Steve welcome to Arizona horizon.

I'm Steve Goldstein in for Ted Simons.

An event was held at the state capitol by the two thousand mules providing evidence of fraud at ballot bogses boxes in the 2020 election about voter fraud and during the 90 minute presentation, it was what general lawmakers do could do it.

The tweet which said the mainstreet media was terrorists was deleted and G.O.P tweeted, they called them terrorists and candidate and former Kari lake said they're the enemy of the people.

Forced a vote on legislation requiring background checks for any firearm purchase and failed to pass and the procedural move was a week of a massacre in Uvalde, Texas and they would have closed the loophole allowing someone to buy a gun without a federal background check.

Democrats pleaded for support for the measure saying it would save lives and republicans said it would not keep a criminal from getting a gun and prevent law-abiding systems from getting a gun.

Mourners gathered to say goodbye to teacher Irma Garcia and her husband, Joe.

19 children and two teachers were killed when the 18-year-old gunman burst and in started shooting.

The city of Tempe and giving strength as the NHL team will build strength and open and build an arena and other spaces and the memo gave them a 40% score for strength/ability and it's the lowest America among six categories by city staff and has concerns about apartments part of the proposed development.

Mass shooters are sometimes deemed terrorists because they do spread terror between the immediate victims and whether it's supermarkets or places of worship and even if you weren't present, you may feel anxiety or fear at the thought of going to these places and with me to discuss this phenomenon and what we can do to Ashlea Taylor, a licensed marriage and family therapist.

>> Thank you.

>> Steve: Fear, in this case, is it rational?

>> Yes.

We witness something horrific and it has made people feel out of control and I think in America, we hope to think we're passed these things.

We hope to think that we have our freedoms where we can go to the grocery store.

These are simple things and absolutely, when you're familiar with a place, it's a supermarket and they're everywhere.

You don't want it to take over your life.

Steve how >> Steve: How do we avoid that?

>> Feel the feels and don't bury them down because they will find you later.

We saw that a lot in the pandemic, people were bursling bursting with emotion and identify the feelings and do your coping skills and they're based on the five senses and the brain develops the most in the first five years of life and you're pumping blood through muscles.

There's music, sounds, meditation and people who love water or watch puppy dogs on Instagram, you know.

There's smells, touch, taste, whatever helps you and maybe add in coping skills and then after that, realize that we're going through a grieving process as a nation and whether you had a family member or you lived in that town, some of us saw the video which was incredibly traumatizing and you, too, are experiencing that trauma which is called vi vicarious trauma.

>> Steve: So many of us are going through this as a nation and how much grace do we give to each other and whenever this comes up that could be not just troublesome but felt very deeply, do we need to give each other break?

>> We need to give ourselves a break and each other a break and everybody has less patience.

We've had less patience, let's be real, since the pandemic started, right.

I want everybody to recognize that we went from multiple, I'm going to say horrific events that we weren't prepared for and didn't know would end.

They're saying we're coming out of this pandemic and there's other illnesses and now we're dealing with unfortunate massacres and I think people are trying to figure out what's next?

How do we get here and how do we stop it.

>> Steve: Buffalo and Uvalde were horrific and Uvalde saw the worst because it dealt with children and there are so many people who don't want to go to work because they want to be around their children more now.

>> Absolutely.

I think that many people may feel a certain attachment or worse about Uvalde, especially if they're not African-American because we send our kids to school and I think there was this unwritten truth, you know, and I know shootings have been going on in schools for a long time and every time we're shaken to our core because kids are off limits, you know.

And even if you go back to the hardest criminal, most of them will say, kids are off limits and let's just be real and that's shaken people to their core.

And I also want to say that I think the buffalo massacre has also opened the eyes of many people who felt like racism wasn't as bad because it was brought to your local grocery store.

It was intentional, they drove 300 miles, he said it was a racist act.

In the acts in the past where the black community said this was a racist act, they were overt and this was covert.

And I think a lot of people have been shaken with that, as well.

Just the premeditation of both of these, I think, has shaken people to their core.

Steve >> Steve: IfIn buffalo, we all need to buy food and groceries, what does that do to the general feeling of a community if one part of the community doesn't feel safe and many whos who communities who would like them to feel safe and how does that affect our personalities?

>> You can't tell me when you're going to a grocery store or thinking about sending their kids back to school next year and thank goodness, we're at the end of the school year because that would be another issue if it was, like, I have to seven my kidsend toschool tomorrow.

People are buying bullet proof backpacks.

It destabilizes astabilizes a community and we're depolarized with domestic terrorism and we look at this different than terrorism in different countries and I think it brings people to the present reality that these things are still happening and we as a community all have to get involved to put a to to it.

stop to it but how?

Our legislators are fighting over this.

With the African-American community, we've continually asked for a black racism bill similar to the anti-Asian racism hate crime bill and we haven't gotten it.

I think that leaves people with the sense of hopeless next and hopelessness and in order to stabilize our communities in general in America in the United States, we have to continue to push our legislators who we elected and pay taxes for to value all of us as much as they may value gun laws.

>> Steve: Ashlea Taylor, thank you for being here.

>> You're welcome.

>> Steve: Money available for parents with medically fragile children to stay home and take care of their kids.

Arizona is now the third state in the U.S. to allow parents of medically fragile children to earn money for taking care of their children.

They are certified as a licensed health aid and here with more on this is Fred Johnson, team select homecare and brandy Lynn koon and welcome towBrandilynCoon.

>> This is for children under the age of 21 for private duty nursing, for medically fragile children for children who are technology dependent and a ventilator, trache and these families rely on nurses or registered nurses to care for tease children and there's not enough nurses in this country and nurses can make so much more in other settings, especially after Covid.

So what this program does, it keeps families together because when parents don't have those available nurses in the hole, home, it leads to divorce and they are forced to take home and take care of their child because there's no nurse to do it.

What this program does, it allow to identify parents other family members fire, to train them for free to become licensed health aids and we hire them as caregivers and allows us to free up nurses to work at the high-end of licensed on more acute children and, basically, these parents take on the lower acuity duties that a licensed health aid can do and saves Medicaid tons of money and allows parents to get off welfare and keeps families together and radically improves the outcome because a parent never calls in sick and there to keep that child stable which is how the critical piece for these children.

>> Steve: How much of a difference will this make in your life?

>> This will serve in amazing ways.

From a financial perspective, this is from living paycheck to paycheck to an opportunity to where we develop more financially and gives us the couldn'tcontinuity of care to have that stable care in our home for our son we were missing before.

And overall, one of the things it's finding the next provider or if that person is a good in our home and have that neglect, flexibility and choose who will be a provider and as that fits for me and my husband, it works in our family dynamic to have that continuity of care.

>> Steve: Was its it something you thought was possible or was it a pipe dream?

>> It has been a long work in progress for many advocates in Arizona who have championed this program.

So it's always been a hopeful idea since we've lived here and now that it's a reality, we're excited that it's going to be able to serve or families for the better.

>> Steve: How much of an effort did this take, trial an error long time coming?

>> A three-year effort and unfortunately, legislation was required to bring this program to market and we didn't quite get it right and the second year, we got it right to bring the program to market.

Through no faultful their own, it's fantastic and there's a lot of rules and regulations and we med to make sure it's safe and in three years, it's worth it and would have been nice to happen faster.

>> Steve: Let's get some of the training?

>> So anything from G & J tube to trache care and bed transferring and all duties done by a licensed health aid and it doesn't have to be a nurse and we have great supervision with technology and tools and everything and that it's really -- I works better because the key to keeping a medically child safe and keeping them safe at home is that they get their care plan executed everyday and in the legacy system where we rely on nurses when there's not enough, that's when families had nobody and they're quitting their jobs to stay home to take care of kids themselves and it's hard.

So the training is very specific per child and individual.

It's not like you sit in a classroom and one or maybe two parents a time in a lab and they're learning the exact tasks required for their child and only for their child and it makes it happen faster, but it's very specific to that child and incredibly hands-on.

>> Steve: Tell me about the training went through and what you thought.

>> I weren't through team training a month ago and it was fantastic.

I went into it hoping that the experience I had with work with working with my son wouldn't be demeaned and that expectation was met above and beyond and it was, you know, teeming with the trainer and she was very educated as a nurse and a home health professional and she was able to come in and talk about my son specifically, what his needs are, areas I felt comfortable in, skills I knew and she was able to train me only things like wound care that I hadn't really had a ton of experience on and pertinent pertinent and the other pertinent to.

They respected my time knowing it was a sacrifice to be away from my son and training for a couple of days and mindful of that which I appreciated.

>> Steve: We'll need to stop there.

Brandilyn Coon and Fred, thank you for being here.

>> Thank you.

[ ♪♪♪ ] >> Steve: A spark of curiosity lead to an amazing discovery at ASU.

The first female African-American graduate and Henry graduated in 1925 and Neptune McHenry made the discovery and here with ASU graduate walker.

Michelle, let me start with you, who was your aunt?

Who was this person?

>> Stella never had a chance to meet her, my husband's aunt and mymy husband's father was the youngest of the siblings.

There was a card and picture of what we use today in terms of a name card and we didn't have a reference to what it was.

>> Steve: What made her special?

>> I didn't know her until I found her on the census.

Any husband's father died when he was young and he didn't know his father's side of the family and, unfortunately, several aunts and uncles passed away young, as well, too.

>> Steve: You've done tremendous work and why did this story stand out and why was she lost to history, in a sense?

>> I don't think she was necessarily lost.

I think that -- it's hard to say.

I guess she wasn't discovered yet.

There's a lot of records.

A lot of records to go through and we can't be on top of all of them all of the time and so I think that hers is a special story because of the human connection and because of the story that we're able to tell from just from a name listed in a record somewhere.

>> Steve: What are the most important elements to know and the first African-American graduate of ASU that's enormous and tell us more about that.

>> Yeah, I think that it's interesting to think about what life was like for Stella in 1925 coming to the ASU campus.

We know at the time education was segregated in phoenix and so, for her to make that bold decision, knowing that she probably was going to be the only person who looked like her in most of her classes and on campus.

I'm sure she wasn't sure if she felt she would be welcomed into activities, clubs and things like that.

It took a tremendous amount of courage to be the first one to take this step.

>> Steve: ASU is looking at African-American history and we know that much more about it and can I ask you how much of an impact it can have in the general community.

There's the assumption that if something is not as focused on historically, it's not as important, we know that's not true.

>> Well, for us, in terms of discovery through the genealogy project, if it was not for Jared Smith's book, the American history in Tempe, that's where I saw where she went to ASU and we put it together there was her gadgraduation picture and it turns out it was the same picture that's in the yearbook, as well, and I owe Jared and the African-American advisory council that it started over 20 years ago, owe it to them to bringing her story forward.

And I believe that it's so important for all of us to know what our history is and a part of the reason for this project was for our grandkids and being able to share the stories and recognizing that not just Stella went to ASU, that I found references to their aunt Consuello and my husband's uncle Lawrence and it was a teacher's college and the fact you have four kids out of one family that went to college in that time frame is absolutely tremendous.

But for Stella's story, they were in clifftop, cliff Cliffton, Arizona and I can't imagine the bravery and determination in wanting to become a teacher and my husband was a teacher.

His brother is a teacher, his brother's wife is a teacher and teaching is very much a part of their family history.

>> Steve: Shannon, let me ask you, related to as we learn more about African-American history, moisture more is going to be elevated to the equal status that it should have had already?

>> You know, that's a good question and I think that -- I don't consider it an qualified status.

equal status, but it's just making sure there is a status, right, a story and make sure that those voices are heard, that aren't as dominant as others, right, and that's my role in what I do.

I know what I do is in inherently biased and making sure we do everything we can to level the ground and making sure we're listening for those voices that aren't right upfront.

>> Steve: I want to ask you both as we wrap up, what progress could we lead to in this realm and I'm stuck in that and I'm amazed by how much progress can be made?

>> This has lead to progress from this one inquiry other questions about whether or not Stella may have been the first black female graduate in all of Arizona and so we're working on verifying that, confirming that, because it's really important because she -- I think it just -- it makes us realize how bold of an experience it must have been to be the forwards in first in the entire state and it leads us to think deeply about her situation and recognize just what an amazing story it was.

Steve >> Steve: Can you add anything to that?

>> I'm thrilled to share this story and I want to encourage people and I know at different points in time, ASU has done genealogy classes.

>> Steve: Thank you for joining us and have a great evening.