Podcasts about family health center

Denise Crawford, President nd CEO of the Family Health Center provided details on the organization's annual Dental Day of Caring, providing free dental care for uninsured Kalamazoo residents.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: weight, disordered eatingDina and Ashley dish about nutrition for young athletes, the positive and negative aspects of social media, and the importance of physical activity throughout our life cycle.Ashley Harpst is the owner of Go for the Gold Nutrition based in San Diego, California where she works with endurance athletes such as runners, swimmers, triathletes, soccer players, and surfers. Ashley was also the lead dietitian for the San Diego Sports Medicine and Family Health Center.You can check out Ashley's services atwww.goforthegoldnutrition.com and connect with her on Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/ashleyharpst_dietitian/.----DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this podcast is to entertain, educate, and inform, but it is not to be taken as medical advice. Please seek prompt, qualified medical care for any specific health issues and consult your physician or health practitioner before starting a new fitness regimen, herbal therapy, or other self-directed treatment.Join our mailing list to stay connected, stay informed, receive exclusive offers, and be a part of the DishWithDina community: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/VgDMkU8JDnBPywvh9If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with others! You can also submit listener feedback or request to be a guest on a future episode by completing this form: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/gxWd2Q3NU8akmFuv7

This panel discussion, titled "The Impact of Immigrants and Refugees in Louisville KY" took place November 18, 2024 at the Louisville League of Women Voters as part of their Democracy in Action monthly forum series. Providers in various aspects of immigrant and refugee support services (as well as a state legislator, herself an immigrant) presented candid reports on the current situation and future challenges they and their clients face. Panelists were: The Hon. Nima Kulkarni, J.D., District 40 House Representative; Vivian Marin, Program Manager for the Office for Immigrant Affairs, Louisville Metro; John Koehlinger, Executive Director, Kentucky Refugee Ministries; Liz Edghill, RN, BSN, Director of Refugee and Immigrant Health Services, Family Health Center, Americana Community Center; and Dr. Jill Handley, Assistant Superintendent of Multilingual Learners in Jefferson County Public Schools.

The Fare Meals Program is an 11-week series that combines in-person and virtual sessions to reinforce healthy food consumption and nutrition education. It supports participants of the Nutrition Pathways Program (NPP), a collaboration with Island Harvest. Read the full article in the Northwell Newsroom.   Watch episodes of 20-Minute Health Talk on YouTube.  For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Instagram, X and LinkedIn. Interested in a career at Northwell Health? Visit http://bit.ly/2Z7iHFL and explore our many opportunities.   Facebook –   / northwellhealth   Instagram -   / northwellhealth   X - https://www.x.com/northwellhealth LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin/northwellhealth

Substance use and misuse and mental health issues within a rural community can present many problems. From lack of available services and resources to economics and privacy issues, working in small towns and rural areas presents many challenges. Rachel Stankowski and Danielle Luther discuss those challenges and what the Family Health Center of Marshfield, Wisconsin, is doing about them. Rachel Stankowski, PhD, is an Operations Project Manager, and Danielle Luther, MPH, is a Senior Project Manager. Both work at Family Health Center of Marshfield, Wisconsin. The Family Health Center and its services can be reached at Family Health Center of Marshfield. The HOPE Consortium, its upcoming conference, and the webinar series can be accessed at HOPE Consortium – Supporting Treatment and Recovery in the Northwoods The views and opinions of the guests on this podcast are theirs and theirs alone and do not necessarily represent those of the host, Westwords Consulting or the Kenosha County Substance Abuse Coalition. We're always interested in hearing from individuals or organizations who are working in substance use disorder treatment or prevention, mental health care and other spaces that lift up communities. This includes people living those experiences. If you or someone you know has a story to share or an interesting approach to care, contact us today! Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Subscribe to Our Email List to get new episodes in your inbox every week!

The summer months bring an increase in swimming activities for all ages. We'll find out how a new initiative, LifeVest is trying to prevent this summer fun from becoming a tragedy, by providing swim vests at public pools.It's been one year since a new structure was rolled out for the Family Health Center in Vincennes. We'll find out how the system is serving our community.We'll stop by the recent Mega Pet Adoption event that took place in an effort to find homes for many dogs and cats overcrowding area shelters, like the Vincennes Animal Shelter.And we'll visit the Vincennes Historic Farmers Market as it gets into full swing for another busy season! Join us for these stories and more on the next First City Focus — Saturday night at 7:30pm on Vincennes PBS!You can also watch episodes of First City Focus on demand HERE.First City Focus is supported by: First Vincennes Savings Bank, Good Samaritan Hospital and Duke Energy.

Denise Crawford, President/CEO of Family Health Center give us details on the March 23rd Dental Day of Caring, providing free basic dental care for uninsured adults in Kalamazoo County.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Relationship with Food, Stress, Holiday Eating. What to look for before disease strikes. Does early detection really save lives? Nutrition and Total Transformation Expert, Kat James, joins the show to discuss healing your relationship with food, probiotics and the gut. Learn about the importance of zinc, the most common deficiency.  Dr. Ohhira's Probiotics are available at Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets and Fruitful Yield and also at the Family Health Center in Sycamore, IL. Visit EssentialFormulas.com for more information. For more information about Kat James, visit her website at www.TotalTransformation.com. Her book, The Truth About Beauty, is available at Amazon.com.  

Juli and Chris Henderson have lived through one of the toughest times any parent can face, the loss of their son. In this interview, we have a very candid discussion about what they wish they'd known. The catalyst for this discussion was Juli's blog post "How will I know?". Dr. Chris Henderson is a Critical Care Intensivist at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa (CSR) Westover Hills Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and serves as a Member of the South Texas Regional Advisory Council Pandemic Medical Operations Workgroup. He is Board Certified in Critical Care, Pulmonary Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. He presently serves as President of Medical Staff at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospitals, President of CSR Family Health Center, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Family Health Center. Additionally, Chris is the Director of Inpatient Services for the program and Chairman of its Clinical Competency Committee and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) Department of Family and Community Medicine. He entered his present position after more than 26 years of service in the United States Air Force Medical Corps, retiring in July 2011 with the rank of Colonel. Juli Henderson is a highly trained vocalist, respected voice teacher and owner of ⁠JH Voice Studio⁠, physician's wife, mother of five adult children, and newly minted grandmother. She grew up moving frequently as a military dependent but has called San Antonio, Texas home for 36 years. The ⁠In Our Arms Blog⁠ is her passion project, launching in February 2021 to share the story of Robert. As the mother of a child with disabilities who passed at the tender age of eighteen, Juli's writings give hope to hundreds of readers, including a private Facebook group where members share resources and support. She is extending her impact by her involvement in resource projects such as her recent launch of the In Our Arms “⁠Breathe” candle⁠ in collaboration with a purpose-driven brand, ⁠School Scents⁠. When not writing or teaching, Juli volunteers in the community on nonprofit boards and speaks in churches and schools about her “Life unexpected". Website: ⁠https://www.inourarms.blog/⁠ Facebook: @InOurArmsBlog Instagram: @inourarmsblog Link to episode transcript - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l3GH0VqpUhKbkbG-9FrgYt1nX5ma_0rR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117716030289987185197&rtpof=true&sd=true Link to Juli's first interview - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/episodes/In-Our-Arms-Blog---Juli-Henderson-e1eh8hb As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here: Web: ⁠https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/⁠ Blog - ⁠https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com⁠ Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - ⁠https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning⁠ Waypoints - ⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠ Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning X (Twitter): @NeedsNavigator --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

On this episode of First City Focus: We're focusing on community healthcare. A recent merger of the Good Samaritan Family Health Center and the Samaritan Center is looking to increase total healthcare options for families. We'll find out how.An upcoming fundraiser will feature Dancing with the Vincennes Stars. We'll find out how the event will help support the Wabash Valley Friendship Clubhouse.And Good Samaritan is not only celebrating the expansion of the Family Health Center, but also continuing work to help increase the overall quality of health in our local area. We'll talk with COO Adam Thacker.Join us for First City Focus– Saturdays at 7:30pm on Vincennes PBS!You can watch all episodes of First City Focus on demand HERE.First City Focus is supported in part by First Vincennes Savings Bank,  Duke Energy and Good Samaritan Hospital.

This episode features a conversation between Joe Dulac from the class of 1990 and Ely Bueno from the class of 1998. Joe and Ely first met because they went through the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency Program at Concord Hospital. They have stayed in touch since then, but reconnected in a meaningful way during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their conversation showcases how the mission of Holy Cross and the lessons learned during their time on the Hill helped to support them in living a life of meaning and purpose in service of others. Interview originally recorded in May 2022. --- Joe: We were going to just stay home during a pandemic or we were going to step up and figure out... Honestly, the choice was close down the practice and maybe we'll open up in a few months or we're going to figure out a way to reopen and serve our patients. Maura Sweeney: Welcome to Mission-Driven, where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, from the class of 2007, Director of Alumni Career Development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome you to today's show. This episode features a conversation between Joe Dulac from the class of 1990 and Ely Bueno from the class of 1998. Joe and Ely first met because they went through the New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency Program at Concord Hospital. They have stayed in touch since then, but reconnected in a meaningful way during the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation offered Ely a chance to ask Joe questions to learn more about his professional journey, which included the opportunity to open and build a practice from scratch. It also gave them a chance to reflect on their past, discover shared connections and process everything they went through over the past few years. In particular, they speak about the challenges that doctors faced during the pandemic and how they lifted each other up during difficult times. Their conversation showcases how the mission of Holy Cross and the lessons learned during their time on the Hill helped to support them in living a life of meaning and purpose in service of others. Ely: Joe, thanks so much for agreeing to do this interview in this format. It comes from a place of deep gratitude for your professional contact and your friendship over the several years that we've known each other. And so now we get to dive in. Joe: Great. This is a great opportunity to meet with you and try something new, right? Ely: Yeah, definitely. And now, did you ever go on the spiritual exercises in Holy Cross, Joe? Joe: Right. Did a lot of things at Holy Cross, and so did do the one-week silent retreat in Narragansett, Rhode Island, which... it was very powerful, of course. Ely: Yeah. Joe: Yeah. Quite an experience. Ely: Yeah. So I also attended, and I think as we start invoking that Ignatian spirit of really the deep sense of giving of ourselves for others in contemplation, in meeting God through story, this is really a great opportunity that Maura has for us as alumni to connect and tell our story. So I'm really eager to hear about yours. And so diving right in, tell me about how you got to where you are now from Holy Cross and beyond. Joe: Okay, sure. Certainly, I always talk about paths being not really straight. You think you're going to go on a straight path and then path kind of zigzags. So to get to Holy Cross, so I was Chelmsford High School and was very interested in sciences and was accepted into Holy Cross for chemistry pre-med. And obviously that was challenging and stimulating. And so I went through the process there with all the pre-meds and the basic science and chemistry. And there was a time where there was a choice between being a chem major, going to chem grad school or going to med school. And so there was a time where there was some uncertainty, the path that I might take. So a lot of the professors were very supportive, really of either path. But because I was a chem major, I think they were very supportive of the chemistry track. So I did do research in the summer with Holy Cross and with Dr. Ditzer, and enjoyed that, but still found myself interested in the pre-med track. So I applied and went through all the steps with the MCATs. Did have some struggles in my junior year, so I did have a little bit more of a crooked path after that. So I did a year of grad school. I was going to go into Georgetown, but found that Boston University had a program on medical sciences, and I got accepted from that program and into the med school there. And so my first year was doing a thesis, but I was able to take several medical school courses including gross anatomy and neurosciences and physiology. So that really helped solidify what I wanted to do in the path. And though I had a little bit of struggles in my junior year in grad school and in med school. Well, the first year of grad school, my professors had remarked that I had caught fire academically and kind of on a tear. So the path was kind of a little bit crooked there. But once I settled in at Boston University after Holy Cross, the medical sciences just kind of took over and it's kind of a labor of love, learning and staying up late and being on call and all that. So I was at the Boston Medical Center there in Boston University, which was really interesting time because they were building the new hospital. So halfway through training, they completed the hospital there and then they crushed it down to smithereens. But in one day we basically were in the old hospital and the next day we were in the new hospital. And so that was really great training through the basic sciences at Holy Cross and experiences there. And then I was looking into residencies and as would have it, I had applied to a lot in the New England area for residencies for family medicine. And I had gotten a scholarship in Lowell with the Mass Medical Society and John Janice and his family, one of the doctors in the family was starting the residency in Concord and Lebanon, New Hampshire. And he said, "Hey, I'm going to give you the scholarship, but maybe you should consider our program." And so I applied and matched. And so I ended up in Concord and mostly Concord and Lebanon for family medicine. And it was the very first year of the program, which probably better I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. The program was really good, but as a first kind of run through, what I didn't understand at the time was that though you're a resident, you're basically a faculty member because you're developing all the programs everywhere. Every program, every rotation was the first time they ever had a resident or any kind of training. So that was a different kind of experience as well. Ely: I have some questions about your residency challenges. How much did you do in the bigger hospital in Lebanon? Joe: I did several rotations up in Lebanon, which were great. So I did a lot of pediatrics there with Chad. So that was our big pediatric kind of connection. And then I actually did obstetrics in Augusta, Maine because at the time... I'm not sure if you're trained for OB as well, but they wanted us to be fully trained for OB, which I was. So I did an OB rotation. I made that happen in Augusta, Maine, which was really interesting, delivering babies out. It's the state capital, but it's still kind of rural actually. And then I did also make a OB rotation in Beverly, Mass. And that was very developmental because no one had ever been there before. And then I did sports medicine, I made some sports medicine rotations in Portland, Maine. So those were interesting. And then I did put together a holistic herbal experience with Ascutney mountain and the herbalist. So that was up near the Lebanon area, but for pediatrics, I think I did a few months at Chad. So it was great being up there at that hospital too. Yeah, the Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital is a really fantastic place to train. Ely: Yeah. I am very proud of our family medicine residency program. By the time that I had arrived in Concord, it was exclusively at Concord Hospital, so all rotations were there. And I did high risk OB rotation in Nashua, New Hampshire, and some of the main Dartmouth residents came to our program to do some rotations or came down to Nashua to do some rotations. So that kind of relationship with other hospitals in the area were nice to be able to have established from relationships that you guys forged. So that has always been a nice part about learning in community. Joe: Well, I know we had touched base about that, and I remember having mixed feelings about the training and starting a new program. I remember you mentioning to me one time how you felt that the program was really excellent and that you had gotten really well-trained there. I know the training was definitely good in terms of experiences because even though it's not necessarily big city, Concord is the state capital again of New Hampshire, but still a lot of it's rural, a lot of rural type of problems. At the time, at least, I don't know how it was by the time you got there, but still a lot of patients had hadn't had access to doctors in a long time. So most of the illness that we would see as residents were actually advanced and surprising, patients with really far along illnesses that you're kind of surprised that they could just still be walking around with that situation. Yeah. Ely: Yes, definitely. That kind of establishing disease management and identifying severe disease was really was an important part of training. And I think, yes, Concord is a catchment area for that area. And Concord Hospital's Family Health Center is a federally qualified health center, much like where you work in East Boston currently, but there were a lot of social workers that helped. So there was definitely this sense of team effort to help engage people's health and work together. So that was a really good part. That's what I really liked about the training is that I learned from our pharmacists, from our social workers and other community health workers. So that was a good part of the training there. And it sounds like that helped you establish your career with in Dracut because you started your clinic there. Joe: I think all experiences eventually helped you later on for sure. So you're right, in Concord starting the residency program, I guess to some degree I wasn't scared to start a practice. So I guess there's that component of it. But though after I finished with the residency program that you also attended, then I returned back to my hometown in Chelmsford. And so when I finished, I went and had physical make sure that I also checked on my health. And so at that time I had gotten a physical in Chelmsford, the doctor that there was working with some other doctors and offered me a job in their clinic. And I said, "well, I'm just here for a physical, I don't think I want-" Ely: You got a job. Joe: Yeah, "don't think I want a whole job, but my physical must have been good." Ely: God bless family medicine, we do it all. Joe: So I did work a couple years in my hometown in Chelmsford in Drum Hill with Dr. Gamasis. And then actually I went back into New Hampshire. So when Michelle and I were married, we moved up to New Hampshire and then I worked with Wentworth-Douglass Hospital doing family medicine. And at that time, certainly most of the career up until that point and even after was fall spectrum. So when I worked in Chelmsford, it was inpatient medicine, outpatient medicine, ICU care, the rehabs, home care. So it was a lot. And so we would admit patients to the hospital, we would follow them and also do ICU care, and that was very satisfying. But it's a different world than it certainly is now in terms of, I suppose, expectations, acuity, the length of stay. I don't think it's even possible to do both now, but we did. And so I did that up in Concord and then actually we put a hospitalist program in there, which was actually very controversial, and then we ended up just transitioning to outpatient medicine. So then in 2007, I actually came back down to the area of Merrimack Valley with Saints Medical Center. They were near and dear to my heart because I had still been on staff there and they were looking to open practices and they said, "hey, can you open one of practice for us in Dracut?" And I said, that sounds really exciting because for me as a physician, I've always enjoyed obviously seeing patients and being in different environments. But one thing that you may never have an opportunity to do is to start a practice. And as a physician, starting a practice means you can really put your own personality into it and you're not inheriting necessarily a practice that's already there, or maybe another doctor's patient with maybe their style of medicine. So that was really exciting for me to be able to do that. And so the cool part about that situation was they also wanted me to be involved in the design build of the practice, which was super exciting. I didn't know anything about architect work or designing anything. So that was really exciting. And then we opened the practice and we had no patients. Day one, no patients, which is different than a lot of scenarios. So that was exciting and scary at the same time. Ely: Well, the natural question now I have is how did you recruit patients? Joe: Gosh, that was exciting time too. So a couple things, you just never know how life's going to go. So while we were doing this project, it was supposed to start in 2007, but it was delayed. So I had left the job in New Hampshire, came down, and they said, okay, unfortunately it's going to take longer than we expected. We're going to put you at the walk-in clinic for the year that we're going to get all this project going. And that was in Lowell. So I had never done urgent care medicine, so it's a little different and exciting and somewhat scary too, actually at times. And so I did that for a year. And there was a doctor that Dr. Bousquet who was a really wonderful doctor and a friend, so he must have known his life path what it was going to be. So he basically introduced me to so many people, so many patients. Even though he was kind of retired, they would still come to the clinic and he'd do kind of a primary care situation for them and then he would introduce them to me. And so I wasn't even really kind of aware of that was what was happening. And then so when I opened the practice, I did have actually a core of patients, which was really nice. And then we just did a lot of different things. So we went to every possible event that they had. So we went to job fairs where they wanted medical people. We went to the old home day in Dracut. I went to the Dracut baseball night, the comedy night, the fundraisers, whatever just to meet people. So that summer was really interesting. So we had no patients and then we slowly developed patients. I just basically stayed on a call every day, which wasn't as bad as it sounds, but when you have a startup practice, it's kind of neat to be on call all the time because then you're connecting with the patients very, very well. And then we had excellent people. So basically, there were three of us. So the three of us basically started the start of the office. So it was kind of exciting times. Yeah. Ely: That is quite a journey and a lot of legwork goes into building a practice in terms of just building the relationships you had with Dr. Bousquet. And so I am curious though, just as much as you were really involved in the community, if you can talk about it, how did it impact the way you and your family were developing? How did that balance work with being on call all the time and having all these obligations with work? How did you- Joe: It worked out in some ways. So though at the time, and actually still now, so we live way up in almost near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but the practice was in Dracut, but again, this is kind of how crooked lines work and nothing's ever kind of straightforward. So we're both from that area. So she's from Lowell, I'm from Chelmsford, so we have family there. So though it was challenging in some ways to be here and there, it also was doable because for instance, her mom lives there. Her mom lives right down the street. And then my parents live in Chelmsford, and then my brothers live in Nashua and Chelmsford. So I think if it was a different location, it probably wouldn't have worked, but I could check on her mom, I can check on my parents, I can see my brothers. So that was nice. And then we could stay there. We could stay there on the night or the weekend. So that worked out really well. And then starting a practice also meant that I had flexibility because I could tell patients to come at seven o'clock in the morning, they could call me. So there was a lot of flexibility and that allowed me to have time to coach baseball and soccer and flag football. And so I guess it just kind of worked out because I guess you wanted it to, if you wanted it to work out. There were times it was hard. So I coached a lot of baseball, and so I even started sometimes at 6:00 AM and then would try to complete by early afternoon and then kind of rush home and then run some baseball drills, run the practices or the games or whatever. So I guess it just eventually worked out. But I think having some creativity in it and then having it be my own entity was really exciting. You have a lot of ownership in it and you can make things work, I suppose. And I really enjoyed having a personal connection to the patients that allows them to tell me that the schedule doesn't work for them, for instance, and they need something, and I can say, well, why don't you just come in at 7:30 and I'll do your physical then, things like that, which is to me is very, very satisfying 'cause the patient obviously needs certain things and I can know what those are. And then having some flexibility allows you to meet that need and you feel like, okay, that's why I'm actually here. Ely: Yes. Joe: Yeah. Ely: Well... you did... you say... it's amaze... I love hearing about this story and it's just different than mine. I also had a zigzaggy kind of path to medicine. But what I really am getting the sense of, Joe, is that you worked really hard to create your network, your family, really, work family, and then you really worked hard with your wife to build a network and a team that supported both of you, all of you. And if we don't really have a supporting team around us, it just can't work. And that's really a wonderful thing that you had and have currently. But I can imagine the shift in the culture of medicine and the way it's been managed provides some challenges now too. How have the rules changed around you in terms of management? Joe: Those are really great questions. And I guess it's easy to just gloss over the past and think, okay, gosh, everything was just really rosy, but it's not, it's not always rosy. So currently I think I'm way more satisfied than probably I have been in maybe in a long time. And I think some of that is because, like you were mentioning about working with people or networking, I think a lot of it is because the other doctor in the practice and also another doctor that also is there, we worked together to create the systems. Again, not to maybe speak poorly about systems, but we were in systems thinking, this is not really kind of what we're thinking or this is not actually functioning how we want it to function. Oh, okay, so you're feeling the same way as me and you're feeling the same way. And then, okay, let's express that. So we actually met a lot. It's changed even over the COVID, but we met a lot as doctors to talk about what we thought about medicine, what we thought about and how things should go, and then why it was or wasn't at that point. So I think at some point we just became leaders of our own own destiny. Now that doesn't always come easy. Sometimes you got to fight for that and sometimes it just works out. Certainly to your point, and I've kind of learned this kind of the hard way over time, I think joining forces with people is way more effective than just being the only person that maybe is complaining about something or that wants something to change. If you have two or three people that you work well with and you talk about things and you actually make sense, it's going to go good places, right? Ely: Agreed. Joe: Hopefully. Ely: Yes. Joe: Hopefully. Ely: Well, collaboration always brings some good fruits. And I would have to say, I really felt like over COVID, as we progress in this age of COVID, I'll just say it's really the pandemic continues, let's remind each other, and- Joe: It is continuing. Ely: ... it continues. But I feel like throughout COVID, I would often send a little message out to you in a way that helped me process what was going on. And the confusion about how we were operating or guidelines, miscommunications or communications about certain guidelines that were changing daily and they still really are, but I felt like having someone to vent about stuff that was changing was very helpful. So I again want to thank you for that. And I think that it helped me just advocate for what was going around in my situation. So thank you for that. Joe: Yeah, I'm glad that we connected because though there were three doctors in my practice, there was a time where we were either not working in the office at all or we were all remote and not really even seeing each other. And then at some point, yeah, there was an isolation, even though the physicians and medical staff. And so I think though it feels like I helped you, you secretly helped me kind of realize that I was doing some of the right things or thinking of the right things or I wasn't kind of off base thinking about the same things that you were thinking. And I may have told you yeah, you're right. But I might have also been secretly questioning it too. So I think, like you said, kind of connecting is definitely powerful. And I can't even take credit for all of that because though I was doing the family medicine in Dracut, I was also blessed to be a part of the East Boston clinic and some of the doctors there are also very amazing and they do different things. And so one of the doctors I worked with there, he gets deployed for disasters. And so he had gotten actually deployed from our pediatric kind of practice there to the very, very first COVID response unit in California when they had the cruise ship and they had 300 patients and they had no place to put these people. Kim and his crew went out there. So he had already been in the thick of it. I think that was December maybe 2019 or something. So he had already been in the thick of it and he came back and then I just remember learning so much from him and then thinking, okay, you have to be organized, you do have to have protocols, and you do need certain things. You need PPE, you need testing, and whether you can get those things or not, or if people are going to support you, you actually do need it. So advocating for those things, super important. And maybe you couldn't get everything you wanted. We couldn't get any N95 masks, but the other doctor that was in the practice had had the forethought of buying them. So we actually bought our own. And they weren't that great really, but they worked. And then, strangely enough, we were able to repair them. So I actually did a lot of glue gunning for several months of the masks because I didn't have another one. So it's kind of exciting in some ways to make things work, right? Ely: Yes. And being in medicine during the pandemic really made us either just dig our heels in and say, we're staying, we've got this, we have to do this, we have to do something. Whether it is in actually facing COVID patients in the hospital or out in the field, so to speak, in outpatient field of we have to deliver care, whether that it was telemedicine or in office eventually, and how we're we going to be able to do that and getting those PPE, for those listening, personal protective equipment. I think now we probably know that that's probably colloquial more so than just a medical term, but yeah, we have come a long way. And then to really sit and talk with you now about, man, that was some tough times over the last couple of years specifically. I'm listening to your story. I'm really curious and very enthralled with your development of your practice, but also just knowing what we have shared together in our health system with what we went through in the last two years. That was a lot. And it's still really tough. So I'm glad we're, we're still going, but it is difficult. Are you feeling the same way about that? Joe: Well, it's very much a people profession and it's a caring profession, and I think we get energy off of each other. So your excitement, enthusiasm, and even your positive feedback helps to really motivate me and other people. And so I think that was one of the really exciting things about the pandemic. Sure, I could probably look back and have a lot of mixed feelings about different things, but I think one of the things that was really amazing was the administration kind of apparatus really froze up. And the clinical people, we basically had to rise up because it was either we were going to just stay home during the pandemic or we were going to step up and figure out... Honestly, the choice was close down the practice and maybe we'll open up in a few months or we're going to figure out a way to reopen and serve our patients. So that was the choice, and that was really the clinical leadership. A hundred percent. We even developed how we were going to screen patients and then for the limited testing initially what we were going to do. And then as testing became more available, what were we going to do, what questions we were going to ask patients, when were they going to be permitted in the office? All that stuff we had to figure out and then we just did it. So thought that was really exciting actually. So I guess to answer your question, compared to sometimes when you feel really just maybe you're not making a difference, this period has kind of felt like more like we're making a difference. So things do kind of get tiring, the electronic medical systems can get tiring and charting, and there are some mundane things. And I think also the other thing is the more that we're in charge, I think of the healthcare system, and even simple things like how we're going to do our schedule, it's really empowering. I guess that's some of the things that came out of it. Ely: Thank you for that perspective, because that learning by doing is precisely why I chose family medicine. And really the impetus for me to be just actively doing in medicine was why I then pursued a career in medicine. And so just to be reminded of that is exactly what we are doing. This is our calling to do it, and we are here to serve. And as difficult as it is, that's what we do and we do it the best. And yes, leadership comes in all form, including administration, and there's certainly guidelines and rules that we may admonish at times, but really it's an honor and our privilege to be able to help others and live out the dream we all had of becoming physicians and being able to realize that in the work that we do. So thanks. Joe: You're welcome. And it did really feel like patients really did need us. So for two years, there were times where we're running all kinds of tests for coronavirus, then helping patients with, are you going to be able to work? And for how long? And who's going to write those letters? And then when can you go back and well, maybe you're not actually doing all that well, so maybe we should run x-rays and labs and send you to the hospital and now working with some of these other therapeutics and whatnot. So yeah, I think there's a lot of components where the family medicine, you can really just jump right in. Yeah, you're right. And then you're also right too, where it's not all rosy. There are a lot of things that can get in between those things that we really want to do for patients and how we want to feel about our calling. Ely: It's not all rosy, but then again, really, I welcome the challenge. If I had to go back into where our education had formed us at Holy Cross, the challenges that we had in terms of asking the question, and this is really for me, formed from this first year program that is now the Montserrat program that I was part of. But this question of how then shall we live in this world of COVID there are constant changes and rules, how then shall we live and then dot, dot, dot as physicians, as humans, as a mother, as a father. So I think it really is a unique way of looking at where we are through the lens of having a Holy Cross Jesuit education. Joe: Absolutely. There are so many experiences during the time there that totally prepares you for a career in medicine, in family medicine, or even just caring for people. There's so many things. The list is just endless of events and experiences for sure. I had what they call a SPUD... suburban, I'm not sure of all the acronyms there. Ely: Program for Urban Development something. Joe: We had so much fun, we did so many different things. And I just remember taking him to the... I think it's the pub there where there's the bowling alley. We had a bowling alley on campus, we used to do that a lot and other fun events. But yeah, there was just a lot of good experiences. One of the things that I think was also really excellent too was I went for one of the breaks at the Appalachia Mountain. I don't know if that was going on when you were there. So I went to Kentucky Mountain Housing and that was I think about 10 days. And so that was really amazing experience. So not only were we serving others, and then we were building some houses up in Appalachia in Kentucky, but we had to work together as a team. So that was probably one of the early experiences of really team building. So we had several bands, I don't even know how many were in each band, 10 or 12 people in the band. And basically we were responsible for the budget and getting all our stuff and then getting there. So we had to meet in Virginia or something and then continue on. So I just remember we had to decide who was going to drive and when and what shifts, and then how we were going to do our meals and who was going to cook it and when and who was going to clean up, and then who was going to do what kind of jobs on the site there. So that was really amazing experience. And then of course, interacting with people in Appalachia and helping them build houses and learning about their life experiences was, I think that's obviously a really amazing experience. And it's very, very similar to being a physician, except not building a house typically, but you're interacting with people and connecting with them where they are. So that was definitely a formative experience and I'm really grateful I was able to do that. Ely: What I want to ask you, because now you're in a position of having one of your kids going to start at Holy Cross, do you have any certain expectations for her experience at Holy Cross? Joe: Yeah, no, thank you for mentioning that. Yeah, Olivia will be a freshman this fall, and she plans on the bio pre-med track or health professions track. And so yeah, super excited for her. I'm overjoyed. For both of my children, I often brought them to different Holy Cross events. And for Olivia, we did the move in together. Well, not her move in, but we helped the students move in about five years ago. And then we've done several Holy Cross cares days, and then we've gone to reunions or football games or things. So I was always hopeful that she would have an interest and since I've been there a million years ago, the campus, it changed so much. They've just added so many wonderful things and buildings and upgraded just everything. So I was more than excited for her to consider it. And I'm really hopeful that she has a lot of the experiences that I had or even more. And so what I had wanted for her is not just go someplace and just do science, just be in the lab, just doing science by yourself, with your head down. I really wanted for her to have a real well-rounded experience and really develop other parts of her person as well. And I really wanted that for her. So I'm really hopeful that she sees it that way too. And she's very interested in the science building there. So we had to go look during all of her tours, specifically at the science buildings, even though lots of campuses in the United States are nice, the science building may not be nice. It may not be where they focus. So we went there and the newly kind of renamed Fauci Center definitely looked like it had gotten a lot of attention and would be a good place to learn. So yeah, I'm just really hopeful that she may find experiences like I did, or even different ones, even different ones. I was on the campus ministry there. And I found that to be really amazing, the 10 o'clock masses. And I walked on the football team for two years and was in a great dorm and had a lot of great experiences and a lot of great memories and friendships. Yeah, so I was hoping that she would get a lot of those experiences. So can I ask you about your recent career situation? Ely: Oh, sure. Joe: Because you're making some changes. Ely: Yes. So I would have to say the challenges of COVID and the challenges of parenthood, specifically motherhood, have put my focus on how to best be at home and do the work that I do. So being in the office, in the clinic, taking care of patients is truly rewarding. And I wouldn't change the opportunity for the world. But moving forward, I think I needed to step out of that in clinic role. And so now I've chosen a path to do telemedicine, and I'm very excited about developing my role as a communicator on the phone or by video and listening to patients. And that role won't change, but how I listen and how I engage with patients will be a little bit different and I'll have to hone in those skills. So I am looking forward to it. And I have a few weeks off before then. Joe: Well, I'm excited for you. So we've almost followed the same pathway, but now you're going a different pathway, because we both went to Holy Cross and we both went to New Hampshire Dartmouth residency and we both were urgent care in Merrimack Valley and Primary Care. But now you're going a different paths. Ely: Yes. Well, the zigzags of our paths have crossed many times in one way or another, and I'm sure they'll continue to cross, and hopefully that will continue. Joe: No, I think it's good 'cause I think our energy kind of feeds off of each other and our experiences or even just sometimes questioning kind of feeds off each other. And I think it's really positive. And I find that as I'm getting older and I actually think about what makes me tick, I think interacting with doctors and nurse practitioners and physicians assistants in the course of doing your work is extremely rewarding. And I really enjoy it. And so I do a lot of work in East Boston and a lot of times in the emergency room, and there's several doctors or some doctors and nurse practitioners, and I never really can really put my finger on why I enjoyed it, but I just really enjoyed being together with four or five doctors. It's amazing. You can talk to someone who has major differences in their life experiences or the clinical experiences, and you can just talk to them like right there, hey, I'm doing this for this patient, and what do you do? It's just amazing wealth. It really can help to develop just your satisfaction. But I do want to mention something, and I don't really know how to say it, but I think you brought up and there are, I think, unique challenges to being a male physician and a female physician. And I think with COVID and the additional responsibilities, it's really complicated. You could speak to this more than I, but I think as a female physician or a female nurse, you're also expected to take care of your kids when they're sick, which they're sick a lot with the COVID or not COVID or finding out if they have COVID. So what I've also observed is that the intensity of the responsibility is huge for women in clinical positions, and COVID just has made that so much more apparent and intense. So I understand maybe why you're making some changes there, but obviously you know more than I how that all works. Ely: I really appreciate the acknowledgement of the role of mothers in medicine and fathers have equally distinct roles in managing family life. So for some reason, for me, it has fallen on me to really be at home when they are sick or in quarantine. And it's something that I don't obviously mind doing, I love my children, and I just want to be able to show up for my family, myself and my patients equally as strong. And in my most recent role, I wasn't always feeling like I could do that and for one way or another. And it's not the fault of the system or the role itself, it just happened to play out that way. However, I did find some agency in looking at other options and voila, COVID opened a lot of doors to telemedicine and other opportunities for physicians to practice. So that was a fringe benefit, if I could even say a benefit of the pandemic was some doors that opened. So I felt enough agency to be able to walk through that door, and that was not because I was suffering, that was because there was a lot of strength that came from learning from my colleagues in my previous role. So I have a lot of good feelings for where I came from and a lot of excitement for where I'm going. Joe: I know, I think it's really wonderful and fantastic, and I'm glad that you acknowledged the unique pressures or stresses that you've felt 'cause I don't think they're unique to yourself. And so I'm glad that you've articulated that. And what I always think is by the time you've become a doctor and you've done all the amazing steps to get there, and then you're connecting with patients, to feel like for some reason you can't do that work because of whatever, because of schedule, because you want to also be there for your family or whatever systems things, and to think that maybe someone might actually leave the career altogether, it's really upsetting to me because it's usually the people that are the most caring and connected because you've given out so much of your energy and you just realize it's not working out. So kudos to you to try to figure out a way to keep all that amazing energy, like caring for patients. So I'm glad that you've figured out a path. Ely: Thank you. Joe: Yeah, it's exciting. Yeah, because I know you'll be back doing family medicine at some point in person, that's why I'm saying that. Ely: Yes. Well, my roots in community are very strong. And so to really hear your story of community building, it restores my faith in the progress of medicine and in the intensity of how we serve each other. So again, I cannot say thank you enough. Joe: Well, thank you to you too. Ely: The way I would love to close the interview is to say one thing that you are really excited about the future of family medicine. And I think I'm excited about the continued relationship building and the connection with colleagues as well as patients because if we are stronger as providers, as physicians, then I think that really only encourages our patients to become stronger and to have their agency to take care of their health. And really healthy communities, healthy families are what the drive to family medicine is. And so I'm really excited about that, that relationship is going to continue and get even stronger. How about you? Joe: I think you're right about that. And in the perspective of my path is that training in Boston in the '90s, family medicine was not at all desirable. And so you had to actually leave the city at the time to even seek out the specialty. But in time now, family medicine's very important everywhere, including in the city, including at the academic centers. And with my family medicine background, working in the ER, I do work with the pediatric group in Boston. I do family medicine in the clinic. I've also done urgent care and I feel equally at home in all those settings. And that's really nice. And I think connecting with the patients, I do feel like they actually do need us to know about a lot of things there. There's so much more complexity to health, and it's good to be able to do that over a wide range of health. And the other thing I like too about family medicine is we don't always have to make health issues always necessarily bad. We can talk about them as things that are opportunities to improve and maybe even opportunities to work on holistic health maintenance. So yeah, I think there is a lot of positivity to the future. We're going through an electronic medical record transition to Epic, which was really challenging. But I've used Epic in other locations and I'm finding that it, to some level is restoring my joy of medicine because the system is very good and allows me to actually complete functions rather than having the functions kind of dictate my whole day. So I think that hopefully technology will also help, at least the technology part that should be in place to help us. So I'm optimistic hopefully. Ely: That's a wonderful place to be optimistic and also carries us into the future. Maura Sweeney: That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the mission to be people for and with others. A special thanks to today's guests and everyone at Holy Cross who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone would like to be featured on this podcast, then please send us an email at alumnicareers.holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Alumni Relations at the College of the Holy Cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcast. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, "Now go forth and set the world on fire." Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

Much like an Orchestra needs every section to create a perfect harmony, so does an office.  Each person I have spoken to is an important member of a group of the Amsterdam Family Health Center. Each of us can be heard in this series as we sing the song of care and dedication for our community ... a perfect melody. We have heard the concerns of our patients and are here to explain our day and what we do, as well as what they can do, to help us give them the best care that we can. 

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Dr Miriam Vega, Chief Executive Officer of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center Inc, speaks of the people who impacted her early life, … Read More

Welcome to Reimagining Company Culture, a series discussing emerging trends and priorities shaping the future of workplace culture and employee wellbeing. We highlight thought leaders who are constantly evolving their strategy and can provide insight to folks about how to address new business challenges.  AllVoices is on a mission to create safe, happy, and healthy workplaces for all, and we're excited to learn from experts who share our mission. In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we're chatting with Valeria Stokes, Vice President of Human Resources at Erie Family Health Center.  Valeria is a global executive and diversity officer with expertise in operational solutions for human capital planning, change management, and organizational development of people systems and metrics.Tune in to learn Valeria's thoughts on innovating in the talent acquisition space, investing in professional development, approaching compensation, and more!About AllVoices In today's workforce, people often don't feel empowered to speak up and voice their opinions about workplace issues, including harassment, bias, and other culture issues. This prevents company leadership from making necessary changes, and prevents people from feeling fulfilled, recognized, and included at work. At AllVoices, we want to change that by providing a completely safe, anonymous way for people to report issues directly to company leaders. This allows company leadership real transparency into what's happening in their companies—and the motivation to address issues quickly. Our goal is to help create safer, more inclusive companies.

The pandemic made our nation aware of the importance of the people who raise, pick, and process our food. We now understand that farmworkers, as well as grocery store cashiers and shelf stockers can be counted among our country's Essential Workers. However, it's not always clear to the Community Health Center care team what a patient's occupation is. Occupation is one of the most important social drivers of health, affecting patients' health and access to healthcare in many different ways. This episode of Health Centers on the Front Lines takes us behind the scenes at a health center and their partner network as they change the culture around disclosure of occupation among patients. Our guests talk about what it takes to collect data about a patient's occupation and why it improves care when the care team knows what work their patients do. Key TakeawaysHow important occupational data is and how does it affect health care?The challenges regarding occupational data from gathering information to integrating it into the existing EMR of our healthcare systemThe advantages of having occupational data for new patients QuotesThis occupational data helps our staff at the health centers to understand better who these patients are. - Dr. KatherineAside from just the data collection, it is important to educate the providers and the staff on the importance of occupational health data. - Daniel Occupation is arguably one of the most important social drivers of health because it can impact so many of the other downstream factors. - Dr. KatherineThe collection of occupational data allows for objective assessment of associations between occupational categories and health outcomes. - Dr. Katherine Featured in the EpisodeAlexandra WalkerDirector of Digital Communications, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-walker-25b5844/ Company Website: Nachc.org Katherine Chung-BridgesDirector of Research at Health Choice NetworkLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-chung-bridges-8a0127170/ Daniel ParrasData AnalystHealth Choice NetworkWebsite: https://www.hcnetwork.org/ Yvonne ArmijoDirector of Operations/Information System AnalystLa Casa Family Health CenterWebsite: https://www.lacasahealth.com/ Giddel Thom, MD Chief Medical DirectorLa Casa Family Health CenterWebsite: https://www.lacasahealth.com/ Chapters00:00 Introduction01:56 The story of dairy farm workers07:49 What is occupational data and how does it affect health care?10:18 The difficulty of collecting these data12:19 The challenge of integrating occupational data into the E-health records15:44 The importance of occupation in health and in socioeconomics20:00 Reactions when meeting new patients having to know their past medical records24:03 Takeaways from our guests Produced by Heartcast Mediahttps://www.heartcastmedia.com/

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In today's episode, Dr. Graham Taylor is joined by Dr. Joe Parks. Joe practices, psychiatry at the Family Health Center, the nation's first approved Medicaid funded Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), established to expand services to the uninsured and under-insured in Columbia, Missouri. He also currently serves as the medical director for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Together Graham and Joe discuss the comprehensive services of the CCBHCs, the innovation of reimbursement that allows whole-person treatment for mental illness and medical care, and the mobile crisis team that can respond to behavioral health emergencies. We would like to encourage you to listen to the second half of this podcast series, where Joe and I will be discussing his work with the national council for mental wellbeing and their work in addressing policy and social change on behalf of nearly 3,500 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults, and families that they serve.   For more information about the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, please visit: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org For more information about Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), please visit: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/our-work/ccbhc/ For more information about the Center for Excellence in Integrated Health Solutions, please visit: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/program/ccbhc-e-national-training-and-technical-assistance-center/ For more information about Health Equity and Racial Justice Service Center, please visit: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/resources/addressing-health-equity-and-racial-justice/ For more information about Mental Health First Aid, please visit: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org

Today - River Valley Family Health Center is quadrupling it's clinical space to serve people in Delta County. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is now in its second year of studying mountain lion density across the Western Slope. This year, they're working to collar 25 adult lions in the Gunnison Basin. Support the show: https://www.montrosepress.com/site/forms/subscription_services/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hola, hello! For this episode, guest host Maritza R. Luebbers has a conversation with Roxanne Pacheco. Roxanne is a Therapist, Coach and Motivational Speaker. She incorporates Scripture as part of the healing process for her clients who are receptive to that modality. Tune in to hear what she went through in her own life that lead her to help others heal from pain and trauma. "You have to Feel in order to Heal" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mujeresintheknow/support

Dr. Alexandra Myers, D.O.,  practices family and sports medicine. Dr. Myers completed a family practice residency at Downey Regional Medical Center in Downey, California and a sports medicine fellowship at San Diego Sports Medicine and Family Health Center where she presently works. She completed osteopathic medical school at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. During osteopathic medical school Dr. Myers did an Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She also earned a Master's of Science in Health Professions Education.Prior to attending osteopathic medical school Dr. Myers double majored in Biology and Spanish at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. While at Cornell College, Dr. Myers played Division III soccer and softball.Dr. Myers is very active in the sports community of San Diego. She serves as the director of the Women's Athletic Medicine Clinic at San Diego State University. At SDSU she is in charge of the care for the Women's Basketball, Women's Water Polo, and Women's Crew teams. Additionally she serves as the Team Physician for Santa Fe Christian High School Football.Along with her colleagues Dr. Myers covers a variety of events throughout San Diego including the San Diego Half Marathon and the Susan G. Komen 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk.Dr. Myers is active in many professional societies. She is currently Vice-President of the San Diego Osteopathic Medical Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California.In her free time Dr. Myers leads an active lifestyle. She plays soccer, surfs, jogs, standup paddle boards, cycles, and skis on a regular basis.Links and MentionsDr. Alexandra Myers' Website***If you enjoyed the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts?  It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps us get the word out about the show.For more thoughts about physician independence and autonomy, visit us at:sycamoredocs.comtwitter.com/sycamoredocsyoutube.com/sycamoredocsfacebook.com/sycamoredocsinstagram.com/sycamoredocsCredits:Theme Music - White Waves by Shearwater

In this fascinating conversation, Julie Rosen, leader of WittKieffer's Not-for-Profit Practice, speaks with Charles Anderson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Lou Brady, B.S., M.B.A., CEO of the Family Health Center of Worcester, Massachusetts. The three explore the factors that have led to FQHCs becoming such a critical part of the U.S. healthcare infrastructure, and the ways in which Charles' and Lou's organizations responded to COVID and currently address equity and other critical issues. The discussion concludes with their perspectives on the next generation of FQHC leaders and the qualities they will need to possess to succeed in their positions.

Hello and Welcome to another Episode on the Follow The Brand Podcast I am your Host, Grant  McGaugh.  And I want to open the show with a question!  Have you ever wondered why you are in the profession you are in?  That is the question I proposed to Tabatha Ball of Jacksonville, Florida. Many of us struggle to make sense of our lives until we can step back and view the seasons of our careers in a clearer light.Living in your truth brings you closer to your life's mission and reveals the unique gifts that you can in turn share with others. Tabatha Ball discovered her life's mission while growing up on a farm in Pensacola Florida which led her on a career path toward becoming a community healthcare leader. Listen as she tells a story about her passion to lift and help her community by creating a holistic village of care.Tabatha Ball serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Agape Community Health Center in Jacksonville Florida.Tabatha's career spans over 25 plus years in healthcare with exceptional leadership experience in a variety of healthcare settings. Tabatha leads a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals promoting and providing healthcare services to the underserved and uninsured population of Jacksonville Florida. She spearheaded the efforts to achieve the opening of seven healthcare centers across the city, creating opportunities for accessible healthcare services for all.   Before her affiliation with Agape Community Health Center, Tabatha served in various roles at The Sulzbacher Center, ending as the Director of Health and Human Service. In her roles, she served as a passionate community servant with the ability to motivate and inspire the homeless population in identifying their potential. She also led strategic efforts in establishing a foundation of appropriate resources through community partnerships that provided, stable housing, life skills, and healthcare services for the homeless. With this ongoing quest to give, Tabatha has been able to promote significant, positive change in communities and individuals through advocacy, empowered by compassion. Tabatha is active in numerous professional organizations including but not limited to the Board of the Northeast Florida Continuum of Care, with emphasis on coordinating the community's policies, strategies, and activities toward ending homelessness. Tabatha also serves on the Mayo Clinic Women's Health Advisory Board, strategizing in the enhancement of care of women in the community. Tabatha will be the President of the National Association of Healthcare Executives (NAHSE) for the 2021-2023 period. She is also a member of the American College of Health Care Executives.A Florida native, Tabatha has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Florida and a Master's in Business Administration, from Keiser University.

This week our guest is Josephine Guttadoro, Developmental Chair for The Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank.   Hazlet's Hope is also a nonprofit organization serving residents in the Bayshore area. They are dedicated to uniting the skills and experience of recovery teams with patients seeking lifesaving changes from substance abuse through long term treatment. The area Police Departments also partner with Hazlet's Hope to facilitate a plan to provide rehabilitation.  For more information, please visit Hazlet's Hope Network, or call the crisis hotline at 732-739-7717. 

This week our guest is Josephine Guttadoro, Developmental Chair for The Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank. The Parker Family Health Center is a non profit organization operated by a group of volunteer doctors, nurses and people in other areas of medicine.   This makes it possible for uninsured patients to establish a relationship with a medical caregiver with a primary physician. Diagnostic testing, well visits, and affordable prescription drugs are also available. For more information, please visit Parkerfamilyhealthcenter.org.

This week our guest is Josephine Guttadoro, Developmental Chair for The Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank.   Hazlet's Hope is also a nonprofit organization serving residents in the Bayshore area. They are dedicated to uniting the skills and experience of recovery teams with patients seeking lifesaving changes from substance abuse through long term treatment. The area Police Departments also partner with Hazlet's Hope to facilitate a plan to provide rehabilitation.  For more information, please visit Hazlet's Hope Network, or call the crisis hotline at 732-739-7717. 

This week our guest is Josephine Guttadoro, Developmental Chair for The Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank. The Parker Family Health Center is a non profit organization operated by a group of volunteer doctors, nurses and people in other areas of medicine.   This makes it possible for uninsured patients to establish a relationship with a medical caregiver with a primary physician. Diagnostic testing, well visits, and affordable prescription drugs are also available. For more information, please visit Parkerfamilyhealthcenter.org.

Gary Roberts with the Brown Family Health Center is a man with many hats.  In this episode, Gary talks about everything from educating the community about STD's, to his ministry to area sex workers, to gardening.   

Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 3: Birth and Postpartum with HIV  In the second of this two part conversion, we discuss how HIV relates to birth and parenting. Join us as we talk with Doctors Phil Bolduc and Thanh Thu Ngo from the Family Health Center of Worcester, in Worchester, Massachusetts, where they both practice family medicine and treat women living with HIV. They share with us how they approach birth and postpartum concerns with their patients and offer some best practices to help women stay healthy as they give birth and care for their children. Continuing Education Credits are available for this podcast. For more information visit: EffiBarryInstitute.org/podcast.

Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 2: HIV, Pre-Conception, and Pregnancy Join us for part one of a two-part conversation on reducing HIV stigma and centering the health and wellness of parents and babies. In this Deeper Conversation, we delve into HIV, pregnancy, and parenting with Doctors Phil Bolduc and Thanh Thu Ngo from the Family Health Center of Worcester in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they both practice family medicine and treat women living with HIV. Drs. Bolduc and Ngo share how they approach HIV and pregnancy with their patients and offer some best practices to help women stay healthy while they are pregnant.  Continuing Education Credits are available for this podcast. For more information visit: EffiBarryInstitute.org/podcast.

In this episode Coach Jenny talks to fitness coach Trudie German (who happened to be featured in the March edition of Strong Fitness Magazine!) about a balanced approach to losing fat and staying fit for women over 40. Trudie talks about how to forego unsustainable strict dieting and implement easy and attainable anti-aging hacks into your daily routine. We also learn how to monitor wellness progress without staring at a scale, and how to work these tips and tricks into our everyday life; making it less of a pain and more about gain. Trudie German Resources:FacebookInstagramBody Envy Website If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating  and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Castbox. STRONG Fitness Magazine Subscription Use discount code STRONGGIRLResourcesSTRONG Fitness MagazineSTRONG Fitness Magazine on IGTeam Strong GirlsCoach JVBFollow Jenny on social mediaInstagramFacebookYouTube 

In this episode of ICommunicate, Yuisa Perez, senior director of human resources at the Family Health Center of Worcester, joins Mark to discuss the growing challenges around human resources and workplace culture in an era where diversity is seen as more of a necessity than ever. Segment 1: Human resources often turns out to be a thankless job, but it's one that's essential to developing and supporting a community within the workplace. What role does human resources play within a company? What does HR notice about the culture of our workplace that we may not be aware of? Segment 2: Now more than ever, companies are striving to make the workplace more diverse. How can a variety of backgrounds benefit the culture and productivity of a company? What are our fears around inviting a diverse workplace, and how can we address them? Segment 3: It goes without saying that diversity often presents itself as a touchy subject, where people tend to feel tense and awkward expressing their thoughts on the subject. How can we start conversations around this topic and provide a platform where people feel safe and comfortable talking about it? How do we establish a sense of belonging within a community? Segment 4: Whether or not we're willing to admit it, people's experiences heavily vary depending on their cultural background and ethnicity. What aspects of the workplace does the HR department look to develop that a CEO may ignore? Where does inclusivity fit into the grand scheme of our company?

Thank you for listening to She’s Got Drive. Today we have the last in out Black Mama series of interviews with midwife Tanya Khemet and Academic Keisha Goode, both President and Vice President of National Association of Certified Professional Midwives. We talk about the racism faced by Black midwives, the decimation of Black midwifery, and the need to address the structural barriers for Black Midwives today. And how Black Midwives is an answer to the Black Maternal Health crisis.  My name is Shirley McAlpine. Welcome to She's Got Drive. So grab your cup of tea, or drink of choice  and you might want to take a walk as you listen to these two amazing and inspiring women.    Dr Tanya Khemet Taiwo  considers herself blessed to be the mother of three beautiful girls who were all born into the hands of midwives.  After serving as clinic administrator and staff midwife of The Birthing Project Clinic for eight years, she became one of the founding mothers of Birth and Family Health Center, women’s health clinics housed in community health centers located in medically underserved areas of Sacramento.  She currently works in a Federally Qualified Health Center, continuing to care for low-income families in a multi-disciplinary setting. She comes from a family tradition of midwives.  She joined the NACPM Board of Directors in the fall of 2012, and has been President for 4 years. Dr. Khemet Taiwo is an assistant professor of midwifery at Bastyr University, and a research Fellow at The Birth Place Lab at the University of British Columbia. At the Birth Place Lab she’s collaborating on the Giving Voice to Mothers Study, a research project that examines how race, ethnicity and birthplace affect maternity care in the United States. Her dissertation research in epidemiology examined how prenatal socioeconomic and psychological stress impacted child neurodevelopment, and how these stressors are amplified by environmental exposures.   Dr Keisha Goode  joined the Board as the first appointed Public Member. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at The State University of New York College. Her primary research area is Medical Sociology with specific attention to the medicalization of childbirth and the historical and contemporary complexities of Black midwifery in the United States. She is completing a book proposal for the publication of her dissertation research, Birthing, Blackness and The Body: Black Midwives and Experiential Continuities of Institutional Racism.   Find Tanya: https://www.facebook.com/tanya.khemet Find Keisha: https://twitter.com/keishagoode8?lang=en NACPM : https://nacpm.org NACPM Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NACPM NACPM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nacpmidwives/   She's Got Drive Journals: BUY IN HERE AMAZON HERE Including 30 Days of Gratitude -Making Every Day Count    HOW TO SUPPORT THE PODCAST  If you love She's Got Drive  please REVIEW it here on iTunes: http://shirleymcalpine.com/itunes   This podcast streams free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.  Please Subscribe and Review . Tell your Sista friends and share online!   DONATE: check out our Patreon account:    FACEBOOK: Join the She's Got Drive Tribe on Facebook Private Group and share with other women with drive.     SHE'S GOT DRIVE is produced by Cassandra Voltolina. Artwork by Natasha Merrifield Listen on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher and Google Play and SoundCloud Connect with me through Social Media INSTAGRAM: :@shirleymcalpine_ WEBSITE: http://shirleymcalpine.com/contactme/     

Good morning I'm subbing in today! Welcome to Montrose Fresh, from The Montrose Daily Press. It's Wednesday April 21st and we're here with local news, events, announcements, and more that matter to us here in Western Colorado.     Today -- As seasonal farmworkers arrive on their visas, the River Valley Family Health Center is working to make sure they're protected from COVID-19.   Today's episode is brought to you by Elevate Internet. Whether it's for your home or your business they offer the best speeds at the best price. Right now, if you refer a friend you can get $25 off! Give them a call for more information at 844-386-8744 or visit them at elevateinternet.com   --   Now, our feature story.    Seasonal farmworkers are arriving on their visas. And River Valley Family Health Center is working to make sure that those who produce local food are protected from COVID-19.   Caring for Colorado awarded River Valley about $40,000 through the Together We Protect Vaccine Equity Fund. And River Valley also received $10,000 from the Western Colorado Community Foundation. The money will help fund mobile vaccine clinics for farmworkers.   River Valley CEO Jeremey Carroll said they're aiming to increase access to COVID vaccines for migrant and seasonal workers. They're also hoping to provide access to low-income and Hispanic and Latino populations in Montrose and Delta counties.   River Valley operates entire programs to assist farmworkers. They take medical, behavioral and dental health providers to the farms. According to Davenport that same system will be used to provide workers with vaccines.    The mobile clinics are free to the farmworkers. And if they come into River Valley later on, they'll enter the sliding-scale fee program. As a federally qualified health center, River Valley accepts people with or without insurance and offers a sliding payment scale to everyone.   Last week, River Valley providers, nurses, and outreach team members visited two area farms. There, they administer the first doses of Moderna's COVID vaccine. They also conducted basic health screens.    River Valley will return to administer second doses 28 days later.   Smaller farms are also reaching out to be included.   For example, Olathe sweet corn farmer John Harold's crews began arriving in the last two weeks. They received vaccines through River Valley. Harold hopes the workers will be willing to get the shot.    He said he appreciates River Valley's efforts and responsiveness.   River Valley Family Health Centers has facilities in Montrose and in Olathe. Visit our full story for more details - at www.montrosepress.com   -   Finally,  there's a candlelight vigil for Paige Schmidt Pierce later this week.   The vigil will be on April 23rd. You can head over to the Confluence Park bridge in Delta at dusk. And if you have candles, you're encouraged to bring them as well.    26 year old Paige Pierce was fatally shot during a vehicle pursuit near Hotchkiss earlier this month.   The Delta County Sheriff's Office has not released many details at this time, but has assured the public that there will be transparency.    For now, the 7th Judicial District Critical Incident Team is investigating the incident.   Friends and family of Schmidt are calling the shooting unnecessary. There's even a Facebook page called Justice for Paige.    To learn more, and to stay up to date on any new developments visit us at montrosepress.com   -   That's all for today, thank you for listening! For more information on any of these stories visit us at montrosepress.com.   And don't forget to check out our sponsor, Elevate Internet. Visit them at elevateinternet.com to learn more.   For more than 137 years, The Montrose Daily Press has been dedicated to shining a light on all the issues that matter to our community. Go to montrosepress.com to subscribe for just $1.99 per week for our digital edition. You'll get unlimited access to every story, feature, and special section. Thank you and remember to tune in again next time on montrosepress.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Support the show: https://www.montrosepress.com/site/forms/subscription_services/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode we welcome Dr. Rebeccah Rodriguez, a Latin American trailblazer and Osteopathic Physician who serves the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee as a Team USA physician and was on the medical staff at the Olympic Training Site in Chula Vista, California, as team physician for over 10 years.  Dr. Rodríguez earned her medical degree from the ATSU- Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and subsequently completed a family practice residency at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. She Did a Sports medicine Fellowship and San Diego Sports Medicine & Family Health Center, Sports Medicine Fellowship in 2010  which opened up the door for her to work with the Olympic rugby teamBeyond her family and sports medicine practice, Dr. Rodriguez is Passionate about improving quality healthcare.  She  helps make policy for national organizations such as the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine as second Vice President, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians California Board, Health and Wellness and Procedural Committee, and the President's Council for Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Dr. Rodriguez shares her views on osteopathic medicine, sports medicine, and how she felt as a woman going in to sports medicine, a previously male dominated field.   We hope you enjoy this episode.

From working on COVID-19 task forces with Baylor University and McLennan County, to partnering with Waco's Family Health Center to survey the spread of the virus, Michael Muehlenbein's work has provided insights into the local behavior of a global pandemic. In this Baylor Connections, Muehlenbein, chair and professor of anthropology at Baylor, analyzes ways we can better understand and slow the spread of COVID-19 and shares why safety measures remain vital heading into the winter.

Dr. José Mayorga has witnessed firsthand the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on different communities in Orange County. As executive director of the Family Health Center, a federally qualified health center that is part of UCI Health, he serves the low-income and Latinx patients who have been disproportionately exposed to the virus. “These workers are people who are working in food industries, such as fast food places, housekeeping, janitorial services. So they have no choice,” Mayorga says on this episode of the UCI Podcast. “They have to come into work. And, you know, on top of that, they're getting exposed. There's no ability for them to socially distance in some of these workspaces.” Virus cases are surging, and local leaders continue to face choices about how to respond. Dr. Mayorga urges decision-makers to consider these most vulnerable communities as they formulate plans and policies. “This pandemic is impacting every aspect of our community, and it will eventually impact them as well,” Dr. Mayorga says.

Kelly Ylitalo combines high-level, data-driven research with practical community partnerships that address upstream health issues. Dr. Ylitalo, assistant professor of epidemiology in Baylor's Department of Public Health, focuses her research on physical functioning, obesity and the impact of healthy behaviors on aging trajectories. In this Baylor Connections, she takes listeners inside her partnerships with Waco's Family Health Center and World Hunger Relief to study the effectiveness of innovative health approaches.

The Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center says it is opening of a By-Appointment Only walk-up COVID-19 Testing Site at its 1288 Central Avenue in Far Rockaway to help curb the spread of the deadly virus.  Dr. Miriam Vega, AHC CEO, will join The Wave's Mark C. Healey to discuss the details.  

In this episode you meet Arshele Stevens, CEO of Girls Inc. of Chicago. Arshele is a seasoned not-for-profit executive, a champion of and leader in urban education and a veteran expert in the traditionally male IT industry. As a girl, she was raised to challenge limitations and now as the mother of an amazingly strong, smart and bold daughter, —Stevens is deeply connected to Girls Inc.’s unparalleled commitment to empower girls to success. In her most recent role as president of Kennedy-King College, she led the organization to reaccreditation with the Higher Learning Commission and spearheaded efforts to secure over $1.2 in development funding to supplement the college’s operating budget. During her tenure, degrees awarded increased by 14% and the number of students transferring to 4-year institutions grew 11%. Prior to her appointment as president, Stevens served as the Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at City Colleges. In that role Stevens oversaw the provision of technology for the City College of Chicago’s seven campuses and six satellite sites that together serve more than 115,000 students and approximately 5,500 faculty and staff. She previously served as the Chief Information Officer for Chicago Public Schools—leading approximately 300 staff who supported all things IT for nearly a half million users across over 700 unique locations. During her time there she managed the 21st century upgrade of CPS’ administrative systems creating a more collaborative educational environment and diminishing barriers between CPS families and access to technology resources. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. She currently serves as a board member for Friends and Family Health Center. She is married to Craig and they have two children; Tristan and Raegan. In this episode we discuss: - The difference between how men negotiate salary and how women negotiate. - The two ways in which Black women quit when they feel they are being mistreated. - The importance of being honest at work. - What the absence of joy in your work may mean. Enjoy!

This week on Around Ocean County, our guest is Dr. Gene Cheslock, board member and founder of the Parker Family Health Center.  The mission of the PFHC , which was founded in 2000, is to operate a free health care facility.  Monmouth County residents who do not have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical care can be treated with dignity and compassion here.   The Parker Family Health Center brings together medical and other volunteers to provide healthcare services to eligible Monmuth County residents.  Patients receive excellent medical care and confidentiality they would expect from any healthcare provider.

Our guest is Dr. Gene Cheslock, board member and founder of the Parker Family Health Center.  The PFHC offers extensive medical care including wellness visits, primary care, chronic disease management, and access to numerous specialists.  With over 110 volunteers, 1,000 patients treated per year, the PFHC has treated over 140,000 patients since its founding.  For hours of operation, or to find out more, please visit Parkerfamilyhealthcenter.org or call 732-212-0777.  PFHC is a 501C3 non profit organization. 

Episode:001 Our Guest: John Silva, President and CEO Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Inc. Methuen, MA John Silva speaks about his 40-year career with health centers, beginning in Massachusetts, Missouri, and Oklahoma, and finally returning to Massachusetts, 50 miles from his childhood home CHC Conversations – The History of CHC Movement This video podcast showcases the rice, diverse, and important living history of the health center movement told through a series of conversations with health centers leaders, executives, medical professionals and community health thought leaders. The nation’s first health centers opened in 1965. Today, expansion of the federally supported health center system has grown to over 1,400 organizations, operating more than 10,000 clinic sites serving more than 29 million patients and generating $55 billion in economic activity annually. Health centers help increase access to crucial primary care by reducing barriers such as cost, lack of insurance, distance, and language for their patients. In doing so, health centers provide substantial benefits to the country and its health care system. Learn about the vital role that community health centers play in the American health care system. Hosted by: Dan Hawkins Dan Hawkins is Senior Adviser to the President and CEO at the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc. (NACHC). From 1981 through 2018, he headed the Public Policy and Research Division of NACHC, where he provided NACHC's membership with federal and state health-related policy research, analysis, advocacy, and leadership. During his time in policy, federal support for health centers grew from $350 million in 1981 to $6 billion annually in 2018, and the number of people served by health centers has grown from 5 million to over 28 million. Prior to joining NACHC, Dan served as a VISTA volunteer, Director of a migrant and community health center located in south Texas, and as an assistant to HHS Secretary Joseph Califano during the Carter Administration. He has written numerous articles and monographs on health care issues, and has provided testimony before several Congressional Committees. Dan has lectured on health policy topics at the George Washington University and several other universities, and has been interviewed frequently by major newspapers and radio/television networks. He has been named by Faulkner & Gray as one of America's most influential health policy makers. Sponsored by: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) was founded in 1971 to promote efficient, high quality, comprehensive health care that is accessible, culturally and linguistically competent, community directed, and patient-centered for all. NACHC also works closely with chartered state and regional Primary Care Associations (PCAs) to fulfill their shared health care mission and support the growth and development of community-based health center programs. Community Health Ventures (CHV) Community Health Ventures (CHV) is the business development affiliate of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). With over 100 years of collective experience, CHV’s management team has been instrumental in the development and expansion of community health centers and in the programs that support that growth.

What is the role of gaming in higher education? Matthew Fendt, Baylor lecturer of computer science, is an expert on artificial intelligence, the gaming industry, and the role of gaming and interactive digital environments in education. In addition to teaching classes like Baylor's gaming capstone, in which students create their own video games, Fendt has partnered with professors across campus to create tools for data collection. He recently partnered with Baylor Public Health and the Family Health Center in Waco to create a decision support tool for primary-care physicians. He shares how these various threads tie together in this Baylor Connections.

Faith-based efforts can be powerful and compelling ways to address a number of social issues, including food insecurity. About Jeremy Everett Jeremy Everett is the founder and executive director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, a capacity-building, anti-hunger project within Baylor University, and is a senior fellow with World Hunger Relief, and was appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve on the National Commission on Hunger. He has authored important pieces on food insecurity including his book entitled, I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis. Interview Summary Jeremy, I'm so pleased that you can join us today and I look forward to hearing about the Texas Hunger Initiative. But let me begin with several other questions if I could. Who experiences hunger and food insecurity America? Well, that is a great question. Unfortunately, I think too often, we like to pretend that people who are food insecure are oftentimes people that are just unwilling to take personal responsibility for their own situation, thus don't have enough to eat. The reality of food insecurity in the U.S. is that it's episodic, meaning that most people who experience food insecurity experience it at some point or time in a given month, typically towards the end of a pay period. And the number one reason that people experience food insecurity in the U.S. is underemployment, basically meaning that they have jobs and are working, but they're oftentimes not making enough money to make ends meet. So if you have medical expenses or anything else, a car payment or childcare expenses, you're probably not going to be able to cover your entire cost. So underemployment is the primary thing that we see. Second thing is educational attainment. Unfortunately, if you experience hunger or live in an impoverished community or live in an impoverished household, the chances of graduating from high school are really stacked against you. But ironically, if you live with hunger or in poverty, you need to graduate from high school and get an additional degree if you're going to break the cycle. And so educational attainment is an issue that we see prevalent among causes related to hunger. And then a third issue is race. Here we are in 2019, and you're still twice as likely to experience food insecurity if you're a person of color. So given what you've just said, you can see that vast numbers of people are affected by the problem, that the consequences are pretty devastating and that the cycle can be very difficult to interrupt, but important to interrupt. And so many people and organizations are working to address food insecurity, not only in the U.S. but around the world. What special role do you see for faith-based efforts and how does religion fit into this idea of addressing food insecurity? What we know is that all major religious traditions talk about addressing hunger as a moral imperative. So my book I Was Hungry was titled from the text and in Matthew 25 where Jesus in this situation ... This is the only apocalyptic or eschatological scene in the Gospel of Matthew, and he's gathered all people before him and he's determining who gets into the kingdom of God. So he begins to separate people, the sheep from the goats. The goats are the ones that did not feed the hungry and provide shelter to the stranger. Instead, the people who he welcomes into his kingdom are those that did, and he even calls people who are hungry members of his own family. I think what we know from that text oftentimes is that we treat these issues, and most faith traditions do this, we treat these issues as ancillary or almost relegate them to extra credit. If you do that, then good for you, but it's certainly not something that we're required to do. But in this particular text, Jesus certainly tells people of faith that this is what it's all about. It all hinges upon if you fed the hungry and clothed the naked and provided shelter to the stranger. I think what we know in terms of pragmatically, then, about people in faith communities, so beyond the fact that we're responsible for addressing it, is that in Texas alone, we have over 4,000 organizations that are predominantly faith-based doing something about hunger. The need is huge, but we also have a compassionate response. But oftentimes, churches and congregations of all stripes choose to address these social issues unilaterally. And they're not working with their local government or local schools. They're doing things independently of other congregations. And so what we believe is that hunger and poverty are too big for any one sector to address by themselves, and the only way that we're going to make systemic change on a local level or a state level or even a global level, is to get all of these groups working in concert with each other. So faith communities play a critical role in the nation, both in terms of framing our understanding of our moral responsibility, but then also being the feet on the ground. It's nice to hear how your own faith and your own faith tradition has helped address this issue of food insecurity, but also to know that other religions are tackling it in similar ways. What experiences have you had that helped shape your perspective on how to address food insecurity? So much of my work was informed by particularly those civil rights leaders who believed in incarnational organizing, essentially that you needed to have proximity to the problem. So for most of the last 20 years or two decades of my life, I've lived in these low income neighborhoods where we've been working. And one seminal experience that I had while living on the west side of San Antonio was one of our neighbors, a woman named Liz, neighborhood of about 150,000 residents, all with a median income of about 19,000 per household and typically about three generations living in a household together, and that was certainly true in Liz's case. She and her husband were devout Catholics and had eight children all in school, all school age, and she knew the ticket out of poverty for her kids was for them to graduate from high school and go to college. Now, the high school that they were going to, her older kids, had over a 50% dropout rate in college readiness was in the single digits, and so Liz knew that she needed to volunteer not only to help her kids out, but also to help the other kids out in the community. So every day, she had two wheelchair-bound parents that lived with her, so she would get them situated and send them off to an adult daycare facility. Her husband was away at work. Liz would make her way down to the schools to volunteer, was just a huge contributing member of that community, a real inspiration. Well, Liz got an ear infection, but they didn't have health insurance, as most members in our community did not. They also experienced food insecurity. Her husband's job didn't pay enough to cover all their bills and so it wasn't uncommon for she and her family to run out of food towards the end of the month. They didn't have great transportation. Liz, when she got an ear infection, waited until it got incredibly painful and decided to catch the bus and go down to one of the downtown emergency rooms in San Antonio. She sat in the waiting area waiting to be seen all day and they never called her name and she knew she needed to catch the bus to get back home before her younger kids got out of school. When she did, she got back home and later that evening, her ear drum ruptured, the infection went through her brain, she fell into a coma and she never woke up. I remember sitting on the front porch with her husband the next day. He was going around the block trying to raise money for a memorial service for Liz, and he just had his head buried in his hands just saying, "What am I going to do? What am I going to do?" Because many of us are professionals in a particular aspect of the justice community, so you have people that work on the hunger issue and people that work on the healthcare issue and people that work on housing issues and so on and so forth, and then we'll hear numbers that are spouted by folks that say there are 40 million Americans that are food insecure and 40 million Americans that are living in poverty and another 30 million Americans that don't have access to healthcare and so forth, and we treat those as if those are different segments of the population, as if each segment that is mentioned is dealing with that one isolated issue. But the reality is, it's the same family on the local level that are bearing all of the burdens of our broken social systems. They are food insecure, they don't have healthcare, are having a hard time being able to pay rent or a car payment, they're sending their kids to underperforming schools and they've been doing this for generations. And so that was something that really informed how I see the issue and certainly has compelled me to try to see what we can do to end both hunger and poverty. It's hard to speak after hearing that story of Liz. Started out feeling very inspired by all that she could do given her circumstances, and then hearing the tragic passing, it's just heartbreaking, and I know that gets repeated over and over again. So thank you for sharing that, and I hope you never stop telling that story. It's very powerful. Well, if you will, let's turn our attention to the work you're doing at the Texas Hunger Initiative. Can you talk about what the Texas Hunger Initiative is all about and what its scope and reach is? Sure. We are a research and innovation project at Baylor university. And so our job in partnership with faith communities and school districts and the federal government and state government essentially is to identify ways that we can solve the hunger crisis in a way that is both scalable and ways in which we can replicate that into other States. So principally, there are all kinds of ways to intervene in terms of great Meals on Wheels programs and food pantries and backpack programs. What we've identified seems to work best is building what we call hunger-free communities. The term was developed by Ambassador Tony Hall when he was a congressman before he became ambassador to the World Food Program, and he and the Alliance to End Hunger in Washington really kind of popularized the idea. What we've done is we've built about 25 coalitions around the state of Texas that cover about 60% of our population, and the idea behind it is essentially that we need to get everybody working together so that local government and state government and federal government and the faith community and nonprofits are all working seamlessly together through a strategic coordinated effort to make sure that people have access to food. And so we spent a lot of time focused on child hunger issues, and as a result, we've seen an increase because of the work of these coalitions, an increase of about a hundred million additional meals served to Texas children alone over and above what we do the previous year, every year. So we've seen it that a systemic approach is possible, and we've seen that we can give both parties, we can get Republicans and Democrats to step up, as well as we joke in Texas that we can even get the Baptists and the Catholics to work together on the issue. It's a very impressive picture, as well, of how you're collaborating with so many other organizations and agencies. Let me ask you about an issue that I know is especially interesting to you, and that's the issue of rural food distribution. Would you explain some of the work that you're doing on that? When you're driving past farmland, you don't think about rural communities being food deserts, but the reality is that now with the way that we do farming, oftentimes farmers are growing food. Oftentimes they're large commodity crops on thousands of acres, and so even though you might drive past a house that's surrounded by food in what looks to be their backyard, they actually might not have access to food because there aren't grocery stores in their community, so oftentimes they're relegated to buying food maybe at a local convenience store. Food insecurity is actually really high in rural areas, especially as jobs have migrated towards urban centers. So what we've done this past summer is that we identified communities in east and west Texas didn't have a summer meal site or summer meals program for kids when they got out of school. As you can imagine, food insecurity spikes among households with children during the summer months because kids who were previously getting food in the school lunch program are no longer getting food during the summer, and it's not like families get a raise during the summer, so they've got less money sometimes to go further when it comes to food. So what we did is we decided to partner with USDA at their behest to try to figure out what's an innovative way that we can get food to kids. And so we created this Meals to You program where we literally shipped a box of food to about 4,000 kids in rural Texas for 10 weeks. It ended up being a little over 32,000 boxes, which represented about 400,000 meals and snacks to kids the summer, and it was great. We had a big event in one of our small east Texas towns just this past week to hear directly from the community to see if it was something that was helpful. We had a woman who broke down. She's a school teacher, a Special Ed teacher. She has three kids and three foster kids and she said, "My bills skyrocket during the summer trying to feed all these kids," and she said it was just a huge help. She said her kids were able to have adequate access to food all summer because of the intervention. And so what it showed is that we had the school district there on the local level. We had the Baptist church, even the police department and the mayor's office all there to support it, the local teachers, did outreach to the kids. And you had Democrats and Republicans who were represented in the room, all excited about championing getting meals to kids in some of these difficult to reach areas over the course of the summer. So it shows that there's an appetite for it, and it shows that there are some ways that we can really significantly address rural hunger. It'll be very interesting to see how that plays out in the future, but boy, does it sound like it had a positive impact. Let me ask kind of a fundamental question that I think a number of people are thinking about in this area, and that is that there are people out there who need food right here right now who are food insecure and the consequences are so important that something needs to be done on an emergency basis. There are other people who are thinking about why the problem exists in the first place. Of course, poverty is a big issue with that, but also finding ways to help communities feed themselves so there's not as much food insecurity in the first place. How do you think about those two things working together and how do you think the attention should be balanced with those two issues? Well, that's a great question. Before working with the Texas Hunger Initiative, I was doing inner city economic development in San Antonio and then in Waco before that. And so what you want ideally is you want people who are food insecure to be a part of the solution, not simply clients, right? So you don't just want to provide food distribution kind of through a 21st century version of a bread line, right? You want to be able to incorporate families who are food insecure to help solve the problem of their communities, and so one way you do that is by better utilizing federal resources. Let's take the school nutrition programs. We spend a lot of time on those. Well, in most communities where we see a high percentage of low income students, they're oftentimes serving breakfast before school and so you typically have about 35% of the kids that are eligible for a school breakfast that will get there in time to eat breakfast before school. One of the reasons is kids don't want to be labeled the poor kid, so they choose to avoid a school breakfast program, and then there's an after school meal program that most school districts typically don't provide. When you think about this from an economic development perspective, so you think about, who works in your cafeterias? Well, cafeteria workers, they're not high income employees. These are folks that are desperately trying to put together enough hours to be able to pay for food for their family. So if you have federal resources that allow for kids to have breakfast, lunch, and afterschool meals, not only is it helping reduce food insecurity for your childhood food insecure population, it's also creating employment opportunities for individuals who are in low income households. And so looking at creative ways that you can expand access to nutrition programs like moving breakfast into after the bell, that certainly increases access to food for kids, and typically you go from 35% to 90% participation in those programs. Well, that brings in extra shifts because you have more meals being made. That means you need more cafeteria workers on hand to be able to make those meals, and certainly the same is true for afterschool meal programs. So beginning to transition how we think about these programs and about just simply serving people in the bread line capacity to how families and individuals who are in poverty be incorporated into the solution. I'll give you one more quick example, and this to me is really where you want to be. Ideally, you want to go from seed to service delivery. And so how can local farmers be a part and be empowered to be a part of the solution? And so one thing that we're doing here with the World Hunger Relief Farm that I'm affiliated with is our farmers there are growing food. The food is then packaged and given to our Family Health Center, which is a family-qualified health facility, and our doctors are prescribing vegetables to individuals who are experiencing malnutrition or diet-related disease or food insecurity, and so they're getting the best of what's grown locally incorporated into their diet on a regular basis. And so when we're able to think about those kinds of solutions, that really to me connects the dots. Are there other policies that you think might be especially important in this respect? Certainly when you think about, what can we do to help strengthen our small farmers to be more a part of our food system locally? They can't grow to scale oftentimes to be incorporated into local grocery stores, and so oftentimes their only outlets are these small farmers markets that might meet on a weekly basis and are overly dependent upon those for sales. So I think kind of restructuring how we do local foods, but we're giving priority to individuals who are experiencing food insecurity in these food deserts where we can really try to increase access to our healthiest locally grown food through these programs, and I think farm to school is a great way to do that, just like we think farm to table at our local favorite restaurant. That can be incentivized through policy. There are funding programs through a funding source called FINI on the federal level that could greatly be expanded, that could strengthen and build infrastructure and be able to support our local farmers, so that's certainly one thing. Another thing is changing the rules and regulations around how we do feed kids. The summer meal program is a very restrictive program. We were fortunate enough to be able to do this demonstration pilot this summer to ship food directly to kids, but in most states, you've got 10 to 15% of the kids that can actually access a summer meal site in their community, so they're not very accessible and so they really only work for kids that are going to summer school. So there are things that we can do to limit the restrictions that are on the summer meal program. SNAP is a great program that oftentimes gets a bad rap, but incentivizing fruits and vegetables to be purchased through those programs. There are all kinds of great things that we can do on a policy level, but ultimately, the most important thing we've got to do on a policy level is we've got to get our elected officials working together because the Democrats nor the Republicans can solve these issues alone. It requires both of them to get into the weeds and work on this together. I'm really delighted to hear about the programs that you're working on, your ideas for the future, and also just to see your passion on this, so thank you for all the good work you've done and thanks so much for joining us. I'm grateful you could be our guest.  

Dr. Joe Parks, the Medical Director of the National Council for Behavioral Health, joins me in Session 96 to discuss mass shootings - a topic that was first talked about on this podcast back in Session 79, with Dr. Merrill Winston. It turns out that the National Council's Medical Directors Institute was wrapping up a lengthy report, titled Mass Violence in America, around the same time that Merrill's episode aired. As such, the council graciously offered to have Dr. Parks joins me to discuss the report's findings.First, here's a little background on Dr. Parks: In addition to serving as the Medical Director of the National Council, Dr. Parks is a Distinguished Research Professor of Science at the University of Missouri-St.Louis, as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Colombia. He also practices outpatient psychiatry at the Family Health Center, a federally funded community mental health center established to expand services to uninsured, and under-insured populations. In this episode, Dr. Parks and I discuss the following: How he first became involved in this research project. How the MDI researchers defined mass violence for the purposes of their report. What motivates mass shooters. Prevention strategies that are and aren't helpful. The role of "threat assessment." The role of "problem solving," courts. And most importantly, what individuals can do if they suspect someone is behaving in a manner consistent with mass shooter profiles. If you're interested in reading the MDI report, click here to access it. And for more information about the National Council for Behavioral Health, click here. This podcast was supported by the Mental Health Risk Retention Group and Negley Associates. For 30 years, the Mental Health Risk Retention Group and Negley Associates have proudly served the unique insurance needs of mental health centers, community mental health facilities, shelters, halfway houses, counseling centers, and substance abuse and addiction treatment centers, to name just a few. They specialize in meeting the needs of behavioral health care organizations to ensure they get the comprehensive liability insurance programs they need. The Mental Health Risk Retention Group & Negley Associates bring together “best in class” insurance experts to provide a broad array of customized coverages. Their team of distinguished attorneys and actuaries, reinsurance companies, and underwriting and claim managers have decades of insurance experience in the behavioral health care industry. With Mental Health Risk Retention Group & Negley behind you, you have the peace-of-mind to focus on running your organization and serving your client, knowing that they have you protected. For more information, check out mhrrg.com. Or better yet, call them today at 862-286-3517 to schedule a meeting and find out how they can work with you to create a specialized package that meets your organizational needs.

Dr. Monica Hahn first and foremost describes herself as radical, yet this description is no surprise considering her work as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, ethnic studies scholar activist, and salsa and capoeira extraordinaire. Together, we explore her journey into and through medicine alongside remarking on topics such as her own activism work before medical school, issues of race-based medicine, Afro-Cuban salsa dancing, why pre-medical education is problematic, how students are critical mentors to professors/teachers, why doctors who aren't mothers can only give so much breastfeeding advice, and her own memorable clinical experiences. Please note: At 45:40, Dr. Hahn would like listeners to know that the appropriate language referring to her patient she was caring for is as a transgender man, not as a transgender male. Links to some acronyms we mention in the podcast: UCSF PRIME-US (Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved) Program: https://meded.ucsf.edu/prime-us-program UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP):http://sph.berkeley.edu/jmp/home The Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice: https://www.intersectionalmedicine.org Bio: Dr. Monica Hahn is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family & Community Medicine. As a family physician, HIV specialist, and Clinical Director of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC), Monica's work centers around promoting health and wellness for HIV-affected families with an emphasis on integrating HIV prevention and treatment, as well as sexual and reproductive wellness, into primary care. Her clinical experience includes co-directing the Family HIV Clinic, a family-oriented HIV primary care clinic at San Francisco General Hospital's Family Health Center, and providing perinatal HIV care to people living with or affected by HIV as the lead clinician at HIVE Clinic, also based at San Francisco General Hospital. Monica co-directs an HIV specialty concentration training program for the UCSF Family & Community Medicine Residency Program. She serves as a research and career mentor to UCSF medical students as the Director of Inquiry and Evaluation for the PRIME Urban-Underserved program. Monica's inspiration for becoming a physician-advocate is rooted in her personal experiences and work experiences in public health and social justice activism. Her work has focused on addressing health inequities in sexual and reproductive health for communities of color, with the goals of developing strategies for dismantling systemic oppression and structural violence to improve health and wellness for all. She completed her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley with a major in Molecular & Cell Biology and a minor in Ethnic Studies. She earned her MPH at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, and earned her MD/MS at UCSF School of Medicine, where she was a participant in the UCSF PRIME Urban-Underserved program. She completed residency training in Family & Community Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. Her interests include STI/HIV prevention and treatment, reproductive justice, community-based participatory research, health and social justice policy/advocacy, and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in medical education.

Please join us Wednesday, February 20, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. PST for a live show with host Denise Messenger.  Dr. Craig Weiner is a licensed Psychologist based in Worcester, Massachusetts where he specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Wiener obtained his Doctorate Degree from the Clark University in 1979, and he is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association. In addition to over thirty years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center of Worcester where he supervises a large staff of clinicians, Dr. Craig B. Wiener is the author of three books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). His first two books: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Return to Psychology (2007), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Less Medicinal More Self-reliant Collaborative Intervention (2007) are written for professionals. You asked for it and we deliver.  

This is one of our favorite shows with Dr. Craig Wiener, who joined us for a very special show that unexpectedly ended up being about parenthood and how our society does not teach the gentle and supportive art of raising a child. Inspiring, full of hope, loving, and very insightful, Dr. Wiener shares some very thought provoking insights with grace and aplomb. We hope you enjoy this wonderful, favorite archive in celebration of gathering and Thankfullness. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is defined as, a disorder that appears in early childhood. You may know it by the name attention deficit disorder, or ADD.  ADD/ADHD makes it difficult for people to inhibit their spontaneous responses-responses that can involve everything from movement to speech to attentiveness. Dr. Craig Wiener is a licensed Psychologist specializing in the treatment of children , adolescents and families.  Dr Wiener has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College. In addition to 30 years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center in Worcester. Dr. Wiener has questioned the growing tendency to make behavioral problems medical disabilities and shows parents how to stop the reinforcements and alternatively develop their child's self reliance and cooperation. Dr. Wiener joins us to discuss his latest work:Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance and Cooperation giving parents a powerful new drug free way to eliminate ADHD behavior in an easy to read format. Dr. Craig Weiner  

Dr. Andrew Quint has been the Medical Director at Family Health Center in Columbia for many years. For the past 11 years, he has worked with nurse Beth Rahn. They spoke about the many patients they have seen over the years and how those patients have changed their lives.

Dr. Andrew Quint has been the Medical Director at Family Health Center in Columbia for many years. For the past 11 years, he has worked with nurse Beth Rahn. They spoke about the many patients they have seen over the years and how those patients have changed their lives.

To learn more about Butterflies of Wisdom visit http://butterfliesofwisdom.weebly.com/ Be sure to FOLLOW this program https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wins-women-of-wisdom/id1060801905. To learn how Win walk and about Ekso go to http://www.bridgingbionics.org/, or email Amanda Boxtel at amanda@bridgingbionics.org.   On Butterflies of Wisdom today, Best-Selling Author, Win Kelly Charles and Juan Carlos Gill welcomes Dr. Craig B. Wiener. Dr. Wiener is a licensed Psychologist based in Worcester, Massachusetts where he specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Wiener obtained his Doctorate Degree from the Clark University in 1979, and he is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association. In addition to over thirty years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center of Worcester where he supervises a large staff of clinicians, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Pre-doctoral Psychology and Social Work Interns. He has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College. Throughout his career, Dr. Wiener has questioned the growing tendency to make behavioral problems medical disabilities. His groundbreaking work with ADHD shows that the behaviors included in the ADHD diagnosis can become frequent due to reinforcement. He shows parents how to stop those reinforcements and alternatively develop their child’s self-reliance and cooperation. Dr. Craig B. Wiener is the author of three books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). His first two books: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Return to Psychology (2007), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Less Medicinal More Self-reliant Collaborative Intervention (2007) are written for professionals. These books critique traditional views about ADHD and highlight the problems associated with traditional ADHD interventions. His third book, Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-reliance and Cooperation (2012) gives parents a powerful new drug-free way to eliminate ADHD behavior in an easy to read format. In 2010, Dr. Wiener presented his refreshing ideas about ADHD at the national convention for Psychologists in San Diego California with other prominent ADHD experts. Over the past few years, he has presented at Wellesley College’s prestigious Stone Center, at a University of Massachusetts Medical School “Grand Rounds”, and at a Biennial Symposium for Social Worker. To lean more about Dr. Wiener email him at mailto:drcraigwiener@hotmail.com.  To learn more about Win Kelly Charles visit https://wincharles.wix.com/win-charles. Please send feedback to Win by email her at winwwow@gmail.com, or go to http://survey.libsyn.com/winwisdom and http://survey.libsyn.com/thebutterfly. To be on the show please fill out the intake at http://bit.ly/1MLJSLG. To look at our sponsorships go tohttp://www.educents.com/daily-deals#wwow. To learn about the magic of Siri go tohttps://www.udemy.com/writing-a-book-using-siri/?utm_campaign=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_medium=email. If you want to donate Butterflies of Wisdom, please send a PayPal donation to aspenrosearts@gmail.com. Please send a check in the mail so 100% goes to Bridging Bionics Foundation.    In the Memo section have people write: In honor of Win Charles.    Send to:  Bridging Bionics Foundation  PO Box 3767 Basalt, CO 81621   Thank you Win

This Week’s Show | Mind Body Spirit Living The best medical experiences happen when the doctor and patient work as a team, incorporating multidisciplinary specialties and tailored treatments focused on outcomes.  Excellent communications help to create empowered patients, less stress and anxiety, and a positive overall healing path.  Our guest this week is used to working with teams….teams of doctors and teams of athletes in his work in sports medicine.  Join us this week to learn the the latest perspectives on the important doctor-patient relationship and how you can develop the most effective treatment team for yourself, and best partnership with your doctor. Dr. Bryant Walrod is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the Ohio State University Sports Medicine and Family Health Center. He received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry at Miami University, and his Medical degree from Medical College of Ohio. He is the team physician for Ohio State Athletics, and was formerly the team physician for the Milwaukee Brewers major league baseball team. Dr. Walrod provides medical care for athletes of all ages to most efficiently and effectively return them to their desired level of activity.  From OSU athletes, to high school athletes to elite triathletes, he focuses on his special interest in endurance sports, combative sports, baseball and concussion management.  Dr. Walrod is also actively involved in the education of students and physicians at OSU and guides them to provide to most up-to-date, evidence-based care.  He serves on the Board of the Endurance Medicine Team at Ohio State University. For more information about Dr. Bryant Walrod, please go to https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/find-a-doctor/bryant-walrod-md-51062.  

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that appears in early childhood. You may know it by the name attention deficit disorder, or ADD.  ADD/ADHD makes it difficult for people to inhibit their spontaneous responses-responses that can involve everything from movement to speech to attentiveness. Dr. Craig Wiener is a licensed Psychologist specializing in the treatment of children , adolescents and families.  Dr Wiener has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College.  In addition to 30 years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center in Worcester. Dr. Wiener has questioned the growing tendency to make behavioral problems medical disabilities and shows parents how to stop the reinforcements and alternatively develop their child's self reliance and cooperation.  Author of three books, Dr. Wieners third is Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance and Cooperation gives parents a powerful new drug free way to eliminate ADHD behavior in an easy to read format.  Joins us as Dr. Wiener presents his refreshing ideas about ADHD    Dr. Carl Weiner's site

Making Life Easy with Gwen Gistarb with guest Debbie Pokornik & Craig Wiener Empowering NRG was founded by Debbie Pokornik in 2008 and focused on helping parents bring out the best in themselves and their children. Debbie offered a variety of resources for parents including teleseminars, parenting articles, workshops and support to help parents recognize what they might be doing to make their job harder than it needed to be. - See more at: http://www.debbiepokornik.com/home/about-us/#sthash.tslNRS7l.dpuf   Dr. Craig B. Wiener is a licensed Psychologist based in Worcester, Massachusetts where he specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Wiener obtained his Doctorate Degree from the Clark University in 1979. He has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College. In addition to over thirty years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center of Worcester where he supervises a large staff of clinicians, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Pre-doctoral Psychology and Social Work Interns.

Dr. Craig B. Wiener is a licensed Psychologist based in Worcester, Massachusetts where he specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Wiener obtained his Doctorate Degree from the Clark University in 1979. He has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College. In addition to over thirty years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center of Worcester where he supervises a large staff of clinicians, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Pre-doctoral Psychology and Social Work Interns. Throughout his career, Dr. Wiener has questioned the growing tendency to make behavioral problems medical disabilities. His groundbreaking work with ADHD shows that the behaviors included in the ADHD diagnosis can become frequent due to reinforcement. Martha Guidry, the principal at The Rite Concept, brings over 15 years of combined brand management, concept development, and research experience to each of her projects. The trade knows her as “The Concept Queen” due to her proven expertise in new concept development and positioning.  After completing her MBA at Harvard, Martha spent six years in consumer marketing for Procter & Gamble and Hasbro Toys. She has developed new product concepts for launch into the marketplace for nationally recognized companies such as Pfizer ®, Bush Beans®, Pizza Hut®, DuPont®, and Amway®. Clients perceive Martha as an unusually dynamic, creative and resourceful consultant and practitioner with the business know-how to drive your business to winning results.

Dr. Craig B. Wiener is a licensed Psychologist based in Worcester, Massachusetts where he specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and families. Dr. Wiener obtained his Doctorate Degree from the Clark University in 1979, and he is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association. In addition to over thirty years of private practice, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services at Family Health Center of Worcester where he supervises a large staff of clinicians, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Pre-doctoral Psychology and Social Work Interns. He has taught in the Psychology Graduate Department at Clark University and in the Undergraduate Psychology departments at Worcester State University and Anna Maria College.    Dr. Craig B. Wiener is the author of three books on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). His first two books: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Return to Psychology (2007), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a Learned Behavioral Pattern: A Less Medicinal More Self-reliant Collaborative Intervention (2007) are written for professionals. These books critique traditional views about ADHD and highlight the problems associated with traditional ADHD interventions. His third book, Parenting Your Child with ADHD: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-reliance and Cooperation (2012) gives parents a powerful new drug free way to eliminate ADHD behavior in an easy to read format.