Alrighty. So I know that you were able to share a little bit about the work that you do with evidence based programs and maybe we could just dive into kind of how you got connected to it and some of the things that you've learned. What do you value?

As I shared with Aziz, we got connected by way of our convention and I think what came up was the fact that they were short facilitators of color, everybody. They had been doing this work, as Aziz explained, across the country and particularly here in Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, but not engaging communities of color. So they heard about our ambassador program and that's what I just finished sharing. So the ambassador program has been instrumental. After learning that our ambassadors went through a certified training module, we brought in as another module entity for the ambassadors to get certified and be able to facilitate the evidence base living well with chronic conditions program. I think the other thing that we did, we had to work with them to identify a specific set of training hours because of the amount of hours for them to be able to certify because most of the work that the ambassadors are doing is volunteer. And that's the other challenge. We want the work to be done, but we don't want to compensate for the work being done, especially when we're talking about impoverished communities.

Yeah. So from you all and your work specifically around having this class now be offered, being offered by individuals who are in the community, they're really looking to serve. What was the receptivity like? So for community members, how are people showing up and what levels of engagement have you seen?

We started by way of when you're in Rome, you do as the Romans. The faith community has a infrastructure just like any other social sector organization. You're not going to do anything without it going starting at the top and getting approval and moving downward. So we engaged our executive leaders and in our case the pastors across our convention reach and introduced the conceptual framework of what living well was about and how it would benefit the congregates. And we move forward from there with setting up. We're still finishing up our pilot phase. So once we train the ambassadors, we train six ambassadors and identified, we have to do eight sessions. Eight.

So we're just about finished with those, I believe it was. And in those eight sessions, they've been spread out across the community by the receptiveness of the pastors that say that they want to bring this and offer it. We had to look at flexibility of time for the community members because again, you have your seniors that are truly retired that want to get it done in the daytime, and then you have those who are still working that's over the age of 55 that want to participate, but you have to do it in the evening. Then you have the whole issue of daylight safety, security in whatever location that you had. And so understanding, most people felt comfortable in their church environment. And so we will rotate and meet the people where they are at their respective home churches.

Oh, lovely, lovely.

So it's not that they have to just come say here to empower. If that's where they think would be the best for those members that's going to participate, then that's where they go.