Episodios

  • Community Connections Show 5 - Jun '24 - Grey Bull Rescue

    Community Connections Show 5 - Jun '24 - Grey Bull Rescue
    Jul 1 2024
    Bryan Stern Chairman & Founder of Grey Bull Rescue, discusses his veteran-led, donor-funded organization’s work rescuing Americans from conflict zones like the Middle East, Ukraine, Sudan, and other dangerous parts of the world.
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    30 m
  • Community Connection Show 4-Jun '24 - National Cancer Survivor's Month

    Community Connection Show 4-Jun '24 - National Cancer Survivor's Month
    Jun 28 2024
    Karen Kinahan, Nurse Practitioner at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University at Northwestern Medicine. For National Cancer Survivors Month, Karen Kinahan discusses medical and mental health challenges for cancer survivors, how family and friends can best support them, and ongoing research to help improve cancer survivorship.
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    30 m
  • Community Connection Show 3-Jun '24-United Way's ALICE

    Community Connection Show 3-Jun '24-United Way's ALICE
    Jun 21 2024
    Kiran Handa Gaudioso, President & CEO of the United Way of Northern New Jersey and President of United for ALICE, and Dr. Stephanie Hoopes, National Director for United for ALICE, discuss the United Way’s work and how data compiled for the ALICE report offers local, state, and federal leaders, along with charitable organizations and corporations, insight into the true economic struggles facing millions of families nationwide.
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    30 m
  • Lupus Awareness Month/No Kid Hungry

    Lupus Awareness Month/No Kid Hungry
    Jun 10 2024
    Albert T. Roy, President & CEO of the Lupus Research Alliance, joins the show following Lupus Awareness Month to discuss the disease, including progress in diagnosing and treating Lupus, along with research currently underway to find a cure. Eleni Towns, Director of No Kid Hungry Campaigns, checks in to raise awareness of programs available during the summer months to make sure children in need receive the meals and nutrition they get throughout the school year.
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    30 m
  • Military Appreciation Month

    Military Appreciation Month
    Jun 3 2024
    Tom Kilgannon, President of Freedom Alliance, joins the show following Military Appreciation Month to discuss the programs provided to those who have served and sacrificed for our country, from efforts supporting active-duty servicemembers to their families to veterans.
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    30 m
  • AAPI Racism & Discrimination/Mental Health Awareness

    AAPI Racism & Discrimination/Mental Health Awareness
    May 27 2024
    Cynthia Choi, Co-Founder of Stop AAPI Hate, joins the show for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month to discuss her organization’s work raising awareness for AAPI racism and discrimination. Dr. Stephen Soffer, Psychologist and Co-Chief of the Division of Outpatient Behavioral Health in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, checks in for Mental Health Awareness Month to help provide insight for parents on how to support children and teens dealing with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.
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    30 m
  • Mentoring Young Men/Fresh Start

    Mentoring Young Men/Fresh Start
    May 21 2024
    Making the transition from a teenage boy to manhood can be a challenge under normal circumstances. Joining us is Joe Siguerson, founder of Boys to Men Mentoring Network along Executive Director, with Rose Courtney, to tell us how they help these fatherless young men. Then, Fresh Start Surgical Gifts is a local organization that gives children a gift they will remember for a lifetime. We speak with Lupita Morales, Director of Patient & Volunteer Services along with Michelle Pius, Chief Development Officer & Global Partnerships at Fresh Start..
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    30 m
  • Mental Health Awareness Month

    Mental Health Awareness Month
    May 13 2024
    Vic Armstrong, VP of Health Equity at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, joins the show for Mental Health Awareness Month to discuss suicide trendlines in recent years, steps to prevent suicide, and its new ‘Talk Away the Dark’ campaign, empowering people to have brave conversations about mental health and suicide. Christy Turlington Burns, Founder & President of Every Mother Counts, checks in for Mother’s Day Weekend to explain how her organization is working to make pregnancy and childbirth safe, respectful and equitable for mothers across the country and around the world.
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    30 m