Community Solutions

Join us as we explore how families and communities can support the well-being of Latine youth facing stress and racial-ethnic discrimination. Dr. Natalie Guerrero shares how her work with families in Indianapolis is helping build strength, identity, and connection through culturally grounded approaches. To learn more about Dr. Guerrero, please visit these sites: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/622...

Autism prevalence has increased over 400% in the past several decades but our service systems have not kept pace. Consequently, children are waiting months to years to access diagnostic evaluations which further delays access to needed interventions. Building capacity of community primary care teams can improve access to early autism evaluations and provide connections to life-changing interventio...

Dr. Tracey Wilkinson is a pediatrician and health services researcher in the Division of Children's Health Services Research ( https://medicine.iu.edu/pediatrics/specialties/health-services ) in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  Her research is focused on reproductive health care access for adolescents and young people in particular, but centers all her work on...

Providing respectful relationships with our infants today, will help them grow into caring adults that will build and sustain healthy, hopeful communities in the future. This episode provides listeners with simple, impactful relationship-building strategies to employ with infants. These strategies facilitate healthy infant development, and provide a foundation for building healthy relationships wi...

Mothers on the Rise is an outgrowth of the Indiana Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative ( https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/grassroots/index.html) . Mothers on the Rise serves mom/baby pairs transitioning from the Leath Nursery Unit of the Indiana Women’s Prison to their home community. Mothers on the Rise staff and their partners help mothers navigate their communit...

Join our conversation to learn great insights about the realities, causes and consequences of hunger. Learn how bringing government, non-profits and people together can reduce hunger in neighborhoods. Visit www.indyhunger.org  to learn more and get involved in bringing about food equity!

For too long members of the farming or agricultural community have not been invited to discussions about resolving food insecurity. They are essential to solution strategies because of their vast knowledge about food production and systems. This episode discusses why members of the agricultural community are vital to addressing this problem and strategies of how to include them in bringing about f...

SAFE [Students Advocating for Food Equity] is a new and growing service club at The Ohio State University. SAFE addresses local food inequities through advocacy, education, and service. We make a hands-on impact in the community and bring about food justice. Find out more about us on our club Instagram, @safeosu.

This podcast episode presents an informative discussion about the diabetes prevention program in Arizona called Pasos Adelante. Dr. Lisa Staten, an Associate Professor at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI and responsible for developing Pasos Adelante, joins us to discuss how the program came to fruition, the challenges she faced in creating and implementing the prog...

Patrice Graham Adams, a community liaison and health education specialist in Indianapolis,IN, joins us on this episode of the Community Solutions Podcast. Patrice discusses her interest in public health, the Diabetes Impact Project (DIP IN Project), the challenges she has faced while working on the project, and activities listeners can do to make a difference in their community. Listen and learn a...

Episode 30: Becoming A Health Education Specialist Has becoming a certified health education specialist piqued your interest, but not sure about what they do or how they play a role in public health? On this episode, we are joined by certified health education specialists (CHES), Charity Bishop and Luz Machuca. Charity discusses the role of a health education specialist, the academic preparation i...

This podcast episode highlights the book, "How Change Happens" by Duncan Green. This book outlines how community leaders can create change within communities, states and nations. The lessons from this book can be applied to improve current social, political, environmental and economic issues. We discuss past advocates’ work and how their strategies can be applied by current and future community le...

This podcast episode presents a discussion of the book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community” by Robert Putnam. The author centers the book on the term social capital, which is defined as the connectedness between people in a community. Join us as we delve into our discussion about social capital in the American community. We identify key factors that affect social capital...

The majority of poor individuals around the world live in rural conditions. To significantly reduce global poverty, we need to work alongside individuals living in rural poverty to best understand their assets, needs and priorities. Listen and learn strategies to effectively work with rural communities and in the process transform your perceptions of rural living.

Today our book club focuses on The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis. Listen and learn about the multiyear effort to create a sustainable, internationally recognized community food center that provides for, and fights for, food equity – the process of providing opportunities for all to access good, healthy food.  

Community Solutions episode 25 discusses Muhammad Yunus’ autobiography,Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. Learn how and why Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank, the obstacles he faced, how the bank has succeeded to radically improve the lives of the poor individuals around the world. To learn more go to: muhammadyunus.org or on Twitter @Yunus_Centre

This episode of the Community Solutions podcast will be discussing key points from “The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty” by Nina Munk. This book is about Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist, and his Millennium Villages Project. This project was based in Africa with one major goal in mind - to raise people out of poverty in rural African villages. In this podcast, we delv...

On this podcast three public health students discuss ‘The World Café’ by Dr. Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. They highlight the importance of facilitating conversations that are: inclusive of diverse groups of individuals, conducted in relaxed environments, and focused on building relationships while creating meaningful changes in communities.

MPH students at the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health engage in an enlightening discussion of the book “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by the late Marshall B. Rosenburg, who was an expert in the field of nonviolent communication. Emily and Kelsey talk about key points from the book and give real life examples of how nonviolent communication can be utilized in the field of public...

Margaret J Wheatley is an outstanding teacher and writer who travels around the world learning about different cultures and people. She has come to the simple conclusion: “We can change the world if we just start listening to one another again.” This novel, Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to restore Hope to the Future explores how simple conversations can turn into big movements. Simp...

Tune in to learn how to discover your community's assets and capacities by utilizing a capacity inventory. Every community member has skills and experiences that can help mobilize his or her community. Tune in to our podcast episode below to learn how you can revitalize your community!

You will get to know seven different communities across the globe, all featured in the book, “Walk Out, Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now” by authors Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze. Join us as we discuss the unique ways these groups worked within their own neighborhoods to create thriving, sustainable communities and learn what it takes to be a public...

In Community: The Structure of Belonging, author Peter Block discusses how community is created through changing the narrative from one of deficiencies and entitlement to one of possibility and generosity. By utilizing six key conversations, we can foster accountability and acceptance within our world. 

A dedicated community member shares her insight into why it is critical for residents to get involved with community health initiatives!

An uplifting episode of how a community team optimizes the health of its rural town! Congratulations to this hard-working dedicated Coalition in Clinton County, Indiana.