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From YouTube: From City Hall - Ward 6
Description
Ward 6 Councilwoman Meg Salyer learns about the history, plans for the future and services offered to the Oklahoma City community by Sunbeam Family Services.
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Hello,
I'm
Meg
Salyer
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
the
ward
6
council
show
we
have
a
special
treat
today.
My
friend
Ray
beachy
is
here
whose
CEO
of
Sun
being
Family,
Services
and
he's
joined
by
Kelly
dupuis,
who
has
a
long
title
I
think
it
includes
marketing
and
development.
Exactly
was
it
two
really
important
things
to
do
and
we'll
get
to
talk
all
about
that,
but
we
had
the
most
wonderful
morning.
The
other
day
it
was
at
long
last.
A
I
know
from
Ray's
perspective
the
ground
breaking
for
a
new
campus
for
Sunbeam
and
I
thought,
maybe
just
to
begin
with
for
some
of
our
viewers
that
don't
know
about
Sunbeam
and
the
incredible
role
you've
played
in
this
community
for
more
than
a
hundred
years.
Tell
us
a
little
bit
about
the
history
and
what
Sunbeam
does
when.
B
You
say
the
incredible
role
played
that
is
Sunbeam.
Some
beam
was
founded
in
1907
by
a
group
of
14
women.
They
were
deeply
concerned
about
the
numbers
of
orphaned
and
abandoned
children,
walking
the
streets
of
this
community
way
back
when
they
decided
to
develop
a
children's
home,
rented
a
a
two-story
frame
house
over
on
east
7th
Street
and
set
up
shop
and
took
children
in
we
were
there
for
about
three
years
and
it
burned
to
the
ground
no
record
of
any
injuries
or
deaths.
B
A
Right,
that's
absolutely
an
amazing
store.
It
was
so
heartwarming
to
hear
that,
and
you've
been
so
would
have
quietly
nestled
in
the
middle
of
heritage
hills.
Mr.
Park
area,
providing
these
amazing
services
there's
a
great
story
that
I
recall
from
the
other
day
about
how
much
you
paid
for
the
building
and
your
financing
terms.
Why
don't
you
share
that.
B
B
A
A
C
C
And
well,
we
are
not
too
far
away
from
where
we
currently
are,
where
we've
been
for
101
years,
and
so
we
will
now
be
located
on
classon
in
between
13th
and
14th.
Our
new
address
is
1100
in
Northwest
14th
and
what
is
exciting
for
a
lot
of
things,
but
we
will
have
more
people
that
will
drive
by
in
a
day
that
we
do
in
a
full
year
at
our
current
location
and
Ray
talked
about
our
history
and
we
have
evolved
from
those
beginnings
to
do
what
we
do
today.
C
So
today
we
provide
counseling
early
childhood
education,
foster
care
and
senior
services.
We
serve
mainly
the
poor
in
the
working
poor
which
equate
to
vulnerable
children,
vulnerable,
seniors,
vulnerable
families.
So,
with
our
new
home
we
will
be
able
to
do
more
and
serve
more
providing.
This
will
be
the
first
time
that
we
have
all
of
our
services
under
one
roof
and-
and
we
are
on
a
bus,
stop
which
is
going
to
make
us
more
accessible.
A
C
We
are
absolutely
thrilled
because
a
lot
of
the
people
we
serve,
they
do
have
transportation
issues
and
we
want
to
make
it
as
accessible
to
the
poor
in
the
working
and
the
people
who
need
us.
So
we
can
reach
more
in
the
community.
We
are
so
excited.
We
have
had
a
great
great
architect
work
on
it.
Reese
&
Associates
is
our
is
on
our
project.
C
A
A
That's
always
going
to
say
20
years,
probably
so,
how
wonderful
to
bring
life
back
to
14th
in
class
and
add
such
a
support,
important
anchor
for
the
community-
and
you
know
again
the
services
that
you
provide
reach
such
a
broad
spectrum.
Talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
your
early
childhood
efforts
with
educator
and
some
of
your
partners
and
well.
B
Some
beam
has
been
a
a
provider
of
high-quality
early
childhood
education
for
children
of
disadvantage.
For
many
many
years
it
was
part
of
the
Sunbeam
homes
program
during
World
War,
two
women
went
to
work
outside
the
home
for
in
great
numbers.
For
the
first
time,
the
city
contracted
with
some
beam
to
license
anybody
else
that
went
into
the
daycare
business.
B
If
you
will
back
then
so
because
of
our
work
in
early
childhood
education
and
the
fact
that
we
were
the
Early
Head
Start
grantee
for
Oklahoma
County,
we
were
invited
to
participate
some
discussions
about
bringing
the
Educare
model
to
Oklahoma
City
and
before
I
knew
it.
We
were
asked
to
be
the
managing
partner
of
Oklahoma
City
educare.
It
is
a
program
whose
standards
exceed
those
of
Early,
Head,
Start
and
Head
Start.
We
have
more
teachers
in
the
classroom.
B
We
have
better
qualified
teachers
in
the
classroom,
we're
part
of
a
national
research
project
on
early
childhood
education
and
a
neurological
development
in
young
children.
We
have
a
local,
independent
evaluator
that
is
evaluating
our
work
and
the
growth
and
development
of
the
children
in
the
family.
Right.
A
B
Yeah
we
did
that
as
a
partnership
through
the
oklahoma
city
maps
office
maps
for
kids
built
Chavez
and
we
shared
a
10
acre
tract.
We
paid
for
our
four
acres,
but
that
partnership
with
says
our
Chavez
is
very
important
and
I.
Think
it's
also
important
to
note
that
educators,
a
partnership
included,
is
Sunbeam
the
end
as
much
foundation.
There.
The
lead
philanthropist,
the
Community
Action
Program,
our
head
start
grant
eek
Oklahoma,
City
Public
Schools
that
passes
through
state
pre-k
formula
funding
for
our
pre-k
classrooms
and
United
Way,
wonderful.
A
B
A
B
Use
violence
in
your
volunteers,
primarily
persons
over
age,
60
that
are
no
longer
working
looking
for
purpose
in
their
living.
We
place
them
with
other
seniors,
who
are
homebound
fragile,
have
limited
social
contact
with
others
and
through
this
relationship
between
the
volunteer
and
the
client,
we
experience
a
win-win.
The
companion
volunteer
does
experience
purpose
in
their
living,
which
the
every
one
of
them
will
say.
That
is
the
key
to
staying
young.
Having
a
work
to
do
the
client
they
serve
has
gone
from
being
isolated
and
lonely
to
experiencing
connectedness
and
belongingness.
B
Now,
with
that
volunteer
in
the
home,
we
can
do
that
for
about
sixteen
hundred
dollars
a
year
had
that
same
senior
had
to
be
placed
in
a
nursing
home,
it's
going
to
cost
about
forty
two
thousand
dollars
a
year,
so
it
it
helps
improve
the
quality
of
life
for
the
volunteer
and
the
client,
and
it
does
so
at
a
much
lower
cost
than
it
would
be.
Were
the
client
well.
A
C
C
C
Yes
and
there
you
can
get
online
CR,
see
our
images
and
help
us
out
and
you
can
click
to
donate.
We
are,
we
have
raised
to
date,
just
over
10
million,
and
so
we
are
thrilled.
We
are
absolutely
thrilled,
but
we
do
have
a
ways
to
go
and
we
do
need
help
from
those
in
the
community
to
help
us
reach
that
goal.
Wonderful
if
they
wanted
to
call
your
office.
How.
C
A
C
C
Know
we
always
tell
our
folks
who
come
in
to
volunteer.
You
will
be
a
rock
star,
everyone
will
want
to
read
to
you.
Everybody
will
want
to
sit
next
to
you
and
you
make
a
huge
difference
in
the
lives
of
the
children.
We
serve
just
by
being
a
caring,
safe
adult
in
their
life.
So
and
we
have
a
lot
of
other
opportunities.
We
have
opportunities
in
foster
care
and
providing
childcare
for
our
children
in
foster
care,
while
our
parents
are
in
in-service
training
and
we
have
other
opportunities
and
senior
services
and
counseling.