Scotty sat down with Elizabeth from People's Family Health Services to talk about their night of free fun for high school students coming up on Monday. Listen for details and follow PFHS on Facebook.
Podcast Transcript
Scott Carlson 0:00
Don't Want to Miss a Thing Aerosmith, FM 98 One and 14 10am the best of the 70s 80s and 90s. Scotty C joined this morning by broken Elizabeth from people, people's family health services. I always have trouble spitting that out Elizabeth, move that mic a little bit closer to us. We can hear you good. But here we go. We're getting closer. We talked last week about your cool event coming up Monday at Weill bills. And it's happening this Monday the 28th to tell us all about it.
Elizabeth 0:24
We are so excited Monday that 28 that wild bills from five to 8pm. It's for high school students homeschooled public school, private school doesn't matter. Just have to be enrolled in high school. And come on out. We've got free pizza, free laser tag free bowling, a bunch of different community resources trying to help young people understand their health, all aspects of what that looks like. We're going to have the police department out, given some resources. Boystown, just different people really wanting to help support the youth in our community and help them understand how to navigate their healthcare and the world that we're in now. Yeah, for
Scott Carlson 1:06
sure. I mean, a topic that's hard for a lot of teenagers to talk about is their health or their sexuality, things like that. So provide a fun environment to where they can come have some fun. And also, like you said, reach out to some of those resources. What's kind of the goal of this event for you? Yeah,
Elizabeth 1:21
that's a great question. We really just want as a community to come together and support the youth, and let them know what resources are available, where they can go if they have questions if they need help. It's not all about reproduction. We really just want people to know where to go, if they have questions. What is safe about dating and violence about what does a healthy relationship look like? RDAP is going to be there also talking about teen dating violence? And what are warning signs just so really, we can help our young people be safe, be confident in their care, and know where to go? If they have a concern?
Scott Carlson 2:05
Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's important to have that knowledge because when you find yourself in that situation, you're not gonna be a hold up. I'm gonna Google real quick on how I'm supposed to handle this situation. So a lot of parents, as you were telling me a little bit apprehensive about an event like this wondering what are you going to be showing them how to have sex? Are you going to be showing them? That's that's not the goal or the point is to educate them on how to deal with things when they find themselves in certain situations? Right,
Elizabeth 2:30
exactly. Thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, we were not showing pictures. We don't have videos or nothing like that. Really, our goal is just to support the young people so that they know where to go what is available in North Platte in our surrounding area. If they have a question, if they have a concern, we want them to talk to parents, we want them to have that safe adult in their life. And so our first mode of help is always that. But if that's not available to them, or they're not sure how to navigate that conversation, that's what we want to try and help with. That's why the police department is they're really just trying to bring a safe, happy face to sometimes a scary situation.
Scott Carlson 3:12
Yeah, for sure. Ignorance is bliss. And it's easy to sit back and think you know, Mike, my daughter, my son is never going to face that situation. We live in North Platte, it's safe. But it does happen here. We know from talking with our DAP, we know from talking with bridge of hope that these are real problems, real issues that our kids face. And maybe the parents don't want to have that conversation with them. That's why you guys are there right? Maybe a little easier for you as an outsider to have that conversation.
Elizabeth 3:38
Sometimes it's that, but also sometimes it's a friend, or sometimes they watched something on TV or they saw a movie that was troubling. And they're not really sure how to navigate that sometimes they watch something on a YouTube video. And it's just a question. They're not sure how to process they hear somebody talking in the hallway. And it might not be them personally. But that's part of the reason that we want people to come hang out with your friends, bring a friend, have a game of bowling, you know, you don't have to stay in this resource room the whole time. But just know that we're there to help to support and take a car, a car at home if something happens on the way. You know, in a year from now, you're wondering, Hey, what was that? That name? You've got the resource there and you know who to call? Yeah, for
Scott Carlson 4:27
sure. And an awesome tool to have in your toolbox for sure it's happening this Monday from five to eight. While Bill's as Elizabeth said, it's open to all ninth through 12th graders whether you go to public school or Catholic school or you're homeschooled. Everyone welcome free laser tag free bowling free pizza. My favorite part though, is our own Derek PAC is going to be there live on location from four to six on Monday. So he's going to be there pumping it up for you, too. Before we let you go, why don't you talk a little bit about some of the other services that are provided by people's family health services. Yeah, so
Elizabeth 4:59
we're an age See that outside of doing really awesome fun events, offers the WIC program, which is Women, Infants and Children. It's a food supplemental program for children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding people. And then we also offer the reproductive health services for uninsured and underinsured people. Anybody with private insurance is certainly welcome to come as well. But we work on a sliding fee scale. So money doesn't have to be an issue for us. We can do is a payment plan, Pay As You Go type thing. We do wellness exams. That's why I brought Brooke here with us. So she's our provider on Thursdays at the clinic, and we can do pap smears, breast exams, cancer screenings, those kinds of things, as well as STD testing, treatment and birth control.
Scott Carlson 5:51
Yeah, a lot of great services provided at times you get some grants to provide some of the preventative health services and things like that, like we talked about last week. So you guys are there for the people for their health and don't miss this event. While Bill's Monday five to eight. It's all free. And you're gonna learn some important information. Elizabeth, thank you for coming in again.
Unknown Speaker 6:12
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