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Karla Garrett Harshaw and A Stronger Dayton Community Starting with Our Youth

2025-05-02T08:34:34-04:00

I would like to start with how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? I think the first time I became familiar with Daybreak was while I was working in development at legal aid law firm’s advocates for basic legal equality and legal aid of Western Ohio. Both are nonprofit law firms that serve low income and disadvantaged people in civil cases. And it was either through the work that was done there or other community connections that I became aware of Daybreak. Since then, however, I've become even more familiar with the [...]

Karla Garrett Harshaw and A Stronger Dayton Community Starting with Our Youth2025-05-02T08:34:34-04:00

Carolynn Carr on Daybreak Saving Lives

2025-04-30T15:37:51-04:00

I've got Carolyn Carr here with me. She's a past client of Daybreak and I always like to start with the moment of instability. So, what was the moment that brought you to Daybreak? Oh, that's a great question. So, I was 18 at the time. Me and my twin sister were in a difficult situation between my mom's boyfriend and also our mother. Basically, we were feeling safe in our home so my oldest sister who was a client here at Daybreak as well, she recommended us to come straight here. I felt I was safe here because where I [...]

Carolynn Carr on Daybreak Saving Lives2025-04-30T15:37:51-04:00

Melissa Aldridge on Daybreak as a Starting Place

2025-04-23T14:59:56-04:00

I have Melissa Aldridge here with me today and she is a past client of Daybreak and so I always like to start with the moment of instability. What was that moment that brought you to Daybreak? Well, I grew up in Dayton, OH, and that's an area that sometimes has a lot of reputations or people don't even know where it is when I talk to them. But one of the things that tends to come up is that there's definitely some challenges with the intersection of 70 and 75 and the addiction that kind of plagues a lot of [...]

Melissa Aldridge on Daybreak as a Starting Place2025-04-23T14:59:56-04:00

Karen Gruenberg on Holistic Support for Homeless Youth

2025-04-02T14:48:09-04:00

I have Karen Gruenberg with me from The Dayton Foundation. I would love to start with asking how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? That's a great question. Thank you very much for having me here. I'm involved with Daybreak in two different ways. I have a professional history with Daybreak and then I have a personal history as well. I became aware of Daybreak I'd say a few years back when I started my career here at The Dayton Foundation. I participated in helping organize the nonprofit capacity building which is [...]

Karen Gruenberg on Holistic Support for Homeless Youth2025-04-02T14:48:09-04:00

We Care Arts on Continuity of Community

2025-03-26T11:27:38-04:00

I have with me today Katie Neubert from We Care Arts as well as Rick Willits and Kelli Campbell. So my first question is how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? Thank you so much for talking with us. We love Daybreak and we are so proud of our partnership with the team over there and all the amazing work that they have been doing. We Care Arts is a 40-year-old organization. Our mission is focused on empowering healing through art and community. And since about 2019, because it was pre-COVID. We [...]

We Care Arts on Continuity of Community2025-03-26T11:27:38-04:00

Terri FitzHarris on Knowledge as Power and Making a Difference

2025-03-19T14:51:54-04:00

I'd like to welcome volunteer Terri FitzHarris today to the interview. Terri is a volunteer here at Daybreak. How long have you been involved with us? Since January of 2024. I met Travis [Rindler] in December 2024 when—I'm the service of philanthropy chairman of my sorority, the Dayton alumni chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha—I reached out to Travis to see how we could help him at Christmas. When I met him, I felt like I knew him my whole life and we became friends after that. He encouraged me to volunteer, and I've been here ever since. Awesome! You say you're [...]

Terri FitzHarris on Knowledge as Power and Making a Difference2025-03-19T14:51:54-04:00

Judge Wallace of Montgomery County Juvenile Court on Community Partnership

2025-03-13T13:28:41-04:00

I have Judge Wallace with me who is from Montgomery County Juvenile Court. Thank you for being here. You're very welcome. I'm pleased to be here. https://youtu.be/HChSlEuhmJQ?si=SSXG0iUP4In4emoJ So, how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? Well, I began working in Montgomery County in 2001 as a prosecutor in the juvenile division. Through that role I learned about Daybreak, and it was often that we’d contact Daybreak for kids that had nowhere else to go—it wasn't appropriate for them to be detained but they couldn't go home. Sometimes there needed to be [...]

Judge Wallace of Montgomery County Juvenile Court on Community Partnership2025-03-13T13:28:41-04:00

Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help

2025-03-06T11:19:21-05:00

I have with me Altar Lee who is a previous client and also been a featured speaker at our annual Champions for Youth event. Tell us what was the moment of instability that brought you to Daybreak? The moment of instability would probably be my mental health. When it started becoming clear because I am a person who has borderline personality disorder. I am diagnosed with it. I've had it since I was little. Been in therapy since I was little. But it became a big staple in my life at the age of 16 which caused a lot of turmoil [...]

Altar Lee on Adaptability and Accepting Help2025-03-06T11:19:21-05:00

Family Feel and Exponential Growth for Daybreak Youth with Darrico Murray

2025-02-27T09:59:36-05:00

I have Darrico Murray with me today, how long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? Yeah, my time with Daybreak started a little over 19 years ago. I got connected with Daybreak through some work that I was doing in the community in the Wayne Ave. area and some young people I was working with through a school setting.  I applied for a job and worked with a few of the people who were there at that time to start working in the shelter and then eventually started in the housing program.  The [...]

Family Feel and Exponential Growth for Daybreak Youth with Darrico Murray2025-02-27T09:59:36-05:00

Nora Vondrell on Advocacy and Retold Stories with Daybreak

2025-02-20T11:03:14-05:00

I have with me Nora Vondrell today. How long have you been involved with Daybreak and how did you get connected with us? My bachelor’s degree is in social work. I'm a Wright State University grad, and my first job out of college was working for Montgomery County Children Services. I had a client at Daybreak and got to know Daybreak through her. https://youtu.be/8B9_eNQRdcQ It was while I was working with that client that the leadership at Daybreak asked if I'd be interested in coming and working for Daybreak as a social worker. And so that is how I got [...]

Nora Vondrell on Advocacy and Retold Stories with Daybreak2025-02-20T11:03:14-05:00

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