Devorah Pelman and Myriam Lankry interview with Nachum Segal

uh we have two special guests here in our studio uh Miriam lankery is The Clinical Director of amudum welcome to the show and devorah pelman is CFO of hamudham you must be thrilled when you see the four million dollar figure up there on the screen I am thrilled and I'm going to be even more thrilled when we hit our five million dollars Amen to that uh Miriam we'll start with you a Clinical Director ramudin means that you are overseeing I would guess thousands of cases that are uh that are coming across your desk that you are then directing to the right place uh what does that experience like when a new case arrives at amuda that's a great question first of all I want to thank you for being here thank you your your your voice your name your brand is synonymous with great Jewish causes appreciate it so I wanna I really just want to thank you and it means a lot from to be part of that thank you group uh so when a case comes into a mudim it's it where each case manager receives this new case and they they they deal with it it's a whole new world they have to get to know the person who's calling whether it's the identified client or somebody who's calling on their behalf and get to know their whole system how do they live what's their reality like uh what are the things that they're struggling with I mean everybody for the past almost 36 hours has been hearing about addiction and abuse and mental health issues there's so much more there there's there's poverty there's kids who are struggling in school so many other things that factor in to the the whole system that the case manager may have to deal with so the case manager approaches this new case this new client this new family system with a big heart a lot of curiosity and authenticity and big deep desire to help and starts to ask all the right questions and figure out how do we tackle this new case a case manager has to immerse themselves in the case and sometimes it's hard to do that right I mean you're it can be overwhelming it is sometimes very overwhelming uh I'm fortunate now to work with two case manager supervisors who will help give each case manager we have at least 20 case managers at this point supervision directly on the case I will sometimes supervise the case manager supervisors or the case managers themselves because in supervision there's two different aspects right there's supervising the case you know which Clinic to go to which therapist to see which rehab what what protocol what modality of treatment and then there's also supervising the actual case manager the case manager supervisor what are they going through in this process how hard is it for them to absorb all of the things and then go home and be you know a good sibling spouse a good regular person a good regular person who's not dealing with these crises exactly uh devorah it must be very challenging to uh to organize and keep organized a financial structure like I move them we're talking about an incredible amount of money thank God that comes in from people who like like our listeners and viewers right now uh you have a tremendous responsibility to make sure everything is you know utilized to the best potential I mean what's it like to be at the helm of that whole system I think we're constantly having to prioritize um you know given our limited resources prioritize what programs come first prioritize what our clients need um you know unfortunately we have such a huge huge need um we have so many clients who need help and um you know our focus is always to make sure that we have um our you know that are we have the right staff you know Miriam mentioned our case management division that's one of our you know the the highlights of amudim um we're working on so many other programs I know it's Facebook about our our school-based programs which um you know was really really the key to our prevention that we're working on but every time something like this is introduced you have to weigh in whether this is something practical for the organization right um it's not always practical and we do it anyways sometimes really necessary exactly exactly um and we're hoping tonight that we're able to continue to fund these programs and continue to help our clients who reach out to us um there's really you know there's there's so many needs that come up I think you would join me in telling everybody who's watching right now that the more money I moved them has the more they can do for the community it really is as simple as that it's the more we could do for schools the more we could do for your communities for your families there's there's such a such a great need at this time and so yeah we're really asking everybody to to like to be said please don't wait for the last minute help us now help us reach our Finish Line and even get to our bonus round if we can yes and um you're rooting for the motives yes I am yes I am um there's there's so much that amudham has the potential to give to give our communities don't let the funds be the bottleneck that holds our back we have such such an amazing staff Miriam and svi um and the new team we have such incredible people who have the ability to give so much to our community and so we want to help give them the support that they need to get these programs out and to get them far-reaching in our community The Vora Pellman is CFO of ahmudim you could imagine the responsibility that she feels and you hear how every time you give it increases the potential for ahmudum to help all the people around the world with their amazing work and Mary melanchery is The Clinical Director of them dealing with all these cases on a day-to-day basis and supervising people who are really immersed in every single situation please in honor of these two wonderful ladies and in honor of the great organization give as generously as possible as amudum continues to march on toward the goal thank you [Music]