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{ timecode: 0, handler: 'blob', id: 1, data: {text: 'REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA BALLARD: We are going to have open mic. We will have a few questions. What I would like to do if it is okay with the panelists and speakers that we have in this room. If we have '}},
{ timecode: 12, handler: 'blob', id: 2, data: {text: 'additional questions we will take about 2 , 3 and try to be on time. Would you be willing to just come up and answer their questions if we have any? WILMA TOWNSEND: I\'m a panelist. I don\'t have a '}},
{ timecode: 23, handler: 'blob', id: 3, data: {text: 'question. Umm, one of the things that happened earlier when we was talking about religion and spirituality and I didn\'t get a chance to say it, and I want all y\'all to know this, one of the things I '}},
{ timecode: 35, handler: 'blob', id: 4, data: {text: 'did was went around and I talked to over 4,000 individuals who were serviced in the mental health system and asked them what things helped them the most in their recovery. And they named off 10 '}},
{ timecode: 49, handler: 'blob', id: 5, data: {text: 'things. One of them was the only thing that 100% of them said: spirituality, spirituality. There were 10 things that helped but only one there was 100% of the people saying that\'s what was helpful to '}},
{ timecode: 69, handler: 'blob', id: 6, data: {text: 'them. Many of them were African American meant spirituality as the church or the religion while others meant some other thing. Folks, we\'ve got to educate our churches to be a partner with us in this '}},
{ timecode: 87, handler: 'blob', id: 7, data: {text: 'rather than being a distraction, but I wanted you to know how that\'s how much spirituality plays a part. Because it gives people a sense of hope that they can get better. REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA '}},
{ timecode: 100, handler: 'blob', id: 8, data: {text: 'BALLARD: Thank you. Questions? All right. See none, we\'ll go straight to wrap up and will very brief because we just want to thank some people again to make sure that they know that we appreciate all '}},
{ timecode: 117, handler: 'blob', id: 9, data: {text: 'of their efforts and certainly Nate Miles and Eli Lilly. We could not have this conference without a grant from Eli Lilly, and really this is like Nate\'s grandchild, and I think it\'s working '}},
{ timecode: 130, handler: 'blob', id: 10, data: {text: 'beautifully for us. Nate, would you please stand, and let\'s give him a round of applause please.. Thank you. NATE MILES: As we close out, I just want to thank all of you for coming. The stories today, '}},
{ timecode: 148, handler: 'blob', id: 11, data: {text: 'I think Representative Ballard was absolutely right, every time we think we\'ve done one conference and can\'t get much better than that you start to find out and you start to hear the different stories '}},
{ timecode: 160, handler: 'blob', id: 12, data: {text: 'that are out there, and we got a lot of work to do. I think that I\'ve got 5 or 6 take-aways that we want to do for next year already that we\'re thinking about how we take this up one more level, how '}},
{ timecode: 178, handler: 'blob', id: 13, data: {text: 'we bring in some more people, how we expand what we\'re doing and really start to take those bills and stuff and those ideas and translate those into things that are gonna help people with this whole '}},
{ timecode: 190, handler: 'blob', id: 14, data: {text: 'health care reform debate. If this whole health care reform debate takes place and gets solved and settled and nothing that we come out of here with gets put in that bill then shame on us, because the '}},
{ timecode: 201, handler: 'blob', id: 15, data: {text: 'ideas that we have heard and what we\'ve heard from some of the people that have come forward needs to be in the national debate because I gotta believe it\'s not just happening to these people, it\'s '}},
{ timecode: 210, handler: 'blob', id: 16, data: {text: 'happening around the country and there\'s nothing - this is world class stuff that was presented here, and NBCSL needs to be put on - needs to serve notice that they\'re bringing world class stuff to '}},
{ timecode: 222, handler: 'blob', id: 17, data: {text: 'the health care debate and that will help, and if there\'s anything I can to help you Mr. President and Ms. Vice President, please let me know what we can do, but Lilly stands ready to help you. '}},
{ timecode: 232, handler: 'blob', id: 18, data: {text: 'REPRESENTATIVE BARBARA BALLARD: Thank you very much. We do thank you. We\'ve had outstanding panelists and our speakers today, and we really want to thank you very much for coming. I especially want to '}},
{ timecode: 249, handler: 'blob', id: 19, data: {text: 'thank you Mrs. Townsend and Mr. Montgomery for your personal testimony, because that puts a face on mental illness, because it\'s not like something you read about or someone told you about it, but you '}},
{ timecode: 264, handler: 'blob', id: 20, data: {text: 'know the experience, and at the same time something you said was very important to me. If you get the treatment - and you were in the system - but if you get the treatment it allows you to live a '}},
{ timecode: 274, handler: 'blob', id: 21, data: {text: 'fulfilled life and your potential is there and you\'re able to help people I think even more so because you understand what they\'re going through. We thank you very much for being here today. I '}},
{ timecode: 286, handler: 'blob', id: 22, data: {text: 'especially want to also make sure we don\'t leave out our NBCSL staff LaKimba and all of the staff members and all of you who have worked on this conference today. A round of applause, please. And '}},
{ timecode: 296, handler: 'blob', id: 23, data: {text: 'thank you for our two sites. We want to thank Representative Howard in South Carolina and Representative Broomfeld in Mississippi. Let\'s give them a round of applause, they can hear it, and we '}},
{ timecode: 312, handler: 'blob', id: 24, data: {text: 'appreciate that. You know, sometimes we struggle with when we are inviting people here for the conference we can only accommodate so many people, but we are able to accommodate even more people by '}},
{ timecode: 323, handler: 'blob', id: 25, data: {text: 'going to two different sites, and we have all of those people being involved, as well as we are here. I\'m very pleased that we go to those sites to offer that opportunity as well. We want to thank '}},
{ timecode: 337, handler: 'blob', id: 26, data: {text: 'that for happening last year and again this year. We cannot leave without thanking Representative Joe Armstrong, and where\'s our Vice Chair? Ussie Richard\'s right here. We want to thank them both'}},
{ timecode: 350, handler: 'blob', id: 27, data: {text: 'for doing a fine job chairing and keeping our meeting running. You know, lastly, I just want to thank our NBCSL members. You know you would say okay fine we were invited and we came, but it takes time '}},
{ timecode: 364, handler: 'blob', id: 28, data: {text: 'and there\'s lots of things you could be doing but you take the time to come. And often I\'m not sure our constituents fully understand that when we attend conferences we\'re trying to get better '}},
{ timecode: 374, handler: 'blob', id: 29, data: {text: 'prepared to help them. We\'re also being able to say "That\'s the latest thing that\'s there." Think of the people we heard from today. We heard from people that incorporate mental health. We talked '}},
{ timecode: 388, handler: 'blob', id: 30, data: {text: 'about depression. We know they still function, and yet we\'re all here to take that information back. The fact that we\'re talking about our veterans becomes extremely important. We have wars going on, '}},
{ timecode: 400, handler: 'blob', id: 31, data: {text: 'and yet they give their lives, they come back to this country, and they cannot find the proper health care. I\'m so glad that we highlight that all time, because they need that help, they have given '}},
{ timecode: 413, handler: 'blob', id: 32, data: {text: 'their lives and in some cases their sanity in order to protect this country, and we need to make sure that they have quality of life. I think NBCSL has worked in a lot of things, and we continue to do '}},
{ timecode: 428, handler: 'blob', id: 33, data: {text: 'it because we want to be on the cutting edge of what\'s going on, and we can only do it with the help or we can only do it if you come and if you take it back to your communities. With that, I thank '}},
{ timecode: 438, handler: 'blob', id: 34, data: {text: 'you very much, and you can tell your friends and you go back and review it - look at our web site, and a little bit later when we have it on the web site, all the colleagues that were unable to come, '}},
{ timecode: 450, handler: 'blob', id: 35, data: {text: 'that didn\'t have to be in South Carolina or Mississippi will have that opportunity to revisit it. You can actually then maybe take it yourself share it with your legislative body so that they all get '}},
{ timecode: 464, handler: 'blob', id: 36, data: {text: 'that information. We have it and we are going to help our constituents but there are so many other legislators out there who could be using the information, white and black, and I would like for NBCSL '}},
{ timecode: 475, handler: 'blob', id: 37, data: {text: 'to be the one that\'s providing them that opportunity to learn and have more resources. With that, we thank you so much for being here, and I cannot ever close without saying Representative Smyre sits '}},
{ timecode: 489, handler: 'blob', id: 38, data: {text: 'there pretty quietly, but we know it\'s through his leadership that we\'re able to do all of this. That\'s a round of applause. And as he always says, "Give him a round of applause." Thank you very much, '}},
{ timecode: 513, handler: 'blob', id: 39, data: {text: 'and you know we always say when you can get your past presidents to come back and participate we know we\'ve done something right and we\'re able to keep Mary Coleman and all the others from here. Thank '}},
{ timecode: 524, handler: 'blob', id: 40, data: {text: 'you so much.'}}
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