Donna Foundation, MARCH OF DIMES (Alpha Phi Alpha, Bridge Walk), and Desiree Jones on Mental Wellness

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Episode Transcript

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Thank you for joining Community Viewpoints Today. It's Shawnee Today in Community Viewpoints.
We have three guests, Donna Deagantalking about the Donna Foundation, we have
Desiree Jones talking about mental wellness,and we're going to wrap it up with
the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha FraternityIncorporated. We're talking about moms and babies

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and how we are walking bridges andexercising to take care of our community.
So, without further Ado, welcometo Community Viewpoints. Is Shawnee feeling blessed
and highly favored On this Sunday morning, Mother's Day. I have the privilege
of talking to a trailblazer, aphenomenal woman. She won't stop caring for
her community, and she's here totalk to us about her twentieth year celebration

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the Donna Foundation. So it's myprivilege to introduce to you, and I
know you know her, Donna Deagan. Good morning, Donna, how are
you? Good morning, my friend. I am doing fantastic. I also
amma and blessed and highly favored.So I feel still very very fortunate to
be speaking with you this morning.Yes, you know, and I gotta
tell you I've been watching you overtwenty years on TV, pounding pavement,

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just doing a due diligence community.She doesn't find it robbery to get in
the community, to wrap her armsaround the community. So Donna talk to
us about the Black Night, DonnaMother's Day, five K and Your Way.
Yeah, so exciting. This isone of my favorite races we do
now because it really is a wayfor us to celebrate mothers, also celebrate
survivorship and then just celebrate our hopefor a day without breast cancer. So

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it's always fun to see the familiesthat show up to run together, the
mothers, the daughters, the sons, the dads, you know, everybody
that celebrates mom and that's going tobe so much fun. I love our
location in Riverside, But the wholeidea is to make sure that people understand
that we are all about hope.We are all about love over fear,
and we know that going through somethinglike cancer can be scary, but we're

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there to lift each other. Andof course, you know I love to
run. And if you're just tuningin Donnade and talking to us about being
in the community saving lies twenty yearswith the Donna Foundation. Today she is
celebrating moms and she's also highlighting howwe can help each other. So,
Donna, twenty years doing this,you don't find it robbery to help anyone

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across the board talk to us aboutjust that mission. Well, listen,
it's you know, you know mystory, Shawnee. You know when I
was on the news when I wasdiagnosed for the first of three times with
breast cancer, and this community reallycame together for me with a lot of
prayers. They also told me alot of stories about how they were going
through the same thing I was,and they couldn't make ends me while they

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were facing cancer. So choices likefood and medicine are absolutely wrong to me.
So I thought, you know,why not use that megaphone attached to
my mouth to try to do somethingabout it. And I've been so grateful
that we've been able to serve goshover eighteen thousand families now, which is
just amazing over the twenty years we'vebeen around. Every year we provide more
than six hundred and sixty thousand dollarsin financial services and debt relief to families.

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For every dollar that we bring intothe foundation, we return five more
and to the community. So it'sit's really really important the work that we
do, because it's hard enough togo through breast cancer any kind of cancer,
I'm sure, but but to gothrough it and have to worry about
finances or have to worry about youknow, support at the same time is
hard. And so what we did, you know, several years ago,

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is we we shifted to a modelwhere not only did we have the financial
aid Fund, but we also connectedpeople to patient navigators and that has been
such a blessing for people because thatbasically allows somebody to hold your hands through
the process of what is often confusing, whether it's about your insurance or whether
you need some help with your rent, or whether you need some help with
financial counseling or whatever it is.You know, we can help people beyond

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just that initial investment in their immediateneed, and I think that's been so
so important for families. So thisopportunity to get together and celebrate what we
do in addition to what we dofor breast cancer research, I think is
just really really key because you gotto get together to celebrate the good stuff.
You can't just sit around and say, gosh, it's a scary thing.
You got to hold each other's handsand you got to say, you

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know, we can do this together. And I believe that's what the legacy
of this foundation is. It's aboutlove and it's about hope. Thank you,
Donna. I know that the DonnaFoundation was established June twenty o three,
so you are celebrating twenty years ofgiving, twenty years of loving,
twenty years of hope, and soI want to thank you for just thinking
about everyone. Well, you gavethe opportunity to all people. And I

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want to thank you from my heartout there for all the moms out there,
because you know, we are celebratingsurvivors today, but we're celebrating those
that did not make it. AndI want the community to know that your
heart is behind that too. Absolutely. I mean that we have all heard
the stories, and in fact,there have been women we have served through
the foundation. I remember one ofthe very first women that we served.

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She knew she wasn't going to survive. I remember I remember sitting next to
her and her dead and having hertell me how much it meant to her
that her children were going to receivehelp, you know, even for her
funeral, which was just amazing tome. You know, women are incredible
creatures. You know, they careso much about other people, and I
think that to be there to liftthose women, even the women who find

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themselves in a situation where you knowthey're looking at what's going to happen to
their children, these are really importantthings to list and to make sure that
everybody knows that we're not saying thatthe outcome for everybody's going to be perfect.
What we're saying is that we arelooking toward today. We're honoring those
women both that we have lost andas women who have survived, and we

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are looking toward today that we cansay that breast cancer is just a word
in the medical history books. Andthat's the ultimate goal is let's at one
point get to where we don't haveto worry about this anymore. But in
the meantime, let's just love eachother and make sure that we're doing all
we can for each other. PoundingPavement is celebrating and highlighting breast cancer awareness.
But Donna Foundation A Donna, Iwant to again thank you. I

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know there's a lot of women outthere that you've helped, and I just
want you to thank the community.They are out there, were listening this
morning, so what would you liketo say to the community right now.
Well, first of all, Ijust like to say thank you so much
for supporting the Foundation and its recipientsand all of our missions for twenty years.
It's been a joy to be apart of. It's been a joy

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to have people come to Jacksonville tocelebrate with us from other places. It's
just been the privilege of a lifetimeto be able to connect all of us
in this mission. And I wouldencourage anybody that wants to know more about
us to go to the Donna Foundationdot org or to Breastcancer Marathon dot com.
You can still sign up. Ithink we even have a zero point
zero shawnee that people can sign upor they don't want to run, but

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they just want to help. Soit's important that we continue to lift these
folks. And I just want totell the community thank you from the bottom
of my heart for all of thesupport for the twenty years we've been around.
And hopefully one day we'll just beable to run for fun in this
thing. I'll be done. Thankyou, Donna. I appreciate you calling
into community viewpoints today. Community.If you're just tuning in, this is

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Donna Degan. She is the mastermindbehind the Donna Foundation. She's doing amazing
things in the community, and sheis our trail blazer today. Thank you
for being a great mom, Thankyou for being a great sister friend,
thank you for wrapping your arms aroundthis community, and thank you for never
stopping because I know you have somuch more going on, but today we're

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talking about the Donna Foundation. Thankyou so much, Shanny. As always,
I appreciate your support and your lovefor what we do and for lifting
us. I appreciate you so much. Thanks for the time be great on
purpose because you already are. Thankyou. Thank you. And as we
continue with community viewpoints on this Sundaymorning, I'm pouring into the community.
My sisters are pouring into the community, and we are here Mother's Day weekend

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just to empower you. So withoutfurther ado, I would like to introduce
you to Desiree Jones. Desire,how you doing. I'm good, I'm
good. How are you doing?You know I am blessed right now having
spoken to you in the past,and today we're talking about something that's dear
to your heart. So how aboutyou introduce yourself to the community and tell
us who you are. I'm DesireeJones, licensed mental health counselor. I'm

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the founder and CEO of Step byStep four Health Foundation and the CEO of
Step by Step Behavioral Health Services.And I am also the author of ADHD
Doesn't Have Me, a new children'smental health series book, and I'm a
co author of a book by AdrianMartin. Two books actually by Adrian Martin.
Yeah, so that's me. Well, you are pouring into the community

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because you have a very special eventcoming up. But before we talk about
the event, let's talk about mentalwellness and why you chose that field to
go into and to pour into sothat we can help our community. It's
very important, and I share mystory just about everywhere I go because I
think it's very important to share yourstory so that people can relate to you.

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Because it's one thing to talk aboutsomething that you don't know about it
that you haven't been through. Butwhen you've been through something, people tend
to you know they can understand orrelate to you better. So I'm sure
I've told people before I'm a survivorof domestic violence, and so I had
to go through the healing process andgo through counseling and go through therapy,
and you know, I realized that, you know, a lot of people

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are going through it, they justdon't talk about it. And so for
me it was a very traumatic experience. And I know that a lot of
people are going through it, butthey're afraid to talk about it. And
so I felt like I had tobe the voice. I had to be
the face of mental health because Iknow when I went through it, I
didn't have anybody. Nobody wanted totalk about it, and so I knew
that I was hurting in fine.I know that every day it's a struggle

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sometimes just dealing with the trauma ofyou know, what somebody said, what
somebody did, you know? Andso for me, I felt like I
needed to do something about it.And so it just became very near and
dear to my heart. And soeverything that I do is about mental health.
It's about making a difference. Soeverything that I do, I just
talk about mental health to whoever Ican. You know, the reason why

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I think some people don't want totalk about it because there was a stigma,
and I say was because I thinkmental wellness after COVID is something that
everyone had to actually deal with rightjust coming through that. So I think
the reason why some people don't wantto talk about it because they don't want
to be stigmatized, but understanding thatit's a need absolutely, And I think

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with COVID, COVID just unfortunately,as unfortunate as it was, it just
really shit the light on mental health, on mental illness altogether. It forced
us to talk about it. Itforced us to talk about the grief,
It forced us to talk about thepain and the loss of a loved one,
and it just really brought mental healthto the forefront. Like, you

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know, everybody was suffering, everybodywas going through something. Even if we
didn't lose a loved one, welost, you know, the ability to
go outside, We lost the abilityto talk the loved one or see loved
ones every single day. You know, even our people that were going through
the office, we didn't see ourcoworkers, kids, lost the you know,
the ability to go to school.Like those are those are traumatic events,

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Those are you know, major adjustmentissues. And people don't realize that
those small things are mental health diagnosis. And so it just really brought mental
health to the forefront. So everybody, you know, they realize Okay,
like this mental health stuff is realand it is and it doesn't have to
be something that's really really big.It can be really small and it needs
to be addressed. So how doyou address mental health? Do you go

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see a therapist? Do you pray? How would you suggest you address that
mental health? Well, you cando a lot of different things, but
the first thing that you have todo is acknowledge that there's a problem.
And that's in anything, you haveto understand that there's something going on.
If something is affecting you from fromyour normal data day self or doing something,

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you have to acknowledge that there's aproblem. And only you can determine
that. If somebody is around youand you know that something was wrong,
and somebody's you know something's different,you can't cope. You're talking about different
things or sad or depress or nervous, or you're anxious, just a lot
of different things. And if you'renot sure, yes, go to a
therapist, go through, go toa psychiatrist to get a diagnosis so you

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can find out if there's something goingon. Look at your family history.
You know, mental health goals withgenetics, A lot of those things are
hereditary and their chemical imbalances. Sofind out if there's something going on.
When you find out what it is, then you can determine what you need
to do. Maybe some people don'twant to go to therapy. I suggest
so you do it, and sothe professionals can help you. A lot

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of people will, you know,find their own ways to cope by exercise
and reading, you know, doingself help activities. Whatever you need to
do, do it, but don'tdiscount it. Don't dismiss it. Acknowledge
it. Find out what your triggersare that may make you angry or whatever
it is, but don't dismiss it. Just acknowledge it and realize that there's
something going on. I want todo something about it. Community. If

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you're just tuning into community viewpoints.Is Shawnee speaking to Desiree Jones. She's
here to talk to us about Shadesof Green mental Health Awards of Excellence celebration.
And we often don't want to talkto our sisters or don't want to
talk about mental health. But Ithink it's the right time for us to
see what's going on and then addressit. And it seems as if you're

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doing just that desiree so talk tous about the Shades of Green Mental Health,
Awards of Excellent celebration and when willwe be able to attend Shades of
Green Mental Health. It came upone day. I was sitting in my
car and it was it was soonafter COVID, and I was just sitting
there thinking, you know, thishas been really, really rough as a
mental health professional. You know,we've just been dealing with the fact that

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you know, we've been on thefront line, whether it'd be telehealth,
you know, even in the midstof COVID, you know, some of
us were still going to homes.We had to dismantle some of our systems,
or we went immediately to tell ahealthWe didn't know what to do,
We didn't know how to do it, you know, we were it was
just a lot for us, andI know that my organization was not the

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only one, and then we stillhad to perform, you know, even
if there was a loss of aloved one, even if we had kids
that weren't able to go to school, like, we still were under a
lot of pressure to get the jobdone because we're mental health professionals and we're
on the front line and so Ican remember sitting in my car and I
was like, you know, Ihave to do something, like I have
to let people know that there arepeople out here like that are really doing

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the work. And so that's howthe Shades of Green Awards of Excellence came
about. It's like, I'm goingto, you know, make it known
that these people are heroes. Youknow, heroes. We have heroes in
the mental health profession. You know, they're doing the hard work. So
I'm going to do something about it. I'm gonna let them know that they're
appreciated. So whatever that looks like, I'm gonna do it. And that's

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how it came about. And ofcourse the shade of Green represents mental health,
and so I just kind of wentfor it. It's like, this
is what we're gonna do. Thisis my vision, this is what I
wanted to look like, and itjust kind of blossomed after that kind of
happened. I want to thank youfor engaging with me and allow me to
understand your drive. I knew aboutmental health. We all have anxieties,

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but some don't want to address itright. But this is a foundation,
the step by step four help foundationthat actually pours back into the community.
And this event on May twenty first, that's a Sunday at the Shaw's Center,
is going to allow us to understandand see those heroes. They've hidden

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heroes, the community heroes. Sotalk to us. What should the community
expect that night. It is anight of elegance. It is definitely a
night of elegance. It's a formalattire. It's just a night of elegance.
Everybody just looks very, very elegant, just food, dinner. To

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me, it's something that you seeon television, and that is what I
wanted. I wanted people to feelspecial and honored. It's just an elite,
elegant event where we're just honoring.You have to see it. I
would just have to say. Sowhen people got there last year, I'm
not sure what they were expecting,but just like in disbelief because it would

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the event was just absolutely beautiful,and they're coming back. They're coming back
because it was such an amazing event. Now can the community be involved or
get involved? Where can they getthese tickets to attend the Shades of Green
Mental Health Awards Gala. They canget the tickets on event right, they
can search Shades of Green Mental HealthAwards Gala, or they can go to

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step by Step for Help dot comcommunity. This is an event if you
want to see the heroes wearing capes, hats or just in Green, They're
gonna be there on Sunday, Maytwenty first at the Shaw Center. If
you would like to attend, wehave the information on our website as well.
You can go there or you cango to event right or step by

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Step for Health Desirae. Is thereanything else you'd like to share with the
community. I would just like tothank the community for just pouring back into
Step by Step for Health Foundation andjust so let them know that we're available
for services with Step by Step Behavioralhealth Services and step by Step for Health
Foundation where we service ages seven andup in the community. So we go

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into the homes of schools, anywherein the community where the clients fills safe
and it's confidential to provide the services. And if we can't help them,
we will refer them out to someoneto get help. We just want them
to get help, so don't beafraid to give us a call at one
eight eight eight seven six three seveneight three seven. Jase of Green Mental
Health Award of Excellence Gala Community.You're in for a treat. It is

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a pleasure to speak with you,Desiree, and it is a pleasure to
work with you. I understand yourintent and I think this is so big
for the community because we have toaddress mental health, but we have to
address it with people who we feelcomfortable. And so you know, your
business and the community business is toget better. So thank you so much

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for pouring into the community and makingsure that we don't forget that we need
to talk about it. Yes,thank you so much. And Desiree,
let's touch on you being an author. Talk to us about the books that
you are involved in. The firstis called Sisters Listen to Me, and
the second one we just wrote iscalled Best Bosses The Vision. And everybody

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writes a chapter about, you know, just their entrepreneurship journey or kind of
what led them to be a boss. In your chapter, that's why you
what you wrote was the Chosen Iwrote my journey to how I ended up
owning the title of being the chosenOne. How when I first started out.
I wrote about how, you know, I started out as a little

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girl, and you know, thethings that I watch Growing Up. But
then a further in my chapter,I kind of talked about I wonder why
people never would help me and shareinformation and do things, and how they
would use me and take advantage ofme, and all I did would try
to help them, and how they, you know, just did things behind
my back. Like I never understoodit because I'm just the type of person
like I'm going to help you,like it doesn't matter because I know what's

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for me is for me. ButI didn't always understand that, Like I
didn't understand a whole bunch of stuffuntil I realized that there's something that goes
with being that divine one. Andwhen you understand that, everything else makes
sense. So that's kind of whatmy chapter is about. So you have
to own that, you have tospeak that, you have to walk that,

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you have to affirm that, thenyou get it. None of that
other stuff matters once you start toown that you're the chosen one. So
it kind of sums all of thatup wet even just tuning in Shawnee with
a Desiree Jones. She's here totalk to us about Jase of Green Mental
Health Award of Excellent Mental Health Awardsof excellent celebration. It's again Ela,

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but she's also dropping some nuggets onhow we can empower ourselves, how we
can believe in ourselves. So desireeshare with us some more nuggets if you
would. It doesn't matter what youdo. It can be your walk if
you're tall. And I tell peopleall the time, you don't have to
do anything for people to be jealousor in stuff. They're jealous because you're
you. And if there's there's nothingthat you can do about it because you're

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the chosen one and you have toown that walking confidence and own whatever it
is that's going to be how it'sgoing to be because that's just who you
are. And we're back with communityview points. Shawnee in the community with
a divine Mines always empowering the community. Today I have the brothers from Alpha
Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. Good morning,mister Hodges, how are you going?

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How doing? Thank you for havingme in the smartest well you know.
Um whiz Kid is one of ouron air personalities DJ. He does a
lot with multiple stations and he askedbecause he's a part of this fraternity.
So we take care of each otherinternally and we try to help the community,
and we know that Divine nine isalways empowering. So I just want

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to introduce you to the community,talk to us and tell us about yourself.
And my name is Carl Hodgson.I thank you, Sonny for this
opportunity in dj wiz for just connectingwith you. We're part of the Signified
Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha seatedout in Orange Park and one of the
things that we've been doing in theHouse of Alpha as a Project Alpha started
way back in nineteen ninety and we'vebeen trying to keep it going. Project

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Alpha actually talks about sharing and changingattitudes and providing skills to young men.
But how that connects with a Marchof Dimes is that Alpha also have collaboratively
work with the March of Dimes sincenineteen eighty. Just as one of the
examples of our partnership. Over thelast five years, they've been able to
raise over a million dollars for theMarch of Dimes. And that's what we're

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doing here in Jacksonville, the SignifiedLambda Chapter. We're just having a march
for babies and mothers doing that onSaturday the twenty is starting at ten oh
six oh six in the morning.So we're just excited about just people coming
out, donating as they come andwalk with us. We're going to walk
the accost the bridge leaving from WolfsonChildren's Hospital, real simple walk, one

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time over the bridge and back andwe'll be done. But it would be
our way of making an impact andraising funds to donate directly to the March
of Dimes. So we're excited aboutthat opportunity. And you say that you've
been working with Wolfson Children's Hospital,you know, anything for the children,
we would love, as iHeart tobe involved. So I want to thank
you for reaching out, allowing usto hear you and understand your empowerment and

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drive for the community. So withthis walk Saturday, May the twentieth,
what should the participants, people whowant to be a part of this Alpha
walk the bridges from Mothers and Babiesexpect actually leaving from Wolfson's and that's just
our starting point. What they shouldexpect is to come, be able to
part come and signing at our table. We'll have a tent with our logo

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information on it. They'll be ableto sign the end, get a bottle
of water, then head out towardsthe bridge. The route is already designated,
and we'll take out from there,go over the Acosta all the way
over to the other side by theYMC, the Old Times Union Building.
We'll walk back to Wilson's and we'llwrap it up and parking will be available

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there in the P two parking garage. Plenty of parking there. So so
it's a real simple event and verylittle impact in terms of logistics and setting
it all up. But we justwanted to give our opportunity for people to
engage and be community partners, justlike we are over sitting Carl Lambdas and
that's really what it's all about.And if you're just tuning in Shawnee talking

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to Carl Hodges, he is withAlpha Alpha Fraternity Incorporated and they are in
the community walking the bridges for mothersand babies on May twentieth. So,
Carl, how long have you beenwith Alpha Alpha Donely Incorporated. I've been
in the house for a little oftwo years, right in two years,
So I mean, I'm excited.I came through grad Chapter Sigma Pied Labda,

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So it's been a great, greatexperience and I'm so glad I did
it. I wouldn't have chosen anyof the house, no disrespect to anybody
else, but I think I foundmy lane and my group of men that
I wanted to impact a community with. So I'm excited about being a part
of that team and with this AlphaWalk the Bridges for Mothers and Babies.
Is this one of the events thatyou do each year to empower the community.

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Actually, we raised money, butthe bridge walk is really just boring
out of conversation with some other brothers. This is the first year that we've
actually done the bridge walk. We'veraised money for March of Dimes every year.
We did it last year, yearsbefore that, Like I said,
since nineteen eighty that's been a partof what Alpha's do within the organization.

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But we're just trying to branch itout, make it bigger, make it
more impactful, and do all wecan do on our end from the city
of Jacksonville to make a difference inthis national program because March of Dimes is
a national based program. So themore that we can do, the more
that we can contribute it to it. And I've even had some personal family

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impact by the need for mothers andbabies to be supported in their prenatal and
birth defect issues. So it's realpersonal for me and I just kind of
because of that, even pushing iteven harder. You know, well,
I understand when it's personal, it'sdefinitely something that you want to rally behind.
So community, if you're just tuningin May twentieth, that Saturday,

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the Alphas are doing something really bigand it's all about fitness to anything to
help us with our mental wellness andour mental health and get us moving.
I think this is a great wayfor the community to connect it with the
Alphas and empower our mothers and babies. So walking the bridge, as they
see a lot of people doing lately, is one of the things that you

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do to keep healthy, keep yourheart rate up, and to just keep
yourself healthy. Right, absolutely,absolutely, so. I understand there's free
parking as well right there in theparking garage. We've contacted the people there
at Wolfson and they know that willbe on site but very minimal impact to
Wolfson's day to day, but wejust want to let people know there would

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be someplace for them to park.I would advise now, if you have
not been walking, taking the timewhen you head up this bridge, because
I went and walked at the otherday, and I tell you, I
don't know if I was quite readyfor the first incline. By the time
I came back, I was better. But take the time, pace yourself.
It's an easy walks, no race, It's not a race, So
take your time. And I definitelywant to put that out there, pul
Hodges Alpha's walking the Bridge for Mothersand Babies community. Let's rally with the

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Alpha's as they walk the Bridges forMothers and Babies at Wolfson Children's Hospital the
Porter Firm Family Trauma Center. Youcan check out their fire on our community
page on our website. Oh,is there anything else that you'd like to
say to the community or share withthe community. Excited about you all being
a part of what we're doing.They don't have to wait till next Saturday.

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If they want to donate now theycan. They can do that at
nine oh four Alpha's dot com backslashMarch for Babies. They can do it
right there. And we are alreadyand have been accepting donations. So we'd
be excited for anybody to give anyamount, no pressure to give, just
give what's on your heart to get. It's for the babies, and it's

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for the mothers. It's Mother's Daytoday. So Carl, do you have
any special ladies in your life thatyou like to compliment and show them love
on Mother's Day? Yeah, I'dlike to shout out my wife. She'll
a Happy Mother's Day to her,and Happy Mother's Day to my mother in
law, Margaret Crawford, and mymother down in Mississippi. She might not
hear it. I don't know ifshe's an our heart fan, but Mary

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Hodges down in Jackson, Mississippi.So we're glad to have them be a
part of our lives. And mysister as well, Sam come up in
New Jersey. And to all themoms out there, Happy Mother's Day to
you. We are walking the bridgesfor mothers and babies. Raley behind Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, one ofthe Divine nines empowering the community today in
community viewpoints, mister Hodges, thankyou so much. I appreciate you calling

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in and please don't be a strangerto community viewpoints. Thank you, thank
you for having men, Thanks forconnecting community is Shawnee, thank you so
much for listening to community viewpoints.We are pouring love into our community into
mom and babies, will the Alpha's. Be sure to check out our website.
You'll see the information on how youcan walk the bridges and support Wilson

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Children's Hospital. We also spoke toDonna Deagan on her twentieth anniversary for the
Donna Foundation Fighting Cancer, pouring intothe community, never stopping to help a
sister friend and our community. Andwe also spoke to Desiree Jones, allowing
us to understand that mental health isa sickness, but we need to talk

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about it. Join her for herShades of Green Mental Health Awards Gala,
an excellence celebration on May twenty firstat the Sholl Center. To be sure
to check all the information out onour website. And I'm dedicating this show
to all the moms out there whotake care of their family and take care
of their community. So thank youfor listening to community viewpoints. Have a

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blessed day.