Better Together

Today's guests are Riley Kavanagh and Emily Provencher from New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (NHCADSV), and Morgan Browne and Bridget Lyle from New Beginnings. In this episode of Better Together, we explore the importance of preventing domestic and sexual violence and the role education, awareness, and community support play in creating safer environments for everyone...

Today's guests are Sarah Stone of Concord Hospital, and Meg Jenks of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In this episode of Better Together, we sit down with our guests to talk about SANE exams: what a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner exam actually is, what happens during one, and how hospitals and advocates work together to support survivors through the process. They al...

Today's guests are Shauna Foster, Executive Director of New Beginnings — Without Violence and Abuse in Laconia, and Meg Jenks of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In this episode of Better Together, we sit down with Shauna and Meg to talk about what domestic and sexual violence actually looks like in the Lakes Region and across New Hampshire right now, who gets left...

Dr. Lowell "Chris" Matthews has spent his career proving that education doesn't stop at prison walls, it just needs someone willing to build the bridge. As founder and executive director of MOKSE Educational Services, and an associate professor of Global Business and Leadership at Southern New Hampshire University, he's spent years working to expand access to education for incarcerated and formerl...

Andy DeMeo has spent the last couple years proving that optimism isn't naive — it's a strategy. As the founder and host of Granite Goodness, he's built a platform dedicated to surfacing the stories of progress and problem-solving happening all across New Hampshire and New England. In this episode of Better Together, we sit down with Andy to talk about how Granite Goodness came to be, and why he be...

Equality Health Center has been working years to overcome an oversimplification of the work they do. They are more than just an abortion center on the corner. They offer so many person centered care practices. In this episode of Better Together, we sit down with Jinelle Hall and Sarah Anderson, the Executive Director and Practice Manager respectively, and chat about all of the amazing work they ar...

Granite VNA — New Hampshire's largest not-for-profit home health and hospice agency — has a new President and CEO, and he's not exactly new to the building. Jim Culhane spent years working his way up at Granite VNA, left to run Lake Sunapee Region VNA & Hospice for over a decade, and has now come back to lead the whole organization. In this episode of Better Together , we sit down with Jim to...

In the Season 1 finale of Better Together, host Jonathan Lile-Sexton sits down with Laconia City Manager Kirk Beattie to talk about how Laconia became the first city in New Hampshire to launch a social district — and what it actually takes to build one from the ground up. They get into the economics, the public health questions you probably didn't think to ask, and why a former firefighter-turned-...

In honor of Pride Month, we're talking about HIV — the history, the science, the breakthroughs, and the work that's still happening right here in New Hampshire. We sit down with Daniel Amato, Executive Director of Merrimack Valley Assistance Program (MVAP), to talk about what HIV testing actually looks like today, why U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) is one of the most important things you've...

Jeff Ladieu ran 222 miles across New Hampshire — one for every veteran lost to suicide each day — to make sure people were paying attention. This conversation is about why he did it, what recovery actually looks like, and why resilience was never supposed to mean carrying it alone. Join episode 6 of Better Together where Jonathan sits down with Jeff from Camp resilience to talk about veteran and f...

Join episode 5 of Better Together where Jonathan sits down with Heather Bishop from Lakes FM to talk about communicating Good News in the heavy news world we live in. Take the Community Health needs Assessment here: https://survey.jsi.com/s3/2026-concord-lakes-community-health-survey Subscribe to stay in the loop! Better Together is a production of Partnership for Public Health, a regional nonprof...

Join episode 4 of Better Together where Jonathan sits down with the Eve Toth of CAPBM to talk about the housing debate. Subscribe to stay in the loop! Better Together is a production of Partnership for Public Health, a regional nonprofit serving the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Learn more at pphnh.org . Follow us online @pphnh ​

Join episode 2 of Better Together where Jonathan sits down with the former fire chief in Gilford to talk about what action looks like in Public Health! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to stay in the loop! Better Together is a production of Partnership for Public Health, a regional nonprofit serving the Lakes Region o...

Join episode 3 of Better Together where Jonathan sits down with the Adam Moulton of Reverence house to talk about the YIMB/NIMB debate? Subscribe to stay in the loop! Better Together is a production of Partnership for Public Health, a regional nonprofit serving the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Learn more at pphnh.org . Follow us online @pphnh ​

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