December 17, 2024 • 31 mins
Emily Yanish is currently the Development Director for Youthworks, and a LicensedProfessional Clinical Counselor. She received her undergraduate degree from St. OlafCollege in 2003, and her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the Universityof St. Thomas in 2007. Emily has been employed with Youthworks since December2007, and has enjoyed numerous roles at the organization, including Coordinator for theShort Term Care and Assessment Center, Family Counselor, Program Manager, and nowDevelopment Director. Her work entails raising awareness and support for the work thatYouthworks does throughout North Dakota. Emily is married to her husband Lance, and together they have two children.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to These Are Your Neighbors? A podcast hosted by
the City of Bismarck Human Relations Committee and produced by
Dakota Media Access. The purpose of the podcast is to
show the diversity of your neighbors and to encourage inclusivity
among the Bismarck community.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome to These Your Neighbors a podcast hosted by Tia
Jorgensen and Sargiana Woodski, both members of the City of
Bismarck's Human Relations Committee. Thank you for joining us as
we interview our neighbors who are subject matter experts in diversity, inclusion, accessibility,
and equality.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Our guest today is Emily Janish. Emily is currently the
Development director for Youth Works and a licensed professional clinical counselor.
She received her undergraduate degree from Saint Olaf College in
two thousand and three and her master's degree in Counseling
Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. Emily has been
a ploye with You Who Works since the same Umber
two thousand and seven and has enjoyed numerous roles at
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the organization, including coordinator for the Short Term Care and
Assessment Center, Family Counselor, program manager, and now Development Director.
Her work entails raising awareness and support for the work
that Youth Works does throughout North Dakota. Emily is married
to her husband Lance, and together they have two children.
Thanks for joining us, Emily, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So what made you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Want to return back to North Dakota after college?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, you know, my family, my husband's family were all
born and raised in North Dakota, and at the point
at which I moved back, we were engaged to be
married and felt like North Dakota would be a wonderful
place to raise our own family. So we're close to
both my parents and his parents and spend a lot
of time with our families.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So it sounds like them from your bio. You came
to Youth Works right after you move back to North Dakota.
So can you tell for our listeners that may not know,
what is the mission of Youth Works.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, Youth Works miss is to help ensure that all
youth have a safe place to belong and to be heard.
We work with homeless young adults, at risk youth who
may experience significant conflict, abuse, being kicked out or running
away from home, trafficked youth who are facing fairly significant
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struggles and will work with them to help address their
immediate needs, set goals for their future, and creatively come
up with solutions to help them reach those goals.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So then, is Youth Throw a state wide agency?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Then we are. We have expanded fairly significantly in the
last four years. So we have our largest offices are
in Fargo and Bismarck, but we also have an office
in may Not a smaller office in Grand Forks, and
then a satellite staff member who works in western North Dakota.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You might not know the answer to this, but is
there a need Like geographically, is one area more in
need of the services that you provideers it kind of
just even across.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yes, that's a good question. I mean, certainly with larger
population centers we see higher numbers of need, But truly,
the issues of runaway and homeless youth and those concerns
really occur at the same rate in both urban and
rural areas. So the numbers may be smaller in smaller communities,
but homeless youth are in those small communities as well.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So I think one thing that really surprised me I
had a booth next to someone at an event from
Youth Works was the amount of programs that you guys offer.
What are some of the main ones.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, yep. Our most significant statewide programs are programs for
homeless and adults, so transitional housing opportunities, which we have
in Bismarck, may not Fargo, and most recently expanded to Morehead.
Actually we have a separate program now in Morehead. And
then our short term Care and Assessment Centers, which are
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emergency shelters for youth under the age of eighteen, So
those are young people in crisis who may have run away,
may have been involved in minor legal issues that need
to be addressed, may be removed on an emergency basis,
and the foster care system needs to address their safety
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and their needs. And those shelters are located in Bismarck, Fargo,
and min not as well. And then our sort of
third pillar of programming that is statewide is our anti
trafficking and victim service programs that work with youth and
young adults who are suspected to be victims of exploit,
exploitation or human trafficking.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So as far as the emergency shelter that you talked
about for youth in Bismarck, how many people can you
serve at one time.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yep, our shelter has six beds, so we could have
up to six youth at any given time. That gets
a little bit hectic if we're that busy. So most
often we have two or three youth on any given
day staying with us.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And is there a certain amount of time they can
stay or is it depending on their needs?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It It depends on their needs a bit. Our federal
funding for that program does limit a stay to twenty
one days at the maximum. But we really believe strongly
that we want to intervene as quickly as possible and
work with that young person their family mediate those circumstances
or come up with alternative solutions that are going to
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be in that young person's best interest. So in average
length of stay is much shorter, typically three four days.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, business kind sure?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So you talked about the ones the programs that you
offer that are the main programs. So what are some
lesser known ones that people might not know about.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, we have a new program in Bismarck that is
called the Youth and Family Engagement Center and that offers
a few services to the community that we want to
make sure are more broadly known. So really during the day,
youth in need of structure and support, who may be
suspended from school, may have dropped out of school, may
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be new to the community and are trying to integrate
into a school system, have a safe and supervised place
to be and to get some support, mentoring activity in
their day. But also to provide some crisis support to
youth and families, so that young people if they are struggling,
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if their parents are struggling with whatever the situation may
be at home, that we're a resource and they can
call anytime during the day. But also we have a
twenty four to seven crisis line to respond to those
circumstances as well, and that Youth and Family Engagement Center
also has an after school component for adolescents, so connecting
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with our mentors, some scheduled activities and some just downtime,
some time to be in a safe, supportive environment, making
connections and just being together.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So how do people access your programs then? Is there
an application that needs to be filled.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Out or no? Really, we try and have all of
our services be as low barrier as possible, so truly
a family, a young person themselves, a community service organization
can just pick up the phone and give us a call.
We'll make sure to connect them with the staff member
that is probably best suited to meet their needs and
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discuss various options, and if Youth Works is a good fit,
we'll have them come in and get started. We do
typically collect some information, but there's no fees for service,
there's no financial limitations, so we want to be a
resource for anybody who needs it in the community.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So then, can you talk about what the mentors do
with the individuals who access your programs.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, yep. The mentors really work on building that one
on one relationship with a young person, meeting them where
they're at, understanding not only their current struggles and needs,
but their goals for the future, and how we can
identify their strengths and work with those strengths to kind
of get them pointed in the right direction. And then
those mentors provide support from there that can look like
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anything from help with a homework assignment, to help filling
out job applications and picking up some skills around interviewing,
or even just shooting hoops at the why and spending
that quality time together.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think it's interesting that you say kind of you know,
what are their goals for the future. I think there's
this misconception that if individuals are homeless or they've run away,
that maybe they're just kind of living in the now.
So I think really the fact that you guys provide
that what am I trying to say here? You know,
for them to think ahead about their future, I think
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that's very awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah. Absolutely, all of our programs really focus on not
just the here now. I mean, of course we meet
immediate needs first. Young people come to us with a
variety of urgent needs, but all of our programs are
are future focused and strength based. We don't want to
just intervene in a crisis. We want to help set
you up towards whatever it is you want your life
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to be moving toward.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's awesome. So, then, is there a criteria that individuals
need to meet for your programs?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, there's not specific criteria necessarily. Our homeless programs
certainly you need to demonstrate homelessness or risk of imminent homelessness.
Our shelter programs typically parent child conflict or being away
from home without permission is often involved, but not necessarily
a strict requirement. Really, we want, like I said, we
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want to be a resource for the community, for those
who need us to give us a call and we
can we can identify if if we are the right place,
and if we're not, we can point you in the
right direction.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Can you talk But I know you talked a little
bit about this, but what groups are the ones that
access your programs?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, we do receive a number of referrals from schools,
from public schools, so they are sort of boots on
the ground in terms of knowing those youth who are struggling,
having some difficult experiences and needing some support. We work
very closely with the homeless liaisons for Bismarck and Mandon
public schools and statewide. You know, in other communities as well,
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social services referrals are really quite common, and occasionally juvenile
court referrals as well if there are youth who are
sort of at the lower end of needs in that system.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So with the public schools, if they're reaching out to
you guys, are the parents notified then as well? Or yep.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Typically, any of our programs provided to young people under
the age of eighteen is with parental consent, So we
want to be working as much as possible with families,
We have family counselors. We want to make sure that
young people are reconnecting or learning some new skills around
anger management or conflict resolution with their families as much
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as possible. We want young people to be safely at home,
and when that's not possible, then we'll be looking to
alternative options and resources for that young person.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So you kind of talked about that the housing program
a little bit, but is there anything else that you
would really like to emphasize for our listeners about that program. Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You know, I think there are sometimes misconceptions about young
people in general, but particularly around homelessness, that young people
may be lazy or unmotivated. And truly, almost all of
our young people are involved in school full time or
employed at least on a part time basis, if not
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full time. Our young people are often working really hard
to ablish themselves and get set in a positive direction.
So I always want to make sure that people know that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So one thing that was very exciting that happened recently
with Youth Works is your million dollar donation that you received.
So can you talk to us about what the process
was and getting that million dollar donation from Yield Giving
and how it made an impact on youth works.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, absolutely, that was That was an incredible event for
youth Works. We received the Yield Giving donation I believe
in March or April, and it was a bit of
a process. This was one of the first application based
projects that Mackenzie Scott had done, and so there was
an initial screening and application process, and then all of
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the entities that applied it went through a peer review process,
which was somewhat interesting. So every organization that submitted an
application reviewed five other applications and scored them and made comments,
and then Yielding went through the scoring rubric and those
that I think we're in the top twenty five percent
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then went onto a final round where their own team
did some due diligence and reached out to organizations and
better understood their finances and the work they're doing on
the ground and the impact they could have. And then
she knows we were among one of the selected to
receive that funding.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And if I remember right from reading, it's just you
and one organization in North Dakota that was chosen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I believe there was.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
So Gender Justice has an office in North Dakota but
is based out of Saint Paul, and then there was
an entity out of the Standing Rock Reservation also is ordered.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So that's exciting. And to get that much money donated
at one time, I can't even imagine what are you
guys using it for.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, at this point, we've really invested in some of
our prevention programming. We have a really exciting program in
Fargo called Beyond the Game that is really really involved
in connecting with young people almost daily but using athletics
as a means of uh engaging and keeping keeping their
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interest and keeping their connection. And that program has got
amazing outcomes, but not enough funding. And so one of
the first investments was to that program. And we are
also looking to invest in youth leadership sort of, so
we are going to hire some staff that are going
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to be responsible for creating a youth board and targeting
how youth can be more engaged both in youth works
programs development, but also the communities and youth contributing meaningfully
to their communities.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Do you know how long the whole process took from
when you guys applied to when you were.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It took it took maybe six or seven months, So yeah,
it was it was something that they took their time
on and wanted to make sure that they were understanding
the work that all of the organizations did. It was
a very broad scope, so there was everything from youth
services to environmental organizations to justice organizations, so it was
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really broad.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So obviously you're hopeful when you apply for something like that.
But did it come as like a complete shock to
you when you guys were selected.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah? Yeah, Well, and it was announced to us just
a few days before it was publicly announced, so there
was not a lot of lead time for us to
sort of get our heads on straight. But I initially
thought it was spam sort of, you know, when you
see kind of emails saying you got a million dollars,
it's like sure, But as we looked more closely, sure enough,
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we were selected.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's awesome. So one of the programs that you mentioned
involves working with trafficked individuals. I think there's a lot
of misconceptions and unawareness in the community about that. So
what type of trafficking are you seeing in I guess
how often are you working with those individuals? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Absolutely so the most common type of trafficking that we
are identifying is sex trafficking and really what that is
for anybody under eighteen that is providing anything in payment
for sex or being any part of facilitating that, whether
it's providing transportation or space or connecting dates, you know,
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that is trafficking. And then when it's young adults, the
legal definition then involves force, fraud or coercion as part
of the payment for sex. So we do we do
see that again across the state, higher numbers in larger communities,
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but we have intervened with young people in teeny tiny
towns as well, and every year across all of all
of our programs in North Dakota, we serve very close
to one hundred youth and young adults in a given year.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So with trafficking, and I know it's hard to answer
database questions without having it in front of you, but
you've been around the organization for quite a while, have
you noticed, like with the increase of social media, have
you noticed an increase in individuals being trafficked?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like, is there a there's definitely a high risk. It's
very easy to manipulate somebody using social media to create
profiles that make you look like a different person entirely,
to make up your age and race and gender and
connect with a young person who you know, maybe seeking connection,
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maybe seeking somebody to trust, is feeling like they don't
have that in their real life, so to speak, and
social media can be a very easy place to target
those those young people.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is it generally someone that's close to them that's trafficking
them or someone that they don't know very well?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah, it certainly can be either. We've certainly seen situations
that are familial trafficking situations. You know, oftentimes, honestly, homelessness
is one of the most significant risk factors for trafficking.
So a lot of times in those cases of familial trafficking,
it's to pay rent, it's to have a roof over
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their family's head. There are some very sad situations we've
worked with, but we've certainly also worked with young people
who meet somebody and believe they're in a relationship and
they have, you know, a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and
that relationship then is manipulated and a young person can
be coerced into into trafficking scenarios.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Do you do anything with labor trafficking.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We do. Labor trafficking has proven to be a little
bit more difficult to identify and off times, victims of
labor trafficking may not realize that they're victims of trafficking,
and so they may be less likely to seek help
to identify the exploitation that they've experienced. So we've certainly
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worked with some victims of labor trafficking, but those numbers
are quite quite a bit smaller than the sex trafficking numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Do you partner with other organizations across the state that
involve trafficking.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Or yeah, yep. We've worked really closely with the thirty
one eight project, whether that's training opportunities, conferences, shared clientele
as somebody ages out of our services, making sure there's
a warm handoff to another entity to continue, you know,
providing services and support. So yeah, certainly.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Do you know how many individuals you serve in a
typical year?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah? Yeah. In the Bismarck man In community, I looked
up our numbers for twenty twenty three, we served three
hundred sixty eight youth and their families. That number has
already for twenty twenty four grown past that with our
Youth Engagement Center program coming on board, but statewide it's
a little over eleven hundred from last year, So are.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The numbers trending up? Then as far as people that
you support.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yep, they are trending up, and especially as we are
able to add programming in new locations, you know, whether
that's my not fairly recently more head, the more we
are able to provide, the more young people we can serve.
So we have seen those numbers increase.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
To a lot of the people you serve maybe access
one program to begin with, like maybe the homeless program,
but then once they go back to family or to
someone else, they might utilize a different program instead.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yeah, yep. We certainly have had young people who maybe
are placed by law enforcement into our emergency shelter, but
upon learning of their circumstances and their concerns, it seems
like trafficking maybe an so we'll connect with our anti
trafficking staff to further assess and work on building a
plan with that young person. It's not again, like I said,
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homelessness is a huge component for trafficking, so it's not unusual.
Then in our transitional housing program, we're having that same
experience of connecting across programs. We certainly have in our
prevention programs. We want to make sure young people know
of our crisis line of the resources available, so if
they experience a crisis at home, they can reach out.
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If they need to come into our shelter, they can.
If we just need to walk them through some problem solving,
you know, scenarios, we can do that. So yeah, it's
not unusual for young people to be in different programs
at different times.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So if needed, someone can call the crisis line twenty
first seven.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yep, yep. We have a staff available twenty four to
seven ready to answer the phone and you know, provide
resources and guidance. And again, if we are the solution
and emergency shelter is warranted, then we would help meet
that need for somebody under the age of twenty four.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So I've heard you say this word a couple of times,
transitional housing, and we have learned that that can be
confusing to people. Do you just have a brief definition
of what that means?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So transitional housing is we have various housing options. So
we have a shared six bedroom home, we have apartment
units both single and shared, like two bedroom apartment units.
But it's housing available for that transitional period. We are
working towards young people being independent so they can stay
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with us for up to eighteen months while working towards
whether that's completing an education, saving money for that next step,
if it's first month's rent and deposit, you know, any
of those kind of goals. The housing is not intended
to be permanent. That we are a stepping stone kind
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of into their future.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
To basically transition on to their adulthood. Yes, exact somewhat
to the next step.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So what are some of the most common misconceptions that
you're aware of of the population that you serve.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, I think, I think. You know, teens and young
young adults in general sometimes get a negative reputation. You know,
they'll have kids these days, that sort of thing, And
if you look back, there's always been that sort of
kids these days attitude from between generations. So what we
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see with young people, young people are really caring and
committed to their families, to their communities. They want to
have an impact and sometimes need a little guidance and
sometimes need the grown ups to just get out of
the way because they'll they'll make their impact and do
some good things all on their own. But just that
that young people have goals, they have dreams, they want
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to be seen positively. They respond well when you do
see them from a positive light and identify what their
strengths are and that they can be a real asset
to our communities as a whole.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And one of the things that you guys do yearly
is that We've Got You Covered Clothing event. Can you
tell our listeners about that and then talk about how
it's grown.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Over the years. Yeah, We've got You Covered. That's a
perfect segue because We've Got You Covered event was initially
developed by some of our Young America volunteers more than
a decade ago. At this point, they needed to do
a community project and they identified back to school clothing
as a potential need that was going unaddressed in our community,
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and so they developed a partnership with Plato's Closet that
has lasted all of these years. It's an amazing partnership.
But we work both with Plato's Closet and with community
members to collect gently used clothing that's appropriate for teens
and young adults and then make that available in a
one day sort of shopping so to speak, event at
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Bismarck High And to give you an idea of the
scope it fills the entire gymnasium with tables and racks
and shoe racks and coats and sweatshirts, and just an
astonishing amount of clothing that is collected and displayed. We
partner with the United Way's Day of Caring each year
to have the volunteer manpower to be able to sort
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and display all of that clothing, and then young people
can come pick out clothing that is going to suit
their needs, fit well, you know, reflect who they are,
and all of that at no cost to them, so
back to school clothing doesn't have to be a concern.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
When do you start taking donations for that?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
We typically start taking donations in the spring March or April.
We don't have year round storage for clothing, so we
try and really aim from about April through August that
we're collecting and storing those clothing.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And anybody can act, any youth can access that event.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yep, exactly, Yep. It's at Bismarck High I don't know
the date for this coming August, but watch, you know,
watch for it on socials. Families oftentimes line up early
to be able to zip in and get first DIBs
on what may be there. But there is like I said,
an enormous amount of clothing thanks to the generosity of
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those donors and young people. Anybody you know is free
to come in and pick out what they may need.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Do if there's extra clothing leftover, what do you do
with that?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah, you know, there's there's not much leftover clothing typically
here to year, and we have the same event in
our Fargo location and we always schedule it one week afterwards,
so we bring anything from Bismarck to Fargo. I don't
think Fargo ever has clothing leftover. So all of those
items do do land in a good in a good place.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
So then what kind of made me think about the
wide range of individuals that you serve. Can you talk
about the diversity, whether it's age range there, you know, race, LGTBQ, population,
all of that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah, absolutely, youth works across our programming. We do absolutely
see an over representation of minority youth. So here in
the Bismarck area that's more frequently Native American youth. In
the Fargo area that's a little bit more diverse with
African American youth, Native American youth, New American young people.
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But we absolutely see that over representation of minority youth.
And then in any given year, very close to thirty
percent of the youth we serve do identify as LGBTQ.
Oftentimes those are young people who may have conflicts at home,
there might be value differences, they may leave home when
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they're fairly young and not able to establish themselves very well.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You see that as well.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
So why do you think some populations that you talked
about are more vulnerable than others to needing your services?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, I think it really has to do with just
being part of a marginalized group, whether that's you know,
historical trauma, whether that's personal trauma, abuse, neglect, any of
those kinds of circumstances. And then just especially with the
LGBTQ youth we serve, We're in a very conservative state,
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and I know it can be extremely challenging to find
your community here in North Dakota, and so we absolutely
want to be that safe place for you young people
who are in need. And so I do think there's
also sort of a word of mouth like this was
a place I could go and get help, you should
go there too. So I think a lot of times
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in those tight knit communities we see that as well.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So you've kind of talked about this a little bit,
but why is it important for you to have a
say in the community.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, you know, we see that youth have just really
remarkable strengths and ideas and creativity, and they really have
a lot to offer, and so we really want to
highlight that youth voice and their potential for positive impact
on the community. Again, that sort of generational gap, just
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making sure that people know that young people absolutely have
something to contribute, and we want to make sure that
their ideas are front and center and that we're putting
youth voice in the forefront of the work we're doing. Certainly,
all right, we're already to our last question.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So our last question that we ask everyone is how
would you encourage your neighbor to create an atmosphere of inclusion, quality, diversity,
and accessibility.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah, I think I would encourage opportunity for connection, whether
that's attending an event by an organization you might be
less familiar with, whether that's a cultural activity, visiting with
somebody you might have any differences, whether that's political or
religious or racial or any of those differences, and really
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just trying to better understand their circumstances and you know,
making that personal connection. I think the more you know
people who have had different experiences than you've had, the
more you might understand or empathize with those circumstances.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, well, thank you so much for being here, and
thank you to everyone for tuning in to These are
your Neighbors with our guests Emily Yanish, thank you for
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Speaker 1 (31:03):
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Welcome to These Are Your Neighbors? A podcast hosted by
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Dakota Media Access. The purpose of the podcast is to
show the diversity of your neighbors and to encourage inclusivity
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome to These Your Neighbors a podcast hosted by Tia
Jorgensen and Sargiana Woodski, both members of the City of
Bismarck's Human Relations Committee. Thank you for joining us as
we interview our neighbors who are subject matter experts in diversity, inclusion, accessibility,
and equality.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Our guest today is Emily Janish. Emily is currently the
Development director for Youth Works and a licensed professional clinical counselor.
She received her undergraduate degree from Saint Olaf College in
two thousand and three and her master's degree in Counseling
Psychology from the University of Saint Thomas. Emily has been
a ploye with You Who Works since the same Umber
two thousand and seven and has enjoyed numerous roles at
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the organization, including coordinator for the Short Term Care and
Assessment Center, Family Counselor, program manager, and now Development Director.
Her work entails raising awareness and support for the work
that Youth Works does throughout North Dakota. Emily is married
to her husband Lance, and together they have two children.
Thanks for joining us, Emily, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So what made you.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Want to return back to North Dakota after college?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Yeah, you know, my family, my husband's family were all
born and raised in North Dakota, and at the point
at which I moved back, we were engaged to be
married and felt like North Dakota would be a wonderful
place to raise our own family. So we're close to
both my parents and his parents and spend a lot
of time with our families.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So it sounds like them from your bio. You came
to Youth Works right after you move back to North Dakota.
So can you tell for our listeners that may not know,
what is the mission of Youth Works.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, Youth Works miss is to help ensure that all
youth have a safe place to belong and to be heard.
We work with homeless young adults, at risk youth who
may experience significant conflict, abuse, being kicked out or running
away from home, trafficked youth who are facing fairly significant
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struggles and will work with them to help address their
immediate needs, set goals for their future, and creatively come
up with solutions to help them reach those goals.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So then, is Youth Throw a state wide agency?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Then we are. We have expanded fairly significantly in the
last four years. So we have our largest offices are
in Fargo and Bismarck, but we also have an office
in may Not a smaller office in Grand Forks, and
then a satellite staff member who works in western North Dakota.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You might not know the answer to this, but is
there a need Like geographically, is one area more in
need of the services that you provideers it kind of
just even across.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yes, that's a good question. I mean, certainly with larger
population centers we see higher numbers of need, But truly,
the issues of runaway and homeless youth and those concerns
really occur at the same rate in both urban and
rural areas. So the numbers may be smaller in smaller communities,
but homeless youth are in those small communities as well.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So I think one thing that really surprised me I
had a booth next to someone at an event from
Youth Works was the amount of programs that you guys offer.
What are some of the main ones.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, yep. Our most significant statewide programs are programs for
homeless and adults, so transitional housing opportunities, which we have
in Bismarck, may not Fargo, and most recently expanded to Morehead.
Actually we have a separate program now in Morehead. And
then our short term Care and Assessment Centers, which are
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emergency shelters for youth under the age of eighteen, So
those are young people in crisis who may have run away,
may have been involved in minor legal issues that need
to be addressed, may be removed on an emergency basis,
and the foster care system needs to address their safety
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and their needs. And those shelters are located in Bismarck, Fargo,
and min not as well. And then our sort of
third pillar of programming that is statewide is our anti
trafficking and victim service programs that work with youth and
young adults who are suspected to be victims of exploit,
exploitation or human trafficking.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So as far as the emergency shelter that you talked
about for youth in Bismarck, how many people can you
serve at one time.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Yep, our shelter has six beds, so we could have
up to six youth at any given time. That gets
a little bit hectic if we're that busy. So most
often we have two or three youth on any given
day staying with us.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And is there a certain amount of time they can
stay or is it depending on their needs?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It It depends on their needs a bit. Our federal
funding for that program does limit a stay to twenty
one days at the maximum. But we really believe strongly
that we want to intervene as quickly as possible and
work with that young person their family mediate those circumstances
or come up with alternative solutions that are going to
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be in that young person's best interest. So in average
length of stay is much shorter, typically three four days.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Okay, business kind sure?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
So you talked about the ones the programs that you
offer that are the main programs. So what are some
lesser known ones that people might not know about.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, we have a new program in Bismarck that is
called the Youth and Family Engagement Center and that offers
a few services to the community that we want to
make sure are more broadly known. So really during the day,
youth in need of structure and support, who may be
suspended from school, may have dropped out of school, may
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be new to the community and are trying to integrate
into a school system, have a safe and supervised place
to be and to get some support, mentoring activity in
their day. But also to provide some crisis support to
youth and families, so that young people if they are struggling,
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if their parents are struggling with whatever the situation may
be at home, that we're a resource and they can
call anytime during the day. But also we have a
twenty four to seven crisis line to respond to those
circumstances as well, and that Youth and Family Engagement Center
also has an after school component for adolescents, so connecting
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with our mentors, some scheduled activities and some just downtime,
some time to be in a safe, supportive environment, making
connections and just being together.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
So how do people access your programs then? Is there
an application that needs to be filled.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Out or no? Really, we try and have all of
our services be as low barrier as possible, so truly
a family, a young person themselves, a community service organization
can just pick up the phone and give us a call.
We'll make sure to connect them with the staff member
that is probably best suited to meet their needs and
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discuss various options, and if Youth Works is a good fit,
we'll have them come in and get started. We do
typically collect some information, but there's no fees for service,
there's no financial limitations, so we want to be a
resource for anybody who needs it in the community.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So then, can you talk about what the mentors do
with the individuals who access your programs.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, yep. The mentors really work on building that one
on one relationship with a young person, meeting them where
they're at, understanding not only their current struggles and needs,
but their goals for the future, and how we can
identify their strengths and work with those strengths to kind
of get them pointed in the right direction. And then
those mentors provide support from there that can look like
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anything from help with a homework assignment, to help filling
out job applications and picking up some skills around interviewing,
or even just shooting hoops at the why and spending
that quality time together.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I think it's interesting that you say kind of you know,
what are their goals for the future. I think there's
this misconception that if individuals are homeless or they've run away,
that maybe they're just kind of living in the now.
So I think really the fact that you guys provide
that what am I trying to say here? You know,
for them to think ahead about their future, I think
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that's very awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah. Absolutely, all of our programs really focus on not
just the here now. I mean, of course we meet
immediate needs first. Young people come to us with a
variety of urgent needs, but all of our programs are
are future focused and strength based. We don't want to
just intervene in a crisis. We want to help set
you up towards whatever it is you want your life
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to be moving toward.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
It's awesome. So, then, is there a criteria that individuals
need to meet for your programs?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know, there's not specific criteria necessarily. Our homeless programs
certainly you need to demonstrate homelessness or risk of imminent homelessness.
Our shelter programs typically parent child conflict or being away
from home without permission is often involved, but not necessarily
a strict requirement. Really, we want, like I said, we
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want to be a resource for the community, for those
who need us to give us a call and we
can we can identify if if we are the right place,
and if we're not, we can point you in the
right direction.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Can you talk But I know you talked a little
bit about this, but what groups are the ones that
access your programs?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, we do receive a number of referrals from schools,
from public schools, so they are sort of boots on
the ground in terms of knowing those youth who are struggling,
having some difficult experiences and needing some support. We work
very closely with the homeless liaisons for Bismarck and Mandon
public schools and statewide. You know, in other communities as well,
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social services referrals are really quite common, and occasionally juvenile
court referrals as well if there are youth who are
sort of at the lower end of needs in that system.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So with the public schools, if they're reaching out to
you guys, are the parents notified then as well? Or yep.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Typically, any of our programs provided to young people under
the age of eighteen is with parental consent, So we
want to be working as much as possible with families,
We have family counselors. We want to make sure that
young people are reconnecting or learning some new skills around
anger management or conflict resolution with their families as much
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as possible. We want young people to be safely at home,
and when that's not possible, then we'll be looking to
alternative options and resources for that young person.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So you kind of talked about that the housing program
a little bit, but is there anything else that you
would really like to emphasize for our listeners about that program. Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You know, I think there are sometimes misconceptions about young
people in general, but particularly around homelessness, that young people
may be lazy or unmotivated. And truly, almost all of
our young people are involved in school full time or
employed at least on a part time basis, if not
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full time. Our young people are often working really hard
to ablish themselves and get set in a positive direction.
So I always want to make sure that people know that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
So one thing that was very exciting that happened recently
with Youth Works is your million dollar donation that you received.
So can you talk to us about what the process
was and getting that million dollar donation from Yield Giving
and how it made an impact on youth works.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, absolutely, that was That was an incredible event for
youth Works. We received the Yield Giving donation I believe
in March or April, and it was a bit of
a process. This was one of the first application based
projects that Mackenzie Scott had done, and so there was
an initial screening and application process, and then all of
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the entities that applied it went through a peer review process,
which was somewhat interesting. So every organization that submitted an
application reviewed five other applications and scored them and made comments,
and then Yielding went through the scoring rubric and those
that I think we're in the top twenty five percent
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then went onto a final round where their own team
did some due diligence and reached out to organizations and
better understood their finances and the work they're doing on
the ground and the impact they could have. And then
she knows we were among one of the selected to
receive that funding.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And if I remember right from reading, it's just you
and one organization in North Dakota that was chosen.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I believe there was.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
So Gender Justice has an office in North Dakota but
is based out of Saint Paul, and then there was
an entity out of the Standing Rock Reservation also is ordered.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So that's exciting. And to get that much money donated
at one time, I can't even imagine what are you
guys using it for.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, at this point, we've really invested in some of
our prevention programming. We have a really exciting program in
Fargo called Beyond the Game that is really really involved
in connecting with young people almost daily but using athletics
as a means of uh engaging and keeping keeping their
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interest and keeping their connection. And that program has got
amazing outcomes, but not enough funding. And so one of
the first investments was to that program. And we are
also looking to invest in youth leadership sort of, so
we are going to hire some staff that are going
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to be responsible for creating a youth board and targeting
how youth can be more engaged both in youth works
programs development, but also the communities and youth contributing meaningfully
to their communities.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Do you know how long the whole process took from
when you guys applied to when you were.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It took it took maybe six or seven months, So yeah,
it was it was something that they took their time
on and wanted to make sure that they were understanding
the work that all of the organizations did. It was
a very broad scope, so there was everything from youth
services to environmental organizations to justice organizations, so it was
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really broad.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So obviously you're hopeful when you apply for something like that.
But did it come as like a complete shock to
you when you guys were selected.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah? Yeah, Well, and it was announced to us just
a few days before it was publicly announced, so there
was not a lot of lead time for us to
sort of get our heads on straight. But I initially
thought it was spam sort of, you know, when you
see kind of emails saying you got a million dollars,
it's like sure, But as we looked more closely, sure enough,
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we were selected.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
That's awesome. So one of the programs that you mentioned
involves working with trafficked individuals. I think there's a lot
of misconceptions and unawareness in the community about that. So
what type of trafficking are you seeing in I guess
how often are you working with those individuals? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Absolutely so the most common type of trafficking that we
are identifying is sex trafficking and really what that is
for anybody under eighteen that is providing anything in payment
for sex or being any part of facilitating that, whether
it's providing transportation or space or connecting dates, you know,
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that is trafficking. And then when it's young adults, the
legal definition then involves force, fraud or coercion as part
of the payment for sex. So we do we do
see that again across the state, higher numbers in larger communities,
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but we have intervened with young people in teeny tiny
towns as well, and every year across all of all
of our programs in North Dakota, we serve very close
to one hundred youth and young adults in a given year.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So with trafficking, and I know it's hard to answer
database questions without having it in front of you, but
you've been around the organization for quite a while, have
you noticed, like with the increase of social media, have
you noticed an increase in individuals being trafficked?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Like, is there a there's definitely a high risk. It's
very easy to manipulate somebody using social media to create
profiles that make you look like a different person entirely,
to make up your age and race and gender and
connect with a young person who you know, maybe seeking connection,
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maybe seeking somebody to trust, is feeling like they don't
have that in their real life, so to speak, and
social media can be a very easy place to target
those those young people.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Is it generally someone that's close to them that's trafficking
them or someone that they don't know very well?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah, it certainly can be either. We've certainly seen situations
that are familial trafficking situations. You know, oftentimes, honestly, homelessness
is one of the most significant risk factors for trafficking.
So a lot of times in those cases of familial trafficking,
it's to pay rent, it's to have a roof over
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their family's head. There are some very sad situations we've
worked with, but we've certainly also worked with young people
who meet somebody and believe they're in a relationship and
they have, you know, a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and
that relationship then is manipulated and a young person can
be coerced into into trafficking scenarios.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Do you do anything with labor trafficking.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
We do. Labor trafficking has proven to be a little
bit more difficult to identify and off times, victims of
labor trafficking may not realize that they're victims of trafficking,
and so they may be less likely to seek help
to identify the exploitation that they've experienced. So we've certainly
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worked with some victims of labor trafficking, but those numbers
are quite quite a bit smaller than the sex trafficking numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Do you partner with other organizations across the state that
involve trafficking.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Or yeah, yep. We've worked really closely with the thirty
one eight project, whether that's training opportunities, conferences, shared clientele
as somebody ages out of our services, making sure there's
a warm handoff to another entity to continue, you know,
providing services and support. So yeah, certainly.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Do you know how many individuals you serve in a
typical year?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah? Yeah. In the Bismarck man In community, I looked
up our numbers for twenty twenty three, we served three
hundred sixty eight youth and their families. That number has
already for twenty twenty four grown past that with our
Youth Engagement Center program coming on board, but statewide it's
a little over eleven hundred from last year, So are.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The numbers trending up? Then as far as people that
you support.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yep, they are trending up, and especially as we are
able to add programming in new locations, you know, whether
that's my not fairly recently more head, the more we
are able to provide, the more young people we can serve.
So we have seen those numbers increase.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
To a lot of the people you serve maybe access
one program to begin with, like maybe the homeless program,
but then once they go back to family or to
someone else, they might utilize a different program instead.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yeah, yep. We certainly have had young people who maybe
are placed by law enforcement into our emergency shelter, but
upon learning of their circumstances and their concerns, it seems
like trafficking maybe an so we'll connect with our anti
trafficking staff to further assess and work on building a
plan with that young person. It's not again, like I said,
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homelessness is a huge component for trafficking, so it's not unusual.
Then in our transitional housing program, we're having that same
experience of connecting across programs. We certainly have in our
prevention programs. We want to make sure young people know
of our crisis line of the resources available, so if
they experience a crisis at home, they can reach out.
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If they need to come into our shelter, they can.
If we just need to walk them through some problem solving,
you know, scenarios, we can do that. So yeah, it's
not unusual for young people to be in different programs
at different times.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So if needed, someone can call the crisis line twenty
first seven.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yep, yep. We have a staff available twenty four to
seven ready to answer the phone and you know, provide
resources and guidance. And again, if we are the solution
and emergency shelter is warranted, then we would help meet
that need for somebody under the age of twenty four.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
So I've heard you say this word a couple of times,
transitional housing, and we have learned that that can be
confusing to people. Do you just have a brief definition
of what that means?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
So transitional housing is we have various housing options. So
we have a shared six bedroom home, we have apartment
units both single and shared, like two bedroom apartment units.
But it's housing available for that transitional period. We are
working towards young people being independent so they can stay
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with us for up to eighteen months while working towards
whether that's completing an education, saving money for that next step,
if it's first month's rent and deposit, you know, any
of those kind of goals. The housing is not intended
to be permanent. That we are a stepping stone kind
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of into their future.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
To basically transition on to their adulthood. Yes, exact somewhat
to the next step.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
So what are some of the most common misconceptions that
you're aware of of the population that you serve.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, I think, I think. You know, teens and young
young adults in general sometimes get a negative reputation. You know,
they'll have kids these days, that sort of thing, And
if you look back, there's always been that sort of
kids these days attitude from between generations. So what we
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see with young people, young people are really caring and
committed to their families, to their communities. They want to
have an impact and sometimes need a little guidance and
sometimes need the grown ups to just get out of
the way because they'll they'll make their impact and do
some good things all on their own. But just that
that young people have goals, they have dreams, they want
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to be seen positively. They respond well when you do
see them from a positive light and identify what their
strengths are and that they can be a real asset
to our communities as a whole.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
And one of the things that you guys do yearly
is that We've Got You Covered Clothing event. Can you
tell our listeners about that and then talk about how
it's grown.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Over the years. Yeah, We've got You Covered. That's a
perfect segue because We've Got You Covered event was initially
developed by some of our Young America volunteers more than
a decade ago. At this point, they needed to do
a community project and they identified back to school clothing
as a potential need that was going unaddressed in our community,
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and so they developed a partnership with Plato's Closet that
has lasted all of these years. It's an amazing partnership.
But we work both with Plato's Closet and with community
members to collect gently used clothing that's appropriate for teens
and young adults and then make that available in a
one day sort of shopping so to speak, event at
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Bismarck High And to give you an idea of the
scope it fills the entire gymnasium with tables and racks
and shoe racks and coats and sweatshirts, and just an
astonishing amount of clothing that is collected and displayed. We
partner with the United Way's Day of Caring each year
to have the volunteer manpower to be able to sort
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and display all of that clothing, and then young people
can come pick out clothing that is going to suit
their needs, fit well, you know, reflect who they are,
and all of that at no cost to them, so
back to school clothing doesn't have to be a concern.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
When do you start taking donations for that?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
We typically start taking donations in the spring March or April.
We don't have year round storage for clothing, so we
try and really aim from about April through August that
we're collecting and storing those clothing.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And anybody can act, any youth can access that event.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yep, exactly, Yep. It's at Bismarck High I don't know
the date for this coming August, but watch, you know,
watch for it on socials. Families oftentimes line up early
to be able to zip in and get first DIBs
on what may be there. But there is like I said,
an enormous amount of clothing thanks to the generosity of
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those donors and young people. Anybody you know is free
to come in and pick out what they may need.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Do if there's extra clothing leftover, what do you do
with that?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah, you know, there's there's not much leftover clothing typically
here to year, and we have the same event in
our Fargo location and we always schedule it one week afterwards,
so we bring anything from Bismarck to Fargo. I don't
think Fargo ever has clothing leftover. So all of those
items do do land in a good in a good place.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
So then what kind of made me think about the
wide range of individuals that you serve. Can you talk
about the diversity, whether it's age range there, you know, race, LGTBQ, population,
all of that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah, absolutely, youth works across our programming. We do absolutely
see an over representation of minority youth. So here in
the Bismarck area that's more frequently Native American youth. In
the Fargo area that's a little bit more diverse with
African American youth, Native American youth, New American young people.
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But we absolutely see that over representation of minority youth.
And then in any given year, very close to thirty
percent of the youth we serve do identify as LGBTQ.
Oftentimes those are young people who may have conflicts at home,
there might be value differences, they may leave home when
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they're fairly young and not able to establish themselves very well.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
So yeah, we do.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You see that as well.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
So why do you think some populations that you talked
about are more vulnerable than others to needing your services?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, I think it really has to do with just
being part of a marginalized group, whether that's you know,
historical trauma, whether that's personal trauma, abuse, neglect, any of
those kinds of circumstances. And then just especially with the
LGBTQ youth we serve, We're in a very conservative state,
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and I know it can be extremely challenging to find
your community here in North Dakota, and so we absolutely
want to be that safe place for you young people
who are in need. And so I do think there's
also sort of a word of mouth like this was
a place I could go and get help, you should
go there too. So I think a lot of times
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in those tight knit communities we see that as well.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So you've kind of talked about this a little bit,
but why is it important for you to have a
say in the community.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Yeah, you know, we see that youth have just really
remarkable strengths and ideas and creativity, and they really have
a lot to offer, and so we really want to
highlight that youth voice and their potential for positive impact
on the community. Again, that sort of generational gap, just
(29:31):
making sure that people know that young people absolutely have
something to contribute, and we want to make sure that
their ideas are front and center and that we're putting
youth voice in the forefront of the work we're doing. Certainly,
all right, we're already to our last question.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So our last question that we ask everyone is how
would you encourage your neighbor to create an atmosphere of inclusion, quality, diversity,
and accessibility.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah, I think I would encourage opportunity for connection, whether
that's attending an event by an organization you might be
less familiar with, whether that's a cultural activity, visiting with
somebody you might have any differences, whether that's political or
religious or racial or any of those differences, and really
(30:19):
just trying to better understand their circumstances and you know,
making that personal connection. I think the more you know
people who have had different experiences than you've had, the
more you might understand or empathize with those circumstances.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, well, thank you so much for being here, and
thank you to everyone for tuning in to These are
your Neighbors with our guests Emily Yanish, thank you for
wanting to get to know your neighbors as we hold
these important and necessary conversations. If you found this conversation
as important as we do, please make sure you share
it with your neighbors. Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Tuning in to these or Your Neighbors a podcast hosted
by the City of Bismarck Human Relations Committee and produced
by Dakota Media Access. The purpose of the Bismarck Human
Relations Committee is to create an atmosphere of inclusion, equality
and accessibility through education and outreach to recognize the value
(31:23):
of a diverse community. For more information about the Human
Relations Committee, visit bismarckand dot gov.
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