Empowering Families: Life Navigators' Success Stories & Community Impact

funded program um and so they always ask are there any success stories tell us the success stories talk about that and maybe even if it could be if possible personal when you look at some of the success stories now my reaction was hey everybody completes the program as a story but when you talk about those specific kind of experiences you've had in terms of life navigators yeah yeah i think

I think of a specific family that I have worked with, but also a ton of my colleagues have worked with, because they're tied into a lot of our different programs that we've had in terms of creating their plan for the future. So it's parents who are in their 70s. They're both retired. They're planning for the future. And they have

adult child in her 40s with autism. And so initially, you know, they worked with us to get connected to the right community-based supports through Medicaid, and she lives in her own apartment with supports coming in. But then mom and dad, the next question was, what happens if something happens to us? And so initially, they started by creating what's called the Special Needs Trust. It's a futures planning and financial planning tool that will allow their daughter to preserve her eligibility

for Medicaid and Social Security in the future, even if her parents want to leave her some funds to preserve her quality of life. So she initially was tied into that special needs trust program, which is that

kind of financial piece. Then her parents were saying, you know, there's so much more to it. So we actually were able to get them connected to our caregiver resource group that meets monthly at our office. It's a free resource group that I facilitate that brings in services and supports for individuals with disabilities. So they attended that and connected to other caregivers. And then the last piece that they actually worked with us on is setting up something called standby guardianship. They are currently their daughter's decision maker.

because she needs support with that. And they don't have someone else to take over that role. Their other child also has a disability and lives out of county. And so they actually worked with us to appoint our agency to take over as their daughter's guardian if or when something does happen to them. So now they have all these kind of touch points within our agency, as well as they have plenty of services out in the community as well. But that's created that peace of mind that they know.

If something happens their daughter's going to be taken care of and I feel like for them They're now talking about you know going on a trip and enjoying their retirement because they feel comfortable with where their daughter's at and honestly That's really the goal is to provide their daughter and them with a peace of mind in a certain level And maybe tell me if it's the wrong term certain level of independence. Yes, you know and how helping people Support or give people support in that independent living mm-hmm

Yes. And like this individual, for example, lives in their own apartment and has supports that come in. And so part of our role in the future when we're

her standby guardian is going to be to help maintain all of those amazing things that mom and dad have set up to allow her to flourish independently and continue her connection to you know her in-home supports or her rec program that she attends and all of those good things. You know we do this and this type of work and it's always cyclical right because we're going to have disabled people. What gives you great satisfaction in doing this work?

Because it is so cool, you know, I mean, yeah Yeah, you know Honestly, I I do really I do a lot of work with caregivers and I but I genuinely enjoy working with caregivers and I think that you know that kind of

peace of mind that look on someone's face when you know that they have been put at ease and they feel like they have supports that they can trust. You know, when you see a parent who finally finds the right group home placement for their child where they're getting supported and they're excelling, just seeing that feeling of a parent, you know, or a caregiver being satisfied and feeling at peace with what they have set up for me is like

provides all the satisfaction or, I guess, the success that I need.

So if people want to learn about the program, take advantage of the services that you provided to program. Do you have some contact information? Yeah, so like I mentioned, we have our helpline and I always encourage people give us a call. We can talk through your situation and I'll tell you what programs might be a good fit or what things in the community we may be able to find for you. Our main line is 414.

7-7-4-6-2-5-5. And if you call us, you'll get connected to myself or someone on my team. We also have our website. It's just lifenavigators.org. And on there, you can see more about our programs, our success stories. We also have an online resource guide for folks who are looking for resources in their community.

Lots of ways to get connected, and we're always willing to meet with people one-on-one to talk through whatever situation they're in. And you guys, you said you mentioned your intosa, that address. Yeah, we're located at 72nd and Center, so 7203 West Center Street in Molotosa. Ms. Claire Key, she's the Outreach and Advocacy Program Manager for Life Navigators. Again, and you know, their whole thing is securing bright futures, expanding our family services, and as you expand,

to address the needs. It's appreciated and needed. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me. Thank you. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers in canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks,

Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Ville have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

And let me do a couple of things here in the way of announcements. My former classmate, Bishop Lawrence Lee Kirby, has made his transition. His celebration of life in Homegoing is as follow. He will lie in state at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church there in Racine.

For 24 hours you will be there. Let's see. Yeah, they said from Friday 7 p.m. Until I Can't be right can't be Sunday Saturday. Yep Saturday August 29 and Then the funeral services will be held at Grace Church

Grace Church is located at 3626 Highway 31 in Racine. The service starts at 11 a.m. There will be another visitation from 9 a.m. to 10 30 there at Grace Church And so again the Homegoing for in the late Bishop Lawrence Lee Kirby this this one kind of shook us because we had just saw

Bishop Kirby at the state convention. I saw him Thursday night the last night the president's address and he was there. And normally, you know, I give him talk to him and, you know, he gives me a hard time because I was a little punk freshman when he was a senior. And then I get the news what three, four days later that he had made his transition. And so I know he made quite an impact down in racing. He pastored or pastored the oldest black church in the state of Wisconsin.

And so again, his homegoing is Saturday. Also, let me do this. There's another one I have here. The historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, located at, let me pull this up as long as you get their address for all. Hold on.

Is that 20? Yeah, 22 West. Come on, man. I'm trying to pull up the picture of the flyer. But it's on, is that 20th in Congress? They're doing a community cancer, well, awareness, health fair. And let me just pull it up. Yeah, I'll be a little patient with me as I pull it up, pull up the poster. There it is.

There it is. All right. Saturday, August 29th, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Antioch is located at 2033 West Congress Street. They'll have just a whole lot of stuff there. This is in conjunction with the Carbon Cancer Center there of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. So they have all this information on cancer awareness. So again, that will be Saturday.

September, August 29th at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, the historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. And oh, let me also shout out my pastor. Today is my pastor's birthday. The Reverend Dr. Russell Bennett-Williamson, happy 93rd birthday for him. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We'd have no clue if this man is 93 years old.

the way he moves, the way he still comports things. So happy birthday, pastor. Appreciate that. And you know, we were just talking, I also mentioned that Lattimore had also made his transition. I was kidding, right outside. Now can the Lattimore brothers now come back and they don't have to be LeMore. They can be the Lattimore brothers again. The Lattimore, let's straighten it out. Straighten it out. Now, I'm ignorant.

I'll say it one more time. I'm ignorant and you don't have to agree with it even though I know you do. There's a little thing they do on YouTube where they're interviewing Debo and Clark. Can I say something to both of you brothers? I ain't never heard of any of those songs y'all talked about. I don't listen to the blues.

Yeah, they drop with this, you know, you know, I got a problem with people coming up here dropping a song from an album and it's like cut number nine beard oh side see Yeah, you making it sound like it was the hit. You know, it's like, dude, I dropped some songs and I was going like, you know, I do listen from time to time on Saturday when you had the blues program on. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna have to listen more attentively now. Yeah, because you know, you know, you try to play for

every, every, you know, try to play for everyone, all ages, olders, middle ones, the kind of the younger ones that getting in the blue. So try to balance out a little bit, you know. So you, you're going to hear some, because sometimes you get tired of playing. Like, like we said earlier, everybody wanted to hear the old, the hits, but sometimes you got to, you know,

curves and hit the other hits besides the old hits. Because then they get kind of more, you know, because some stations used to play the same rotation over and over again every day. You know what I'm saying? So you're gonna know, you know what, come on. You'll say like a Jermaine song, come on. Say, okay, I bet you any month they're gonna play the song Keith like right after Jermaine song, you know, and you can pick that up. So you try to give a different, you know, different, you know,

for everybody, man. So, you're gonna get bored in the same thing. Okay. Y'all the DJ. So, you're you're breath in depth of the music knowledge is far greater than us mortals. But but everybody like I said, everybody want to hear the hits. You want to hear the old hits. You grew up, you know, but sometimes you keep hearing the old hits. You know, I'm trying to think, man. Let's see.

A lot of words. Let's straighten it out. That's one of my best. That's one of the best songs. Yeah, that's one of my favorites. And then my roommate Brett Parler used to play baby baby BB Kings. I never make my move too soon. You heard that one. BB King. I never make my move. Yeah. See, you know, you never heard of that man. See, now I haven't heard of that one.

But if I hear the music, I probably, oh, I heard it, but they know the title of the song. Yeah. Let's see. George should listen to them on Saturdays. They are funny and they be jamming. So, you know, yes, we try to get a different type. You know, there was this Southern Soul that came in and I asked a lot of questions with a lot of Southern Soul artists. You know, is it about time for them to make a category for the awards for Southern Soul?

Because you got so many different type of Southern soul music, you know and just speaking of music You see this now with quartets where they're keyboards and when I was growing up They were never keyboards with quartets. It was good guitar, you know guitar bass and drum, but now you got you got keyboards now

Hello. Good morning. Oh, yeah. Good morning. You know, I will do something in this morning. I was going to ask you a question. You know how we, you know, why you always ask me these questions, you know, I can't answer, man. Well, this one you should be able to ask because you're very seasoned. Okay. So, you know, we have only some issues here in Milwaukee. Well, you think the real issues come from because we got the 10 year olds and the 65 year olds acting the same age.

Because you know, the young is popping the peel, the old is popping the peel. The young ones wearing their clothes tight. The old one is wearing their clothes tight. Like I've seen one guy, he had like his body jewelry on, his overly tight shirt. But the shorts were so tight, his pores were having strokes and heart attacks and palpitations. And then he had his head pulled to the back like it's 1987. And I said, Mrs. White.

They can't grow because the old don't want to get old. The young can't listen to the old and the young can't go listen to nobody that's driving a 90 wants a deal where to wet a bad muffler and he thinks he got derelicts off with things the way he's going to shag in the back. So what's old man?

old, old as anybody that's over 60, they're still trying to be relevant and kicking with the 18 year olds. If the 10 year olds is popping pills and the old ones is popping pills, how can they laugh from anybody? So are you over 60? No, I'm not over 60. Well, put it like this.

I'm going to say season, because season is wisdom and growth. But we got a lot of old Hex who's still trying to be young. I would you on that. I would you on that. Dude, dude, you on the pimp in the 70s. You on the pimp in the 80s. You're certainly not a pimp in 2026. And I think that's why the youth was having a real hard time. Like the one guy was like, hey, man. And he had things to raise in the shed. And I'm like, this is my 1982.

I hope he ain't doing that full cleaver. You know full cleaver there was that leisure suit with the white belt and the white shoes. Yeah and it's like how can the young learn from the old because they both act in the same.

Well, maybe, maybe the young can learn this is what I'm not going to do. Right. Right. Well, you know, you try to adapt that whole thing. Remember what was it? Pasta Leon was looking for the founder of youth that, you know, we always who wants to get old? I mean, you want to get old, but you don't necessarily want to be what emotionally old. And now physically, your body, your body ain't lying.

Because I used to say, I heard my pastor, my late pastor used to say this, you ain't not dancing now because you so saved. You're not dancing now because you so old. You know, I mean, you just can't, you can't drop it. You drop it like it's hot now. You dropped. And I know that you, you know, go through some stuff and, you know, they may need people to talk to, but how are they going?

learning if the person has the old dude coming here, tell my man, I just popped me a pill and I'm like, pop a pill, where your little cane passes at? You know, did you touch your blood sugar? You know, you're gonna pop in pills and I'm going off this road. You may like you ready to roll that wheelchair. That's my frustration at this age that when we talked to each other, we exchanged medical charts.

I'm taking the pill for this. That was the tough thing about my back going out because when my back went out, it was kind of like, dude, was it age? What was it, man? So it was a tough one. And I just feel like if you can learn from somebody, you know, they ain't going to learn from somebody. Like if they do ask me, can you go buy me a banana? I'd be like, no.

My mama know I said, well, she can buy you a block. Here come old school. Here, I'll get that block for you. Well, can you give me a pack of new ports? Well, I'm gonna buy you a pack of new ports. Well, my mama know where your mama can buy you. So it's like, they can't really learn from nobody. Like, old dude was driving like an Audi. I had Audi's gold teeth.

the pants he had on the Caprice was off or like overly tight. He had a big run to your finger and I'm just like, come on now. Like you so outdated and then everyone's gay man and he's walking in there and I'm like, you're not even in Pigeon's home. Come on, man. Like how can your kids learn? Yeah. So I just just wanted to get you out and listen to that. That's yourself a good day. Bye bye.

I saw dude though man he was he was a fifth night you know ala boy cuz this dude

Y'all remember the real slick brothers in the 80s with those track suits and this dude's head on the 80s and looked like an Adidas track suit. I'm like, man. He had two stripes and not three. Who was two stripes back then? Yeah, man, that was wearing the blue leg. Track suits. Where the other stripe, dawg? You was the commuting voice caller. I see. I'ma grab you right after the break.

We'll be right back, Robin Halls. We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD. Clean water is essential. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks,

Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values. I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Violia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Ville have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

skid bracer. Wasn't that thanks? I needed that. Wasn't that the commercial? You put it on and you slap it on. Thanks. I needed that. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. You know, I had to chime in. No, you didn't talk about the old guys and the clock says I'm about black swathes. Yeah, man. Black swathes. Whenever I see the A bond, people always contribute to them.

and black swathes steal turn heads, man. Hey man, look here. Hey, look here, I got, I got $200 bottles of cologne, but black swathes steal and they're wanking, but black swathes is a bad piece, man. I mean, right, that's a bad piece, man. Black swathes is the bomb. You know, check this here out. When you talk about getting old and stuff like that, listen, when I hear people talking like that, I'm gonna tell you what's really crazy though, when I see older guys trying to,

with these skinny jeans that look like they belong to a part of that community. I even seen Daryl Highs with a suit on, like, but he got his mind right now. He got back in some regular pants. I couldn't wear pants unless they were.

First of all, he can wear a micro suit. He's an incredible shape, man. He's a small, brave dude, man. I've never seen... I've never seen Bishop Hyze in anything.

he couldn't wear. I'm just tell you man. That dude. What I'm saying to you is this though. I'm just saying to the microphone, the microphone is in man. So, if you still wear these eight buttons, you you just have a style, bro. Yeah. Hold on. Listen, brother. I'm so glad that we didn't pass the skinny tight jeans though. Do you think a man should be wearing a pair of pants that's tight to show his curves and his shape?

Why are you looking at this? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Go ahead. What do you think of this outfit? a a phyla Running suit tracksuit Some some hard-bottomed shoes that I can't go ahead

I can put that same Adidas suit on, you know what I mean? And a pair of shoes. Hard bottoms. I ain't gonna wear no kangaroo hat, but I might, it depends on what season it is. I might have a beef on any time. Guess what? No, you gotta put a furry cat. Guess what, man? It's gonna turn in when I walk into the door. Yeah, it's gonna turn in. You know what I'm thinking about? Play it. Hey, player. It'd be like you was talking about that dude putting on the Spider-Man suit.

That's how you're gonna look at that. Can't go in that fire line. Even if you put it on and turn it back, I just never liked it. You know, the the the can go deal, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the guy with the, with the.

with the pipe in his mouth. What's his name? Papa? No. You know, you ain't a real player, me. You ain't a real player. Real player's where it can goes, man. The furry ones, man.

Come on, man. You ain't no real player. Really? Really? You saying something like that on national, not on national radio? You saying this on national radio? You ain't no real player. We saying no national radio because we talking to an international player. Yeah, you understand me? You're a liar. That's what I do know about. You know what I mean? Dress. That's exactly what I know how to do, man.

So when you see, and then guess what? This is not new about old young kids going up as an old people to get them something out of the stove. Cause guess what? I used to get me a half a quarter pint of rose. I think a quarter pint of rose was probably what about 45 to 50 cents. How many people's mama sent them to the store to get the cigarettes? I would send a man going in the nicole stove deal. Can you give me a half pint of rose? We get some white folk, get Kool-Aid, take Kool-Aid out of mom's house, shake it up. You know what I'm saying? So.

Yeah, because what was that liquor store right there on the corner of King Drive and Concordia?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

doing around the country, you probably ain't got, but maybe maybe maybe 50 or 100 in the whole country. And that's our economy. Because I don't care how safe you get, folks ain't gonna stop drinking. And guess what? We don't want no water in our neighborhood, but you constantly letting the other people come in and build those those establishments and take the money back out. I mean, it's just dumb to me. So anyway, people have been doing that for kids. But you know, before I land this plane, I gotta say one thing.

The man, one time I went to get some reefer. I was about 14 years old, and the reefer man wouldn't sell me none. He said, man, go on, get away from it. We don't sell weed. We don't got no weed. Get away from it. And I walked away, and I was disappointed. And I do say, and I knew it. He said, man, I'll go around, and you can even get it from Carl. I'll go get it. He said, let me tell you something, though, young brother. You know, he needs his money better than you need this reefer. Never forget that.

So don't if you don't want to sell it to you, so what? I always remember that man to this day. So when you send somebody in the store to do something, they don't want to do it. That's what they need that money was not need to substance or whatever it might be. Anyway, man, listen, I got to get off here and give me a bottle, man. I'm gonna come pick mine up. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

All right, so let me get this what is reefer Wait, but did y'all just hear what this cat just called and said he said that the og told him

You couldn't get it. I go get it for you. But remember this youngster He need the money more than you need to we remember that that's true. I get it but for whoever your elder was to tell you that To lead a 14 year old that way Got to be the dumbest person in the world because why would you tell a kid? He's a kid

He didn't even own up to drive, but I'll go around there and get it for you, youngster. But remember this, as if this was a Kodak moment. Remember this, kids? But you know what? It must have been, because he talked about it now. That's because his life ain't about nothing right now. No, it's nothing. Come on, let's get him some black suede so he can really be out there. Let me thank Ms. Claire Keyes of Life Navigator.

Clark Kent, thank you. Well, apostle, we thank you. You dick-dollies! Come on, man. Let me run to the store and see if I can get me some hot karate. Hot karate. And the whole commercial was you had to fight the women off. Yep. Karate, you had to fight the women off. I'm going to tell you one that was very good. They never did national advertising. What was it called? What's it?

Sebastian, it was a great set. Macy's sold it with Marshall Fields and Macy's. They sold it. I said, I was telling them off there when I graduated in terms of getting from baby cents was polo. That was the first one. Oh, yeah, polo was the first one. The real polo one. The real polo one. Yeah, the other one when you smell like toilet water for about.

Three minutes into where are you? You know, you know a light French fragrance for women is called toilet water. Is it? Yeah, I remember there was a girl I had a crush on They did a musical on reefer madness. Have you guys ever seen reefer madness? It was done in the 30s of anti-marijuana movie. It is one of the funniest movies ever

when they would do like certain head film festivals, they would show Reef for Madness. You know, it was everything that was so much misinformation about marijuana was in Reef for Madness, right? Yeah, I didn't realize they did a musical on it. Let's see, Facebook segregates us by area, so better someone say the same name of your station live on WNVON, came here to follow you. I never saw you live in any feed. Search, okay, I don't know what that is.

All right. Hey, y'all. Good Lord, Will and Creek. Don't rise. Hope to talk to you tomorrow. And as always, go from this place in peace.

funded program um and so they always ask are there any success stories tell us the success stories talk about that and maybe even if it could be if possible personal when you look at some of the success stories now my reaction was hey everybody completes the program as a story but when you talk about those specific kind of experiences you've had in terms of life navigators

yeah yeah i think

I think of a specific family that I have worked with, but also a ton of my colleagues have worked with, because they're tied into a lot of our different programs that we've had in terms of creating their plan for the future.

So it's parents who are in their 70s, they're both retired, they're planning for the future, and they have

adult child in her 40s with autism.

And so initially, you know, they worked with us to get connected to the right community-based supports through Medicaid, and she lives in her own apartment with supports coming in.

But then mom and dad, the next question was, what happens if something happens to us?

And so initially, they started by creating what's called the Special Needs Trust.

It's a futures planning and financial planning tool that will allow their daughter to preserve her eligibility

for Medicaid and Social Security in the future, even if her parents want to leave her some funds to preserve her quality of life.

So she initially was tied into that special needs trust program, which is that

kind of financial piece.

Then her parents were saying, you know, there's so much more to it.

So we actually were able to get them connected to our caregiver resource group that meets monthly at our office.

It's a free resource group that I facilitate that brings in services and supports for individuals with disabilities.

So they attended that and connected to other caregivers.

And then the last piece that they actually worked with us on is setting up something called standby guardianship.

They are currently their daughter's decision maker.

because she needs support with that.

And they don't have someone else to take over that role.

Their other child also has a disability and lives out of county.

And so they actually worked with us to appoint our agency to take over as their daughter's guardian if or when something does happen to them.

So now they have all these kind of touch points within our agency, as well as they have plenty of services out in the community as well.

But that's created that peace of mind that they know.

if something happens, their daughter's going to be taken care of.

And I feel like for them, they're now talking about, you know, going on a trip and enjoying their retirement because they feel comfortable with where their daughter's at.

And honestly, that's really the goal is to provide their daughter and them with a peace of mind.

In

a certain level, and maybe tell me if it's the wrong term, certain level of independence.

Yes.

And how helping people support or give people support in that independent

living.

Yes.

And like this individual, for example, lives in their own apartment and has supports that come in.

And so part of our role in the future when we're

her standby guardian is going to be to help maintain all of those amazing things that mom and dad have set up to allow her to flourish independently and continue her connection to you know her in-home supports or her rec program that she attends and all of those good things.

You know we do this and this type of work and it's always cyclical right because we're going to have disabled people.

What gives you great satisfaction in doing this work?

Because it is so cool, you know, I

mean, yeah Yeah, you know Honestly, I I do really I do a lot of work with caregivers and I but I genuinely enjoy working with caregivers and I think that you know that kind of

peace of mind that look on someone's face when you know that they have been put at ease and they feel like they have supports that they can trust.

You know, when you see a parent who finally finds the right group home placement for their child where they're getting supported and they're excelling, just seeing that feeling of a parent, you know, or a caregiver being satisfied and feeling at peace with what they have set up for me is like

provides all the satisfaction or, I guess, the success that I need.

So if people want to learn about the program, take advantage of the services that you provided to program.

Do you have some contact information?

Yeah, so like I mentioned, we have our helpline and I always encourage people give us a call.

We can talk through your situation and I'll tell you what programs might be a good fit or what things in the community we may be able to find for you.

Our main line is 414.

7-7-4-6-2-5-5.

And if you call us, you'll get connected to myself or someone on my team.

We also have our website.

It's just lifenavigators.org.

And on there, you can see more about our programs, our success stories.

We also have an online resource guide for folks who are looking for resources in their community.

Lots of ways to get connected, and we're always willing to meet with people one-on-one to talk through whatever situation they're in.

And you guys, you said you mentioned your intosa, that address.

Yeah, we're located at 72nd and Center, so 7203 West Center Street in Molotosa.

Ms.

Claire Key, she's the Outreach and Advocacy Program Manager for Life Navigators.

Again, and their, you know, their whole thing is securing bright futures, expanding our family services, and as you expand,

to address the needs.

It's appreciated and needed.

Thank you.

Thanks so much for having me.

Thank you.

You're listening to Community Voice.

We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

We have been in business here for 14 years.

I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.

We get lots of people on our rivers in canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.

People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.

We love our partnership with Violia.

They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD.

Clean water is essential.

When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.

The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.

Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks,

Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.

Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset.

I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.

Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.

They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.

MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

I'm Jim Playset.

I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.

Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.

They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.

MMSD and Ville have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

And let me do a couple of things here in the way of announcements.

My former classmate, Bishop Lawrence Lee Kirby, has made his transition.

His celebration of life in Homegoing is as follow.

He will lie in state at St.

Paul Missionary Baptist Church there in Racine.

For 24 hours, you will be there.

Let's see.

Yeah,

they said from Friday 7 p.m.

Until I Can't be right can't be Sunday Saturday.

Yep Saturday August 29 and Then the funeral services will be held at Grace Church

Grace Church is located at 3626 Highway 31 in Racine.

The service starts at 11 a.m.

There will be another visitation from 9 a.m.

to 10 30 there at Grace Church And so again the Homegoing for in the late Bishop Lawrence Lee Kirby this this one kind of shook us because we had just saw

Bishop Kirby at the state convention.

I saw him Thursday night the last night the president's address and he was there and Normally, you know, I give him talk to him and you know, he gives me a hard time because I was a little punk freshman when he was a senior and Then I get the news what three four days later that he had made his transition And so I know he made quite an impact down in racing.

He pastored or pastored the oldest black church in the state of Wisconsin

And so again, his homegoing is Saturday.

Also, let me do this.

There's another one I have here.

The

historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, located at, let me pull this up as long as you get their address for all.

Hold on.

Is that 20?

Yeah, 22 West.

Come on, man.

I'm trying to pull up the picture of the flyer.

But it's on, is that 20th in Congress?

They're doing a community cancer, well, awareness, health fair.

And let me just pull it up.

Yeah, I'll be a little patient with me as I pull it up, pull up the poster.

There it is.

There it is.

All right.

Saturday, August 29th, from 10 a.m.

to 1 p.m.

Antioch is located at 2033 West Congress Street.

They'll have just a whole lot of stuff there.

This is in conjunction with the Carbon Cancer Center there of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

So they have all this information on cancer awareness.

So again, that will be Saturday.

September, August 29th at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, the historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.

And oh,

let me also shout out my pastor.

Today is my pastor's birthday, the Reverend Dr. Russell Bennett Williamson, happy 93rd birthday for him.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We have my two, this man is 93 years old.

the way he moves, the way he still comports things.

So happy birthday, pastor.

Appreciate that.

And you know, we were just talking, I also mentioned that Lattimore had also made his transition.

I was kidding, right outside.

Now can the Lattimore brothers now come back and they don't have to be LeMore.

They can be the Lattimore brothers again.

The Lattimore, let's straighten it out.

Straighten it out.

Now, I'm ignorant.

I'll say it one more time.

I'm ignorant and you don't have to agree with it even though I know you do.

There's a little thing they do on YouTube where they're interviewing Debo and Clark.

Can I say something to both of you brothers?

I ain't never heard of any of those songs y'all talked about.

I don't listen to the

blues.

Yeah,

they drop with

this, you know, you know, I got a problem with people coming up here dropping a song from an album and it's like cut number nine beard oh side see Yeah, you making it sound like it was the hit.

You know, it's like, dude, I dropped some songs and I was going like, you know, I do listen from time to time on Saturday when you had the blues program on.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to listen more attentively now.

Yeah, because you know, you know, you try to play for

every, every, you know, try to play for everyone, all ages, olders, middle ones, the kind of the younger ones that getting in the blue.

So try to balance out a little bit, you know.

So you, you're going to hear some, because sometimes you get tired of playing.

Like, like we said earlier, everybody wanted to hear the old the hits, but sometimes you got to, you know,

curves and hit the other hits besides the old hits.

Because then they get kind of more, you know, because some stations used to play the same rotation over and over again every day.

You know what I'm saying?

So you can know, you know what, come on.

You'll say like a Jermaine song, come on.

Say, OK, I bet you any month they're going to play the song Keith like right after Jermaine song, you know, and you can pick that up.

So you try to give a different, you know, different, you know,

for everybody, man.

So, you don't get bored in the same thing.

Okay.

Y'all the DJ.

So, you're you're breath in depth of the music knowledge is far greater than us

mortals.

But but everybody like I said, everybody want to hear the hits.

You want to hear the old hits.

You grew up, you know, but sometimes you keep hearing the old hits.

You know, I'm trying to think, man.

Let's see.

A lot of words.

Let's straighten it out.

That's one of my best.

That's one of the best songs.

Yeah, that's one of my favorites.

And then my roommate Brett Parler used to play baby baby BB Kings.

I never make my move too soon.

You heard that one.

BB King.

I never make my move.

Yeah.

See, you know, you never heard of that man.

See, now I haven't heard of that one.

But if I hear the music, I probably, oh, I heard it, but they know the title of the song.

Yeah.

Let's see.

George should listen to them on Saturdays.

They are funny and they be jamming.

So, you know, yes, we try to get a different type.

You know, there was this Southern Soul that came in and I asked a lot of questions with a lot of Southern Soul artists.

You know, is it about time for them to make a category for the awards for Southern Soul?

Because you got so many different type of Southern soul music, you

know and just speaking of music You see this now with quartets where they're keyboards and when I was growing up They were never keyboards with quartets.

It was good guitar, you know guitar bass and drum, but now you got you got

keyboards

now

Hello.

Good morning.

Oh, yeah.

Good morning.

You know, I will do something in this morning.

I was going to ask you a question.

You know how we, you know, why you always ask me these questions, you know, I can't answer, man.

Well, this one you should

be able to

ask because

you're very seasoned.

Okay.

So, you know, we have only some issues here in Milwaukee.

Well, you think the real issues come from because we got the 10 year olds and the 65 year olds acting the same age.

Because you know, the young is popping the peel, the old is popping the peel.

The young ones wearing their clothes tight.

The old one is wearing their clothes tight.

Like I've seen one guy, he had like his body jewelry on, his overly tight shirt.

But the shorts were so tight, his pores were having strokes and heart attacks and palpitations.

And then he had his head pulled to the back like it's 1987.

And I said, Mrs. White.

They can't grow because the old don't want to get old.

The young can't listen to the old and the young can't go listen to nobody that's driving a 90 wants a deal where to wet a bad muffler and he thinks he got derelicts off with things the way he's going to shag in the back.

So what's old man?

old, old as anybody that's over 60, they're still trying to be relevant and kicking with the 18 year olds.

If the 10 year olds is popping pills and the old ones is popping pills, how can they laugh from anybody?

So

are you over 60?

No, I'm not over 60.

Well, put it like this.

I'm going to say season, because season is wisdom and growth.

But we got a lot of old Hex

who's still trying to be young.

I would you on that.

I would you on that.

Dude, dude, you won the Pimp in the 70s.

You won the Pimp in the 80s.

You're certainly not a Pimp in 2026.

And I think that's

why the youth was having a real hard time.

Like the one guy was like, hey, man.

And he had things to raise in the shed.

And I'm like, this is my 1982.

I hope he

ain't doing that full

cleaver.

You know, full cleaver there was that leisure suit with the white belt and the white shoes.

Yeah, and it's like how can the young learn from

the old because they both acting the same?

Well, maybe, maybe the young can learn this is what I'm not going to

do.

Right.

Right.

Well, you know,

you

try to adapt that whole thing.

Remember what was it?

Pasta Leon was looking for the founder of youth that, you know, we always who wants to get old?

I mean, you want to get old, but you don't necessarily want to be what emotionally old.

And now physically, your body, your body ain't lying.

Because I used

to say, I

heard my pastor, my late pastor used to say this, you ain't not dancing now because you so saved.

You're not dancing now because you so old.

You know, I mean, you just can't, you can't drop it.

You drop it like it's hot now.

You dropped.

And I know that

you, you know, go through some stuff and, you know, they may need people to talk to, but how are they going?

learning if the person has the old dude coming here, tell my man, I just popped me a pill and I'm like, pop a pill, where your little cane passes at?

You know, did you touch your blood sugar?

You know, you're gonna pop in pills and I'm going off this road.

You may like you ready to roll

that wheelchair.

That's my frustration at this age that when we talked to each other, we exchanged medical charts.

I'm taking the pill for this.

That was the tough thing about my back going out because

when my

back went out, it was kind of like, dude, was it age?

What was it, man?

So it was a tough one.

And I just feel like if you can learn from somebody, they ain't going to learn from somebody.

If they do ask me, can you go buy me a banana?

I'd be like, no.

My mama know I said, well, she can buy you a block.

Here come old school.

Here, I'll get that block for you.

Well, can you give me a pack of new ports?

Well, I'm gonna buy you a pack of new ports.

Well, my mama know where your mama can buy you.

So it's like, they can't really learn from nobody.

Like, old dude was driving like an Audi.

I had Audi's gold teeth.

the pants he had on the Caprice was off or like overly

tight.

He had a big run to your finger and I'm just like, come on now, like you so outdated.

And then everyone's getting me in and he's walking in there and I'm like, you're not even in pictures.

Oh, come on, man.

Like how can you kids learn?

Yeah.

So I just just wanted to get you out and listen to that yourself for a good day.

Bye

bye.

And wait a minute, Clark, he wearing brook.

Brook 45.

Oh, he got that one.

What was it?

Oh, he saw it.

He whistled when he got in the show.

You next wave.

I saw a dude, though, man.

He was.

He was a fifth.

You know, Al, a boy, because this

dude.

Y'all remember the real slick brothers in the 80s with those track suits?

And this dude's head on the 80s, it looked like an Adidas track suit.

I'm like, man.

And he had two stripes and not three.

It was two stripes back then.

Yeah,

man.

That was wearing

the blue leg.

Track suits.

Where the other stripe, dawg?

You was the community boy's collar.

I see.

I'ma grab you right after the break.

We'll be right back, Robin Halls.

We have been in business here for 14 years.

I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.

We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.

People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.

We love our partnership with Violia.

They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Veolia and MMSD.

Clean water is essential.

When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.

The result, the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.

Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks,

Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.

Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset.

I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.

Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Violia.

They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.

MMSD and Ville have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable

for

all of us.

skid bracer.

Wasn't that thanks?

I needed that.

Wasn't that the commercial?

You put it on.

Slap

it

on.

Thanks.

I

needed that.

Carla, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

Good morning.

You know, I had to chime in.

No, you didn't talk about the old guys.

And then Clark says, I'm about black swathes, you know what I mean, man?

Black swathes.

Whenever I see the A-bond people always shift from you to now.

and black swathes steal turn

heads, man.

Hey man, look here.

Hey, look here, I got, I got $200 bottles of cologne, but black swathes steal and they're wanking, but black swathes is a bad piece, man.

I mean, right,

that's a

bad piece, man.

Black swathes is the bomb.

You know, check this here out.

When you talk about getting old and stuff like that, listen, when I hear people talking like that, I'm gonna tell you what's really crazy though, when I see older guys trying to,

with these skinny jeans that look like they belong to a part of that community.

I even seen Daryl Highs with a suit on, like, but he got his mind right now.

He got back in some regular pants.

I couldn't wear pants unless they were.

First

of

all,

he can wear a micro suit.

He's an incredible shape, man.

He's a small, brave dude, man.

I've never seen...

I've

never seen Bishop Hyze in anything.

he couldn't wear.

I'm

just

tell you that dude.

What I'm

saying

to

you is this though.

I'm just

saying to the

microphone, the microphone is in

man.

So, if you still wear these

eight

buttons,

you you just have a style, bro.

Yeah.

Hold on.

Listen, brother.

I'm so glad that we didn't pass the skinny tight jeans though.

Do you think a man should be wearing a pair of pants that's tight to show his curves and his shape?

Why are you looking at this?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no

Go ahead.

What do you think of this outfit?

a a phyla Running suit tracksuit Some some hard-bottomed shoes that I can't go

ahead

I can put that same Adidas suit on, you know what I mean?

And a pair of shoes.

Hard

bottoms.

I ain't gonna wear no kangaroo hat, but I might, it depends on what season it is.

I might have a beef on any time.

Guess what?

No, you gotta

put a furry

cat.

Guess what, man?

It's gonna turn in when I walk

into the door.

Yeah, it's gonna turn in.

You know what I'm thinking about?

Play it.

Hey, player.

It'd be like you was talking about that dude putting on the Spider-Man suit.

That's how you're gonna look at that.

Can't go in that fire line.

Even

if

you put it on and turn it back, I just never liked it.

You know, the the the can go deal, you know, the,

you

know, the, you know, the guy with the, with the.

with the pipe in his mouth.

What's his name?

Papa?

No.

You know, you ain't a real player, me.

You ain't a real player.

Real player's where it can goes, man.

The furry ones, man.

Come on, man.

You ain't no real player.

Really?

Really?

You saying something like that on national,

not on national radio?

You

said this on national radio.

You ain't no real player.

You said it on national radio because

we talking to an international

player.

Yeah, you understand me?

You're a liar.

That's what I do know about.

That's what I do

know about how to dress.

You know what I mean?

Dress?

That's exactly what I know how to do, man.

So when you see, and then guess what?

This is not new about old young kids going up as an old people to get them something out of the stove.

Cause guess what?

I used to get me a half a quarter pint of rose.

I think a quarter pint of rose was probably what

about 45 to 50 cents.

How many people's mama sent

them to the store to get the cigarettes?

I would send a man going in the nicker stove deal.

Can you give me a half pint of rose?

We get some white folk, get Kool-Aid, take Kool-Aid out of mom's house, shake it up.

You know what I'm saying?

So.

Yeah,

because

what was that liquor store right there on the corner of King Drive and Concordia?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no,

no, no, no, no, no,

no,

no,

no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

doing around the country, you probably ain't got, but maybe maybe maybe 50 or 100 in the whole country.

And that's our economy.

Because I don't care how safe you get, folks ain't gonna stop drinking.

And guess what?

We don't want no water in our neighborhood, but you constantly letting the other people come in and build those those establishments and take the money back out.

I mean, it's just dumb to me.

So anyway, people have been doing that for kids.

But you know, before I land this plane, I gotta say one thing.

The man, one time I went to get some reefer.

I was about 14 years old, and the reefer man wouldn't sell me none.

He said, man, go on, get away from it.

We don't sell weed.

We don't got no weed.

Get away from it.

And I walked away and I was disappointed.

And I do say, and I knew it.

He said, man, I'll go around and you can even get it from Carl.

I'll go, I'll go get it.

He said, let me tell you something though, young brother.

You know, he needs his money better than you need this reefer.

Never forget that.

So don't if you don't want to sell it to you, so what?

I always remember that man to this day.

So

when you send somebody

in the store to do something, they don't want to do it.

That's what they need that money was not need to substance or whatever it might be.

Anyway, man, listen, I got to get off here and give me a bottle, man.

I'm gonna come pick mine up.

That's the dumbest

thing I've ever heard.

All right,

so let me get this what is reefer

Wait, but did

y'all just hear what this cat just called and said he said that the og told him

You couldn't get it.

I go get it for you.

But remember this youngster He need the money more than you need to we remember that that's true.

I get it but for whoever your elder was to tell you that To lead a 14 year old that way Got to be the dumbest person in the world because why would you tell a kid?

He's a kid

He didn't even own up to drive, but I'll go around there and get it for you, youngster.

But remember this, as if this was a Kodak moment.

Remember this, kids?

But you know what?

It must have been, because he talked about it now.

That's because

his life ain't about nothing right now.

No, it's nothing.

Come on, let's get him some black suede so he can really be out there.

Let me think.

Miss Claire Keys of Life Navigator.

Clark Kent, thank you.

Apostle, we thank you.

You big dillies!

Come on, man.

Let me run to the store and see if I can get me some hot karate.

Hot karate.

And the whole

commercial was you had to fight the women off.

Yep.

Karate, you had to fight the women off.

I'm going to tell you one, that was very good.

They never did national advertising.

What was it called?

Sebastian, it was a great set.

Macy's sold it with Marshall Fields and Macy's.

They sold it.

I said, I was telling them off there when I graduated in terms of getting from baby cents was polo.

That was the first one.

Oh, yeah,

polo was

the first one.

The real polo

one.

The real polo

one.

Yeah, the other one when you smell like toilet water for about.

Three minutes into where are

you?

You know, you know a light French fragrance for women is called toilet water.

Is it?

Yeah, I remember there was a girl I had a crush on They did a musical on reefer madness.

Have you guys ever seen reefer madness?

It was done in the 30s of anti-marijuana movie.

It is one of the funniest movies ever

when they would do like certain head film festivals, they would show Reef for Madness.

You know, it was everything that was so much misinformation about marijuana was in Reef for Madness, right?

Yeah, I didn't realize they did a musical on it.

Let's see, Facebook segregates us by area, so better someone say the same name of your station live on WNVON, came here to follow you.

I never saw you live in any feed.

Search, okay, I don't know what that is.

All right.

Hey, y'all.

Good Lord, Will and Creek.

Don't rise.

Hope to talk to you tomorrow.

And as always, go from this place in peace.