they would get evicted like this one hardship from putting
(37:43):
them out. We also have a full time clothing store
and patroon that people can come in and shop. We'll
check them and go back of food and they can
come in and shop from our clothing store every three
months so they can come in and shop, and then
like I mentioned, we have our special Thanksgiving, Christmas and
(38:04):
back to school. In addition to that, we also have
our homeless cake manager who helps transition so it still
help them get their necessary documents and securing apartments and
helping them pay their deposits.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
And I think sometimes you know, you guys are such
a blessing because sometimes people they are in a bad
situation and maybe they just need that one little piece
of help to get them to you know, finding stability.
So like you said with the clothing store, maybe they
need just a nice outfit to wear to a job
interview or maybe it's just that one rent payment. You know,
(38:41):
it's like the job's coming. They just started one, but
you know they haven't gotten their first paycheck yet. So
you guys are such a blessing and offering so much
in our community. Is there anything that people can do
to help you guys? I mean, I know we've kind
of talked about donations, but are you looking for volunteers?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Yes, we are all looking for volunteers. So some other place.
We have, like I said, many different programs, but we
only have about ten staff members here, so almost all
of our work requires volunteers, especially with our special projects
coming out with back to school, we will need help
steffan those backpacks. So when the supplies come in, like
you said, we organize, so it's kind of set up
(39:20):
in an assembly line. We'll take it and we'll put
all the backpacks together. So then we'll just get everybody,
like you go the backpack, this many crying on, this
many markers, and we'll we'll plug and go. And I
had the privilege of this is gonna be my third
year to do this, but getting to see that all
come together is so awesome. So definitely volunteers to help
(39:41):
with that and just a kitchen that runs five days
a week and that is by volunteers, so definitely always
a need to reach out. I am the point of
contact for volunteers here. You can give me a call.
It's four nine eight three to two seven six. Yes,
(40:03):
I think that's kind of the best way to get
a hold of us, or you can reach out my email.
Special projects at some of the plays. Beaumont dot com.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So fantastic, And of course we'll just remind everybody again
the back to School program Registration is June second and third,
nine am to two pm. And we appreciate you Caitlin
for joining the show today.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Thanks for having me. I love to be in here.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All right, We'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. We're back
with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. I have been your guest host for today's program.
My name is Debbie Bridgman. Thank you for joining us.
We had a great list of guests. Kicking off the
(40:46):
show with Jenny Angelo with Beaumont ISD talking about the
summer of success, tons of activities, literacy events, stem camps,
all kinds of opportunities, for your student to stay busy
and educated.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Throughout the summer.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You can go to bmtisd dot com backslash Summer to
get a full list of details. We also talked to
doctor Sid Valentine with Lamar Institute of Technology talking about
summer and fall enrollment, all the new programs, all the
great opportunities at LIT. Go to l T dot edu
to enroll or to get more information. We also talked
(41:24):
with Shannon Briggs with the Alzheimer's Association and their big
twenty twenty five Walk to End Alzheimer's in Beaumont. Event
will be October fourth, but you can sign up now.
They already have over one hundred people signed up and
seventy eight teams, so you don't want to miss out.
It's a very heartwarming event. Whether you're a caregiver or
(41:45):
you have personally been affected. Go to act dot alz
dot org, backslash Beaumont to get registered for that. And
we just heard from Caitlin McCarter. She's with some other place.
Their back to school program will be officially kicking off soon.
You can register tomorrow and Tuesday, June second and third,
nine to two.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It is for grades pre K through eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
If you know a family or students that need assistance
with school supplies, you can go to some other place
Beaumont dot com to get all the details on that. Also,
our friend Gene over at Jason's Deli wanted us to
remind you that kids eat free on Thursday, so remember
that this summer.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
This is the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty KLVI.
Welcome to the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty k l v I. I am your guest host,
Debbie Bridgeman, and we have a pack show today including
doctor Sid Valentine from Lamar Institute of Technology. We're going
to be talking about what's going on at LIT. We
also have Shanna with the Alzheimer's Association. The Big Walk
to End Alzheimer's is coming up in October and you
(00:24):
can get involved now. And we're also going to talk
to some other place. They've got some summer activities going
on for the kiddos. So lots of stuff going on today,
but we are kicking it off in style with my
friend Jenny Angelo, the executive director of Curriculum and Instruction
at Beaumont ISD.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hey, Jenny, Hey, how are you? I am good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So school is out officially done and summer is here
and the kiddos are going to be running around crazy.
But we got to keep them strong. We don't want
them to slide during the summer. So what can we
do for kids in the summer, So we've got.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
To keep them busy and we have a lot of
things on the table for parents.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, they get excited.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
About summer and then we start getting the phone calls
about three or four days into summer going what do
you have going on? My kids need something to do.
So we have a lot of great things planned this summer.
First of all, just for anyone who has children and
they're worried about their skills, right, reading and math skills.
So we have free elementary summer school. We have spots
(01:30):
still open that will begin on June ninth at the
following locations Caldwood, Charlton, Pollard and Peach MacArthur Elementary. And
so you would select the location nearest to where you live.
We have an online very easy registration form that they
can do fill out and that summer school will go
from June ninth through twenty sixth, Monday through Thursday. And
(01:54):
that's on our website. I'm going to say the website
a couple of times, bmt id dot com slash summer.
Everything you need to know is on that website.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And it's a great website. There is a lot of
stuff going on this summer, not with the not just
with the ISD, but with the whole community. So literacy
is so important and you know, I know, even when
my little one was younger and he would say, Mom,
I have to read to you fifteen minutes, twenty minutes,
you know, every night.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's very very important.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
What can we do to keep that just in the
forefront and are there any events or anything just to
keep that reading strong.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So, if I had to tell parents the number one
thing that they can do to help strengthen their child's
academic success, it's to.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Read every day. And it doesn't have to be for hours.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We set a limit, say twenty minutes a day, but
every single day. It's that daily practice that makes the difference,
and we really encourage parents to please do that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We make it easy.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
We have the Mayawm Digital Library, so on that line library,
every Boma ISD student pre k all the way to
twelfth grade can access that in their class link and
have thousands of books at the ready for them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Please have them read every day.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
We also have literacy events at the annex so the
bisD Annix right next to Smith Middle School. We have
them on each Thursday in June, literacy cool down events
each afternoon. They can come here if they're in kinder
through eighth grade, take a r test, play games. We've
got free snow cones. They leave with free books, all
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kinds of cool stuff to encourage reading during this summer.
And then if you go to our website again BNTISD
dot com slash summer, tons of great public library events
as well going on.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, there's a ton of events that are going on.
And I know this was something that you guys did
in the spring and the fall where you would visit
apartment complexes in the area and again you'd have resources,
you'd have people doing arts and crafts, you would hand
out free books.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Are you guys going to be doing stuff like that
this summer? We will. We're working on a schedule for
that right now.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So we're working with the different managers of apartment complexes
and we will post that on the bisD social media
when those are active, and of course let the residents
of the complexes know when we're coming.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So besides reading, it seems like we always hear about
STEM STEM you know, science, Technology, engineering, math? What are
are there any things going on with STEM the summer.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Always love STEM and we will always have a place
for that in the summer and throughout the whole year.
So we have free STEM camps open right now for
all different ages.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Again, go to the website.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You'll see the flyer, click on the QR code, click
on the link and it'll bring you to the registration form.
Now they're filling up pretty fast, so you want to
get your spot, but sign up for that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Look and see what's offered there.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
If you maybe something don't appeal to you from baumant
i Is d Lamar has some amazing stem camps going on.
L I t look at the different offerings, find something
for your child to do.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They will love it. It's so engaging, in so much fun.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And there are just tons of camps things going on
this summer. I mean, if somebody says they're bored, I
mean there really are tons of opportunities.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I know there's a lot of sports camps.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I know there's a lot of the gyms, and like
the Wellness center they have things going on. There's just
always you know, the libraries, like you mentioned, they've always
got stuff going on. We definitely want to keep the
kids active because if they're not active, we know what
they're going to be doing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They're going to be.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sitting around on their phone on social media.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So I mean that's so harmful.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know, what are some tips that you would have
for parents in regards to cell phones, and so is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It is so harmful And we're seeing so much research
coming out recent research that discusses the detriment of students
being on their cell phones all the time, immersed in
social media all the time. It literally rewires their brain.
It affects their ability to socially interact with their peers
and with adults. We see older students who don't have
(06:07):
the abilities to really hold a conversation or look an
adult in the eye and have that conversation. It's directly
linked to just being completely immersed in that social media
all the time and not having that human interaction. So
if I may just a couple of things the research
shows sets students up when they're in that social media,
(06:28):
like for unrealistic expectations. You see these perfect lives and
we know they're not perfect, but students don't understand that,
and so they start to impact their self confidence when
they see that very hard to build relationships with your peers,
learn reciprocal language, meaning that back and forth of communication
that takes practice, you know, and interacting with real humans.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Social media does not give you that practice.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We see students, it hits their mental health like it
leads to depression and some other considerations just not being
able to interact with others and being stuck in the room,
right in the bedroom all the time on social media
or in the house. Need physical activity, We need movements.
So just like you said, so many opportunities on the website,
track clubs, golf clubs at Brentwood, that you can take
(07:17):
advantage of open gyms at our campuses that kids can
go and work out. I heard Planet Fitness has free,
free registrations. Kids can just come and work out every day.
What a great thing to do rather than being stuck
on your phone all day.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Right, Yeah, and I know, like with social media a
lot of times, you know you've seen it. You're in
the doctor's office and a parent has a kid, or
you're at church here, play on your phone, play on
your phone. You know, it's it's hard for us to
see kids without a phone anymore. And they're getting younger.
(07:51):
I couldn't believe some of the kids that are so
young that have a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yes, we see I see at the store all the time.
You know, young kids just stuck the cartoon's playing on
the phone the whole time. Parents, that's a learning opportunity.
You have a chance they're in the basket with you.
Talk about the different foods, talk about the nutritional values
of them, do a little math lesson adding up as
you purchase things so that they understand the price of things.
(08:16):
There's so much discussion that can happen just in a
store visit. And I understand that that phone would be
a great babysitter, but it is hurting our kids.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's too much. It's hurting our kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Speaking of the phone though and being online, I'm going
to throw in that registration for Beaumont ISD very important
and it is online.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yes, Now is there going to be do you know?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I believe there's going to be some times where parents
that maybe don't have a phone or don't have a
computer that can get help with registering their student.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Absolutely so for summer school, for our secondary, middle and
high school registration, they have to either go to the
campus and register with the counselor. But if they're not
able to do that, we have a Saturday event Saturday,
June seventh, we have from ten am to about two
pm at the bisD annex next to Smith Middle School.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We have a registration event.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
They can come to us, receive help for that, receive
help for registering for the school year, and then we'll
also be pushing out some different summer events that we'll
be having coming up. You know, we always have some
backpack giveaways and things that or more towards the start
of the school year in July. Will be pushing that
out and parents can get support with that. But right
now they can go onto their child's campus, get support
(09:31):
with registering for school, and just get that done and
out of the way. It's not a lengthy process. If
they need help, we have people to help them.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And I'm going to throw into that.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
If you are a parent and you like to be
on campus and volunteering and helping with field day or
whatever it might be throughout the school year going on
field trips, fill out your volunteer application. We will have
a new system that we'll be kicking off this coming.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
School year, and we really need everyone to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Just do it in the summer, just when you're registering
your child, go ahead and get it done. That way,
you're good for a whole year because it's an annual renewal.
And you know, you get those last minute calls frantic
because they didn't know and they want to be at
field day.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But we're really hoping that with registration that parents will
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Just even if you don't know if you're going to volunteer,
just get it done part of the process. Register to
be a volunteer and let us do the background check.
You're good for the year and that way, if anything
comes up and you're available and you want to help,
you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I love it, absolutely. We want you in our schools.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
We need the volunteers, but if you don't go through
the process, we can't have you there.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So please, that's a great point, Debbie, love it, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And we'll also be registering our partners in education, so
all of our business partners and organizations, we ask for
them to do an annual renewal as well, so that'll
be coming up in the summer. And you know, we
have over one hundred and fifty in the Beaumont area.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We would love to have more that.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know, people think business partners and it's not necessarily
that we want your money. We'd love for you to
sponsor some things, but we want your time, your expertise,
We want you in the school. So like you said, Jenny,
So that's going to be coming up as well. So
one more time, we got less than a minute, remind
us the website and what's going on with summer.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Www dot b mt ID dot com slash summer and
everything you need to know will be there. And of
course if you have any questions, just reach out to
us Jenny Angela at the annex, Janngelo at BMTISD dot
com and we will get to you where you need
to be and there is going summer.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
But most importantly mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, friends, family,
encourage us little ones to read just twenty minutes a day.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Encourage them to read this summer. Yes, please, And we
have lots of online programs. They can go to their
child's class link.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
We have lots of online programs they can do for
math practice and reading practice as well.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, Jenny Angelo, thank you for being a part
of the show. Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
All right, Well, be right back with the Roy West
Show on AM five sixty klv I.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And we're back with the Roy West.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. I am
your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and now we're going to
be talking Lamar Institute of Technology, and we have the
president joining us, doctor Sid Valentine.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I'm doing great, Debbie.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
How are you doing really really well?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
So school, you guys graduated a bunch of graduates in May.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How many walk the stage this year?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Roughly seven hundred and four students this past spring we
had two separate graduations for the first time ever in
the spring.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Wow. And you guys, the enrollment just keeps increasing.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It is right now at this day and date point
in time, we're up fourteen point six percent compared to
last summer.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So let's talk a little bit about some of the
offerings that you guys have. I know you're encouraging people
right now to enroll for summer and also fall.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Have I mean a lot of our newer programs that
we just started in our I'm sure you've seen our
new buildings, our advanced technology centers up and running, our
workforce and out at health buildings up and running. In
that new technology center, we have plumbing, we have mechatronics,
we have residential electrical robotics and automation, a full gambit
of engineering technologies including biomedical, computer, electro mechanical and all
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of those options in that new facility. So it's really
it's turning us up a notch.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the new facility did it open just this past
school year?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
It did?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It opened this past spring in I believe it was March.
And basically with our new facilities, if you have a
chance to come toward them, they're all very immersive, meaning
when you enter into one of our labs, it should
feel like you're going to work, and when you go
to leave, it should literally feel like you're changing jobs
because everything that you're touching isn't lab based necessarily. It's
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hands on, real world equipment. It's real world devices with
instructors that have been in the field field and are
teaching you not from what they've read, but from what
they experienced on a daily basis while they were working
in industry.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
And it seems like nowadays too, it's like you can
learn so much by watching, you know, Google videos and
YouTube videos and you know, like maybe looking at a book,
but it's really that hands on and learning from somebody
like you said, that's been in the field. How do
you guys, like, how many professors do you have right now?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That are working at.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
LT full time, we have roughly eighty eight if you
include all of our adjuncts, we have right at two
hundred and fifty some odd instructors. So again, most of
those come from straight out of the fields, right out
of industry. So they're letting you know exactly what it's
going to be like whenever you walk into that chosen
field of study.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So what would you say, out of all of the
offerings that you guys have, what are some of the
biggest that you have the highest attendance for students that
are registering for.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, in the technology side is definitely our process Tech
program that's in our Exceonomobile building. There is roughly three
hundred students in that program alone that encapsulates p tech, instrumentation,
that sort of thing. In Allied Health, just pick the
gam but there's eleven hundred students on our Allied Health
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division alone, which is roughly one fifth of our total
student population. And as you know, with Allied Health, just
like in technology, those people walk straight out of here
straight into employment. Right now, we're teetering between a ninety
two to ninety five percent placement rate upon graduation.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's fantastic. So when students come to LIT, is it
a two.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Year or a four year?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
It's a two year program, but you can also get
a one year certificate. In our workforce side, which is
our non credit, there's programs that vary from two weeks
to six months and anything in between. That's one of
those opportunities that if you're currently in a job and
you want to be promoted in a job or get
another more expanded job within your face, you can take
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some very quick workforce training and learn how to upscale
yourself to continue to be promotable within your organization.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So tell us a little bit about your dual credit
students tuition discount that you guys have going on.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Okay, roughly right now, we have over twenty five hundred
dual credit students. And actually it's not just for dual
credit in the summer. If you're a current high school
graduate or a dual credit student, or if you're going
to be a senior this year in high school, over
the summer, you get a seventy three percent discount off
your tuition. So it is a very hearty discount just
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to either come and continue your studies over the summer,
or to stick your toes into the water on college
courses and dual credit and see what it's like again.
You don't have to be a current dual credit student
to benefit from those discounts this summer.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So how do you guys work with Beaumont ISD and
the students that are at the Career and Technical Education
Center that might be getting some credits in high school?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Do those carry over? How does that work with LT?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Well, it was carried directly into LT, but those also,
especially the general education courses, they can transfer to any
college or university within the state of Texas, and for
the most part, any of those genetic courses can transfer anywhere.
They're all on sax COOC, which is a national accreditor
accredited sax COOC is arguably the hardest accreditor in the country.
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So you don't see too many colleges that won't take
credits from a sax accredited institution. So when those students
take them and take them at discounted rates, it could
save them tens of thousands of dollars if they choose
to either complete here or move on to a university later.
Because they have in theory if they do a core
complete for example, forty two general education classes hours under
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their belt.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And I know you guys of course work with Beaumont
ISD's early college high school, and there were so many
graduates that walked not only the bisD stage on June
twenty third or May twenty third, but they also walked
across the RIT stage.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
So do you do you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know if you have a bunch of those students that
are going to continue their education at RIT.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That number I don't know right now, but generally we
do because a lot of those students, as well as
a majority of our CTE students, come on to the
college complete their credential. Because even in the CTE realm,
which is different than the early college high school, if
they come here and unless say complete their certification in
HVAC or welding or whatever the case may be, they
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can make a very sizable amount of money while they're
continuing on to a university to do whatever that next
step may be. Get a business degree, learn how to
run their they're given traded a business, et cetera, and
they can come out right now. Our average way exiting
this institution is seventy two thousand dollars a year for
a two year degree or less.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Wow, and you guys just offer such an amazing opportunity
for so many people here in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
So we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Students, but how about opportunities for adult learners. We mentioned
about you know, excelling if you already have a job,
but what are some other things that are going on
for the adult learners?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, I mean, again, what's nice about coming to a college?
The size and when I say the size that the
footprint of LT you're not amassed with a whole lot
of buildings and a whole lot of residential students and
you know this sort of thing. The average age of
students that co here is around twenty eight years old.
So you have a lot of adult learners. You learn
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on your pace, on your time. You have online classes,
night classes, day classes, you name it. We can work
the schedule around whatever your schedule is so that we're
not upending your life while you're trying to make your
house payment, your car payments, trade your family. And because
of that, we have a very large part time population.
And that's okay. The end goal is not to get
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everybody out of here in two years. The end goals
to make you very successful upon your exit, and if
that takes you, as an adult learner, more time to
do that, then that's what we need to do. I
love that and think we do it well.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And all the opportunities, you know, and the flexibility, because
you're right. I mean, there's a lot of people that
are like, well, I was thinking about going to college,
but I've got work. And the fact that you guys,
you know, part time, online, flexible, that's fantastic. So what
else is going on at rit Do you guys have
any big events or anything coming up?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, not so much in the fields of events, but
literally the other day the Carnegie classifications came out. They
were released yesterday. L T is one of the only
colleges in that what's the only two year college in
the region and one of the only colleges in the
expanded region that's considered an opportunity college, higher access, higher earnings.
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And what that means is that we're sending students out
with an ability to have fast social mobility, very very quickly.
You come here with a high access institution. We're an
open enrollment institution. You get your education done and when
you leave the likelihood of you doubling or tripling your
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social mobility comes into play very very quickly. So that's
again as you look at those charts, I think that
we're one of I think it was two hundred three
hundred colleges in the country, the entire country that got
that rating. So we're very proud of that. Again, it
speaks to that ninety two to ninety five percent placement
rate and exactly what the students can expect when they
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come here, when they leave here, so we're not taking
their money, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Well, we've got about twenty seconds left.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Most importantly, where can students go to get more information
and to enroll.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Well, if they come on our main campus at the
back of the campus is our Eagles Nest, which is
our student center, we can get you information, get you
enrolled there and classes begin on August the twenty fifth
for fall.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
All right, doctor sid Valentine Lit, thank you so much
for being a.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Part of the show.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Thank you too, my friend. You have a great day
you too.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And we'll be right back with the Roy West Radio
Show on AM five sixty klv I. Welcome back to
the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I.
I am your guest host and I am Debbie Bridgeman,
and we are ready to talk about the Alzheimer's Association
and their big event, their big annual event that's coming
(22:26):
up in October. Please welcome my next guest, Shanna Briggs.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hi, Shanna, Hey, Debbie, how's it going? It is going?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
So before we kick things off, let everybody, let everybody
know what is your role and let's talk about what
is the Alzheimer's Association.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
So, I am the Regional manager of the Alzheimer's Association
for Beaumont and Southeast Texas. So we service our community
with information, awareness, different tools that they can learn about
with the Association. Whether their family member has early onset
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symptoms or if they've been given a diagnosis, we can
help them. We have a care and support line that
people can call twenty four to seven to get information.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
If they have any questions, they can give them a call.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
We also have a caregiver Support group that meets once
a month at the RC Miller Library. So that's really
helpful for people who want to.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Learn more about.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
The disease or the situation that's going on with their
loved one and share with a you know.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A real safe community there. But we're just.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Here and we would love for people to join us
for our walk that's October fourth at the event Center.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
And this walk.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
How long have y' all been doing this, because I
know it's an annual event.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's been years, many many years.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yes, I don't know exactly how many years, but it's
been going on for quite a while. We've been at
the event Center probably the last seven years. And it's
a really great walk.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
We have a one mile and a three.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Mile route so that people have a choice how long
that they want to walk for. And it's a great
opportunity for people to come together and support each other
that are facing this disease. And also it's a great
time for everybody. You can come with your children, you
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can come with your loved ones that are in wheelchairs,
bring your dogs. It's a really fun, family centered event.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I love that the last two years you've had
the man, the Purple Man himself, Grimace from McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I've been there. I mean, he's probably like, this is
my event.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Everything's purple another but we love do I know, I know, Yeah,
I'm so excited about Grimace.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
And you're mick loving it. I'm Mick loving it.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Yes, and thanks to you you helped me out finding
that great purple creature to come over. And if people
don't know, Grimace is a taste bud and.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And so yeah, he's big and purple, just like our
walk and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, what I really like is that when you guys
kind of do the remembrance before the actual walk kicks
off and everybody can pick up one of the spinny
flowers and you have you know, green, blue, yellow, and purple.
Tell me what what does each one signify?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Yes, so if you are holding a purple flower, that
is you're representing a group of people who've lost somebody
to Alzheimer's. And then a yellow flower is if you're
a caregiver, a blue flower if you have Alzheimer's for
another form of dementia. And then the orange flower is
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if you're just supporting the costs. So yes, we have
what we call our Promised Garden ceremony that kicks off
our walk and we have a report somebody holding each
flower on the stage and it's a real special ceremony
that we have that kind of pulls at your heart strings.
A little bit because everybody kind of feels connected, and
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then everybody walks with their pimil flowers along the walk,
so it's a really pretty sight to see.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I love it, and you know, the last two years
it's been really great. The Spindle Top Rotary Club and
the Rotary Club of Beaumont have teamed up together as
a team of rotarians to raise awareness and to put
together a team to walk. And last year it just
so happened that my best friend's father had passed from dementia,
so it meant even more to me to walk since
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I was walking in his honor. So for people that
want to get involved, how can they sign up?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
How can they fundraise? What can we do?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yeah, so it's really easy to register. There's no fee
to register. They can go to our website which is
act dot A, l Z dot O r g slash
Beaumont and just follow the.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Little simple steps.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I think the hardest thing to do is come up
with a name for your team, which is a lot
of fun too.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
People come up with very creative ideas.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
My team is a memory of my mom, So my
team is called Janie's Jubilee, and so it's in her honor.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
And people can get their.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Friends, families, coworkers all to sign up for your team
and start fundraising because we need these funds to help
us help you know, so many different things like research
and trying to find out new treatments that can help
people not only to hopefully find a cure, but also
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to slow the process of the disease.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And I think you did a presentation at the Big
we call them the Big Club, the Big Rotary Club.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Maybe like two years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And there's there's some misconception on Alzheimer's dementia, like is
it Can you just real briefly explain the difference.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Yeah, So if you think about a big umbrella, that
is what dementia is is a large umbrella, and then
one kind of like slice of the umbrella is what
we call like is Alzheimer's. So Alzheimer's is just the
most common form of a dementia. And just like you
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would say, heart disease would be a big umbrella and
you would go into you know, the different types of
heart disease. So there's different forms of dementia, Alzheimer's being
the most common. There you know, there's vascular dementia, there's
Louis body. My mom had a very very rare one
called cortico basal gangliotic degeneration. So that would you know,
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be like a little bit slice of this umbrella. And
so a lot of people kind of get them mixed
up the terminology. But if you just kind of think
of the umbrella and think that Alzheimer's is a form
the most common form of a dementia, well good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Like I said, your presentation really brought to light that,
you know, sometimes people get them mixed up or they
don't understand what the difference is. So what do you
guys have Again, I know you said there's some sessions
that are at the RC Miller Library. What are some
other ways to help people that you know, like you
even said with your celebration caregivers, that's very difficult for
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them too, you know, I mean it's you could lose
somebody that's close to you, but you're also caring for somebody.
So what are some more ways that you guys can
help that are affected.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, So we also have.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Community at educators that are volunteers for the association that
can put on educational programs in our community, whether it
be at a church or business, a cific organization. We
have community educators that have a whole menu of topics
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related to Alzheimer's that they can deliver, and right now
we have our community educator has a kind of a
lunche and learn at the Arcimular Library once a month
and it's the third Thursday, I'm sorry, the third Wednesday
of each month at noon, and then she also does
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she is also the facilitator for the caregiver support group.
So we offer these programs free to the community and
we want to be able to service everybody and let
them know that there's education out there so that they.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Can learn more about this disease. That's fantastic. You guys
do so much.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
We've got about a minute left, So once again, when
is the walk and how can we sign up?
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Yeah, so please come and join us. It's Saturday, October
the fourth at the event center.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's easy to sign up. There's no registration fee.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Go to act dot alz dot o rg slash Beaumont
and register your team and get all your family and
friends involved. And if you raise one hundred dollars you
get a T shirt in the mail the week before
the walk.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Very nice. Well, we're looking forward to that. Big event.
And you know, even if you.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Don't have somebody affected by the disease, you know, there's
a lot of people out there that are either caregivers
or have been affected or have lost somebody and just
you know, supporting them as they walk and supporting the cause. Overall,
there's lots of ways to be involved.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Right, Yeah, please come out and support us and we'd
love to see you out in October.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
All right, sounds good. Shanna, thank you so much for
being a part of the show. Okay, thank you, Debbie.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, we'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. Welcome back
to the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. I am your guest host, Debbie Bridgeman, and
now we're talking some other place. Joining us is Caitlin McCarter.
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How are you doing today?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I'm good, it's great to be here. Good.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So tell us what is your title and what exactly
do you do at some other place?
Speaker 5 (32:33):
So my technical title, I am the special Projects coordinator
here working in a nonprofit. Everybody wears many hats, so
I also kind of help oversee our social media and
outreach in the community. So you'll see me at our
booth events often, and my main role here is definitely
ever sing all of our special programs. So we have
three seasonal projects that go on every year, our back
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to School program once we talked about today, our Thanksgiving
program and our Christmas Giving Tree program. So you see
us a lot in the community with those events because
they're really largely donation based.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Definitely, Well, we are talking back to school and it
is June first today, so I know you've got a
program that the registration actually kicks off tomorrow. So tell
us a little bit about the back to school program.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yes, so this Monday and Tuesday, June second, third, we
conduct interviews from nine to two o'clock, so people come
in and bring their necessary documents.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Our application process is income based, so we use the
food STAP criteria to assess for income. So they'll come
in register, we'll go to the application and see if
they qualify for services, and then we'll reach back out.
We'll send notice that they're availble to come get their
supplies and that distribution is going to happen on the
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sixth of August, a week before BIS goes back to school.
So when they're come in and register. They register their
kids pre K through a grade is what we're able
to tink on during that time. We get all of
their different grade levels, so we can specifically buy the
amount of backpacks that we need and make sure that
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each grade level has the right amount of supplies, so
we don't do a generic general backpack. We make sure
that every single backpack has exactly what that grade level
would need. So a lot of planning on the back
end goes into that.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Nice So what are the certain qualifications?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So if somebody's listening right now, and maybe they know
a family that's in need, what would be What are
you guys looking for for somebody to qualify?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Okay, So, like I said, they need to meet our
income qualifications. We use the same level of income as
the federal government for the food stand guidelines. We always
just ask if they do receive food stands, for them
to bring their reward letter. That just makes it easier
for our application process. But a lot of people meet
that income qualification and don't receive food stamps, so if
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they were to come in, they would need to have
their pay stubs in any form of income in the household.
So if they were a dual income house hoop. They
would also need to bring their partners check stubs as well,
just so we could verify that income. As far as that,
we would just need identification of the household, so every
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member in the household we would need either for certificate sales,
a security card or IV and I think and just
prove of address as the additional document that we need.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right, So the registration is going to be going
on tomorrow and Tuesday. And with the supplies that you get,
I mean, how do you guys, you do like a
supply drive? How do you get the supplies that go
into the backpacks?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
So back to school is actually one of our largest
extents special projects that we have. Luckily with Thanksgiving and Christmas,
we get most of our good donated it and Thanksgiving
back to school and most of it comes out of
our pocket. We do try to conduct a supply drive
of just general back to school supplies. We will put
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that on an our our website and in our newsletter.
Put into the donations we need. We usually just generic
like the poly folders, crayons, pencils, So it's not a
large drive of ours that we do, but we do
put out in the community and saying anybody who is
willing and wants to donate those supplies that we would
(36:24):
definitely accept them. I would love to have them because
it definitely cuts at our expense on our end for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Well, I know you guys do some big drives.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I've been there when you have your Thanksgiving store, and
that is I'm sure that takes a lot of time
to set it up because just you know, putting all
the green beans together, putting all the box mashed potatoes together,
I mean, it takes a lot of effort. You know,
what are what are some of the things that you
guys do in the community, like like going back some
(36:54):
other place?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
I mean, what exactly is some other place?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Okay, so some other place. I think recently you've seen
this a lot in the news for homelessness, just or
around election time, everything gets started up with homelessness. So
we do have a soup kitchen here that feeds five
days a week, and we have a homeless day center
that serves breakfast and gives them access to a phone,
an address, and allow them to do their laundry on site.
(37:19):
But getting away from homelessness, we have several other programs
and I think often they don't get promoted, so most
people don't know that we have them. We do a
running utility assistance program for anybody that has like a
very Bible emergency, say their car broke down. We help
and sure that they're not like in the situation that
they would get evicted like this one hardship from putting
(37:43):
them out. We also have a full time clothing store
and patroon that people can come in and shop. We'll
check them and go back of food and they can
come in and shop from our clothing store every three
months so they can come in and shop, and then
like I mentioned, we have our special Thanksgiving, Christmas and
(38:04):
back to school. In addition to that, we also have
our homeless cake manager who helps transition so it still
help them get their necessary documents and securing apartments and
helping them pay their deposits.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
And I think sometimes you know, you guys are such
a blessing because sometimes people they are in a bad
situation and maybe they just need that one little piece
of help to get them to you know, finding stability.
So like you said with the clothing store, maybe they
need just a nice outfit to wear to a job
interview or maybe it's just that one rent payment. You know,
(38:41):
it's like the job's coming. They just started one, but
you know they haven't gotten their first paycheck yet. So
you guys are such a blessing and offering so much
in our community. Is there anything that people can do
to help you guys? I mean, I know we've kind
of talked about donations, but are you looking for volunteers?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Yes, we are all looking for volunteers. So some other place.
We have, like I said, many different programs, but we
only have about ten staff members here, so almost all
of our work requires volunteers, especially with our special projects
coming out with back to school, we will need help
steffan those backpacks. So when the supplies come in, like
you said, we organize, so it's kind of set up
(39:20):
in an assembly line. We'll take it and we'll put
all the backpacks together. So then we'll just get everybody,
like you go the backpack, this many crying on, this
many markers, and we'll we'll plug and go. And I
had the privilege of this is gonna be my third
year to do this, but getting to see that all
come together is so awesome. So definitely volunteers to help
(39:41):
with that and just a kitchen that runs five days
a week and that is by volunteers, so definitely always
a need to reach out. I am the point of
contact for volunteers here. You can give me a call.
It's four nine eight three to two seven six. Yes,
(40:03):
I think that's kind of the best way to get
a hold of us, or you can reach out my email.
Special projects at some of the plays. Beaumont dot com.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
So fantastic, And of course we'll just remind everybody again
the back to School program Registration is June second and third,
nine am to two pm. And we appreciate you Caitlin
for joining the show today.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Thanks for having me. I love to be in here.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
All right, We'll be right back with the Roy West
Radio Show on AM five sixty klv I. We're back
with the Roy West Radio Show on AM five sixty
klv I. I have been your guest host for today's program.
My name is Debbie Bridgman. Thank you for joining us.
We had a great list of guests. Kicking off the
(40:46):
show with Jenny Angelo with Beaumont ISD talking about the
summer of success, tons of activities, literacy events, stem camps,
all kinds of opportunities, for your student to stay busy
and educated.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Throughout the summer.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You can go to bmtisd dot com backslash Summer to
get a full list of details. We also talked to
doctor Sid Valentine with Lamar Institute of Technology talking about
summer and fall enrollment, all the new programs, all the
great opportunities at LIT. Go to l T dot edu
to enroll or to get more information. We also talked
(41:24):
with Shannon Briggs with the Alzheimer's Association and their big
twenty twenty five Walk to End Alzheimer's in Beaumont. Event
will be October fourth, but you can sign up now.
They already have over one hundred people signed up and
seventy eight teams, so you don't want to miss out.
It's a very heartwarming event. Whether you're a caregiver or
(41:45):
you have personally been affected. Go to act dot alz
dot org, backslash Beaumont to get registered for that. And
we just heard from Caitlin McCarter. She's with some other place.
Their back to school program will be officially kicking off soon.
You can register tomorrow and Tuesday, June second and third,
nine to two.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It is for grades pre K through eighth grade.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
If you know a family or students that need assistance
with school supplies, you can go to some other place
Beaumont dot com to get all the details on that. Also,
our friend Gene over at Jason's Deli wanted us to
remind you that kids eat free on Thursday, so remember
that this summer.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Thank you for being here.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
This is the Roy West Radio Show on AM five
sixty KLVI.
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