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Alright, so welcome to Resilient Schools.

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This is the podcast we're doing at
the Bridging to Resilience Conference.

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Today we have Ivory Boyce.

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Ivory, why don't you tell us
a little bit about yourself.

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why don't you.

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So I'm here with the Flint
Hills Job Corps Center.

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We help students So about me,
I'm a admissions counselor

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here at the Flint Hills.

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I'm new to the staff I have been working
with the youth for several years.

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I was at the Workforce Center  when I
was at the Workforce Center, I was a

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workforce professional and then I became a

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Customer Service Coordinator and then
seeing all the different youth I decided

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to join with the Flint Hills Job Corps
Center that needed the extra assistance So

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I'm excited to be here have two bachelor's
degrees and a master's from Wichita State.

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Oh my goodness.

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So you're at home right now?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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So what are your bachelor's in
and what's your master's in?

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what I have health management and
community development, and then I have

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the public health science with a minor
in psychology is for the two bachelors.

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And then for my master's is
health administration with

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aging studies concentration.

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Oh my gosh, that is so nerdy.

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I

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I love it With aging studies interesting.

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So you studied like how people get old?

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Basically, yes.

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And then, like, how to stay healthy,
and then the end of life, and how to

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take care of yourself, and what to
do, and then Medicare, things like

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Fascinating.

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You're not working in your major,
though, because you're working with kids,

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graduated in May.

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gotcha.

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So,

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with the health, with the public health,
I felt like I was more into my public

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health side of things and community
development, because it was health

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management and community development.

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That was my, one of my first bachelors.

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The career development side, I'm all
about helping people out, giving them the

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tools that they need and the resources and

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things like that, so I'm super excited.

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to

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16 to

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what Job Corps is a way for young adults
aged 16 to 24 to further their education.

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They can have a high school
diploma or they cannot.

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We'll help them get their
GED or high school diploma.

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We'll help you get a trade.

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and a driver's license if you don't
have that, everything's 100 percent

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free room and board, you'll have a place
to stay, you'll get three hot meals a

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day, plus snacks in between, afternoons
we have recreational and different

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things, we'll take them to the K State
games and bowling and skating, so it's

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like the full package, so if you're
like not knowing what's the next step,

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then you're not able to get like a
full ride to the College or you're not

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understanding what's your next steps.

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We'll be able to be here for you to take
your hand in Help you along the process.

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It's at your own pace So if you can
finish in nine months, you'll be able

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to finish in nine months if it takes you
12 months We'll let you go 12 months.

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It takes you two years.

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We'll be here for two years So
it's really up to you as long

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as you're making that progress.

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We'll be here to support you to get
to that next level Some people go to

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college after and get a four year degree.

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Some people go to military.

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Some people go into the work field.

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We have so many different options
that you can do and we'll be

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here along the way to help you.

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Cool.

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So what is your purpose in coming to a
conference like bridging to resilience?

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coming to this conference will be
able to help us grasp the knowledge

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of working with different populations
of individuals and understanding

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where they're coming from.

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So when we're helping them bridge this.

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We'll be able to connect with the

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different resources of all the
people ,  it's so many different

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teachers and different things like that.

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So if you see a young adult struggling or
trying to get to the next step and you're

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just not sure, If traditional high school
is there for them, all the hope spots and

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things like that, sometimes traditional
high school is not the best for everyone.

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So seeing the different option,
you still want this kid to succeed,

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or you still want them to be
able to get to the next level.

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And sometimes it's what will be
that next level for this kid?

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Their high school's not for them.

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Come to Job Corps.

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We'll be able to help you complete
your high school diploma and it

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doesn't just have to be a GED.

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You'll get your high school
diploma, you can get a trait,

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you'll get your driver's license.

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We'll help you, you'll have a
transition specialist to help you

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along the process when you're done.

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You'll have all that extra support
that you need that you feel like

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you're lacking in other systems.

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feel like you're lacking in other systems.

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Yeah, that's very cool.

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I imagine that also some of the kids
that the people here are working with

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in their schools would probably be
good candidates for Job Corps as well.

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That they may not know what they
want to do and may not have a

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stable home environment for an
example of what they could do.

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as a stable home environment for
an example of what they could do.

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for their child, they're going

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Consider that.

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And then, so free or reduced
lunch is automatic qualifier.

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There's a lot of kids that's on the
public Medicaid and things like that.

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Automatic qualifier.

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As soon as you turn 18, you're
an individual, and you're a grown

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up, and you don't have any income
because you haven't worked.

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Automatic qualifier.

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So there's so many different
ways we can get these young

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people in to bridge the gap.

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bridge the gap.

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Oh, cool.

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That's very good.

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There's been a lot at this conference.

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What are some of your big takeaways?

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Things that you've learned that you want
to make sure you remember going forward.

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Yeah, so there was so many different
things that I have jotted down in my

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notebook or whatever, but the, I love
to see that people go through so many

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different things, but they still have that

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the hope and prosperity
to go to the next level.

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So many people come from
poverty or experienced poverty.

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Some people might not have stayed
there, but they have experienced it,

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being able to hear different people's
perspectives, but also getting those tools

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that we need to work with these young
individuals to get to the next level.

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But yeah, it's been so inspiring.

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And then I like the different
breakout rooms, how you can go

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pick which class you want to be in
to get to the different courses.

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there was one individual who we were
talking about being colorblind and you

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can't act like you don't see the color
or where someone's coming from or their

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culture or their race because race
and culture is two different things.

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But You can't say, Oh, I don't see color
and everyone's the same because you do

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see that I'm different and you have to
respect that I'm different and respect

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where I'm coming from and understand
that you're working with someone from a

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different culture and understand how to
deal with each individual differently

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because everyone's not the same.

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Yeah.

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You can't ignore those things.

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Yeah, that's good.

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That's Charles Williams.

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I wanted to chat with him on the podcast,
but we couldn't make our schedules

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line up, so he'll be coming out in the
future for sure, because I thought that

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was definitely an interesting session.

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Yes, and I also like, there's different
resources here for teachers to be

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able, if you see a kid struggling,
there's mentor programs that they're

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trying to line people up with.

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There's all these different type
of resources that we have that you

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can't use all of them, but if you
take one or two of them away, that

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we'll be able to make the world a

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better

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Yeah, for sure.

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So with all that said, and you have
in front of you a huge notebook

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with a ton of papers in it.

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The other question that I would ask
Ivory is what is an action step you're

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gonna take as a result of being here?

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I feel like I'm going to recognize my
triggers and know what to do and how to

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manage those triggers when they come up.

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So no one in a perfect world, we all
will be happy and if we all would

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agree on everything, but there is
some things that come up to make

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us upset or so we got to focus on.

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Ourself sometimes in on what's our
part of the mess or whatever to make

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sure we'll be able to help the next
person So Basically is being proactive

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instead of focusing on the reaction.

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You'll be able to focus on being
proactive So that was a nice little note

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Yeah, I love the idea of being
proactive instead of reactive when

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you're proactive you're able to act
how you want to act rather than acting

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how somebody else makes you act.

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And you definitely don't want to just
be acted upon by other people and have

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them, tell you how you should be, like
when there's a, especially in schools,

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when there's a kid who's bothering you or
making you upset, like you're giving all

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your power to that kid by letting them
control your emotions and how you feel.

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And if you're being reactive,
but if you can instead say,

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regardless of what happens today,
this is how I'm going to show up.

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Then you can act in alignment with
your values, regardless of what

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the circumstances are around that.

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And that's a really
powerful skill to develop.

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And I can definitely agree with that.

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Yeah.

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That's powerful.

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Yeah.

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coming to a conference like this, you're
going to go back, talk with your peers

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at work and the other, and with this,
the students that are there, what are

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some of the things that you're going to
say are like, these were the impactful

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things that we learned that maybe they
didn't apply to you because you're not

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like in a classroom setting and and a
lot of people here are what are some of

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those things that you want to take away?

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All of our people come from different
walks of life it's not just the perfect

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picture home or whatever, but it's
like, trying to calm someone down,

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don't tell them to calm down, because
at the end of the day, telling someone

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to calm down when they're so heated, we
have to try other de escalation methods

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and things like that that's a big one,
trying to like, don't say calm down the

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non verbal cues you don't have to say
some things, but then you can pick up

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on them based off the body language.

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Tone of voice is not what you
say, but it's how you say it.

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Those are major, because I can tell you
to relay this message, but if you go say

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it in a different tone, or in an email
or text message, tone can also get lost

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yeah.

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Yeah, those are little things, but
man they sure do make a big impact,

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Yeah,

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And if you are coming across as
sarcastic or inauthentic or something,

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then people really see and feel that
and that can be really detrimental.

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anything else that you feel we need
to chat about before we sign off?

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One thing I can say is, when we're
working with kids, before we react

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to their reaction, we have to make
sure they have their basic needs.

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They are, taken care of, and the president
or whatever of SDAC, I'm not sure if

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that's the correct title, but he was
the keynote speaker today, this morning.

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Executive Director, Chad

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Yes.

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So he gave that example of the shattering
glass okay, I'm knocking on the door,

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seeing what it is, what's going on, and
then he see that the mother is in the

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wheelchair, on oxygen, this, that, and
the third there's more to life than just

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of course the kid needs to be in school,
but if you see that her mom is on her

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deathbed or got a couple months to live,
you can see why she's not at school.

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So the shattering glass was,
that was a good story too.

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I really liked that.

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Yeah.

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And that doesn't excuse behavior,
but it gives us context.

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And that's actually what, what
Chad was talking about on the show

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that I interviewed him earlier.

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The context really does matter.

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And it's not like that's going to make
everything okay or anything like that.

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But if you understand it, then
you can have some empathy.

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You can say, okay, I see
where you're coming from.

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And you can get an idea
of what's going on.

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And then you can say, all right, this
was really an inappropriate behavior.

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This was wrong.

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We can't do this.

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But...

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I see where you're coming from.

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I have empathy.

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I love you.

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I care about you.

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And let's move on.

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you can learn how to support them.

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That's the main thing of getting that
extra information, because it's like,

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you're not, like you said, you're
not telling them that information

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is okay, but now you know how to
support them, you know what they're

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going through, you can actually
relate to them in a different way.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like, Not saying you're going to give
them any lax or any slack, but you can.

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Help them out and give them
the extra tools they need.

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Maybe they might need a ride to school,
or maybe they might need some clothes or

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something because their mom's not working,
or whatever that's, everyone has different

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anxieties, or different fears, or whatever
that's going through their head, but

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whatever that's holding them back, you
might be able to be that extra layer of

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support to get them to their next level.

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Jones, Transformative
Principal, Jethro, Yeah.

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And everybody needs support
getting somewhere, right?

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And sometimes they're the
one receiving support.

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Sometimes they're the one giving support.

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And there have been times where
people that you don't think would be

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the supporters are the supporters.

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Like I've had students who have really
helped me through a difficult time without

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even knowing that's what they were doing.

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And, and I'll just share
one quick little story.

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This was my daughter who was
in 7th grade at the time.

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And I had just gotten told
that I wasn't gonna be the

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principal of my school anymore.

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And the next day.

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Go back to the school, pack
your office, you're done.

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Really difficult.

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And my daughter that day was like,
I gotta eat lunch with my dad.

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And she came in and ate lunch with me.

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And and I was like...

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totally distraught, totally bummed,
and she was just like chatting away.

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We're talking and then she
says, what's wrong dad?

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And I said, Oh, I'm
just having a rough day.

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She put her hand on my arm and she
said, dad, it's going to be okay.

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And it was like, Oh my goodness, that
girl, like she, she was totally right.

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And it was okay.

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And yeah, that was a really tough
thing to go through, but man, I sure am

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grateful that I had that moment with her.

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Where she could be my support
when I didn't have support in

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that moment and I needed it bad.

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And that's a really powerful thing.

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Not sure why I felt like I needed to
share that story, but there you go.

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back to Yeah.

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the

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That's, a long way to make someone
get to the next step in their

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Yeah, for sure.

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So Ivor, if somebody's interested
in Job Corps, we have people all

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over the country listening to this.

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Not just Flint Hills Job Corps,
but anywhere in the country.

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How did they get connected
and learn more about that?

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You can visit us at JobCourse.

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gov to get our information, or you
can give me a call at 785 770 7302.

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. 
 This episode was edited by Carter Black
as part of the Davis Catalyst Center.