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Toshia Morris Butler, I was born in the Hill District or McGee Woman Hospital. My childhood was fun. We played outside. I was raised for maybe four or five years with my grandma in the lower part of the Hill District. And I went to Mckelvey, and then I went to Prospect for middle school. Then when I moved to Sugar Top, I moved with my father and his current girlfriend at the time, and I went to Schenley, and I graduated from Schenley in 2001. I am the oldest of eight, and we all kind of lived together but didn’t live together. Four of us have the same mom and dad, and the other four, we have just either the same mom or the same dad. My mom was really- originally her family’s from Alabama, and then they moved up here and she was from the east side of Pittsburgh, and my dad, he was always from the Hill District area. Today’s world is just different. It’s the electronics I feel play a major part of why kids don’t go outside and play. We were outside till the lights came on, the street lights, and we played. We went to neighbors’ houses and ate and, like I said, we’re just more family oriented and more villages to bring to the community. And especially in the summer time, they had like family links in Burrows, or we have Ammons where they did the swimming and the skate parties, and we have here Ozanam which originally was Ozanam, and I came here for after school program. As a kid it wasn’t called the Grayson Center, of course, it was called Ozanam, and we did drill team, we did talent shows, we did dance parties. So like what I said to you guys, I literally been coming here since I was 7-8 years old, just like you guys do, the same routines of people downstairs in the kitchen cooking and going on field trips and doing different electives, so growing up in the Hill district, it just is, to me, is exciting to bring back what I did as a child and what I enjoyed because I enjoy going to the after school program, and, like, I think a lot of you guys do too. I was a bank teller at 20, PNC, and 24 to 26 I was customer service at Citizens Bank. So I kind of always stayed in office. I did taxes, still do taxes, personal, and I also worked for a tax company. Then I went to school in 2008 for juvenile probation officer, so I do have an associates in juvenile probation officer. Then I went back to School, Point Park, and I went for organization leadership, and I have a bachelors in organization and leadership, and I kind of always wanted to work with kids. I always wanted to be like a social worker or a juvenile probation officer. The money wasn’t right in that field beside the food service, and I was a supervisor at Children’s Hospital for seven years. After that, I went back in the office and did insurance. After that, I came to the good old Grayson Center, I became a counselor and now I’m assistant director. A strong woman to me is someone that is motivated, someone that showed caring to just not her, but the people around her. Someone that is loyal and honest and upfront. My grandma was a strong woman. My stepmom was a strong- My mom was a strong woman. She just had weak moments. Don’t be feared to follow your heart, always be a leader. Stay strong. Even if you have a messed up background or trauma childhood because it doesn’t last forever, you have to forgive your family, forgive your friends, forgive your parents because they all come up with a struggle as well. Sometimes their struggle is a little bit more than ours, so give them some grace, give your family and your friends some grace.