Stronger Together for Women and Babies

So by resources, I'm thinking that probably means technical support and sharing information about best practices, so many things.

Fill in more details for us there.

What are the most important things that center directors are looking for assistance with?

Our pillars that we're committed to helping with are the community, education, and marketing.

So the community, we have different platforms that everybody can contact each other and just have the person-to-person resources.

We have in-person directors meetings once a quarter so that they have... hey I'm running into this issue you know what would you do in that scenario or we are doing you know trainings like in October we'll have a nurses like just refresher course on doing sonograms and stuff so it's like that's that's the type of you know just resources person to person but also materials that you know the centers can exchange and help each other with But also, too, there's resources that centers can get as being part of a statewide coalition, and they can get discounts on supplies that they need or discounts to conferences and stuff like that.

So there's lots of layers of the resources that they can get as just being part of an alliance.

It just goes back to the basic principle of strength in numbers.

When you can combine purchasing power, you can combine the best ideas and access to just more technical support that you need, it just benefits everyone.

When a pregnancy center becomes part of Life Alliance Kansas, what changes for that center, both immediately and long term? Also, it's a two-part question here, because ultimately, I'm wondering, how does a woman walking through the doors of that center see the impact in that belonging of that larger community?

Well, I'll say from my perspective, and then I would want you to say what you think, but I would say just in being able to help support each other and help share those resources and have those trainings, you know, it gives the centers and all of the workers and volunteers in the centers, I would say, more confidence in their ability you know more you know physical things that they can have but also just oh I know that when I come across this scenario I've already you know learned how to do x y and z or I know that I can call you know so and so we've had a scenario where a couple times actually where there's been a woman has walked through the doors of center that's over here in the state of Kansas and then that director has called me to say hey my clients going over there can you put me in touch with that director and it's like yep and then she's taking care of across the state sorry so from my perspective that's what I would see but what about almost like a handshake is what I'm

here coordination and yeah

I think as far as how it just kind of trickles down to our clients is, you know, even like Eileen just mentioned, the sonography training.

You know, for us, we're actually sending four of our nurses to that sonography training.

And when we can come together as a group, then that's less expense to our centers.

But then also it is equipping our nurses to be able to serve our clients well.

So I think it just helps all of us just do a better job of serving with excellence.

And what great camaraderie those nurses probably build too by being there together.

I'm sure they're passing stories back and forth and they're learning from each other and both successes and things that they wish they would have done differently.

I'm sure they're sharing all kinds of stories there.

So just speaking of stories, can you think of any kind of example of a pregnancy center that encountered some kind of problem or they wanted to improve something about the way that they were practicing and they were able to turn to another member of the alliance and get that kind of help or that kind of mentoring?

I actually have an example.

Just yesterday, I had a center director contact me that's part of the alliance.

And our center, about six weeks ago, we had a security assessment done.

This man who does security for an international company, he came and did a security assessment for both our center and our maternity home.

So by resources, I'm thinking that probably means technical support and sharing information about best practices, so many things.

Fill in more details for us there.

What are the most important things that center directors are looking for assistance with?

Our pillars that we're committed to helping with are the community, education, and marketing.

So the community, we have different platforms that everybody can contact each other and just have the person-to-person resources.

We have in-person directors meetings once a quarter so that they have... hey I'm running into this issue you know what would you do in that scenario or we are doing you know trainings like in October we'll have a nurses like just refresher course on doing sonograms and stuff so it's like that's that's the type of you know just resources person to person but also materials that you know the centers can exchange and help each other with But also, too, there's resources that centers can get as being part of a statewide coalition, and they can get discounts on supplies that they need or discounts to conferences and stuff like that.

So there's lots of layers of the resources that they can get as just being part of an alliance.

It just goes back to the basic principle of strength in numbers.

When you can combine purchasing power, you can combine the best ideas and access to just more technical support that you need, it just benefits everyone.

When a pregnancy center becomes part of Life Alliance Kansas, what changes for that center, both immediately and long term? Also, it's a two-part question here, because ultimately, I'm wondering, how does a woman walking through the doors of that center see the impact in that belonging of that larger community?

Well, I'll say from my perspective, and then I would want you to say what you think, but I would say just in being able to help support each other and help share those resources and have those trainings, you know, it gives the centers and all of the workers and volunteers in the centers, I would say, more confidence in their ability you know more you know physical things that they can have but also just oh I know that when I come across this scenario I've already you know learned how to do x y and z or I know that I can call you know so and so we've had a scenario where a couple times actually where there's been a woman has walked through the doors of center that's over here in the state of Kansas and then that director has called me to say hey my clients going over there can you put me in touch with that director and it's like yep and then she's taking care of across the state sorry so from my perspective that's what I would see but what about almost like a handshake is what I'm

here coordination and yeah

I think as far as how it just kind of trickles down to our clients is, you know, even like Eileen just mentioned, the sonography training.

You know, for us, we're actually sending four of our nurses to that sonography training.

And when we can come together as a group, then that's less expense to our centers.

But then also it is equipping our nurses to be able to serve our clients well.

So I think it just helps all of us just do a better job of serving with excellence.

And what great camaraderie those nurses probably build too by being there together.

I'm sure they're passing stories back and forth and they're learning from each other and both successes and things that they wish they would have done differently.

I'm sure they're sharing all kinds of stories there.

So just speaking of stories, can you think of any kind of example of a pregnancy center that encountered some kind of problem or they wanted to improve something about the way that they were practicing and they were able to turn to another member of the alliance and get that kind of help or that kind of mentoring?

I actually have an example.

Just yesterday, I had a center director contact me that's part of the alliance.

And our center, about six weeks ago, we had a security assessment done.

This man who does security for an international company, he came and did a security assessment for both our center and our maternity home.