 Hey everyone, it is Gabrielle over here today at number 14 at persimmon ridge now You guys oxmer toyota is sponsoring the whole in one so we have this beautiful 2020 Toyota Camry, so good luck everyone beautiful vehicle. All right now. I have Abby drain here with me She is the president and CEO of bellwood and brook lawn and Abby I've got a couple questions for you So tell us a little bit about today's events and how is it going to be helping with bellwood and brook lawn? Yeah, thanks. Well, thanks for having us. Yeah The event today is a golf scramble and people in Louisville and around here are used to golf scrambles And this is one of the ways that we use to raise money to take care of the kids, right? Our kids Have many needs. We've got about 150 kids on campuses, okay, and and they have needs for clothing personal hygiene products If they happen to go to a movie or you know have some kind of entertainment, of course We're all we're all isolated on our campuses right now So we've had to buy Chromebooks for our kids to learn and they they need school supplies Just like anyone else so all the same needs that you have for a kid that was in between the ages six and eighteen Okay, we have a hundred and fifty of those needs and that's what we use this money for and We couldn't we couldn't really do our job without it and the kids couldn't have the things they need without it Well, perfect. Well, I'm glad we could help you know a little bit with all right now What are some of the milestones in the past few years for bellwood and brook lawn? Wow, we Seems like it really goes fast and we're kind of at a halt here with the COVID But what we've been doing is doing some research work on our kids to research How well the the behavioral program is inside our campus? So each one of these residential placements have a different kind of model of a program that they use for behaviors Because that's why the kids are here to learn new behaviors and to learn how to sit down at a table To have a conversation and look someone in the eye and to really just get along sometimes because they have had so much Trauma and abuse sometimes they don't know what's safe or not So we teach them how to be safe again So what we're doing is doing research on that to see how long our kids are then stabilized back in the community So what's really important you can you can do well inside our campus and then fail when you go home Now that's not that's cost a lot of money Traumatized a lot of kids and families taking them away from their families But if we the better we do that work and we use that research to come back in and tweak our program So that kids then when they go home can stay there longer Can be more stabilized go back into a regular school environment. So we're really proud of that We've we've spent a few years working on that. Well, yeah, I'd say so. Well, awesome. All right, and What are some of the initiatives that the initiatives that you have left for the remainder of the year? Well, this has been a hard year on all of us. We all know that it's it's affected our economy. It's affected our relationships It's affected home life. And so our kids are very much impacted. They've been kept from their parents They've been isolated on our campuses. We've used some social media. We've used again our Technology and zoom and telephone That's still not good enough for these kids. So we're trying to get through this keep the kids as Contacted as possible. Okay, really help them understand the racial unrest and the COVID Unrest that's going on and make sure that they're not Retraumatized by that just as a parent would at home while you work with your teenagers and your young children Explaining to them what this is and how we'll get through it and how we'll get through it together and helping them trust us to keep them safe by us keeping ourselves safe and wearing our mask and staying social distance and not You know, we don't go on vacations get out in crowds We're trying to do the best to keep ourselves safe. So we keep the kids safe. So that's really what we need to do this year Right a lot of our funding has been impacted by this because this has impacted the economy and and people have lost their jobs And and lots of businesses are shutting down So those same people that would have provided us donations in the past are not able to do that So we're having to go to More people but fewer people and those people are having to give more and we really appreciate that Yeah, now lastly, how if people do want to get involved in this? I mean, what are things that are really going to help you guys out? Yeah, well funding right now If you don't have funding we have kids with birthdays Every other day if you say a hundred and a hundred fifty kids and that and that it moves to about 400 During the whole year because some do get to leave and go back home But we have every holiday Christmases we we need we need birthday presents and you think of girls and boys age six to 18 Those are the kind of things we need again. If you can if you could just drop off hygiene products or or Toilet paper or paper towns or by the kids a meal We just collected our executive team just collected amount of money and we're gonna buy pizza for both campuses for the staff and kids So that's a small amount of money. We got a group together like four hundred dollars bought pizza And you can get a group together and and donate something like that Then then both the staff and the kids feel some appreciation and some love and they know people out there care about them because again They're they're isolated and and we're really kept down because Our campus is kind of like a nursing home once that starts spreading It's you know, it spreads really fast and and you know, it's health concerns So those are the ways you could help get on our website and we have a list of what's needed We need school supplies. We need backpacks. We need Chromebooks Anything that you know of other young kids needing their school aged Well, we have to continue the education of these hundred fifty kids So you may have a couple of kids in your home three or four and you're working on keeping them educated We have a hundred fifty and these kids are really behind in in school So it's double work to try to catch them up Keep them focused with their behavioral health issues and keep them on track and connected with their parents Our staff are unbelievable My heart goes out to them if you know if you don't have funds or you don't have those things prayers work We're a big believer in prayers around here and we appreciate all the prayers have already gotten that all the sport We've already gotten and if we could just continue that and be together. We'll get out of this Okay, we definitely will yeah Well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. We really appreciate it Thank you now you guys I will have a link to where you guys can see exactly what they need and the donating processes and things like that Thank you so much for watching this and we have something else coming up, too So stay tuned all right It's this Kenny Howard from oxmore PGA member as well coming back to my roots talking to Steve Schaefer director of golf here at persimmon Ridge So you're out here on Monday today off PGA. There's a lot of charitable work So what's it like for you to be able to donate some of your time and have your facility to help raise money for these kids? Yeah, it's great You know we do a number of different outings on Mondays and most of them are for charitable organizations raising money for great causes So we're excited to be a part of that It's really great as a PGA golf professional to know that the game of golf can touch people's lives in so many different ways It does it does and this is one of the few things people can get out and do right now and be safe I notice on the carts. You've even got dividers right to make sure everybody's safe on that I guess is that with the governor governor's rules? So we're following CDC guidelines and you know if you can't be six feet apart You got to have some kind of barrier or you know, obviously we're asking people to wear masks and doors So yeah, it's been an interesting year a lot of different things thrown our way seems like it's something different every week But we're just rolling with the punches and excited that folks can still get out and enjoy the game of golf and that It's something that they can come out and do safely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so The reason we're standing here next to this camera and the reason we're here is we've got this for the hole in one So I threw the drone up a little while ago and took a look at the hole I mean I played this hole a number of times, but you're the pro here pro So give me the pro tip how are they gonna make this one today to get this camera? Well, you know The green is really down in a nice little bowl for the most part and a pretty good slope off the right so Generally speaking you want something coming in from the right side because it's gonna kick and break a little left So if you're looking to drop it in the hole You want to sling it in there a little right to left good pro tip good pro tip right there play the odds And if you do hit it to the right, you meant to do it anyway, right? You know that's right. That's right. Of course. It was a wind. Well, you can bank it off that hill. You know call the bank We're playing stop Lastly, what's going on out here persimmon Ridge this year. So it's a different year when we came in We saw the kids out there as a little junior clinic going on this morning about eight thirty or nine o'clock. What's going on here? Yeah, so Persimmon Ridge and Polfields were actually two clubs in one I've got a vibe a vibrant really vibrant club a lot of great members out here enjoying golf It's been an extremely busy year since it's the one thing people can do Yeah, and down at the other end of the practice tee here persimmon Ridge is the golf academy And they've got a very vibrant business do a lot of clinics and camps and a lot of junior golfers come through here So yeah, it's just a very active vibrant place and I'll throw a pitch out that We're excited next year since it's Kentucky open week this week, right? Next year we're going to be the host of the other Kentucky open here in Kentucky. So we're very excited about that I'd not seen that news yet on the PGA newsletter. So congratulations on that Thanks for all the work that you do with kids and growing the game of golf here in terry I know your wife does as well. So this part of your family and has been for a long time So I hope you got some tips here on 14 if you need more tips about how to play persimmon Ridge You know where to find this guy's director of instruction. Thanks so much