hello. i'm pat lawson muse. she w known as a trail blazer and unsung hero. wath rucker the founder of d.c.'s fit parent child center who worked tirelessly to help the city's children and familieser ru recently passed away at the age o 89. today we honor, remember and saluthe for the work e's one on behalf of this city for decades. joining are alameda keyes, chief executive officer from the ma zeek child center. profeor medicine at george washin university and founding dior of the rodham

institut welcome to all of you. ms. keys, the parent child center rckh 's baby. today it's her legacy. ll us how and why she started the center. >> born a need for child care for herself, a mom who had been in new rk ty, over 168 parent d cte from the inceptio o head start. she mov to d.c. and realized she wanted to go to work. the united planning organization hired h to start the first r chnt and she needed c care. she looke around and there was no chd care for infants. she thoug that, if i'm having this ugme find child e, c what must other mothers be doing bo out of a need for h o childre chin'educatio she

decided, i'm going to go to the powers that be and find out if we can st an early childhood program the district for infants rt to three. >bedr. ca, it was the first of its kind and started a new wa for parents to get involve home a school. talk about the need for this kind of facity athat time. >> at that time that was the beginnin of the head start era. head start in the bureau of -- at thetead st bureau was a new program and ms. rucker had the infor to she applied through for the grantt and y ree grant and that'th beginning of the parent-ccenter. thereas and still is the need in the district for early childhecause we believe

that early start in yo educatio process lds to better outcomes as an adult. >> and is it true that she -- to start cn she pulled togethe$30,000 in pennies and o hauled th the bank in a wagon >> literally hauled them to the in a wagon. when e started the program, it was a he-based program. ms. rucker went into the homes of parent teaching them how to audition a job, teaching them li skills, and then she realizedth parts wanted the sam thi she wanted. they wanted to be in the workfor she kne ts home-based program would juot be sufficient. she went to the powers that be and said we need to start an early g program in the strictlu. of course, they'd ll her, mrs. rucker, has never been done. this i not one of our

priorit will not do this at this time. she wen away. mrs. rucker was determined to start this early childhood prograinist and, therefore went and started a ogcenter-based pam and went back to the district leaders and asked for funding again. they said, mrs. rucker, we told you th first time you came this is not one of our priorities and this has nevbeen done. she said, yes, it has been done and i did it. they poured funding into the program >> ete serves the city's underse >> doctor, how did she come to the attention of the rodham instite >>he rodh institute is dedicate improving d.c. people thi of health as access to physicians, but in point of ct 80% of what determines how long an of us are going to live haso do with your education, your foat we call the

social determinants of health. when i was learningbout the work bei done in the district, i ca eet ms. keys through another colleague who establist develong familycenter. so learned about the mazique center. wn we had ouru fifth a summit la year and the theme was entitled building and strengthg resilience inhe commutye chose ms. rucker as our beacon of light. the rsoe tend to forget people ha done great work. we need to constantly remind ursees the courage, the will, the ener and the persist never let go of a dream you identify a need. so she has served as a personal inspirat a we need to remind ourselves especiallyin times need or times of

gifficul o challenge such as we're faciright now, there bee good people. there have and we need t highlight those positive stories >>llig it's t story of ruth rucke f d t ma zeek parent-child center t distri columbia wel nturri afters.

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welcback. we're talking about the mazique child center started by a wonderf woman, ruth rucker, left an leundelark on the communit women o need what women today need, help rearing children. tell us about the services of the mique center today. >> we have the developing family centers one of our partners, one ofr newer partners.

we received a grant to serve infants. th's p of our progam in servi t infant population. the need for infant services is grow grow en we have the opportunity to partnerh the developing family center, wweseizedha and fdi to expand that service at the developi family center. >> i understand the babies can go straight from birth to daycare. >>rom to the services we offer are comprehee servicesw off health services, nutrion services, social servicesntal health services for the children and their famils. w referrals to the childrespnd other or

nizas. as ruth rucker has often said, none of uss can do t work alone. when i visited with her and said how did y do all these things? she said, i didn't do it by myself. but the community came togetr. >> we sin these photos some of the leaders she worked with at the time. dr. el bayoumi, she had to doof loetworki to work with you at the rodham institute and bringop a lot of p who would support vision. >> i have to not take credit for anything at the mazique center. all i'm doing is shining light it, on her. i thi acknowledging exactly the visi she had, the charisma h work, the dill l of bringing people togethend bringing people togetherm a whole lot of sectors enou talk to her and talk to her chil w are adults now, their fatheritas there them for dinner and he, himself, was a man in his own right.

she madt personal sacrifi theoo greater of our community. >> dr. campbell, how manye centerhere today and how many chi are you caring for? >> we have four centers located thrououhe district and we serve approximately 260 childn. wke say children and famiesau children come with parents. we're servicing the parent as well. >erdo most ofour childre come from? >> well, actually some of our childn, parents bring thir cen on a bus. so it's throughout the district. they' n just children around the center. some pant bring their childre anin fami automobiles. some walk them and some ride thu bus anday to get to our center. > y hilro all parts of the city? >> yes. >> are your services e-based? >> no, no, free. >> they're free services.

>> free services. >> you've got some, i would call them famous children graduates. tell me some of the stories of the childr who have gone throu y program. >> we have the quintuplets who have gone throh the program.ad ihe opportunity recently to spe wi their mother. they're a doing fin th mother is doing well. we plan to bring them ba to the center so that we have the opportun have sort of a reunion reunions. we have a parent who has been feature in thetory ak keel la and the bee. we have famous whirn who have now adults who have not gone through ce i think the most famous children are the childn there right now receivi benefits of t ruth rucker legacy. >> the is located on 13th. >> 13th street northwest

d.c. >> since 1991? >> the center has been there since 1991. but mrs. rucker has been around for 50 years. we salu ruth rucker and the work she's done and the legacy she's ft the wonderful children parents helped at the maz >> thank you. >> coming up, d.c.'s sustainable energy uty we'll tell you what's new. we'll bgh. i wish you weren't so worried about moving. i'm hoping these nature soun bt will help me relax a at least we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance.

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because change is coming." for the past sevenears t districtco's sustainaer utility hasen helping residents and business save energy and save rs millions dol in energy costs. joining u now to tell us what's new and ts progr they're working are, tread trayview managin director of d.c.na

sust energy utility, cheryl dubs is the strategy and erlannin ma. also joining us is ted diggs who is the community outreach manager. t y all f beng with s. >> thank yermu for having us. >> every is in to solar now. most people i think are becoming more energy conscious, even if they don' necessarily practice ll the strategies for savi energy. as d.c.'s population grows, renewab energy is so im ornt talk aut why. >> basically we're talking aboum ecd the environment. very eduction is ver importan i the city for obvious reasons. from an economic standpoint energy efficiency helps residen and citizens save on theirne bill so they can devotth dollars to things more pot them, rticulor residents struggl to meet their energy bills, make that decision between and food or

paying pepco. >> a lot of the work we do in distrt olth we've been dost for the l seven yearss focused in our low to modere ince communities. you mentioned solar earlier. mthank yntioning that. in 2012, we started a program in wards 7 and 8 specifically to homes free nels on of chgeincome-qualified resident we edt a map in 2012 and said there were over 1,000 solar systems wards one, three, ix fo. but if you looked at wards seven and eight combin where you have a quarter of the city's populio ving, there were less th 12 solar systems. we launched this program in to put solar systems on homes for residents inards seven and eight. t next year we looked at ward five, a similar situation,

only abo a dozen systems in ward five. fortunahe city has found addition resources a the council be voting on those resource in october. but to help us further the work for solar systems here in the districtco on single family a multifamily buildgs >> chereyl,d energy and dollar savings, what are some of the benefits of energy efficienreb energy for residents and businesses, and wh a some of thewa other you're helping them to save the dol that they can spend on other things? >> that's a grstat qun. first and foremost, in addition to e efficiency savings, we're also concerned about makinge people are healt in the homes, making sure people have opportunits to have grt trajectories for their lives, so there are a few

supportfacets that we our residents in besides energy efficiench very importa we als supp them through makinge that we create programs to further green jobs or whatll js w is basically helping those who may not ha thought of having careers the green career pathways actually have oppornio have internsh y will, to finut, learn about and grow their technical skills in green careers th's phenomenal thing because it hel toange the trajecto people's lives. sometim you may be doing a job that is a job that is, where nur income will allow your family to thrive. but when given exposureo career paths that you never thoughtabout, you can actually l change te of not only yourself but your family. t in additio that, we also

have programs where we are teachg have taught our residentou how to make their hs more energy efficien cleaner, healthier. and all of those things make the family thrive in a multitude of ways. >>ed,el us three or four ways thaave person right now to save energy. >> one of the things we can do as we're moving into the wintere months up your drapes and allow the sun to come in to warm your home. take advantage of the most powerfulin we have. another wld changing the lit bulbs if your home. if you have the incandescent bulbs to l.e.d. bulbs. that ca65 $100 a year. making se your vents are clear. >>oueain dust off them. keeping dust off them. that will make the systems work

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welc back. we're talking with dceu. ted, ll us about some of the onitiatiu coming up to help low income residts the city and residenho aren't. >> thank ve mu for that great question. we have o new initiatives we're happy to launch. the mayor appropriated over $13 million r us to move our program further along in the solar sdong family solar a community solar in the districtcoluia we're excited about relaun those initiatives. we haven't done so for about two years. anoth initia that's going to be n for is emergency furnace replacement for incomeu

fiid, senior citizs,ca residents. en your furnace fails, that can be very serio here in the districtlu. mayor approprive $1n millr us to go out and replace furnaces everye the city can take advantath programs run by the sustainable eney utility. for othe residents who may not be income qualified at 80% or less of area median income, youd can goneb we have rebates available to help buy the furnace or the air conditio service, dish washers dryers, we have rebates availablfo that. >> chel, you're working on a pilo initiative in ward 8. tell us about that. >> we're working on a program called fresh the istrict. the intention of this program, as you k t district of

columb has been rejent fin large effect. there allow income commutiwa to help to be sustainable, to remain and to thrive. w we d that? we clearly have resources we can provide os. communiti we talked a lot about energy efficnc thame in a lot of different shes a looks. it is helping those residents to make their homes more er efficnt helping those residen if they're interestto look for jobs and careers in the green s.pathwa in addition to that, there are lots of other opportunities that other organizations and we like fo th to join us. for refresh the district, we're kicking it off in congress heights we' partnering with nbc, also with habitat for humanities and mlb. >> coming up on october 6th. >> ye coming up on october 6th.

the intenti is to support that communit becoming more staind thriving. >> you with the agency on thriving you help with the existi programs? >> yes. we partner with office on aging and enicate srs how to be more efficient in their home, how to save energy a in their home, we also provide rebates at the te se events. seniors do own their homes can take add van tang and actuall see the rebates. we also help seniors -- >> we help in many ways. of >> yes, course. >> you're helping seniors and helping people because they're learning energy efficie ways and helping t city save energy and money. we than so much, all three of you joining us. for all of our programs, logon t to nbcwash.com and search

communi i'm pat law soon muse. see youwe

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