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This siboy, the Louisiana country boy coming at to love

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once more again. Also, what I need for you to do,

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Sit back, relax, put on your head gear. Oh my

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worthless two cents is about to put something in your ah.

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Here we go, here we here, we go, oh your sense,

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and we are here at this shot. We're here, at

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this shock. It is an honor.

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It is a privilege to be here once more. Again.

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Thank your shout out to the shack.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing us to

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come and set on your's hot on here. I'm telling

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you it's hot. It's that two of the two degrees

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and that's in the shade and the sun and went down.

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I'm telling y'all it's hot.

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But we're here.

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We yeah, We're here.

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For a very very very very very good reason. I

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have a special guest who is joining me. She's joining me,

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is joining me tonight. So it's an honor. It is

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a privilege to have her.

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Y'all know.

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If you don't know, now you know, if you ain't

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never heard, if I'm gonna do no introduction, I ain't

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gonna try to introduced. And here's the reason is dam

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but I'm gonna telling you.

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Because I jacket up there.

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That needs to be said.

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I won't even you know, said there's been a forgot.

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I don't college your nurse. When you're doctor, I be,

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you know, so I'll be See my mama told me something,

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she said, you know, she said in life there's one

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thing that she should always know.

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The sound interpretations. Got it.

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So I know what my limit conditions is. But we

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are here, we are here, we are here, live once

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more again. It is an honor. It is a privilege

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to be here. So I need with y'all to get

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with me. Get ready, get ready, get ready. You're about

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to be informed. You're about to to get educated.

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You're gonna.

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I'm gonna talk to somebody to day the other day

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and they calmly looking for something right, And he was like,

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I said, even if you're done known, get it.

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Don't mean I mean just say it.

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Tell them you're gonna bring that.

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See see y'all didn't know. See I tell them, don't

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don't be.

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H.

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I got to tell you something. I am the fulfility

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to old this. But it's not so.

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In each and everything that I do, I give him

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on and I give.

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Him praise so before he gets.

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We don't do what country don't have to do, and

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you should join me because you should do it too.

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So I'm not looking at my head. I tell you y'all.

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My I was praying with my daughter, right, I'm gonna

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get through it.

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I prayer with my daughter.

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And she said, your eyes wasn't I said that yours well,

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Oh de hand and the Father, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your mercy,

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Father God, thank you for allowing once more again, Thank you.

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Fatherly God.

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I thank you not for what you've done, but for

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who you are, Father God. I pray for the things

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I pray for everyone is for everyone. I pray for

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these things strength or wisdom and understanding. Strength, wisdom and understanding,

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Father God. If we gain those some people or some

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other stuff, they on some material things that they ain't

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ready to handle.

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So if you pray for them things but they ain't

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ready for it, but if.

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They had strength, wisdom and understanding, if they understood this not.

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My will but your will. Because somebody be asking not

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in your will, Bathera God.

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So I pray for strength, wisdom and understanding for each

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and everyone.

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Father God.

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Continue to watch over, continue to God, and continue to

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protect each and every.

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Ray one of us. But we have to know the only.

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Way we can receive you is if we that you

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is because you standing at the door and knock, and

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it is up to us to open it and receive

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your Father God, I thank you for standing at my door.

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Thank you for standing it my door. Father God, I.

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Asked that you watch over miss Garret board that she

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comes tonight, made the things that she say, andcourage someone

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over here. Someone show someone a better way. Father God,

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protect us, to watch over us. I ask these grands

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in the Son Jesus, name a man a man a.

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N I'm gonna put yeah, that one. That was a

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good old look a here, y'all, look at here, looking

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at here as I sweat. And then if y'all don't know, y'all,

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look at it's bright week. I got these I got

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these locks on it.

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But look here, we are here, We're here, we are here.

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Listen Davin for thank you, thank you, thank you so much. No,

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it is it is to have you here, excited to

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hear what you have to say. I'm excited. I'm excited

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at that I.

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Got another big word.

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Without Father.

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Without father the next force you were here coming. Yeah, yeah,

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it's me.

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One's only all away from the south side with a

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message not just for the South, for the North, for

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the East and the West.

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She has a message for each and every one of you.

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So what I need for you to do is join me.

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Want most of you as I tell you to do

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this all.

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Gil oh, Miss Darvin.

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Put something in the here to go a fend and

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put his mic down now because she's like, oh you just.

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Follow up from that, like to bring you with me,

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like every time, that's the interest fort like ng, Okay,

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thank you, I appreciate you giving me this a little

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snipping of the platform so I can get the message

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out here. For those of you who don't know, my

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name is Joy Davenports from the Davenport Foundation, and the

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Davenport Foundation is a foster care and adult right here

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in Houston, and I just opened another location. You know

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about how far your reach is, but we have a

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new office in East Senses which is a little closer

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closer to Louisian you know, just in case the people

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watch you. I'm just saying we only about were forty

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five minutes from Streetport.

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I'm just saying, yea, the boat. My new office is

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about forty five minutes from street and so yeah.

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So I'm here to educate the people because obviously a

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lot of.

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Us don't know that most of our children are here.

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I am using this time to spread the word to

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let people know, like, hey, we need you. We can't

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do it a lot.

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So that's why I'm here.

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Spread the word and get the information out there to

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my people.

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We tell them, tell me, well, tell you this.

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You a little research on.

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Research. Okay, you know what our research? When you said

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in here, that's what. I don't read none of that stuff.

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What they say.

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The thing is I a you know, ain't want to

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steak sauce.

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You can put that. They can make a whole thing.

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You know.

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I'm not trying to read nothing other than the person

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that's killed.

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See what I was gonna say, What was this is? Okay?

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My question is this?

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The foundation is wonderful and I want to know more

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about it.

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But I really want to know it.

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Why Why did you start?

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Why did you get an interviewed?

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The background story? All right, but you gotta turn Okay.

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Girl, I own the network. What they're gonna do?

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Just you said.

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So A little background story is way back, and I

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always know how long I've been doing this space, so

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how old my fun so is twenty four? So about

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twenty four years ago I got introduced to this world

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the foss again. I had no idea. I was fresh

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out of college and if I got thrown into it. Honestly,

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you know, offering you that first job out of college,

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you take that first.

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Job and you don't even realize what you're gonna signed

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up for.

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And I signed up for working with Residential Childcare Licensing,

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which is the governing body. Oh thank you, she blessed

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me with some ice, y'all. Oh lord, it's okay, y'all.

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Don't understand, you know, it doesn't give kind of way.

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I'll tell ya. It's hot.

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So no, the bad story is, yeah, about twenty four

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years ago, I got thrown into my first job at

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the competition.

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Didn't know what I had signed up for.

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Uh.

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I was working at an emergency show for women and children.

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Didn't know what I was signing up for.

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At the time, but it really was I'm gonna use

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another big word because I'm a former English teacher. It

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was the principal m okay to this story, honestly.

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We had a client who.

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Her child, now she was already in the shelter and

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CPS CHOD protected services child while she was in the

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sheltering refuge from her abusing. Yeah, so that was my

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first experience in what they did, what Chop Protector Services

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did or didn't do at that time, and I was

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only seeing it from the side of wanting to help.

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I applied for a job with Chop Protective Services, got

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a call thinking that I was going to Chold Particular

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Services to become an investentator, and long story short, it

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was a job for Residential Childcare Licensing, which is the

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governmental entity that license and.

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Bay terrifying all things residential care.

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Now, I was twenty something and didn't know what that

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means working for the government. You know anything by anybody

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know anything about working for the government until we don't know.

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So you sign up and you go in and you

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ride out of what you said because you're making any

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more money than you thought you would ever make it

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that age.

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And then you start to realize, oh wait, this is

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real work, like for real work. And I always say

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this is hard work because you don't get paid that

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much to do what we do.

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And I advanced my career doing multiple things for the

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government and the capacity of residential care and just for

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the you know, the masters to understand what that means.

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Once children are taken out of their home.

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Through time to take the services, most of them go

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into what we call residential care, which are.

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I eat, moup homes and the group home setting, that

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kind of thing.

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And I transitioned into a different position in residential care

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where I actually went directly into those grouthons and saw

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the children and that you know, being in hair head

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on those heads. And after doing that for so long

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and worked in different positions and going to state office

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and working in state office, and when I say state office,

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I mean going to Austin, right and going back and

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forth and doing that, I wanted to do more. I

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wanted to do different so possibly make a change in

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you know, working with the children directly, because that's where

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I felt like the biggest need was. So about six

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years ago I got a wonderful opportunity.

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I know a lot of people to think so at

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the time, but that's neither head or there. Got a

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wonderful opportunity.

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You can work on the private side and working directly

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with the kids, and I was the program director of

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a few of what they call residential treatment facilities in

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the area, and from there decided, Hey, if I can

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do it for other people and run other people's businesses,

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I can.

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Definitely do it for my faults. So yeah, about two

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and a half years ago, decided to step.

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Out on praise literally and start my own what they

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call child placement agency. So I have a direct contract

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with the Same of Sexes and several other contracted entities

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to be the voice to be the placement agency.

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So Child Protective Services.

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Will contact me directly to actually place children in homes

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that I personally along with my team, that we license,

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we verify them, we make the decision on placement where

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those children go, to ensure that they're safe, that they're loved,

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that they're giving all of the services that they need.

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And yeah, and it has been the best decision that

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ever made. I often see it as you know, a

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lot of people always tell me, oh, you're such a

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blessing to the kids, in which they don't realize the

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kids are blessing me.

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And my team like asks for a better team.

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But the kids have truly been a blessing because they

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have shown us what we needed to do for them

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instead of the other words. And so while we thought

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we were blessed them, they really truly you have blessed us.

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So yeah, that's basically what we do now. Why I'm

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here is because it's really a call of action to

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our community to become foster parents, because there's been this

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negative connotation with foster parents.

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What we hear on you know, the news, and what we.

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See you know in Live and Live in color, what

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we think, right, it's not un necessarily the truth. And

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so this spelling the myth has been the biggest.

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Thing for me on what that means when you become

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a hostile parent.

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Lets I.

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Need to put that on the shirt.

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I am a myth buster, Yeah, I like, I like

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to bust the myth because you.

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Know, I do a lot of events like this where

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I just go and.

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Talk to the people just you know, a question and

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answer saion, where I go into the community and really

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answer all of their questions truthfully.

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So yeah, I.

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Do.

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So it's always this person that everybody always thinks, oh,

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you have to have.

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A lot of money to do this.

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No you don't.

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You don't have to have a lot of money. I

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always ask, you know, any of the parents or potential parents, like,

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the first.

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Thing is, can you love a child that's not yours?

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And I don't understand how you love a child of

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that's not yours. And here's the thing, because we are

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who we are, I'm gonna use the term that everybody

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can agree with.

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It take the village to raise a child. That is

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a cultural thing for us as a people.

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Right. So a lot of us were raised by our

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village and we know.

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That over the years that village has changed. Yes, right,

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And my goal is to bring the village back because

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the children need the village, right.

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So I spend it, like I said, I spent a

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lot of my conscious educating the people on what that

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looks like and hey, let's bring the village back together

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because that's what the kids need.

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And I, you know, I think that that is one

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of the things is that we talk about the village

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and what happened to the village.

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What did happen to one village idiot? That's the whole village.

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That's that's what happened to the village. It was that

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one village idiot and nobody else wanted to be a part.

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And here's here's that.

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Thing that that I feel that when that one idiot,

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that's the village of it, that's the village of it,

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that's the children of the village.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very true because you know,

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there's there's all kinds of the things that we talk about,

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you know, especially in the black family, that happened and

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that you know, what happens to his house stays in

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his house, and we know that it's not all the

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best prac just historically speaking, but if the children had

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the village, a lot of them would not come into care, right,

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And just to kind of give you numbers, on any

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average day like today, there's about three hundred children just

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in our immediate areas that don't have places, that don't

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have anywhere to go.

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On average, three hundred.

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So let's just do the math, simple math, right, If

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we don't have enough parents to say I will take

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the children, where do those kids go?

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Right?

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So just to kind of give y'all numbers the families

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that I have in my agency, there's not very many.

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I don't have a lot of homes in my agency

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because we drive ourselves on quality and because of that,

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our homes are at capacity. I have more than a

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few homes.

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That are carried for five or more children in their homes.

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Absolutely right, because once they signed up, it's like, okay,

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this is something that they need. Because in what we

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do know about our community is that we don't just

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come single children, right, has a brother, a cousin, somebody

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that comes along with them. And that's the need right

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now to not break up family, not to break up siblings.

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So a lot of my families are taking sibling groups

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as well, sibling groups for sibling groups before because.

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You know, we don't come solo now.

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So when they do the the placement, it's this permanent

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or is this transition.

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It really depends on the child and the case and

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what's going on with the family.

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Sometimes kids come in.

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With what we call, you know, a temporary managing situation

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where you know, family members need to get themselves together,

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they need to work services, they need to go finish rehab.

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There's several different reasons why a child would come in

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you know, temporary, you know, simply because you know, my dad, grandma,

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who would grandpa.

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Whoever needs to you know, set.

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Things up for them, right, and so it takes time,

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so you know, anywhere from three to six months or

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sometimes up to eighteen months to forever. So it relative

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depends on the child. And going back to mix, right,

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there's I always get this one like you have to

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be married to do this.

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Now.

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Now, now that's a little not no.

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Now you can be a of anybody can be a

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boster parent. Anybody can be a foster parient. As long

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as you have a clean background, or a relatively clean background.

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Let me let me put.

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That out, a relatively clean background, you will come across

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the unity absolutely, even if you want to take a

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child on a temporary basis and just give them a

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roof over their head, plows on.

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Their back and love like like because sometimes that's all

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what they mean.

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Right, we make it hard sometimes and it's really smile.

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That is amazing, That is amazing, And I could just

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when you say the number of.

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The children, that's astonishment.

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You know that that really is is to know that

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there's that meaning that and not.

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To anybody Hart Streams, but yeah, it is that meaning

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on any giving day and right now, they are in

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places where they should be. They're regulated here and we

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say unregulated meaning they're in hotels, they're in offices.

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They are everywhere that.

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A kid does not need to be. And these children

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are missing out on school. You know, they're getting further

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further behindication. So you know, hey, if we don't help

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out our own, what is twenty years from now gonna live?

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Right?

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I totally agree because eventually those kids will quote unquote

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age out again. And yeah, if we don't help our own,

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imagine what someone look like ten.

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Years from the Yes, Wow, we'll tell me more about

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your foundation. Give us, give it, smow on, get.

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Us swell.

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To give us all that.

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All of it.

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Okay, Okay, So, like I said, the Davenport Foundation, we've

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actually been in existence in twenty eighteen.

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I started off doing a.

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Transitional living home or girl actually right down the street from.

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Here in Sunnyside.

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Uh huh yeah, right down the street ironically on Davenport Street.

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I can't get away from it. That was my plan,

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but it kind of in that way. Yeah, so I

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get that first until all of my girls transitioned out.

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And I say my girls because some of them still

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contact me with all of their issues and problems.

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Because once you love a kid, you know.

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They love your back forever, right, And yeah, I'm still

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check in with them. And so from there, like I said,

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I opened up the child placement agency. My office is

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located right in Perland, so I'm literally right there on

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Broadway Street in Kingsley. I'm about five minutes down the

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road from Shallowford High Schools. Or I'm located not too

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far from here, because you know, I'm not going straight

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too far from.

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My hood the same. I can't. I can't.

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I think that's what my heart is and it's for me.

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It was a problem location. So I can service, you know,

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both places because I'm a little further out. So you

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talk about the country, but I'm in the country, oh,

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because I live.

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In Roshan right now. But I serve, but I service.

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I service the area, and we didn't actually service up

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to one hundred and fifty miles radius.

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So yeah, so there's no excuse.

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We go as far south and as far north as

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one hundred and fifty miles.

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Oh you you know, Hey.

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We got a lot of homes on the north side too.

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You know, I got to get a shout out to

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my homes on the north side because they've been riding

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with me too.

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Now.

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They complained about having a drive out here it's time

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to do you know, beatings and trainings. But we do.

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We have the homes in Roach we got home album.

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Yeah we do.

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She talked about growing in the stitch.

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Yeah, I have home in Angels. Yeah, we go, we go,

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and then we go as far north. We have a home.

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They just moved to Conroll.

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They probably log in because they're one of my favorite

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of the families.

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Yeah they're in Conroe.

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Wow.

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Yeah we Yeah, we.

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Actually far area.

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We cover a large area. We don't discriminate all so

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on an average.

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I think you said before, how many kids are you

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at homes right now?

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How many?

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So our current numbers are thirty two.

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Okay, because you know, unfortunately I lost a few kids

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last week. But for a good reason. I lost eight

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kids last week. And I say I lost s, but

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I did. They actually got adopted.

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That was a good reason.

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Yeah.

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So they found there for air home.

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So we were able to adopt out those kids and

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they found them for home. Shout out to miss Johnson

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if you're watching Captain Johnson. She's the actual uh the

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police Department of Captain. She's looking forward to her retirement

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and she actually adopted a sibling.

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Group of four.

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What was it, Captain Johnson? Captain if you mean one can.

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Jay?

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Yeah, Well then I also have another young lady. She's

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going through the adoption process. So we you know, we've

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been walking and these kids forever family.

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Let me ask you, since you talked about that and

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I don't know, just ask me.

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Is it.

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Harder the older they are.

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For the right surely yes, because there is this misconception

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that the older the child is, the more people they are.

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When we found it, it's actually the opposite because a

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lot of the older kids kind of understand their situation, right,

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So as they come into the homes and they're coming

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to care because they understand their situation, they know what

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the other side looks like if they don't have somewhere.

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To go, right, So, you know, they when it comes.

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To behavior, they're typically on their best behavior and they

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don't give too much resistance versus a smaller child who

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doesn't really understand why why they can't see, you know,

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with mom and dad or you know, because people What

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people don't realize is children, no matter what happens to them,

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still want to be home, no matter how bad the

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home is.

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Yeah.

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So a lot of the kids that you know, they're

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they're gone through trauma, and we work those services, we

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provide services to them. So one of the things that

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my agency pride ourselves on is, you know that stigma

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in our community about therapy and actually going through therapy.

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All of my children received therapy upon anty Wow, every

504
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:58.680
last one of them, because I believe that if they're

505
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:02.200
coming into there, you know, for what one reason or another,

506
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.039
they need to talk of that, they need to get

507
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.759
it out and to deal with their feelings. And you know,

508
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.759
just as a culture, we're still.

509
00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.400
Working on that. We're still working on what that meeds to,

510
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:17.279
you know, get our feelings out and deal with it.

511
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.279
Because that was I was going to ask you that,51200:30:20.519 --> 00:30:22.720



and I'm glad you touched on that. So what are51300:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.519



some of the things that to offer other that just51400:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.119



as you touched on putting the part, So these are51500:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.240



some things that hope is there are there any other51600:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.839



things that you offer?51700:30:37.240 --> 00:30:43.319



So in addition to therapy, we also offer behavioral field management,51800:30:43.880 --> 00:30:48.319



So you know, we have another team of qualify mental51900:30:48.359 --> 00:30:51.759



health professionals that work with the ending. They do all52000:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.839



of the activities that are kids fraendly and kids focused52100:30:55.279 --> 00:31:00.000



to where the child whill understand how to manage their behind,52200:31:00.519 --> 00:31:02.960



manage their thought process, that kind of thing. So we52300:31:03.079 --> 00:31:06.440



do offer those services. One of the things that we52400:31:06.599 --> 00:31:11.000



also have started in some of our children that are52500:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.759



on the spectrum of autism and so we are working52600:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.960



with ABA therapists, so we actually provide those services for52700:31:20.119 --> 00:31:20.880



children with talks.52800:31:22.079 --> 00:31:24.119



So there's a you know, there's a lot of things52900:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.200



that we do in regards to you know, helping the53000:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.160



children process.53100:31:28.319 --> 00:31:31.079



And you know, one thing I just can't process on53200:31:31.279 --> 00:31:34.720



is you know, we truly are a family and even53300:31:34.759 --> 00:31:38.160



though you know, quote unquote we're an agency, but I'm.53400:31:38.000 --> 00:31:41.480



Into joined to all the and you know they know that,53500:31:42.279 --> 00:31:44.319



you know, they can always count on me if they53600:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.039



can't count on the parents. But you know, we jumped in,53700:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.160



we baby seas, we bake the kids to the doctor.53800:31:50.519 --> 00:31:52.319



We've got it all. That's the one thing that I53900:31:52.400 --> 00:31:53.839



can say about being such a.54000:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.079



Close KNITUE agency is that you know, there's nothing that54100:31:57.160 --> 00:31:59.559



we say we won't do because we will do it all.54200:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.599



You know, I've taken kids to get their hair done.54300:32:02.480 --> 00:32:05.480



And nails done and for the boys and all that54400:32:05.880 --> 00:32:09.079



that's the stuff that I love doing is really connected54500:32:09.160 --> 00:32:11.000



to connecting with the father.54600:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.839



So tell me about your agency. How many coats?54700:32:19.559 --> 00:32:24.119



What my proveer? Oh, I have a wonderful I do.54800:32:24.359 --> 00:32:27.079



I have a wonderful group. So I have a team.54900:32:27.559 --> 00:32:29.559



I have three past managers, uh.55000:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.920



And they actually are the ones that go out to55100:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.519



the home and visit the kids and you know, do55200:32:34.680 --> 00:32:38.559



their checkooks and making sure that they receive services and.55300:32:38.559 --> 00:32:38.920



All of that.55400:32:39.640 --> 00:32:43.559



And then I have a treatment director.55500:32:43.680 --> 00:32:47.160



So the treatment director is the person that is a55600:32:47.279 --> 00:32:50.839



license professional counselor. She actually makes sure that the children55700:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.680



receive all of their treatment services to therapy.55800:32:53.480 --> 00:32:54.920



All of that stuff, right.55900:32:55.559 --> 00:32:56.359



And then I have a.56000:32:56.400 --> 00:32:58.599



Team shout out to Pathway piece if y'all are on.56100:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.240



They actually do my qualify mental health behavior skills training.56200:33:04.599 --> 00:33:09.240



So they are a team of also uh what we56300:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.599



call qualified mental health professionals that come out and help56400:33:12.720 --> 00:33:16.240



the kids do all of the stuff, the behavioral skills56500:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.799



training that the kids actually love because they feel like56600:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.799



they're playing, so play therapy that kind of thing. So yeah,56700:33:24.480 --> 00:33:26.920



so I have a team of all of those people.56800:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.799



And like I said, I just opened an office in Tyler, Texas.56900:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.079



So I have an office manager that's bolding it down57000:33:33.200 --> 00:33:36.119



and Tyler when I'm not there, just for the last57100:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.119



couple of months. I have been before different, you know,57200:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.559



maybe making jokes because they're like, I can't believe you57300:33:41.720 --> 00:33:44.119



fly back and forth, but I am not a road57400:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.480



trip girl by all means. So I fly into Dallas.57500:33:50.359 --> 00:33:54.240



Uh what, it's the same business.57600:33:56.000 --> 00:33:59.039



Yes, it's the same I did. I'm Matthew.57700:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.200



You know I don't doing roatry, so I'm active. It's57800:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.319



actually the same. So I fly into love Field, take57900:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.559



get a rental car, drive and our hour and a58000:34:10.639 --> 00:34:14.880



hand to the office. I've worked all day, drove back58100:34:14.960 --> 00:34:17.079



to love Field, got on the plane, came back on.58200:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.000



So now that I have an office manager holding down58300:34:23.039 --> 00:34:25.920



the court out there, yeah, I can stay home for58400:34:26.039 --> 00:34:27.639



about day.58500:34:27.880 --> 00:34:32.920



Okay, wow, Wow, Okay. Here's the other I've heard about58600:34:34.079 --> 00:34:39.880



the kids. I've heard about your running for Amazing and58700:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.679



Bottish staff, that you have that place that holds.58800:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.559



It down, that actually working right now.58900:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.880



Listen, I'm shooting for y'all are raised. So when you59000:34:55.159 --> 00:35:02.960



get forget the country boy Fast Amazing, because it wasn't59100:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.159



for them, you wouldn't be able to do what you do.59200:35:06.320 --> 00:35:08.880



Because they free you up to be able to go59300:35:09.159 --> 00:35:10.800



out and be who you are.59400:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.320



Yeah, there are. Oh I'm trying to mess. Oh my god,59500:35:17.360 --> 00:35:17.840



she's gonna be.59600:35:18.320 --> 00:35:22.039



I forgot to mention my home developer. Oh yes, that's59700:35:22.079 --> 00:35:25.000



my girl. Okay, so yeah, one of my home but59800:35:25.159 --> 00:35:25.519



I know.59900:35:27.239 --> 00:35:28.880



She's actually yes.60000:35:29.039 --> 00:35:29.679



So j C.60100:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.880



I'm sorry, j C.60200:35:31.239 --> 00:35:33.280



She gonna give me for not giving her a shout out.60300:35:33.639 --> 00:35:37.000



So j C is my home developer and recruiter, so60400:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.639



she goes she's my first, right, she goes out of60500:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.920



the community and recruit fosse apearance because she is in herself.60600:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.719



She has been the best recruiter, the best recruiter because60700:35:49.760 --> 00:35:53.039



she gives them first hand experience on how to do this,60800:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.079



and her and her wife have they don't turn any60900:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.960



children down. I have to stop them to say, oh,61000:36:00.039 --> 00:36:01.679



say wait a minute, y'all, y'all can't say all the61100:36:01.800 --> 00:36:08.599



kids now. So now they called themselves the emergency because wow,61200:36:09.039 --> 00:36:10.719



they take all they would take.61300:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.760



All the kids they could. So yeah, we had to61400:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.000



actually limit them and say, hey, y'all can only take61500:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.639



six because the state only allows you to take six.61600:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.920



So yeah, I have actually three homes right now with61700:36:23.119 --> 00:36:24.559



six children. Wow.61800:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.159



Oh wow, that's and that was That was actually, so61900:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.320



j T, you would at the end. You were actually62000:36:32.440 --> 00:36:35.719



at the beginning, because what I was going to ask62100:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.559



next is.62200:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.280



I no, no, no, I was saying you, j T.62300:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.480



J T was about you.62400:36:41.719 --> 00:36:44.480



This was your segment because I was going to ask62500:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.199



about you talked about the kids and talked about your staff.62600:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.719



But the next one was what about the families that62700:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.840



have the kids? So this is where j T and62800:36:54.960 --> 00:36:56.920



her experience come in.62900:36:57.800 --> 00:37:02.000



So tell me how she goes and finds.63000:37:03.519 --> 00:37:05.360



Speech doing just what I do.63100:37:06.599 --> 00:37:09.599



I tell people I haven't met a person yet that63200:37:09.800 --> 00:37:14.159



I'm all at the grocery store, like hey, yeah, And63300:37:14.440 --> 00:37:16.360



because a lot of times, like I said, you know,63400:37:16.480 --> 00:37:19.880



there's this stigma against you know what it is like,63500:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.119



don't believe the hype, and please don't listen to those63600:37:23.199 --> 00:37:26.119



crazy movies that people are putting out. I hate those63700:37:26.199 --> 00:37:29.199



movies that talk all about the negative about fossa there.63800:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.199



But every negative movie that they have out there, I63900:37:32.239 --> 00:37:34.480



can give you a positive one to look at. I'm64000:37:34.559 --> 00:37:38.599



just saying, but yeah, that's exactly she does, exactly this.64100:37:39.320 --> 00:37:42.639



She'll go out in the community. She participates in a64200:37:42.719 --> 00:37:46.000



lot of community events. We are looking forward to part64300:37:46.719 --> 00:37:48.599



a few off festivals that are coming up. We go64400:37:48.719 --> 00:37:51.760



where the families are, where the people that are even64500:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.800



thinking about bringing kids into their household. One of the64600:37:55.920 --> 00:38:00.320



things that we recently launched was an initiative said to64700:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.800



work with the lgbtq A community because you know, naturally64800:38:04.920 --> 00:38:07.719



they can't have KEP right, and so a lot of64900:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.840



them have reached out because, believe it or not, due65000:38:10.960 --> 00:38:16.480



to the abortion and laws in our great state of Texas.65100:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.039



You know, these young ladies can no longer have abortions, right,65200:38:21.639 --> 00:38:25.960



and because of that, the rate of newborns coming into65300:38:26.079 --> 00:38:30.159



care has you know, I can give you numbers, it has.65400:38:30.119 --> 00:38:35.599



Jumped ninety percent really in the yes, in the last65500:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.480



couple of months since the ebotional laws have changed.65600:38:38.599 --> 00:38:42.159



Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, every.65700:38:42.119 --> 00:38:47.320



Day literally if I can show you the list, because65800:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.920



how it happens is once you know, she has a baby,65900:38:50.960 --> 00:38:52.960



and you know, we still have baby Moses law, right,66000:38:53.760 --> 00:38:55.559



and if you don't know what baby Moses law is,66100:38:55.679 --> 00:38:57.679



if you have a baby, you can bring them to66200:38:57.880 --> 00:39:01.639



a fire station, police station, or filled with you know,66300:39:02.199 --> 00:39:05.519



no recasion, so there's no thing that would.66400:39:05.360 --> 00:39:06.599



Be taken against mom.66500:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.960



You know, no criminal charges will be imposed, none of that, well,66600:39:11.320 --> 00:39:13.440



what happens to those babies that end up at the66700:39:13.480 --> 00:39:19.000



police station, fire station hospital, They come immediately into child66800:39:19.079 --> 00:39:23.639



protective services and those children, you know, child protective.66900:39:23.280 --> 00:39:26.559



Services, which is out to agencies like myself and say, hey,67000:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.639



we have a new one three days old, two days ol,67100:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.039



five days old, and they need places.67200:39:32.599 --> 00:39:32.800



Now.67300:39:33.400 --> 00:39:36.960



The great thing in all of this, the still reling67400:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.400



in that, is that we have a lot of people67500:39:40.519 --> 00:39:44.440



that have reached out that want to monster or about67600:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.360



if right when there used to be a time.67700:39:48.239 --> 00:39:52.079



Where you know, it was difficult to get an event.67800:39:52.400 --> 00:39:57.880



Now because of the abortionalized in Texas, every single.67900:39:57.760 --> 00:40:02.239



Day, every single day, we get at least three calls68000:40:02.800 --> 00:40:04.280



a day every day.68100:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.920



And yeah, so just to give you in numbers.68200:40:09.079 --> 00:40:13.559



Just then, of the last two months, we placed three68300:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.320



newborns just in our homes and the homes at at68400:40:17.360 --> 00:40:21.440



that important operation and our youngest baby we placed them.68500:40:21.480 --> 00:40:27.760



They were three days oh three days yeah, yeah. So68600:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.119



that was one thing that I don't think anyone.68700:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.960



Considered, you know, our beautiful lawmakers when they decided to68800:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.840



be an abortion, is what's going to happen to these68900:40:38.920 --> 00:40:43.119



babies that are being born? Because guess what there was69000:40:43.280 --> 00:40:51.880



not additional put into birth control. So and a lot69100:40:51.960 --> 00:40:55.000



of the babies are being born to extremely young mothers,69200:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.000



right and yeah, you know a lot of the women,69300:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.360



you know, women or you know, hiding their preses and69400:41:02.519 --> 00:41:05.960



bringing them to the fire stations, to these stations and69500:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.199



high school standing walking away.69600:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.239



So we recently had a baby most this case.69700:41:11.960 --> 00:41:16.239



About she's been in the home about three weeks now. Wow,69800:41:16.559 --> 00:41:17.800



yeap where that baby was.69900:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.719



Left at the fire station not too far from here.70000:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.400



Don't want to put that out there because you know70100:41:23.719 --> 00:41:26.679



which fire station, but yes, the fire station was not70200:41:26.760 --> 00:41:27.360



too far from here.70300:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.760



We got in a media call to do an emergency placement.70400:41:31.400 --> 00:41:32.199



It just so happened.70500:41:32.480 --> 00:41:36.199



We had beautiful family that wanted to expand their family70600:41:36.639 --> 00:41:39.360



and so now they have a new babyhill and how wow?70700:41:39.760 --> 00:41:45.639



So what happened on the flip side of that, if70800:41:45.679 --> 00:41:51.159



there's not places like the Dead Before Foundation, what happens70900:41:51.559 --> 00:41:55.119



when the the dad Before foundation.71000:41:55.360 --> 00:42:00.639



Has matched out? They reached their living them Now.71100:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.119



I am completely maxed out in all of our homes.71200:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.199



I don't have any availability. I spend most of my71300:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.880



time turning down placement all day every day, and it71400:42:10.960 --> 00:42:15.199



breaks my heart because Here's the thing. What y'all don't71500:42:15.239 --> 00:42:20.119



see every day is the faces. Those features do me71600:42:20.280 --> 00:42:24.360



in every time because you know, it's hard to turn71700:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.360



down a qut kid, right, So we do a lot71800:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.000



of you know, denials.71900:42:30.480 --> 00:42:32.440



Right now, I've been denying every day.72000:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.679



So on an average, just to give you average numbers,72100:42:35.880 --> 00:42:41.599



we get roughly about thirty kids requested replacement every single day.72200:42:42.519 --> 00:42:44.800



And I've been turning down at least thirty kids a72300:42:44.960 --> 00:42:48.639



day or at least the last because I've been fool72400:42:49.440 --> 00:42:50.320



for about a month now.72500:42:51.280 --> 00:42:55.719



Yeah, So that's why we need, y'all, we need homes. Yeah,72600:42:55.960 --> 00:42:58.559



And it ain't hard, y'all, it ain't because a lot72700:42:58.559 --> 00:43:02.679



of people, you know, my processing it takes forever, and72800:43:03.239 --> 00:43:05.519



you know, it's really not that hard. It's not, at72900:43:05.599 --> 00:43:07.039



least not in my agency anyway.73000:43:08.440 --> 00:43:08.599



You know.73100:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.440



Please background, we send training for you to do. Most73200:43:12.480 --> 00:43:16.960



of our training is done online. There's only one training that.73300:43:17.280 --> 00:43:19.679



We do in person. Besides if you're in first aid,73400:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.440



we do one other training that we do in person.73500:43:23.199 --> 00:43:25.760



But for the most part, we can get you license73600:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.480



verified and you get your first placement within sixty days.73700:43:29.519 --> 00:43:30.199



It's two months.73800:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.039



So hey, sign and sign up. Hey, call me.73900:43:37.559 --> 00:43:41.400



Email me please, So my email, my personal email. Because74000:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.760



I respond to my personal email, you can reach me.74100:43:44.280 --> 00:43:46.400



I made it easy for everybody. It's joy and the74200:43:46.599 --> 00:43:51.639



DA Having Boy Foundation really simple. It's pretty. They don't74300:43:51.679 --> 00:43:53.639



get no easier than it. I made it real simple.74400:43:54.239 --> 00:43:57.719



So you email me, you email me. I would get74500:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.360



you started very quickly.74600:44:01.079 --> 00:44:03.440



Because we need homes.74700:44:03.480 --> 00:44:07.519



There is a foster home shortage. We don't need it.74800:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.800



You know, we definitely need you because, like I said,74900:44:12.000 --> 00:44:17.159



they have nowhere for the kids to go. Yeah, it's really.75000:44:17.039 --> 00:44:20.119



Unfortunate and it's an epidemic in our community. And I75100:44:20.199 --> 00:44:22.480



hate to use that word, but it's true. It is75200:44:22.519 --> 00:44:27.000



an epidemic in our community because there's not enough of75300:44:27.239 --> 00:44:29.960



us that are willing to take our children.75400:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.800



And you know, I'm gonna be honest, it's probably one75500:44:32.840 --> 00:44:36.840



of those things that you never think about it.75600:44:37.760 --> 00:44:40.360



Oh, it's not. That's why I spend most of my75700:44:40.480 --> 00:44:41.599



time like, hey, you ever.75800:44:41.599 --> 00:44:42.079



Thought about it?75900:44:42.320 --> 00:44:46.239



Most people will say no, I haven't. But you know76000:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.000



that's just like prior to me working in this industry,76100:44:49.599 --> 00:44:53.239



it was not something that even crossed my mind. And76200:44:53.360 --> 00:44:55.800



I meet people all the time. The first time I have.76300:44:55.920 --> 00:44:58.519



A conversation with them. Now that I put it on76400:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.079



their mind, They're like, oh wait, I would love to help.76500:45:01.159 --> 00:45:01.880



How do I help?76600:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.159



Because even if you don't want to be a foster parent,76700:45:04.360 --> 00:45:08.119



there's other ways that you can help the first time,76800:45:08.599 --> 00:45:11.320



you know, because some people say, well, I you know,76900:45:11.519 --> 00:45:15.360



I'm busy. I can't commit to, you know, being a77000:45:15.440 --> 00:45:18.360



full time foster parent. Well can you commit to being77100:45:18.400 --> 00:45:20.960



a babysitter? Help the people out I told you my77200:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.559



homes have up to six kids in the home. Sometime77300:45:23.679 --> 00:45:26.719



they just need help, right Like I talked about.77400:45:26.519 --> 00:45:27.400



That village earlier.77500:45:27.559 --> 00:45:30.880



Sometimes we just need the village. Hey. You know how77600:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000



like when your mama was busy and big Mama watched you. Hey,77700:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.199



a lot of times we just need some big mamas.77800:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.960



We need people to say, hey, we can take the children,77900:45:39.000 --> 00:45:41.559



even on a temporary basis. We can baby see it,78000:45:41.679 --> 00:45:43.760



we can come and volunteer, we can come and read78100:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.960



to the children that bedtime store, anything like. We need78200:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.239



help because it takes a village, It really does.78300:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.760



Yes, you do when you say that. So you these78400:45:54.800 --> 00:45:58.199



are things and the ways that people can.78500:45:58.320 --> 00:46:03.360



Actually Absolutely there's a lot of you know, also, I78600:46:03.519 --> 00:46:07.039



have a few people have reached out about mentorship. We78700:46:07.239 --> 00:46:12.239



do have some boys because I was blessed with an agency.78800:46:11.960 --> 00:46:18.280



Full of boy full of boys, young black boys that78900:46:18.480 --> 00:46:23.599



need mentors. I'm just saying, boy boys, look at him.79000:46:25.199 --> 00:46:28.960



I'm just gonna throw that out there any time if79100:46:29.000 --> 00:46:29.199



I do.79200:46:29.800 --> 00:46:30.599



I have a lot of.79300:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.039



Boys that need mentorship. They just need somebody to say79400:46:34.119 --> 00:46:41.320



they care. Yeah, and I do have I have a79500:46:41.440 --> 00:46:45.599



few single men foster pinions. Let me tell you there's79600:46:45.960 --> 00:46:48.760



my best fosterion. I ain't saying you got to be friends.79700:46:50.599 --> 00:46:50.719



There.79800:46:50.840 --> 00:46:53.480



Some foster fis are single men.79900:46:55.119 --> 00:46:56.719



By them a six year old.80000:46:56.920 --> 00:46:57.239



I just.80100:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.079



I have a foster Peary had a six year old,80200:47:01.159 --> 00:47:02.880



two three.80300:47:04.639 --> 00:47:10.280



I'm just oh, hey.80400:47:13.559 --> 00:47:18.239



Said we can mentors volunteers. We always want to do80500:47:18.360 --> 00:47:22.840



a lot of activities with the kids. So yeah, mentoring80600:47:23.159 --> 00:47:25.719



at you know, Christmas is coming up, needed a lot80700:47:25.760 --> 00:47:29.119



of volunteers. You know, a lot of people don't think80800:47:29.159 --> 00:47:32.239



about that, but you know, by the end of the year,80900:47:32.320 --> 00:47:36.280



we're projecting to have to fiftys and we're servicing you.81000:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.440



Know, fifty Christmas is I'm just saying.81100:47:40.000 --> 00:47:43.079



So as far as sponsorship, we'll be looking for sponsorship81200:47:43.119 --> 00:47:44.599



coming up for Christmas.81300:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.199



We do have a fall besicol that my.81400:47:49.320 --> 00:47:53.559



Parents are actually putting together that they just notified if today.81500:47:54.800 --> 00:47:56.760



We don't even have a day. I don't even think81600:47:56.800 --> 00:47:58.599



they had a day yet. They kind of just asked81700:47:58.639 --> 00:48:03.280



me for permission today, like, hey, can we do about Yeah, absolutely,81800:48:03.320 --> 00:48:04.599



as long as y'all set it up.81900:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.880



So yeah, and then so we'll be definitely out there82000:48:09.920 --> 00:48:15.480



in the community for you know, volunteers, mentors, you know, donation.82100:48:16.639 --> 00:48:17.280



I'm gonna say that the.82200:48:21.159 --> 00:48:21.360



Yeah.82300:48:21.440 --> 00:48:24.679



So there's there's multiple ways that you can help.82400:48:25.159 --> 00:48:28.440



Even if you don't want to be a poster like82500:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.719



I said, you know, there is you know, baby eating.82600:48:31.840 --> 00:48:33.599



You could just you know, be a big brother for82700:48:33.639 --> 00:48:36.880



a day, just saying just give them some help, because82800:48:36.880 --> 00:48:37.679



that's you know a.82900:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.440



Lot of times the foster parents, it's all they need.83000:48:39.519 --> 00:48:43.280



They just need a break. Sometimes there's a third thing83100:48:43.320 --> 00:48:48.000



that we call it respect here where you know, you know,83200:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.480



even my own mom has agreed to be a reskic.83300:48:50.199 --> 00:48:53.320



Provider where she will give off Hans a break. Or83400:48:53.360 --> 00:48:55.199



if they want to go on vacation, they can go83500:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.280



on vacation for a week and your kids while they're gone.83600:48:58.599 --> 00:49:01.280



If you want to be resky, you do that. Yeah,83700:49:01.320 --> 00:49:02.440



there's multiple ways that.83800:49:02.480 --> 00:49:02.960



You can help.83900:49:03.079 --> 00:49:06.280



Look, we'll find something. Just we will put you where84000:49:06.360 --> 00:49:08.079



you need to be, wherever you feel off.84100:49:08.920 --> 00:49:14.159



There you go, We'll look ahead standing ponents. Before we84200:49:14.679 --> 00:49:19.440



closed down, I need for you, so once more again84300:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.440



give your informations. So all these volunteers, that's fit the84400:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.440



flow through all the devations, just with the flow through84500:49:29.880 --> 00:49:31.280



all the Christmas steps, with.84600:49:31.400 --> 00:49:35.840



The let it flow.84700:49:37.199 --> 00:49:41.119



We made it easy for everybody because the website is84800:49:41.360 --> 00:49:43.079



the Davenport Foundation dot com.84900:49:43.639 --> 00:49:46.199



I mean you you see the shirt right, I mean,85000:49:46.239 --> 00:49:48.280



I'm just saying we made it really easy for everyone85100:49:48.360 --> 00:49:49.079



to find us.85200:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.199



You go to our website, the Davenport Foundation dot com.85300:49:53.320 --> 00:49:57.440



You can email me enjoy at the Davonport Foundation dot com.85400:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.679



We are located right.85500:49:59.719 --> 00:50:05.480



On Kingsley Driving, Parentland thirty one twenty nine Kingsley Sweet85600:50:05.559 --> 00:50:10.199



twelve twenty in Paarland, Texas. And if you're in East85700:50:10.239 --> 00:50:13.119



Texas and you're looking for me in Thailand, we are85800:50:13.239 --> 00:50:15.519



at seven seven seven South Broadway. We are in the85900:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.639



We are on the main street in Tyler.86000:50:17.719 --> 00:50:21.360



You can't miss we are and you can't miss the86100:50:21.400 --> 00:50:25.440



building seven seven seven South Broadway, Tyler, Texas. Or in86200:50:25.599 --> 00:50:27.920



the middle smack dawn in the middle of apparentlyand in86300:50:28.039 --> 00:50:32.599



thirty one twenty nine Kingsley Drive in Parentland, Texas. You86400:50:32.679 --> 00:50:35.000



can't miss Adamaport Foundation dot com.86500:50:36.159 --> 00:50:40.000



Man what what what a blessed say? Thank you, thank86600:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.119



you for coming, thank you for sharing. It is that86700:50:46.199 --> 00:50:48.480



I love what you're doing. I love why you're doing it.86800:50:48.599 --> 00:50:52.239



That is that is that is so important. It's so86900:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.079



important for each and every one of y'all to understand.87000:50:57.960 --> 00:51:03.960



We are the village, were the buildings, the standing point87100:51:04.039 --> 00:51:07.519



has the foundation. She's out doing what she do. So87200:51:07.679 --> 00:51:13.880



the question is what are you going to do action? Okay,87300:51:15.599 --> 00:51:17.639



some of us sit around and talk about it. We87400:51:17.800 --> 00:51:21.119



have these whole conversations, but we don't never never move87500:51:21.199 --> 00:51:22.119



by our feet to it.87600:51:23.000 --> 00:51:23.880



So what are you gonna do?87700:51:25.800 --> 00:51:30.440



You know, we talk about how terrible kids are, these kids,87800:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.159



this and this, that the other, but understand where you87900:51:36.760 --> 00:51:40.199



we want them to receive, But we ain't the ones poing.88000:51:40.039 --> 00:51:40.960



In where you at.88100:51:43.719 --> 00:51:45.920



We are who we are because of the people who88200:51:46.159 --> 00:51:46.800



raise us.88300:51:47.280 --> 00:51:47.639



There you go.88400:51:48.519 --> 00:51:51.679



So if they have no one to raise them, where88500:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.079



do you think they will be? Because you will be the.88600:51:54.119 --> 00:52:04.800



Same kids and will be out in the community. Yes, yes, yeah, Oh,88700:52:05.039 --> 00:52:07.199



it's the same thing in social Okay, that's my husband88800:52:07.239 --> 00:52:07.519



over there.88900:52:09.280 --> 00:52:09.519



I know.89000:52:11.719 --> 00:52:13.519



The same thing with the socials. You can find me89100:52:13.679 --> 00:52:16.719



on Facebook and Instagram, anti type same thing that.89200:52:18.679 --> 00:52:18.960



It is.89300:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.400



Yeah, go follow me, go follow us.89400:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.960



That all this is me and I don't you know,89500:52:26.000 --> 00:52:28.679



I don't push nobody know where. I'll tell you this.89600:52:29.960 --> 00:52:33.639



You ain't got to hear Go find out for yourself. Okay,89700:52:34.280 --> 00:52:37.519



she just told you she got a whole website. Okay,89800:52:38.159 --> 00:52:40.679



I don't believe it. Then go look at it for89900:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.199



your no, no, no, you know this shit.90000:52:44.519 --> 00:52:48.239



Okay, Well go look for your sin. She said she90100:52:48.360 --> 00:52:52.920



got an email, and go email her and see if90200:52:52.960 --> 00:52:56.079



she reply. Oh, I believe what I said is this90300:52:56.679 --> 00:52:57.480



is You ain't got.90400:52:57.400 --> 00:52:57.840



To hear me.90500:52:58.000 --> 00:52:59.440



Go find out for your sin.90600:53:00.599 --> 00:53:01.280



That's what you do.90700:53:01.480 --> 00:53:02.239



Go find out.90800:53:02.719 --> 00:53:05.280



Go look, you do know, I mean, you ain't gotta90900:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.159



look around you look you you know, children need us,91000:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.079



Our children need Listen, folks, our children are our future.91100:53:14.079 --> 00:53:18.800



Our children are our future. And he no doubt about that.91200:53:18.960 --> 00:53:22.119



You can't even lie say that ain't true. Our children91300:53:22.480 --> 00:53:23.760



are our future.91400:53:28.400 --> 00:53:32.239



I just okay, I wouldn't only want but.91500:53:32.440 --> 00:53:33.519



Here is the thing.91600:53:35.199 --> 00:53:39.480



If we are not supporting, uplifting and encouraging them, Let91700:53:39.719 --> 00:53:41.239



does your future look like?91800:53:42.760 --> 00:53:42.960



Yeah?91900:53:44.239 --> 00:53:45.639



What does your future look like?92000:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.400



If you're not trying to pour into them? What does92100:53:50.800 --> 00:53:56.280



your future look like? If you don't want to be92200:53:56.400 --> 00:53:57.320



a foster parent?92300:53:57.760 --> 00:53:59.519



You can be what's the other thing you said, he92400:53:59.639 --> 00:54:01.320



give me to it you don't want.92500:54:01.199 --> 00:54:11.280



To do up to you can be volunteers. We'll find92600:54:11.519 --> 00:54:12.360



something somewhere.92700:54:13.320 --> 00:54:17.960



And if you don't want to both make and anyway,92800:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.480



bottom line, she is one.92900:54:21.679 --> 00:54:22.320



She just said.93000:54:23.159 --> 00:54:29.239



Cool happen to turn away children that need somewhere to go.93100:54:33.039 --> 00:54:35.599



It is what it is. See, I can't tell you93200:54:35.760 --> 00:54:40.719



what to do, but you know, you know.93300:54:42.599 --> 00:54:46.360



That's the bottom blinding which country boy seeing So y'all,93400:54:46.400 --> 00:54:47.119



I don't like them.93500:54:48.119 --> 00:54:53.880



But whatever I want to say, they can't find me.93600:54:55.400 --> 00:54:58.840



That's what. Thank you, Thank you, thank you so so93700:54:59.280 --> 00:55:03.360



very much, greatly appreciate you taking the time out. Sick93800:55:03.480 --> 00:55:08.679



with old concha with a big file. I bet I93900:55:08.800 --> 00:55:14.880



got it. Pocatd too, some big old woods and then94000:55:15.039 --> 00:55:15.840



she getting up.94100:55:16.000 --> 00:55:21.559



But I mean, you know, I have to put that94200:55:21.719 --> 00:55:22.320



degree to work.94300:55:22.440 --> 00:55:28.480



Sometimes I'm just saying I paid them up for it, y'all,94400:55:28.559 --> 00:55:32.039



Go follow, y'all, go research, y'all, go Google the David94500:55:32.079 --> 00:55:32.840



Ward Foundation.94600:55:33.960 --> 00:55:38.119



Like share follow even if you don't want to become94700:55:38.159 --> 00:55:42.599



a parent somebody, you know, Mike don't like share follow,94800:55:42.679 --> 00:55:47.079



go follow me, don't like share follow on you know,94900:55:47.199 --> 00:55:49.000



I'm on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.95000:55:49.039 --> 00:55:53.039



It's all the same, all of the social Yeah, all95100:55:53.119 --> 00:55:54.400



that all.95200:55:54.320 --> 00:56:03.039



That a khy I need to get on that.95300:56:03.320 --> 00:56:05.800



I mean, you know, my kids got me on teatok95400:56:05.840 --> 00:56:08.840



because I'm not I wasn't there yet. They may get95500:56:08.920 --> 00:56:12.159



on and believe it or not, I have gotten several95600:56:12.239 --> 00:56:13.199



people reach out.95700:56:13.079 --> 00:56:14.119



To me on teatok.95800:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.079



That's that. That's the new age too.95900:56:17.320 --> 00:56:18.199



You know, I'm trying.96000:56:18.519 --> 00:56:24.599



You know, that's the ticker talk family right for real.96100:56:25.119 --> 00:56:29.000



Definitely, definitely once more again, thank you, thank you, thank you,96200:56:29.400 --> 00:56:34.360



thank you so very much. I usually asked all these questions,96300:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.320



but I'm gonna just ask you one one of my96400:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.480



pathnic questions, let's see you.96500:56:40.599 --> 00:56:52.320



Which he had to go into bang. Okay, okay, here96600:56:52.519 --> 00:56:58.400



is this question for the country boy for the tape.96700:56:58.840 --> 00:57:02.199



Okay, after hearing everything that you've done, everything that you96800:57:02.360 --> 00:57:06.320



have are doing, the hearing where you've come from and96900:57:06.400 --> 00:57:11.880



where you are the question from Miss Davenport because this97000:57:12.079 --> 00:57:14.880



is this is it is about the Devnport Foundation. But97100:57:15.000 --> 00:57:18.360



in order for people to connect with the foundation, with97200:57:18.480 --> 00:57:19.199



the person.97300:57:18.920 --> 00:57:22.800



Behind the found bation. Yeah see, I have to start97400:57:22.840 --> 00:57:25.679



a home. They have to connect with you. So I'm97500:57:25.679 --> 00:57:28.559



don't get I'm gonna get this, y'all to leave.97600:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.679



With a count of our question of all the things97700:57:31.719 --> 00:57:33.559



you are faced in this life, the ups and down,97800:57:33.639 --> 00:57:37.320



the good, the bad, trouble waller and the stead of97900:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.840



sy as you sit here right now at this point98000:57:40.960 --> 00:57:45.559



set him, would you count ball? Louisian The one question98100:57:45.599 --> 00:57:50.880



that I have to ask you this dab at this98200:57:51.079 --> 00:57:54.960



point in your life, in your career, who are you98300:57:55.119 --> 00:57:56.119



on the other side of.98400:57:59.199 --> 00:58:05.880



Whoa? What am I on the other side? My my98500:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.559



husband over there? But you about the shower? You bout98600:58:08.599 --> 00:58:10.239



the shop? What am I on the other side of98700:58:10.280 --> 00:58:10.679



the hood?98800:58:12.159 --> 00:58:15.119



Give give me to that? Whoa?98900:58:15.840 --> 00:58:24.800



Uh m hm, oh, you know I don't think what99000:58:25.320 --> 00:58:31.639



what am I on the other What am I on? Y?99100:58:36.719 --> 00:58:36.880



Oh?99200:58:37.079 --> 00:58:37.280



Lord?99300:58:40.280 --> 00:58:41.800



Did you if only you.99400:58:44.320 --> 00:58:49.800



Okay, yeah, uh yeah, be in my own boss.99500:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.880



I am on the other side of the Uh yeah.99600:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.880



That has been a journey in child. I can go99700:58:56.239 --> 00:59:01.199



the whole ferment about that one. I definitely on the99800:59:01.280 --> 00:59:04.360



other side of that. I am definitely on the other99900:59:04.519 --> 00:59:06.920



side of making the impact.100000:59:08.039 --> 00:59:12.360



In the community. I always said that I am doing100100:59:12.559 --> 00:59:17.599



his work. Uh, that's it, that is all.100200:59:18.480 --> 00:59:18.599



Uh.100300:59:19.039 --> 00:59:25.360



And you know, just tuning into that has really gotten100400:59:25.400 --> 00:59:25.880



me over.100500:59:26.880 --> 00:59:27.000



Uh.100600:59:27.800 --> 00:59:31.320



Yeah, it's a lot of sleepless nights because you know,100700:59:31.480 --> 00:59:36.159



when you become a full time on trebal because you know,100800:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.920



I read today some people don't know the difference between100900:59:39.000 --> 00:59:43.360



a good side hud school and full time entrepreneurship.101000:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.639



And uh, my little cousin, shout out to my little101100:59:49.000 --> 00:59:51.719



of putting that out there today on social media.101200:59:53.920 --> 00:59:57.639



He's younger than me, well beyond and the wisdom and101300:59:57.760 --> 01:00:00.360



sometimes you learn a lite from the young folk. And101401:00:01.079 --> 01:00:05.360



uh yeah, being a full time entrepreneur and being able101501:00:05.719 --> 01:00:11.079



to be an impact to the community. And I say101601:00:11.199 --> 01:00:14.840



all the time, you know, hey, I am blessed to101701:00:15.039 --> 01:00:16.079



be blessed.101801:00:18.360 --> 01:00:19.599



This this is not it.101901:00:19.800 --> 01:00:26.199



I'm still having a hard time accepting the assignment, if102001:00:26.239 --> 01:00:30.159



that makes sense, uh, because I say that all the time, like,102101:00:30.320 --> 01:00:33.360



this is definitely not what I would be doing if102201:00:33.400 --> 01:00:36.840



I had a choice, But.102301:00:38.400 --> 01:00:41.400



It is definitely my assignment. I just had a hard102401:00:41.440 --> 01:00:43.719



time accepting that it was my signe.102501:00:45.039 --> 01:00:48.440



And because of that, it doesn't feel like work. So102601:00:48.719 --> 01:00:51.119



it's one of those things I have to teach myself102701:00:51.159 --> 01:00:56.119



sometimes of being in the position of okay, and I102801:00:56.199 --> 01:00:58.360



don't know if a lot of entrepreneurs in kind of102901:00:59.079 --> 01:01:05.960



you know, relate with waiting for the other shooter drop103001:01:06.360 --> 01:01:08.880



if that makes me and I know that ain't what103101:01:08.960 --> 01:01:11.159



you're asking me, but I'm here now, so I'm just103201:01:11.239 --> 01:01:14.400



gonna say, I'm just saying, but yeah, that's what it is,103301:01:14.559 --> 01:01:18.400



you know, being a full time entrepreneur, like you literally103401:01:18.480 --> 01:01:22.480



put all your eggs in one basket. And because of103501:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.199



that there, you know, a lot of people say, oh,103601:01:25.320 --> 01:01:28.719



have a plan B. I don't have a plan B.103701:01:30.360 --> 01:01:34.400



I literally if I can't make plan A work, then103801:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.159



what does that say about me and what I'm doing?103901:01:38.800 --> 01:01:42.320



Oh yeah, I just continue to turn to him because,104001:01:42.400 --> 01:01:45.000



let me tell you, turn into nothing. It's turned into104101:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.360



a faith all I say all the time, me and104201:01:47.480 --> 01:01:49.480



Jesus will best friends because I go with him for104301:01:49.599 --> 01:01:51.440



everybody before.104401:01:51.159 --> 01:01:54.679



I make any decision now and that and when I104501:01:54.760 --> 01:01:56.519



say any eating decision.104601:01:56.599 --> 01:01:59.360



Before I hired somebody, because I think that's the business104701:01:59.360 --> 01:02:02.199



sipion under pretnurship is when you realize you can't do104801:02:02.239 --> 01:02:02.920



it all yourself.104901:02:04.519 --> 01:02:04.760



Yeah.105001:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.360



So I'm definitely on the other side of that. And105101:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.679



now that I'm on the other side, I think now105201:02:10.400 --> 01:02:14.320



I can breathe just a little bit, and you know105301:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.760



that's that's that's that's all.105401:02:17.400 --> 01:02:20.320



Hey man, Well, I would just say this. I hear105501:02:20.400 --> 01:02:26.880



you say, I hear you saying what you you do105601:02:27.000 --> 01:02:31.159



not have? I do not You don't need one when105701:02:31.199 --> 01:02:34.280



you gotta playing g what like that?105801:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.800



I do because that's all I got in at this point.105901:02:39.960 --> 01:02:41.960



I got to get a shout out to my beautiful husband.106001:02:42.000 --> 01:02:43.880



He's over there, you know, he being in the cut.106101:02:44.000 --> 01:02:46.119



But when I see you, he helped me up when106201:02:46.159 --> 01:02:49.280



I pulled chat. You know you if you don't know,106301:02:49.440 --> 01:02:55.760



you got you a strong partner, partner. Yeah, so I106401:02:55.840 --> 01:02:58.079



got to give a shout out to my beautiful hoodson106501:02:58.159 --> 01:02:59.960



that's sitting over there, and it's.106601:02:59.840 --> 01:03:06.880



Just me my my shout hey man, hey man, Well106701:03:06.920 --> 01:03:09.559



once for again, thank you, thank you, thank you so106801:03:10.480 --> 01:03:14.079



very much. If you have any I'm gonna step away106901:03:14.119 --> 01:03:17.800



from him, get up. I'll give you the whole thing107001:03:18.760 --> 01:03:21.840



I don't want you to do. Look countrywards leaving the107101:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.559



sett he gonna get up and he's gonna get up107201:03:24.599 --> 01:03:24.920



out the.107301:03:24.920 --> 01:03:28.199



Way, because what's gonna happen is the standard. First, don't107401:03:28.239 --> 01:03:28.760



close out.107501:03:28.920 --> 01:03:30.519



I'm gonna just tell you all this. I'm gonna just107601:03:30.599 --> 01:03:33.400



tell you I love you. I love you, I love107701:03:33.480 --> 01:03:38.519



you at there and backgum. Thing you can't do.107801:03:40.039 --> 01:03:41.719



So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna allow us107901:03:41.760 --> 01:03:43.239



to stand and to do.108001:03:43.360 --> 01:03:51.000



This to the middle out okay, and close out.108101:03:51.199 --> 01:03:53.760



What I want you to do is I want you108201:03:53.840 --> 01:03:56.519



to tell these folks about you. I want you to108301:03:56.599 --> 01:03:59.960



tell these folks anything you want to tell them. I'll108401:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.639



wants you to give them. Yo, just give them, Miss108501:04:04.719 --> 01:04:08.119



Davenport right now. If well, look, I'll just tell you this.108601:04:08.199 --> 01:04:10.480



I want you to close one.108701:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.559



More question, he said.108801:04:13.599 --> 01:04:15.320



The last question was this.108901:04:15.519 --> 01:04:16.920



This is a closing question.109001:04:17.039 --> 01:04:23.760



Right here, Dagingport, mister Dabbingport, downtown Houston, right now, downtown Houston.109101:04:23.920 --> 01:04:28.840



They are constructing the library downtown Houston. I've handed a109201:04:29.039 --> 01:04:32.320



brand new library they're building. They came to you, they said,109301:04:32.360 --> 01:04:37.920



Miss Tampingport, we are going to carry a castle underneath109401:04:38.280 --> 01:04:42.599



this lobrary and it's going to be open one hundred109501:04:42.719 --> 01:04:45.880



years from now. So how you gonna close this thing out?109601:04:46.320 --> 01:04:46.360



Is?109701:04:46.519 --> 01:04:49.480



What is the methods from you that's gonna be in109801:04:49.599 --> 01:04:52.000



that capsule that they will read one hundred years from now?109901:04:52.199 --> 01:05:00.159



Goodbye? What not?110001:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.320



Okay, wait a minute? Asking for the now he's been110101:05:03.400 --> 01:05:07.039



sticking over there all this time? Why chiming in? You110201:05:07.119 --> 01:05:09.280



know he loves to be a part of the peanut gallery.110301:05:10.360 --> 01:05:12.159



What my husband gonna say about me?110401:05:14.639 --> 01:05:15.880



In your capsule?110501:05:16.159 --> 01:05:16.440



Okay?110601:05:16.679 --> 01:05:20.559



In my counsel, you would have a picture of family. Absolutely,110701:05:21.760 --> 01:05:26.880



you would have a picture of philanthropy. Okay, absolutely, you110801:05:26.920 --> 01:05:31.360



would have a picture of socialization because.110901:05:31.079 --> 01:05:33.480



You you love to go out and be be the111001:05:33.559 --> 01:05:39.840



life of the party and be okay, and then, last,111101:05:39.880 --> 01:05:43.320



but not least, you are definitely a foodie. You didn't111201:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.119



shout out the foody girl.111301:05:45.079 --> 01:05:49.559



No, because I wasn't here for that. But yeah, thank you,111401:05:50.360 --> 01:05:50.679



thank you.111501:05:51.039 --> 01:05:54.000



Yes, I am a foodie and I am the founder111601:05:54.079 --> 01:05:55.559



of the Foodie Girls of Houston.111701:05:55.639 --> 01:05:57.599



I wasn't here for that. I was shouting out to111801:05:57.719 --> 01:05:59.360



that for a conmation. Now we've got to come on111901:05:59.440 --> 01:05:59.960



another day.112001:06:00.639 --> 01:06:00.880



Girls.112101:06:00.920 --> 01:06:02.000



I'm just saying.112201:06:04.840 --> 01:06:05.360



There you don't.112301:06:06.599 --> 01:06:10.000



I mean, he just you know, he said he's right. Yeah,112401:06:12.079 --> 01:06:13.960



family and food and the head or water.112501:06:17.840 --> 01:06:22.639



Oh lord, well, look, thank you so very much, Thank112601:06:22.719 --> 01:06:24.719



you for so very much. I'm gonna stand over here112701:06:24.760 --> 01:06:27.000



behind the scenes because y'all don't need to see me112801:06:27.039 --> 01:06:29.360



and y'all sit this dabbing board with the Gabbin Board shirt.112901:06:30.039 --> 01:06:31.920



One of these days might be able to get the113001:06:31.960 --> 01:06:34.480



Gabbo Foundation shirt. Don't know, but you know I was113101:06:34.519 --> 01:06:36.639



down the shide out. What I'm just saying, I'm just saying, Hey.113201:06:36.719 --> 01:06:37.280



You're gonna be here.113301:06:38.840 --> 01:06:40.039



Yeah, that's right.113401:06:44.599 --> 01:06:49.800



My mom, Bring mama around the corner.113501:06:49.880 --> 01:06:50.719



Bring right now.113601:06:53.280 --> 01:06:56.599



It's my grandmother's birthday, the birthday birthday.113701:06:58.840 --> 01:07:02.320



Country loves you, even if even if your granddaughter didn't113801:07:02.320 --> 01:07:03.840



tell you, But I'm gonna tell.113901:07:03.679 --> 01:07:11.599



You, lie, I love you. Granted her phone. That's all right.114001:07:11.719 --> 01:07:15.440



I got her. She called me, She called her, she114101:07:15.559 --> 01:07:17.800



called her. Her brand's uncomforaboy.114201:07:18.280 --> 01:07:22.800



I mean, I ain't gonna thank you what I want114301:07:23.599 --> 01:07:23.880



we do.114401:07:26.840 --> 01:07:28.880



Oh look, thank you so very much. Thank each and114501:07:28.960 --> 01:07:30.960



every one of y'all for joining us who are greatly114601:07:31.039 --> 01:07:35.039



greatly appreciate it. Y'all go follow support for that poor foundation.114701:07:35.159 --> 01:07:37.519



And I will say these words and y'all don't see it,114801:07:37.599 --> 01:07:41.639



but no this know this being a shy shadow of114901:07:41.760 --> 01:07:44.440



a doubt. When I say this, I ain't just it's115001:07:44.519 --> 01:07:46.840



a cute cliche. I'm saying it because it's a real115101:07:48.199 --> 01:07:51.239



I love you. I love you, and I can speak115201:07:51.280 --> 01:07:53.800



on behalf of my guest this well, Miss David. When115301:07:53.840 --> 01:07:56.960



I say that we love you and we love you,115401:07:58.480 --> 01:08:06.440



run additionally. And there ain't nothing to see positively loveing.115501:08:06.760 --> 01:08:10.320



That you can do about it. And here's why I115601:08:10.440 --> 01:08:13.360



say that, whether you like us, we love.115701:08:13.280 --> 01:08:16.960



You, whether you don't, we love you. Whether you support us,115801:08:17.039 --> 01:08:19.680



we love you, whether you don't, we still love you. See,115901:08:19.680 --> 01:08:21.920



because I love. It's not tied to what you do116001:08:22.479 --> 01:08:22.960



or don't do.116101:08:23.399 --> 01:08:25.800



I love. It's tied to the Man of above. Th116201:08:26.399 --> 01:08:28.199



y'all have a good night. We