EMS Charity Run – Assisted Living Services / CT Assc for Healthcare at Home – Aspetuck Land Trust

‘Counting On 2020’ Census PUSH Week – Common Ground High School – ROVAC Primary Voting

July 26, 2020 Uncategorized

We reached out to the President of ROVAC - the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut - to talk about the most important updates and things you need to know to easily and successfully cast your ballots in the upcoming August 11 primaries.

Then we'll head to the gardens of Common Ground High School - a charter school in New Haven and the oldest environmental charter school in the United States to learn how its staff is preparing students for college success and a lifetime of environmental leadership.

And we'll close with the latest in our series 'Counting on 2020' Census Segments as we head into Census PUSH WEEK. We'll tap a regional census director to learn how PUSH Week aims to increase 2020 Census self-response rates via activities, parades, social messaging campaigns and more.

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Partner In Lyme – Encore: CT Center for Economic Analysis – Encore: UNH Chief Diversity Officer

November 15, 2020 Uncategorized

This morning we'll learn how one mom's agonizing journey to diagnose Lyme Disease in her teenage daughter has grown into one of the region's newest nonprofits - Partner In Lyme - and how you can help the cause at their first virtual fundraiser in early January.

Then we'll encore a couple of segments from the summer starting with the CT Center for Economic Analysis. We'll hear some sobering stats about jobs and household income growth, how they are being impacted by the COVID pandemic, and how legalized cannabis could go far toward propelling Connecticut out of the sorry economic state we find ourselves in right now.

And we'll close replaying a conversation with the new Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of New Haven - Dr Lorenzo Boyd discussing police practices, movements to defund police agencies and identify the all important crossover point where racial justice comes into play.

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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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