For Evansville

The best way to help kids face challenges and grow into healthy, resilient adults is to bring stability and love to their home. We talk with two local experts about how we can strengthen families and help parents succeed at creating healthy homes. GUESTS: Parri Black, President & CEO of Youth First Larry May, Indiana State Director of America's Kids Belong Also featured in this episode: Rashee...

Your circumstances growing up can have a huge impact the rest of your life, and kids have very little influence over their own circumstances. In this episode, we explore what it looks like to make a child's success the only metric, and we talk to two men who are committed to doing whatever it takes - no exceptions, no excuses. GUESTS: Rob Carroll Assistant Professor of Education at University of S...

Mental health is often an unacknowledged factor in our overall health and the quality of our lives and relationships. If we want to prioritize the holistic well-being of all people in our city, we have to learn how to recognize and care for the mental well-being of ourselves and our neighbors. GUESTS: Claire Ballard, host of the HOT96 Morning Show Dr. Mark Stenstrom, Psychotherapist

A person's mental health affects many other aspects of his or her life. Mental health is crucial to the flourishing of individual people and of our community. In this episode, two local experts share some of our city's most common mental health challenges as well as some solutions that any person can contribute to. GUESTS: Emily Reidford Executive Director Mental Health America of Vanderburgh Coun...

How does our racially-divided society affect each of us as individuals? And what do we stand to gain by pursuing a more diverse circle of relationships? Tanisha and Logan share their personal experiences and explore what it takes to build trust and empathy for people with different backgrounds and perspectives. Guests: Tanisha Carothers Principal Attorney at T. Carothers Law Office, Owner of Her S...

One of the barriers that keeps our neighbors from flourishing in our Evansville community has to do with ethnic and cultural background. More than half of our black youth experience poverty. Why? We're diving into the sociology and history of Evansville to understand why those gaps exist, and what we can do to address them. Guests: Dr. Rob Shelby, Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Evans...

Do you love Evansville? A core value to everything that we do is listen first . We want to understand our city well. You can’t love what you don’t know, and unless you love the place you live, you can never be an agent in its transformation. Ross Chapman, Executive Director and Jonathan Boettcher, Director of Communications & Storytelling at For Evansville spend this teaser episode talking abo...

Before we begin hearing from local experts about the needs in our city, we sat down to talk about the value of research and listening with people who interact with data on a regular basis. ON THIS EPISODE: Liz Tharp, Learning & Impact Officer for the Welborn Baptist Foundation John Benton, Wrap-Around Care Coordinator for Dream Center Evansville   Ross Chapman, Executive Director at For E...