CT Paid Leave Authority – Compassion & Choices – COVID Challenges To Gyms

Drive-up COVID-19 Testing – EMS Week 2020 – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

May 17, 2020 Uncategorized

Our first field report in weeks finds us at Newtown's first-ever drive-up COVID-19 testing center. Check our chat with a PhysicianOne representative, the community's lead health official and First Selectman talking about testing and more.

Then we'll celebrate all the front line responders and kick off National EMS week with a small town EMS volunteer and a municipal fire official about how they work with dispatchers and medical professionals to save lives 24/7 and especially during the pandemic.

And we'll close with a medical expert representing Greenbrook TMS NeuroHealth Centers. We'll get a crash course on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation / TMS and how it could help mitigate depression or anxiety as a result of the coronavirus emergency or other life challenges.

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Umbrella Center Strength-4-Survivors – Choose Love Awareness Month – Human Rights Campaign

January 31, 2021 Uncategorized

We're circling back to the Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services, which is serving thousands of families in greater New Haven and the Naugatuck Valley. We'll discuss their all important preventative tool - community outreach and education, its Hope Family Justice Center, and how to help by participating in the 2021 Strength-4-Survivors challenge.

Then we'll visit with Scarlett Lewis, founder of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement - to get the latest news on this global social emotional learning initiative, and how you can participate all through February - Choose Love Awareness Month.

And we'll hear about how well our state is doing protecting members of our LGBTQ communities from discrimination - especially comparedd to other states. We're bringing in the legal director for the Human Rights Campaign to talk about why we're doing so well and what we could do better as we unpack the organization's 7th national State Equality Index.

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COVID-19 & Family Dynamics – Goodwin University/UB Partnership – Project Yellow Light

August 2, 2020 Uncategorized

Meet a Connecticut cultural anthropologist talking about a survey he completed that illustrates how COVID-19 will permanently transform consumer culture — and ways family relationships and values changed during quarantine.

Then we'll catch up with the President of Goodwin University to hear how his institution is partnering with Sacred Heart University and the Paier College of Art to work with the University of Bridgeport creating a new model for higher education.

And we'll close on the serious subject of distracted driving with the founder and an incoming UConn student scholar promoting Project Yellow Light - helping teens and young adults reach their peers with potentially life saving messages about safe driving through a creative scholarship initiative.

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