Helping Others Help Themselves with Melanie Oates [IEP 170]

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re thrilled to bring you another great interview today! Melanie Oates is a motivational speaker, philanthropist, and advocate for special needs families, including her own.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stay tuned to hear more about her amazing nonprofit, Here For A Reason, Inc., and the work she does as an advocate, the intensive research she did on behalf of her children, and the plethora of knowledge and resources she is now able to share with families who are looking to be their own best advocate for not only their children but for themselves, as well.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Melanie provides an overview of how her nonprofit came to be.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Financial hardships for a child’s medical equipment and care happen to families even when they have seemingly great insurance coverage.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Melanie addresses how she had to strategize to get her daughter the nursing care she needed.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">If you’d like to apply for assistance, or if you would like to make a donation, please go to</span> <a href= "http://www.hereforareason.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here For A Reason</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Motivational speaking is Melanie’s way of encouraging others to find the successes in their own stories and to find ways that change what appear to be negatives into positives.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Melanie wants to set a positive example for other African American families who may culturally have trouble sh