I just broke up with my girlfriend recently, and thank you, thank you, lady, and dude.
So we've been going out for two years, and when you've been going out for that long, the
breakup is complicated.
You can't do it, first of all, the day you decide to do it.
Nobody is that mentally awesome that they can pull that off.
It takes days, sometimes weeks, of mental preparation to break up with somebody.
Have you ever completely broken up with somebody in your own head, and you kind of forget
to tell them for a few days, because it feels fantastic, and you don't want to ruin it?
They always figured out they're like, what's going on, you're like, you're still here.
So I said it the other night, and this couple in the front row, the girl cracked up, like it
was the funniest thing she ever heard, her boyfriend was like, well, I don't get it.
What's going on?
Why is that so funny?
Dude, you got two days.
You might want to grab your CDs.
Get 707 at WRGN Radio, hometown radio, we're fresh right here on your Rainy Thursday.
I was playing all these great sunny songs this morning, and meanwhile it's raining out
there.
Well, you know, you're going to have rain sometime.
All right.
So today is Pi Day again.
It's March 14th, 3.14, you learned that in high school, of course, you never had to use
it again after high school.
There's so many things in high school we learned that the Pythagorean theorem, you remember
that with triangles out of figure?
Have you ever used that in your entire life on this planet?
Have you ever, if your job, I have two lovely ladies in here today, and we'll introduce
them in a second.
But have you ever used Pi before 3.14?
Oh, then there you go.
Now, her works, if you turn on the microphone, look at that.
Absolutely not.
Yeah.
Why did we learn that in high school?
And it was on every test, what's I 3.14?
And they always say, well, you think you won't use it in life, but you will.
No, I never used it in life, especially in radio.
Well, we all have that friend that can prove how many numbers they remember, too.
So it becomes the competition of how far can you take 3.14?
I didn't even know what that means.
Oh, it goes further.
It goes further.
It doesn't die.
Yeah, 3.14 goes out.
That's right.
That's what I learned in high school.
And I was in the National Honours Society.
I don't remember any of that stuff.
By two guests today, we have Yolanda James here.
She's the center director for Alliance Family Services and Terla Williams, who's the
client service director.
Ladies, thanks for coming in today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
We're enough making you feel stupid this morning.
So let's move on from there.
Okay.
So Alliance Family Services, it's probably what it sounds like, family services.
So why don't you, Yolanda, want to tell us?
So what we do is we provide services for women who find themselves in unplanned pregnancy
situations.
And so we do prenatal care up to 20 weeks.
We do pregnancy testing.
We do ultrasounds.
And if the ladies come in and they have not yet established an OBGYN, we will help them
to find a provider.
We've got a nurse practitioner who is right there on staff that will help them in that
first trimester.
We also provide STI testings.
And we help these ladies with issues that surround in their pregnancy, whether it be jobs,
insurance, housing, childcare, anything that would, because there's a lot of, there's
a lot of concerns when a woman comes in and she is pregnant, hasn't planned it.
There's a lot of concerns that she has.
So Taylor here is our social worker who is on staff.
So she will help those ladies with any concerns that they have concerning that pregnancy.
And what about the money?
Is it how much money do these people have to pay?
Everything is free.
Say that's it.
That's it, right there.
You know, I feel bad for people that are in a situation like that where they're kind
of trapped.
I mean, you're pregnant.
You got to take care of yourself because we're going to love that microphone.
We've got these brand new springs on it, pull it in, they get put brand new springs on
it recently.
Whether it's a plan or not, you have this baby growing inside of you and you got to
take care of it, but you don't have the money, you don't have the insurance and you're
probably petrified.
Of course, something like me would never know that feeling, but it's probably a very
scary feeling and they could always come to you.
Yes.
And let's get the let's get the locations out of the way first because we're going to
mention them several times today.
Two locations.
Yes.
So we do have two clinics.
I'm so operating out of the title Alliance Women's Clinic, so you can look us up, find
out where we are.
We have one location in Racine and one location in Kenosha.
The address for the Racine location is 1515 South Green Bay Road and we are trying to
be in a central location so we can be available to the community.
So where does the money come from then?
I've got to come from somewhere.
Yeah.
So we don't receive any state funding, we're all funded by local donors who are passionate
about supporting women in unplanned pregnancies and to be able to provide this resource for
the community.
And really it's all people who are passionate to love women in hard situations.
So how did you ladies get involved in this?
Yeah.
I have my master's degree in social work and I-
And you don't know what you haven't used 3.1 for?
I haven't used pie.
I haven't used.
You have a master's degree in social work, that's the key.
That's the key.
I'm not a mathematician by any means.
But I do just love using my background in social work to be able to create case plans
for women and figure out what are the barriers that they're experiencing in their life and
how can we use pregnancy to actually launch them into just a whole new realm of possibilities.
Like I think that when a woman first finds out they're pregnant, obviously first it's
panic.
It's this, oh my goodness, how am I going to do this?
But when we can kind of have that conversation and talk through, well what could this actually
mean for you?
This could actually put you on a whole different trajectory for your life and yes, it's going
to be hard and yes, it's going to be just, it's not easy, nothing in life that is good
is easy, right?
And so I actually, to backtrack a little bit, I found myself working for an organization
in South Florida working with women who are pregnant and really just saw that this is
such a pivotal time in a woman's life and that there's so many opportunities to connect
with them in this season and really just provide support.
And they're vulnerable.
You're so vulnerable when you first kind of get that test and are like, what am I going
to do and go into panic mode?
So we really exist to support that mom who is overwhelmed in that moment.
I remember back in 1979, I'm working with this radio station in Atlanta, Georgia, and
my then wife calls me up and says, I just got word on pregnant.
Now the guy sitting across from me in the office said, he saw the blood from her.
He said, actually saw the level down and started at your forehead right down to your
chin because he said to me, you wife's pregnant, right?
I said, I just saw everything turned pale on your face.
And the first words that came into my head were financial ruin.
And today my daughter is 44 happily married living in Florida.
She is a health fanatic works for, believe it or not, she worked for the Wisconsin Athletic
Club in Florida.
That's awesome.
And she is a smart young lady, very independent.
But when I first found out, I said, this is it, I'm going to, I'm going to have to go
on some kind of assistance and no way I'm going to handle that with a DJ salary.
Forget it.
DJ always paid people on the planet.
And when she was born, I remember dropping back from the hospital, North saying hospital
in Atlanta.
I just passed there ironically enough when I would drove down for her wedding two years
ago.
On the route back, I made sure I drove through North to her hospital.
And I stopped and I looked, that's the hospital she was born in.
And so I got to look at the hospital again.
I remember driving, but it was the happiest day of my life on this planet when she was
born.
And when I got to the radio station, there was a big banner going across the front of
the building.
Congratulations, daddy.
That's great.
That's so sweet.
That's so sweet.
I just, I would never change that for a moment.
Yes.
I don't know how my, then wife was, I could take, but the state says why, it takes as
a mother was feeling.
I don't know how she was feeling at the time.
Yeah.
Now I do know, and I'll tell you the story, and you could probably relate to this.
We had a nurse living in our apartment complex, and she said, because my wife didn't feel
well at the time.
So she gave her some kind of medication from the doctors.
She got some medication to make her stomach feel better.
And she loved that microphone creeping away from you.
I'll fix that in a moment.
Anyway, so she got this medication.
She was taken.
And then the nurse looked it up and said, you know, that medication doesn't
jive with pregnancies.
So the whole nine months, we kept thinking, oh, this baby's going to come out, something's
wrong, because she took this medication, and she shouldn't have taken it.
And we went to the doctor and he said, well, if I would have known you were pregnant,
I wouldn't have given it to you.
And that made it worse.
So the whole nine months, we didn't enjoy it, and we turned that.
We had a perfect kid, a little snotty at times, overbellious, but she's still perfect.
Women must come to you and are probably scared to death.
Yeah.
And men, too.
And I know you just brought that up that you even as the father were overwhelmed, but,
you know, blood went out of your head.
That's what you said.
That's what you said.
You were overwhelmed, and I know with a name like Alliance Women's Clinic, we don't want
to just serve women.
We understand.
I'm just going to go too.
Yeah.
So that's your comment reminded me that we do have a fatherhood program where we've got
a counselor who is a dad with six kids, and he actually, yes, he's got six kids.
And so what better man to lead this program for our fathers, who also are seeing that
positive pregnancy test and automatically feeling that overwhelmed feeling, too.
So we do have that program.
So if you're a dad out there feeling overwhelmed, too, or your girlfriend, or why you've just
got that positive test, you can come to come.
You know, in church, there's people that sit in front of us.
It's a guy with his wife, and they're five daughters.
And the way they sit, it's always like, you know, they're ramping up from age.
They always sit in order of age.
So I said to him, you got six, I'm going to fix that for you.
That's the only one.
I'm going to fix that for you in just a few moments.
There, the guy is six women in the family.
I said, how do you, is it difficult with six women, first of all, that toilet seat is
always going to be down.
You can never leave it up.
And how do you even get into the bathroom with six women in that house?
And he said, it's not easy.
Six, what my mother had two boys and my father, so she always had three men in the family.
And I always said to my mother, did that ever bother you?
And she said, oh no, I know it did.
Because my mother had two sons, and my brother had four boys.
And so there were always boys in the family.
So when I had my daughter, my mother immediately ran out to Bloomingdale's in New York
City, where she lived, bought all these dresses from Bloomingdale's, she's not going to
wear these dresses.
And she didn't.
Well, my mother finally wanted to dress a little girl after boys, four boys from my brother,
two boys from her.
She finally had a little girl in the family.
We're going to check out and see what your background is, Yolanda, in just a moment.
But just a moment, I'm going to fix that microphone too, and just a moment, the spring keeps pulling
it away from her.
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So go away, he walks down the street, back to the way he shuffles his feet, my heart is
hit a pile when he goes walking by, he's my guy, he holds my hand and I'm so proud, because
it's not just one of the proud, by the deal where the one to try the thing they've never
done, just because of that, hey, hey, hey, he's the rebel and you'll never be any good,
he's the rebel cause he never ever does, what is to do, just because he doesn't do
it, everybody else does, that's no reason why I can give him all my love, he is always
to me, always fit me can do it, but he's not Revolved, he's not Revolved, no, to me
Well, we got a microphone problem, fixed with the spring on it, we just switched microphone.
The microphone work party was that new spring way out on it.
Our guest, Yolanda James here, center director and Taylor Williams Client Services director
for Alliance Family Services, helping women who are pregnant, they'd be frightened to death,
maybe not frightened to death, maybe they just have the money to go spend, to go to a doctor
and do it right.
Yolanda, what's your background of this?
Well, years ago, graduated from UW-Ashkosh with a degree in Human Resources, and so as
I've been going through my professional career, I actually got approached to be on the board
of Alliance last year March, and so I came on, and as I was serving the board, I really
wanted to know and really learn about everything that was going on in Alliance Family Clinic,
so I began to volunteer locally in the racing clinic, and I absolutely loved it.
Just to be able to help and support these women and bring comfort, it was my passion.
No, I think that, as I was volunteering, they liked me, so they have to come on staff,
and I was absolutely yes, yes, so I came on staff full time with Alliance in December
of last year.
That's got to be real fulfilling, you know, you're helping people.
I've never been in the business where I had to help somebody.
I've been doing this all my life, and I've never been, you know, people who even doctors,
my brother was a doctor, just to help people, and after they leave you, they're feeling
better about themselves, and that's kind of be so rewarding to go home at night and
knowing how people, however, there's the flip side where sometimes you can't help everybody.
Sometimes it's not going to work out.
Yeah, it's to see these women come in broken, a lot of them.
Are you like the last place to turn to for a lot of these women?
In other words, they've exhausted everything else, and now it's you.
Well, actually, I think it's actually just the flip side.
A lot of people ask them, how did you find it?
And they say, we Googled.
Google is our best friend these days.
And so they have, we're not finding that at all, that the services that we provide, it's
attractive to them.
And they come in, the environment is supportive, it's warm, it's loving.
We care, you know, we're not there to judge or criticize about, you know, how they got
into that situation.
It doesn't make a difference.
Our only aim is to walk with them and to support them and not even just during their pregnancy,
but even after their child is born.
So we have quite a few women that come back with their babies and their kids and they hang
out with us.
And we also have so many classes, you know, that would benefit if they want to learn about
parenting and budgeting.
And I mean, we have all kinds of resources to help them in different areas, even after
their children is born.
And we have a baby boutique in each clinic.
Oh, really?
We've got clothes and diapers and formula and blankets and anything that they need, you
know, to help start off those first, those first few months of their, of their, their
baby's life.
Boy, diapers, we went through, I can't tell you.
Also, similac infamil, was that infamil, what's they think of that, is that it's the name
it?
I remember from 40 some years ago, infamil, all those, they're very expensive, especially
when you, you know, we had one kid.
And I can imagine how it is if you have twins, like my first wife was a triplet.
I do imagine back in the 50s, the parents finding out they had triplets, you know, all
of a sudden you have no family, now you got three, but I mean, that's expensive to have
a baby.
A lot of people don't realize that.
No, I have a kid.
A kid needs a lot of stuff, not only does it need stuff, it needs time from you.
So I don't know how, you know, for women's got a job and she's the only source of income,
she can't give up that job.
So now it becomes, now you got to find a daycare center, those are expensive too.
So are there any free daycare centers around?
I know businesses sometimes, if you work for a nice company, they'll do it for you.
Yeah.
So when I am working with women, one of the first things that I ask is, okay, what state
resources are you currently receiving?
Are you getting food stamps?
Are you getting WIC?
Are you getting insurance?
But one of the things that the state offers is state child care vouchers.
So if you're within a certain income bracket, the state will support women in helping find
a daycare and giving them kind of a voucher to be able to send their kids to daycare at
a discounted rate, if not a free.
So what's the oldest child that ever came back to you after you fell over?
So Yolanda and I are still relatively new to the organization.
So I have been with the Alliance for about two and a half years now.
And I do have clients with their babies who are now two, two and a half coming back.
And I think that's one of the most rewarding parts of working at Alliance is being able
to continue the relationships with these women.
It is not one ultrasound appointment.
It's not one time where you come get diapers.
Do you see it through the full nine months?
Oh, yeah.
So we will see women, yeah, I mean, all through pregnancy, any stage of the game, we really
want to be the first stop when you find out your pregnant.
It's not uncommon that we have a mom coming, you know, just the other day I had a mom
who was at a regular routine doctor's appointment, found out she was pregnant and came to us
immediately after that appointment.
So we're really seeing women right when they are finding out same day, oftentimes, if
I just found out this morning, and I'm panicked, and I've been there.
Yeah, but really we do, we walk with women all the way through, I've got, you know, that's
the best part is getting those birthday party invites of, oh, my baby just turned one,
come to the birthday party.
I'm having my family's, throwing me a baby shower, come to my baby shower.
It's really, yeah, yeah, bring a gift to, but really it's an emphasis on relationship.
What's the related to get more unwed mothers or it's a mixed or do you get more married
women?
I mean, it's all across the spectrum.
Like Yolanda said, we don't judge, we don't discriminate any, any women who, you know,
if you're pregnant, come, I mean, it's, it's hard to think of the breakdown of, yeah,
I think we get a mix.
It's a pretty good mix.
Yeah, we get a, we get a very, very good mix.
Oh, women nervous about coming in there because it's almost like people are afraid to
ask for help.
I mean, I'm not one of these people that I was asked for help.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think we should have, we should have brought a client in with us today to share
her, to share their experience because I maybe can't speak to that as much, but I do
know that every woman who, woman who comes in communicates that they know their loved
and that they know that it's a welcoming environment that they want to keep coming back to
you.
They're like, do I have to see my OB?
Can I just come to you?
Can I just keep coming?
Because they know, they know we want to support.
So how many babies are named after you, too?
Oh.
How many of you?
How many of you want to do this to win the wedding?
I don't think any.
Well, we talked to Taylor Williams, whose client service director, Yolanda James, center
director for Alliance Family Services in Racine and Connoction Board coming up.
It was those two nice ladies and just a moment.
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We put the salt away, too, partly sunny over the weekend, Saturday, highs near 54, increasing
clouds on Sunday with a high near 40 right now, 46 degrees and raining.
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We heard, we were always hand in hand, I wore high top shoes and sandals, shoes
and walls and details, I know I love her even me, you know my papa disapproved it,
my mama boo hoon it, but I told them time and time again, don't you know I was making
love from a world all around her, yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, she spends her inspiration showing appreciation of the love I've given through
the end, like a sweetlined all you treat, my loveless subtendily, my life's cruel
sweetened through the end, I know that my baby loved me, my baby needs me, that's
what we've made on the end.
At 735 at WRNGN Radio, home town radio refreshed a civic media station.
We've got folks here from the Alliance Family Services, we've got Yolanda James,
center director, Taylor Williams, client services director here, and Yolanda, you and I, we
know each other for.
We've come back in some years, yes.
You look like you haven't changed that one, I am.
Well, thank you so much.
When you walked in, I said, this is the same person I left, you know, 15 years ago, whatever.
You look great in Taylor, I never met you before, but you look, they haven't changed
a bit in the last 45 minutes.
That's good.
That's good.
Hopefully that's a slow process.
We're talking about a Alliance Family Services, these are free services.
Women can use all of a sudden, they find out they're pregnant, they may be frightened
to death, they may have no money, but you guys are there to help them out.
But I also found out you can also help women who are going through kind of an abusive
relationship if they can run to you for help.
If you kind of run somewhere for help because you can't live with that, I mean, if someone's
abusing you and they shape or form, you got to get out where you got to tell somebody
about it because I watch enough date lines to know it never turns out well when you're
abused.
Yes, so we have ladies who are coming from all kinds of trauma.
And so we have a licensed counselor who is on staff with us where they can go and talk
and unpack a lot of those situations, which is huge.
So part of our heart is to address anything in that woman's life that may be hindering
her from, you know, just having a happy, healthy pregnancy.
So we have ladies all the time and we really do have women who just open up and share their
heart.
They let us know where they're coming from.
We offer the services, you know, and say, hey, if you want to talk, you know what I'm
saying?
You absolutely can.
And so I think that's a huge benefit because, you know, for those of us who have had children,
we understand that your emotional health is going to affect your pregnancy.
So we absolutely want to address those things.
Now, but people is tuning in.
We did mention it earlier.
Let's mention it again.
The address.
We have two addresses.
You have one in Racine, one in Kenosha.
The one in Racine is located near, I mean, for lack of a better word, the space of church
because people, you say that people know the area right away.
So they can go right there.
And that is located in the 15, 15 South Green Bay Road.
Is it what building is that it is it in this name outside the building?
People can find it.
Well there is an allergy clinic in that building and there's also a dentist.
A dental office.
Listen to the people sneezing.
Yeah.
And follow them.
No.
And the people with a toothache and you'll be able to find your place.
We have out in Kenosha at 20,000, 15, 60th Street, a major street.
Where's the landmark there so people can find it, you know?
Oh, boy.
I'm the direction I challenged.
These are culverts nearby.
There's not a culverse.
There's not a culverse.
No, we're actually in the old Lee Mechanical building on 60th Street.
I don't know if that helps.
Lee Mechanical did all my plumbing in my house.
Lee Mechanical.
Well, they're at a new location.
So you have to go find them next, but we did move into their building this past August.
I never went to them.
They always come to me.
I'm going to bring my bad pipes to them.
They bring their mechanic that they go to.
That is how it goes.
That is how it goes.
Okay.
So again, that's 15, 15 South Green Bay Road, 29, 15, 60th Street, or they can find you online,
I guess.
Yeah.
Visit our website, AllianceWomen's Clinic.
AllianceFamilyServices.org.
AllianceFamilyServices.org, or AllianceWomen's Clinic.
We have.
Dot.
We have.
Dotcom.
There's two.
Yeah.
So one's.
I can't check that and come back.
AllianceFamilyServices.org, people can remember that.
Okay.
Those have classes there.
We can educate young ladies and so forth on, I guess, on the pregnancy and also, once
you have the baby, I mean, new mothers, maybe not know how to be a mother.
Some people don't.
Absolutely.
So we've got a couple of things that's taking place.
I've got a girls talk, what I call a girls talk every Tuesday from 5.30 to 7.30 and
we provide dinner and child care.
And that's where we talk about sex and relationships.
We have a very open, honest conversation that I have a younger group, you know, some
of my younger ones that come and we really talk and help them to navigate and hopefully
give us some information that will help them from being coming back to an unplanned pregnancy
situation.
So I just absolutely love that group.
It's a wonderful way of educating and just helping to prepare them, you know, even if
they decide to have children in the future.
And so we do have classes as well where we teach about parenting and basically, they
can contact us and tell us, hey, this is what I want to learn.
And we can provide what they're looking for.
So a lot of the ladies are, you know, first time babies.
So we can provide classes from about early early newborns.
That's what I'm trying to find the word newborns, three to six months, six to nine months,
you know, what to look for, what to expect, how to handle, how do I get my baby to sleep?
What do I do if my baby is sick because unfortunately, we didn't get an instruction manual
with these children.
I know.
You don't get one and there's no warranties, guarantees or anything and you can't return
them.
The first sure.
You know, when my daughter got married and I did the first dance with her and once you
got married, I'm dancing with her, all I kept thinking about all those diapers I had
to change, all those throw-ups I had to clean up, all the mess I had to wash off her.
I kept thinking about that when she was a little baby and here she is getting married.
Now she got married, like she got married in the forties, but still I'm dancing with
her and I said, oh, I can't believe it.
Here you are getting married.
Now it's somebody else's problem, you know, hopefully not the diapers, so that comes
later on.
He's got a few years, hopefully.
That comes full circle, the diapers come back, you know, and talk about, you know, and
sometimes the families don't work out and we have this thing and I'm going to give it
a quick plug here for Royal Family Kids Camp.
Now the assistant chief of police here in Racine, his name is Rick Teller, him and his
wife run this camp, it's for one week out of the year and they have foster kids who
get to use this camp and it's free of charge to them.
These are kids that, whatever reason, had to be taken from their family, whether it be
an abuse problem, maybe their parents passed away, maybe it just wasn't working out with
their family, whatever reason they put in the foster care and I grew up in a leave to
be their household.
My house was perfect.
I mean, all the kids in my neighborhood, their houses were perfect because I know them.
You know, as adults, I knew them and nobody ever had any complaints.
So I was living in like Mayfield, even though it was in New York, I lived in Mayfield and
it was perfect.
When I had kids got that, not every kid's got that luck that I had and I did, I would
say I got the pick six and the gene pool.
I mean, I got that was very lucky.
So these kids are sent to the Royal Family Kids Camp and it's for one week, it's in Lake
Geneva.
And to raise money, we've got four tickets to see the bucks in the Celtics play at five
serve for them on April 9th.
And with that, you get to sit and wrote two seats one through four.
You get the sweat on you and everything from the players.
You can fill the sweat.
This is the Jackie Club section.
You get free parking.
You get ten bucks each person on your bucks app card.
And so you get the tickets and everything now.
To get the tickets, you have to bid on them at WRJN.com slash bucks, WRJN.com slash bucks.
And right now, while last Friday, the highest bid was $1,200 for the tickets.
So hopefully it's a little higher now, but make your bid at WRJN.com slash bucks for the
Royal Family Kids Camp.
And reminding me of it because not every kid is as lucky as I was to have a great family
and so forth.
So that's pretty neat.
Okay, so let's talk about the education services you offer again for people just tuning
in.
And so on a whole wide variety of topics.
And you have license counselors there, right?
Now what does that mean?
Licensed?
I mean, where do you get your license from for this?
That would be through the state.
I mean, he went to school to be a counselor and not a guy.
It is a guy.
Do women feel funny talking about this to guys and so forth when they're in there?
No, I think that it actually could be a really sweet opportunity for women who oftentimes
didn't have a strong father figure in their life to be able to come and kind of, I don't
know, just connect with with a male role model in their life who can kind of support them
and be on their team through the process.
I think I think we found just that women actually enjoy having that figure.
Okay.
Yeah.
You know, I could just say a quick story here.
I went to the doctor.
This is years and years ago.
And they said that doctor, my favorite, what person's name was is coming in.
I just assumed it was a guy.
I was, it was a personal thing.
I'd assumed as a guy that a woman comes in and I thought she was a nurse.
She is, I'm doctor, so and so we'll drop him and I said, whoa.
And the sweat start.
You ever see the movie airplane when the guy in the cockpit is the water's running down
his face?
That was me and all of a sudden I said, whoa, I never had a woman doctor before.
No, just since I've had, but I was scared to death and then I said, well, I'm feeling
better.
All of a sudden, I don't need you anymore.
Let's run over and again, people are tuning in and out during the morning and they may
be tuning in and say, well, this is what you talk about already.
You can always listen to this on the podcast wherever you get your podcast, obviously, but
let's talk about it again.
The services you provide will run through the top again.
Yeah.
So we are a clinic for women in planned or unplanned pregnancies really wanting to
be the first stop when a mom first finds out she's pregnant and sees that positive pregnancy
test.
Provide just a holistic approach to caring for women in pregnancy and really beyond.
So we do pregnancy tests, ultrasound, prenatal care with our certified nurse midwife and
she will see women up to 20 weeks before transferring them to their OB.
We provide education, community referrals.
I use my master's degree in social work to connect women with any resources they may
need to.
Outside of your place.
Inside, outside.
Yeah, I mean, so I say I connect women within the community to resources, within the state
to resources, within local churches to resources, and then within our clinic.
Between all of those things, we've got you covered.
So yeah, a lot of women come in confused or they just, they know what they want.
They just can't afford the care and they just have some questions that someone come in
confused and say, I don't know, I don't know what to do.
Yeah, we do provide options counseling as well because we know that seeing that positive
pregnancy test is incredibly overwhelming and we're in a culture where women have options
and so they come to us often confused and unsure of whether they're planning to, to parent
or have an abortion and we are equipped to have those conversations and we love having
those conversations because we really, we value creating that space where women can
be vulnerable and kind of put it all out there and we need people to process with, especially
for people who are verbal processors, we need safe spaces to have those conversations.
And so we have just a staff that is ready and loves to engage in those conversations.
And I would say, I mean, probably half of the women that we see in our clinic are unsure
whether they're planning to parent or pursue abortion or some of them are planning to
have an abortion and have an abortion on the schedule and just need that, that ultrasound
first and we're happy to see women.
What about if they don't have insurance?
I mean, they have to get through this whole thing and it could be expensive.
Yeah, so we do not require insurance.
For women to be seen, all of our services are free.
We do not want that to be a barrier.
We want to be able to serve and walk with women whether or not they have insurance and
then for myself as the client services director, I sit across from women and I work with them
to apply for state insurance and make sure they've kind of got those ducks in a row before.
So that's really why we say we offer prenatal care for up to 20 weeks.
Within those 20 weeks, we want to kind of get your feet under you, make sure you have
insurance and make sure you feel equipped to go to your OB with that insurance card in hand
ready to go.
And so that can be an overwhelming process, especially when we're seeing young 15, 16,
17 year olds who, you know, what is insurance?
Why do I need it?
And so to be able to have those conversations is great.
And then what do you get young girls, teenagers in there?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Got you about a lion's family services, more coming up at just a moment, 749 WRGN Radio,
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There is really nothing else I'd rather do, because I'm happy just to dance with you.
I don't need to hug a hold you tight, I just want to dance with you all night.
In this world there's nothing I would rather do, I'm happy just to dance with you.
Just to dance with you is everything I know, before this dance is through.
Get 752 at WRGN Radio and have two ladies from a lion's family services, we have Yolanda James,
the center director and Taylor Williams, who is the client services director, and we found
out a lion's women's clinic dot org, a lion's women's clinic dot org, I'll say one more
time, a lion's women's clinic dot org, at least ten times before people understand.
That's an old opportunity.
Me too, apparently, we're getting around, but we tell clients, they've got to hear your
commercial at least ten times before they remember it.
So we're going to see that ten times before we leave today.
All right, so what was I just say, oh, there were a lot of services that are offered in
hospitals.
A lot of people don't know about it.
I was telling you that my daughter was born in 1980, it was something called a Billy
Rubin light.
They call it that anymore, you'd never heard of it.
I don't know why it fits around here.
Billy Rubin light though, it's a blue light for kids and a lot of children are born with
jaundits and yellow.
And they put them under this light and it takes them the yellow away and so forth.
And he said, well, you're going to have to pay for your nursery care because we didn't
use the Billy Rubin light.
So it's not covered.
So my daughter was punished because she was born with a jaundits, the more perfect a child,
the more you got to pay.
It sounds like you were the one who was punished, you were the one having to pay.
You know, I remember and I'll tell you when she was born, when I first saw her, her hands
were wrapped in gauze pads and I said, what's the matter?
She said, well, she's got long fingernails and she's scratching her face.
And I said, she's born with long fingernails already.
She said, yes, and what she do is they scratch their face with their hands and their cheeks
were getting all scratched.
I thought, oh, she's born with no hands, that's the first thing I thought.
And do you know why it was actually, I did you allow people in the, in the delivery room
anymore with cameras?
Well, I think you can go in the delivery room with pretty much, you know, anything you
want in there.
So I brought a camera with me and it was taking pictures of her being born.
Now I couldn't go in front.
The doctor said, nobody allowed in front.
You got to take it from behind.
And I took pictures of her coming out and we have that in their baby album.
And I said, that's you being born.
I don't have any pictures of me being born.
I don't know, I guess I was born.
I don't have any photos to prove it, but she does.
And I said, that's amazing.
And when the baby's born, it's like, whoa, you're looking at this, I remember my wife
did not have any drugs or anything natural childbirth, no drugs.
And it hurts.
She said, I said, well, that's why they invented the drugs, but she didn't have the epidural
she didn't have anything.
And I remember her first comments, count the fingers and tell us, count the fingers and
tell us.
Count the fingers and tell us.
You kept saying that overnight.
She's got them all.
And that's an amazing thing.
Yeah.
Now guys, I don't think appreciated Carol Burnett once said for guys that don't know what
childbirth feels like, grab your lower lip and wrap it around to the back of your
neck.
That would be accurate.
And that's about what it feels like, because guys don't, they don't know, they're old,
they have coaches coming.
Yeah, you're going to look good.
You're going to look good.
Come on, come on.
That's what you do with a fighter in between the rounds.
Come on.
You can do it.
Come on.
You can do it.
Yeah.
But that's, they have no idea.
So fathers come in with these services as well, and they get the low down on what their
wives and girlfriends are going through, right?
Yeah.
So we offer to women and their birthing partners is a birthing class on Thursday nights.
And that birthing class is a great opportunity for the men to come with their wife or girlfriend.
And just kind of make sure that they know what to expect and kind of make sure that they
know what a woman needs in that moment and try and be as prepared as possible.
So we do have those classes on Thursday nights for men and women to come.
And yeah, practice different positioning and different things like that to make sure
that everyone's kind of on the same page going into that delivery room because we know
that that is important.
Now, but once I get to the hospital, they're going to have to pay, right?
I know that your services are free, but once a woman goes to the hospital, she has to
have insurance of some kind, right?
Yep.
So we make sure that by the time a woman is ready to live, she's got the money.
Well, I can't guarantee that, but I do work with them to make sure they have insurance
and feel equipped in that way.
Now, once the channel is born, do you guys, you guys done or you still help out after
the child is born?
No, not at all.
No, we love to continue to walk with women and these babies that we've seen since they
were, you know, six weeks in the womb and to be able to just see them running and talking
and learning is one of the most rewarding things.
It's not uncommon for us on staff to get invited to first birthday parties and yeah, we've
I've been to several to be able to see just women succeeding and parenting and yeah, so
no, no, we're not done with them.
We have classes for women, you know, with kids who are, you know, all the way up to the
teenage years.
So for as long as a woman wants to walk with us, we walk with her, we're in it, we're
in it for the long haul.
You know, I could remember back when I was a year old, one year.
Wow.
And I'll tell you how I remember that.
I was lived in the Bronx in New York.
And my brother and I went back to our apartment building in the Bronx and it wasn't a horrible
set.
It was a nice section of the Bronx.
People said, oh, the Bronx, it must have been horrible.
Not was pretty nice.
Anyway, so we lived in the Bronx and we went back to the apartment building and I looked
in the lobby area with the mailboxes where I saw this black and white mosaic floor and
all of a sudden I said, wow, I said to my brother, Jeff, was was our bathroom with that
same floor?
He goes, yeah, the same black and white, all the apartments had that.
I remember crawling on it when I was a year old because we left there when I was a year
and a half.
We moved out of that apartment building and I said, I remember that, that floor crawling on
it and I must have been a year old.
How many people can remember back in the year old?
I know I can't.
I'm lucky.
I've got four or five.
The one that I think I had to remember was my Bronx, living in the Bronx.
Alliance, women's clinic dot org, the Alliance, women's clinic dot org.
The actual name of the association is Alliance Family Services and once again, let's go over
where they're located.
They're in Racine and just to give you an idea, I hate to say it, but it's the near the
spaceship church, North of a bit of South North of get 15, 15 South Green Bay Road also
in Kenosha at 29, 15, 60th Street, all services are free and ladies, if you're pregnant or
you think you're pregnant and you're scared, you're nervous, you don't know what to do, contact
these ladies and more, the other people work in there, how to Alliance, other Alliance
Family Services, but the website you can check out Alliance, Women's Clinic dot org, Alliance
Family Services is the name in Racine and Kenosha, check them out online or here on Facebook
too.
We are.
Okay.
You're everywhere then.
Okay.
Thank you ladies for coming in today.
Yeah.
Thank you very much for the services you're offering.
Thank you.
Women that need it, might be a little scared, might be a little nervous.
Check it out.
Bye.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.