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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom not just because she's got three kids
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on the spectrum, but because she's an advocate who works to educate and inspire
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other moms of kids with special needs.
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Hey everybody and welcome to Taking Authority Over Autism. The podcast that is
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for and about parents, caregivers, nanas and papas who have kids in their life
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who are on the spectrum. My name is Sheletta Brundidge. What qualifies me to host this
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show? Well, I'm glad you asked. I am not a developmental pediatrician. I am not
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a counselor or therapist in any way though I play one on TV. I am the
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mother of three beautiful children who have been diagnosed with autism.
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And for the past 10 years I have been on the front line advocating not only for my
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children, Brandon Cameron and Daniel, but also for kids throughout the great
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state of Minnesota. And I try to destigmatize autism. You know, a lot of times I'll say,
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I don't want my child to have a label on his back. Girl, listen, let me tell you
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something if the child doesn't have the label, the diagnosis, then the insurance
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won't pay for coverage. If the insurance won't pay for coverage, you can't get
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that speech there, but that ABA there, but that physical there, but that you need.
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You also can get that AAPS school that gives your child grace when they start
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fighting and cutting up. Okay? So what you want to do is make sure that as you're
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going to these annual physicals, right? Because we back to school and everybody had
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to have that yearly annual physical. Those sports forms needed to be turned in.
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You had to have that vision hearing checked, right? You have to have that asthma action plan,
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done. Those doctors were also checking for developmental milestones.
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Can your child say 20 words? Can your child say 40 words? Your answering those questions,
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they're not just asking you that for fun or to take up your time. They're trying to figure out
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if they're any delays. But we can rely on our pediatrician to guide us through this
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autism journey. Everything that I have learned as a parent to help my children,
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I have learned from another mother, which is why I created this show. So we can continue to learn
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and grow and have success as our kids go along their lives diagnosed on the spectrum.
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Now, I remember when they were asking me about, "Does your child have these many words?
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Does your child have that many words?" And I didn't know what or why. They were after they make eye
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contact. They never told me, "I'm just answering questions, right? Every my son
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brand and most of the questions were no." And then I finished answering the questions.
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We walked out of the pediatrician and went on home. They did not guide me to resources services.
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They did not tell me, "Hey, go get your child tested. Go see if they have an autism diagnosis."
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I had to get on Google. I don't want y'all on Google. It's not your friend. Neither is TikTok.
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You need to talk to some people that you can trust. And some folks that I can trust are at
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Caravel Health. Caravel Autism Health. And I'm so glad Alia McCann is joining us. She is the regional
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vice president of Minnesota, so delighted and elated to have you on this show. Because as our kids
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are going back to school, we are looking at those annual physicals. We're hearing from the teachers.
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And if there's red flags, if our spider senses go up, if we feel like our child is not keeping up
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with homework or peers, we may need to go and get a diagnosis. We may need to get them tested.
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They may need services outside of school because school is not going to give you everything that you
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need. You're going to have to go and get those private services. So for folks who have not heard
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about Caravel Autism Health, you guys have been in Minnesota since 2019. Started off in Wisconsin
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in 2009. We're not going to hold that against you, right? We're not going to hold it against you.
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That you started off in Wisconsin. But you've been in Minnesota since 2019. Talk to us about the
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services that you provide. Well, first and foremost, thanks for having us on the show. This is just an
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amazing opportunity to be able to share a bit of our story. So we have 12 clinics across the state
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of Minnesota, some in the Twin Cities area, but many in outstate locations too, like Rochester,
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Moorhead, Duluth. And we focus on early intensive autism treatment for children and really want
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to support families in understanding who to coordinate with, who to collaborate with to help their
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kiddo get to the best place possible because we recognize we are one short chapter in that child's
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life. And so we want to have the biggest impact we can during our time with them. You know, I tell
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people all the time, I thought that when I took them to school, that the school was going to solve
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all the problems. The school was going to get them better. And I talked to the school council and I
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said, what's your plan to give my child out of special education? And they said, excuse me,
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they said, we don't work like that. We don't teach them up. We teach them where they are. And I said,
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you know, that's just not good enough for me. I want my kids to be able to keep up with their normal
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developing peers. I want them to talk, get in the speech team, be on the debate team, play football,
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basketball cheer. I don't want them to constantly be behind an in special education. And they said,
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it just doesn't work like that. And so that's when I went looking for that behavioral health. And that
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is what, by far, helped my children find success. The school did their part, but that's just one piece
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of the puzzle. And that's why this autism symbol is a puzzle because it takes so many pieces.
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Tell me where careful autism helps fix into the piece. Tell me about the services.
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Yeah, I mean, when I think about our services, I would say our main focus is getting doors open
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for kids. So we start at the diagnostic level. We offer diagnostic evaluations for families if
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they're considering whether or not their child needs services. But we also recognize payers have
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requirements too. And so if your payer is saying, or your insurance provider is saying, hey, we need a
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specific test to be done before you will be able to have access to services. We're going to support
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you through that. And then we carry through right from that evaluation into the early intensive autism
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treatment. And we meet with families right away and say, what's important to you? What are your values?
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And here are some of ours. You know, we really, we really pride ourselves on high quality care.
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And that's something we want to make sure every family has access to so that their children really
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can be empowered and have those doors open for them. Okay, so tell me what the first step is. I'm a parent.
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I just went to the pediatrician. They said, you know, your child's not meeting a developmental
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milestones have a great day. We got the first week of school under our belt. And already we're having
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some behavior problems. I'm looking at my child. He's spinning. He's flapping his hands. He's
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lining his toys up. I call caravans. What is the first thing that's going to happen? Walk me through
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the process. Yeah, we have an entire team that is dedicated to supporting families through that
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intake process. So they will work with you to understand because every family story is a little
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bit different based on, you know, where you're located, the insurance that you have, the diagnosis
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that your child has. And so they will walk each family through, you know, what paperwork we need,
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what those next steps might look like. And then we partner you with one of our clinic directors
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that we can sit down and talk about, you know, what matters to your family? What are you looking for?
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And then what are we looking for? One of the things that we really,
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we really promote is that coordination. And so we got to communicate. We need to be able to.
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We got to communicate. Everything is disjointed. And when things are disjointed, nothing happens.
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I just remember until I got somebody to help me coordinate, I would take the speech over here
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and the school over here and the behavior health over here and the social services over here
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and the state services over here. And you don't know which way is up and who you talk to, you've
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misdeed lines, you've made the right paperwork to the wrong agency. And then your child services might
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get cut. Girl, it's a lot. It is. And when you have all those providers in the mix, you have to be
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cautious because you might have one provider focused on one area and another one focused in a
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completely different direction. And so you need that golden thread that's going to make sure
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everybody's rowing in tandem. We're all, we're in the same boat. Our boat is this child. We want to
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support them. And so without communication, I think it, you know, too often. It's not going to work.
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Yeah, rowing in circles. Yeah, somebody going to fall through the creek and the parents are going to
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get tied because I can't talk to no more people today. I'm tied. Girl, for real. Like, okay, I just
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find out my child has autism. My husband and I going through something. My mom is getting on my
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nerves. I got other kids. I got a job. I'm trying to run a business. I got nosy neighbors. And you
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telling me I got 15 people to call for one child. I don't think so. Any help that parents can get
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so they can successfully navigate through this autism journey with their child. You are going to
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find out about it on the show, which is why Alia is here. Now, how can people get to
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caraval autism health? Because I want to make sure they know a website to go to what they can find
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when they get on that site. Like, is there a contact us button? Can they put their information in?
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Is there a phone number? Give us a scoop, girl, because I don't want nobody going saying,
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we should let it in. Tell me I was going to have to have like, what they going to need when they
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come on, girl, give it to us because we need to know. Yeah, there's, I would say the best way to get
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in contact with us is our website. It's www.caravalautism.com. Right on there, we have options whether you're
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a teammate that's looking to grow and, you know, provide quality care to a child or if you're a family
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that's searching for those services for your own child. We have different bookmarks on there that
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you can go to and it will take you right to our intake website, whether you want to call someone
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and get on the phone. We are our phone number for parents and caregivers is 312-635-5864. But there's also
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a button right on there where it will say get in contact with me. You can put in your email address
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and someone on our team will reach out to you. Okay, that sounds good. Now, what's the time?
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What's timeline? What we looking at? So our teammates work to reach out to families within 48 hours.
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Oh, girl, that's nice. Okay. All right. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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To the girls. We got a lot of you going to know. We got a lot going on. Thank you, girl. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. And, you know, I want to make sure I talk to families because a lot of times they think,
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oh, this is just for Twin Cities Metro. No, honey, you are in Greater Minnesota and you just opened a
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center in Egan earlier this year. Where are some of your locations? Because families don't have to
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travel three, four, five hours to get these services. Yeah. So we have made a point to when within
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the Twin Cities, really beyond those outskirts, communities so that you aren't necessarily having to
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battle with the traffic as you're getting from one location to the next. Beyond that, though, we do
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have several locations outside of the Twin Cities. We've got one in Rochester, Mancato, Morehead, Deluth,
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really trying to make sure that we've got a nice balance for families where that need is. So we
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can get kids off these wait lists because that's what's most important is getting them into care
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as early as possible. All right. Okay. Give me that website again before you get out of here, girl,
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because I want to make sure folks know where to go. It's www.caravalautism.com.
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Well, thank you so much, Alia, for being here. Congratulations on everything for the work that you and
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your team are doing to help support not only the children, but also the parents. Any load that you can
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take off our shoulders is greatly appreciated because heavy is the burden of a mom and dad who has
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to take care of a special needs child girl. It's a lot. And so any support that we can get, girl,
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we really appreciate it. And we appreciate your time. Miss regional vice president girl,
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I don't know who Ashley had me talking to. You popped up on here. I was like, you're a waiterman.
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I don't even brush my teeth. Why you didn't tell me? I was talking to the regional vice president.
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You just said, Alia, like she's just a regular therapist or something girl. Look, I gotta get
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fans out and left and put earrings on. Come on, Alia. Come on, Alia, ring sound because I'm talking to
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the regional vice president. Well, thank you so much and congratulations on being a regional
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vice president and shepherding this team. We really appreciate it. Well, appreciate the
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opportunity that you've given us here to share our story. So thank you. All right. And thank you
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all for tuning in. Y'all know how we do each and every week. There is somebody that you know who
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needs this. You've been trying to talk to a girl for and about her child telling her that he might
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have autism and you know, she doesn't want to receive it right now. She don't want to hear anything
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that you're telling her. Why don't you stop talking and let me do the talking. Send her a link to this
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podcast and say, Hey, I got something I need you to hear. I got something I want you to listen to
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and point her in the direction of Caravill Hale. We'll see you next week.
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Always fine and informative. She'll let us a big draw at autism conferences across the country.
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well, then why are they going to cater to young people? And if Republicans think we don't have any of
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the young people, so we shouldn't try to cater to them at all, well, then they're not going to. But if
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young people or really anyone in any demographic group says, you know what? We're not going to vote for
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catering to the far left and the far right because they're the loudest and they're the ones that are
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Sheletta Brundidge is known as the autism mom not just because she's got three kids
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on the spectrum, but because she's an advocate who works to educate and inspire
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other moms of kids with special needs.
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Hey everybody and welcome to Taking Authority Over Autism. The podcast that is
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for and about parents, caregivers, nanas and papas who have kids in their life
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who are on the spectrum. My name is Sheletta Brundidge. What qualifies me to host this
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show? Well, I'm glad you asked. I am not a developmental pediatrician. I am not
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a counselor or therapist in any way though I play one on TV. I am the
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mother of three beautiful children who have been diagnosed with autism.
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And for the past 10 years I have been on the front line advocating not only for my
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children, Brandon Cameron and Daniel, but also for kids throughout the great
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state of Minnesota. And I try to destigmatize autism. You know, a lot of times I'll say,
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I don't want my child to have a label on his back. Girl, listen, let me tell you
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something if the child doesn't have the label, the diagnosis, then the insurance
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won't pay for coverage. If the insurance won't pay for coverage, you can't get
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that speech there, but that ABA there, but that physical there, but that you need.
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You also can get that AAPS school that gives your child grace when they start
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fighting and cutting up. Okay? So what you want to do is make sure that as you're
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going to these annual physicals, right? Because we back to school and everybody had
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to have that yearly annual physical. Those sports forms needed to be turned in.
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You had to have that vision hearing checked, right? You have to have that asthma action plan,
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done. Those doctors were also checking for developmental milestones.
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Can your child say 20 words? Can your child say 40 words? Your answering those questions,
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they're not just asking you that for fun or to take up your time. They're trying to figure out
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if they're any delays. But we can rely on our pediatrician to guide us through this
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autism journey. Everything that I have learned as a parent to help my children,
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I have learned from another mother, which is why I created this show. So we can continue to learn
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and grow and have success as our kids go along their lives diagnosed on the spectrum.
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Now, I remember when they were asking me about, "Does your child have these many words?
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Does your child have that many words?" And I didn't know what or why. They were after they make eye
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contact. They never told me, "I'm just answering questions, right? Every my son
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brand and most of the questions were no." And then I finished answering the questions.
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We walked out of the pediatrician and went on home. They did not guide me to resources services.
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They did not tell me, "Hey, go get your child tested. Go see if they have an autism diagnosis."
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I had to get on Google. I don't want y'all on Google. It's not your friend. Neither is TikTok.
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You need to talk to some people that you can trust. And some folks that I can trust are at
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Caravel Health. Caravel Autism Health. And I'm so glad Alia McCann is joining us. She is the regional
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vice president of Minnesota, so delighted and elated to have you on this show. Because as our kids
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are going back to school, we are looking at those annual physicals. We're hearing from the teachers.
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And if there's red flags, if our spider senses go up, if we feel like our child is not keeping up
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with homework or peers, we may need to go and get a diagnosis. We may need to get them tested.
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They may need services outside of school because school is not going to give you everything that you
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need. You're going to have to go and get those private services. So for folks who have not heard
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about Caravel Autism Health, you guys have been in Minnesota since 2019. Started off in Wisconsin
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in 2009. We're not going to hold that against you, right? We're not going to hold it against you.
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That you started off in Wisconsin. But you've been in Minnesota since 2019. Talk to us about the
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services that you provide. Well, first and foremost, thanks for having us on the show. This is just an
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amazing opportunity to be able to share a bit of our story. So we have 12 clinics across the state
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of Minnesota, some in the Twin Cities area, but many in outstate locations too, like Rochester,
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Moorhead, Duluth. And we focus on early intensive autism treatment for children and really want
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to support families in understanding who to coordinate with, who to collaborate with to help their
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kiddo get to the best place possible because we recognize we are one short chapter in that child's
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life. And so we want to have the biggest impact we can during our time with them. You know, I tell
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people all the time, I thought that when I took them to school, that the school was going to solve
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all the problems. The school was going to get them better. And I talked to the school council and I
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said, what's your plan to give my child out of special education? And they said, excuse me,
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they said, we don't work like that. We don't teach them up. We teach them where they are. And I said,
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you know, that's just not good enough for me. I want my kids to be able to keep up with their normal
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developing peers. I want them to talk, get in the speech team, be on the debate team, play football,
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basketball cheer. I don't want them to constantly be behind an in special education. And they said,
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it just doesn't work like that. And so that's when I went looking for that behavioral health. And that
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is what, by far, helped my children find success. The school did their part, but that's just one piece
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of the puzzle. And that's why this autism symbol is a puzzle because it takes so many pieces.
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Tell me where careful autism helps fix into the piece. Tell me about the services.
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Yeah, I mean, when I think about our services, I would say our main focus is getting doors open
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for kids. So we start at the diagnostic level. We offer diagnostic evaluations for families if
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they're considering whether or not their child needs services. But we also recognize payers have
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requirements too. And so if your payer is saying, or your insurance provider is saying, hey, we need a
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specific test to be done before you will be able to have access to services. We're going to support
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you through that. And then we carry through right from that evaluation into the early intensive autism
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treatment. And we meet with families right away and say, what's important to you? What are your values?
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And here are some of ours. You know, we really, we really pride ourselves on high quality care.
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And that's something we want to make sure every family has access to so that their children really
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can be empowered and have those doors open for them. Okay, so tell me what the first step is. I'm a parent.
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I just went to the pediatrician. They said, you know, your child's not meeting a developmental
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milestones have a great day. We got the first week of school under our belt. And already we're having
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some behavior problems. I'm looking at my child. He's spinning. He's flapping his hands. He's
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lining his toys up. I call caravans. What is the first thing that's going to happen? Walk me through
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the process. Yeah, we have an entire team that is dedicated to supporting families through that
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intake process. So they will work with you to understand because every family story is a little
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bit different based on, you know, where you're located, the insurance that you have, the diagnosis
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that your child has. And so they will walk each family through, you know, what paperwork we need,
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what those next steps might look like. And then we partner you with one of our clinic directors
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that we can sit down and talk about, you know, what matters to your family? What are you looking for?
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And then what are we looking for? One of the things that we really,
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we really promote is that coordination. And so we got to communicate. We need to be able to.
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We got to communicate. Everything is disjointed. And when things are disjointed, nothing happens.
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I just remember until I got somebody to help me coordinate, I would take the speech over here
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and the school over here and the behavior health over here and the social services over here
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and the state services over here. And you don't know which way is up and who you talk to, you've
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misdeed lines, you've made the right paperwork to the wrong agency. And then your child services might
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get cut. Girl, it's a lot. It is. And when you have all those providers in the mix, you have to be
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cautious because you might have one provider focused on one area and another one focused in a
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completely different direction. And so you need that golden thread that's going to make sure
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everybody's rowing in tandem. We're all, we're in the same boat. Our boat is this child. We want to
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support them. And so without communication, I think it, you know, too often. It's not going to work.
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Yeah, rowing in circles. Yeah, somebody going to fall through the creek and the parents are going to
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get tied because I can't talk to no more people today. I'm tied. Girl, for real. Like, okay, I just
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find out my child has autism. My husband and I going through something. My mom is getting on my
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nerves. I got other kids. I got a job. I'm trying to run a business. I got nosy neighbors. And you
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telling me I got 15 people to call for one child. I don't think so. Any help that parents can get
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so they can successfully navigate through this autism journey with their child. You are going to
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find out about it on the show, which is why Alia is here. Now, how can people get to
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caraval autism health? Because I want to make sure they know a website to go to what they can find
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when they get on that site. Like, is there a contact us button? Can they put their information in?
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Is there a phone number? Give us a scoop, girl, because I don't want nobody going saying,
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we should let it in. Tell me I was going to have to have like, what they going to need when they
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come on, girl, give it to us because we need to know. Yeah, there's, I would say the best way to get
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in contact with us is our website. It's www.caravalautism.com. Right on there, we have options whether you're
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a teammate that's looking to grow and, you know, provide quality care to a child or if you're a family
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that's searching for those services for your own child. We have different bookmarks on there that
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you can go to and it will take you right to our intake website, whether you want to call someone
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and get on the phone. We are our phone number for parents and caregivers is 312-635-5864. But there's also
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a button right on there where it will say get in contact with me. You can put in your email address
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and someone on our team will reach out to you. Okay, that sounds good. Now, what's the time?
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What's timeline? What we looking at? So our teammates work to reach out to families within 48 hours.
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Oh, girl, that's nice. Okay. All right. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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To the girls. We got a lot of you going to know. We got a lot going on. Thank you, girl. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. And, you know, I want to make sure I talk to families because a lot of times they think,
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oh, this is just for Twin Cities Metro. No, honey, you are in Greater Minnesota and you just opened a
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center in Egan earlier this year. Where are some of your locations? Because families don't have to
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travel three, four, five hours to get these services. Yeah. So we have made a point to when within
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the Twin Cities, really beyond those outskirts, communities so that you aren't necessarily having to
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battle with the traffic as you're getting from one location to the next. Beyond that, though, we do
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have several locations outside of the Twin Cities. We've got one in Rochester, Mancato, Morehead, Deluth,
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really trying to make sure that we've got a nice balance for families where that need is. So we
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can get kids off these wait lists because that's what's most important is getting them into care
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as early as possible. All right. Okay. Give me that website again before you get out of here, girl,
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because I want to make sure folks know where to go. It's www.caravalautism.com.
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Well, thank you so much, Alia, for being here. Congratulations on everything for the work that you and
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your team are doing to help support not only the children, but also the parents. Any load that you can
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take off our shoulders is greatly appreciated because heavy is the burden of a mom and dad who has
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to take care of a special needs child girl. It's a lot. And so any support that we can get, girl,
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we really appreciate it. And we appreciate your time. Miss regional vice president girl,
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I don't know who Ashley had me talking to. You popped up on here. I was like, you're a waiterman.
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I don't even brush my teeth. Why you didn't tell me? I was talking to the regional vice president.
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You just said, Alia, like she's just a regular therapist or something girl. Look, I gotta get
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fans out and left and put earrings on. Come on, Alia. Come on, Alia, ring sound because I'm talking to
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the regional vice president. Well, thank you so much and congratulations on being a regional
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vice president and shepherding this team. We really appreciate it. Well, appreciate the
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opportunity that you've given us here to share our story. So thank you. All right. And thank you
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all for tuning in. Y'all know how we do each and every week. There is somebody that you know who
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needs this. You've been trying to talk to a girl for and about her child telling her that he might
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have autism and you know, she doesn't want to receive it right now. She don't want to hear anything
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that you're telling her. Why don't you stop talking and let me do the talking. Send her a link to this
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podcast and say, Hey, I got something I need you to hear. I got something I want you to listen to
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and point her in the direction of Caravill Hale. We'll see you next week.
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Always fine and informative. She'll let us a big draw at autism conferences across the country.
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Find out how you can book her as a featured speaker for your next event at chaleta makes me laugh.com.
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The only way you're going to get listened to to by Republicans or Democrats is to make them
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earn your vote. For young people, if Democrats think that they have all the young people,
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well, then why are they going to cater to young people? And if Republicans think we don't have any of
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the young people, so we shouldn't try to cater to them at all, well, then they're not going to. But if
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young people or really anyone in any demographic group says, you know what? We're not going to vote for
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you just because you have an R or a D versus your name. You have to earn or vote. You have to promise
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us something and then deliver on it. But until people start doing that, it's always going to be just
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catering to the far left and the far right because they're the loudest and they're the ones that are
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demanding attention. My name is Jessa. One of the things I love the most about working for United
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Healthcare is that everybody matters. Every moment matters. There's a person behind every problem.
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I care because it's what I was put on the serves to do. I'm Ben and I work at United Healthcare. I am
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just one piece of a larger puzzle, but every piece matters. It's more than just work. We want to make
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the health system better for everyone. I care because I want to make a difference. That's what
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committed to care means to me. You know what Minnesota is really great at showing up. More than one
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million Minnesota's voted. Not just because voting is secure and accessible, but because neighbors
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reminded neighbors to make their voices heard. Now let's carry that momentum into November.
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Check your registered at your current voting address. Find your polling place and bring a friend.
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Go to iwillvote.com to view your ballot status or request an absentee ballot. Let's show up together
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Minnesota Strong. Prepared and paid for by the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party,
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DFL.org. This communication not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
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Was your house built before 1978, then it may contain lead and no level of lead in the home is safe,
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especially for children. It can cause developmental delays, learning difficulties, irritability,
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and a loss of appetite. But our hope is not lost. Thanks to a program in Hennepin County,
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you can protect your family by removing the sources of lead from your home. They have free home
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tests and up to $15,000 in grant money to do the work, including Windows. To get
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the details, just go to HealthyHomes.Hennepin.us. That's HealthyHomes.Hennepin.us.
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Do you have an idea about how to support our Washington County neighbors living with substance use
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disorder? If you work for a nonprofit or if you're a citizen with a bold new concept to raise awareness,
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support families, or promote harm reduction, Washington County wants to hear from you.
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Washington County receives money from the National Opioid Settlement Fund.
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Right now, Washington County is seeking applications for community-based projects.
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Up to $800 to $1,000 in grants will be awarded in this round of funding.
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This funding opportunity is open to everyone. Applications are due October 2nd,
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and you can fill it out online. Find out more or complete the application at this website.
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WashingtonCountyMN.gov/opioid-funding-application. Once again, that's WashingtonCountyMN.gov/opioid-funding-application.
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Rebuilding Together Minnesota is a local nonprofit offering critical home repairs and mobility
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modifications at no cost to low-income homeowners. Do you or someone you know need support with
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necessary home repairs or modifications but can't afford to get it done? If so, don't wait to
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apply for services. Applications open up October 1st and will be accepted through December 31st.
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Get more info. Find out if you qualify and learn how to apply online at rtmn.org/apply-for-help or give
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them a call at 651-776-4273. Rebuilding Together Minnesota, repairing homes, revitalizing communities,
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and rebuilding lives. The Center of Addiction and Faith is offering of free
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public Naloxone training on September 22nd, 2026. It goes from 6 to 7.30 pm and it's at
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Christ the Piscful Church and that's in Woodbury at 7.305, after and wrote. And you'll learn a lot
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of things. Participants will learn how to recognize an opioid overdose, how to administer Naloxone,
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and how to respond appropriately until emergency health arrives. No medical background is required.
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You can find registration and complete the vet details at mcrproject.net.
