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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Urban Connections” show. Urban Connections conducts guest interviews covering issues affecting our local, national, international and global communities from a Black perspective.

Dacia Moore, LPC, Gateway of Hope, returns to discuss impact of divorce on families

Host and producer, Donna Morrow Wolfe Co-host, co-producer, Joseph Jackson Dacia L. Moore, MA, LPC, NCC, the new Executive Director of GateWay of Hope. Dacia is the former CEO of Second Wind Counseling & Consulting. She is also a Keynote Speaker, Author and Professional Development Trainer. She has a Masters...

12/05/2015

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Dennis Boody, MSW, Riverview Health Services discusses diabetes as Urban Connections series on health and wellness continues.

Diabetes is a disease in which the body has problems producing or using insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy. Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes. Urban Connections series on health and wellness continues with a discussion of diabetes with...

11/21/2015

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Kirby Randolph, Ph.D., Truman Medical Behavioral Health, continues Urban Connections series on health and wellness.

Kirby Randolph, Ph.D. is the Director of Workforce Development and the Patient Relations Specialist at Truman Medical Center - Behavioral Health at Hospital Hill in Kansas City, MO. She is on the faculty at UMKC, School of Medicine in the Psychiatry Department. She joins the discussion as a part of...

11/21/2015

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Beth Sarver, Trauma Outreach Coordinator, Truman Medical Center, is guest, as series on health and wellness continues.

Host and producer: Donna Morrow Wolfe Co-host, co-producer: Joseph Jackson As the Trauma Outreach Coordinator for Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health, Beth has developed a comprehensive and engaging curriculum for differentiating instruction on Trauma Informed Care, Resilience and Secondary Trauma. Her work with Trauma Sensitive Schools and Secondary Trauma for First Responders...

10/31/2015

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Education series guest Dr. Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Jennings, MO School District

Dr. Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent of schools in Jennings, MO will discuss education, student achievement and education options as a part of Urban Connections series of programming on education. Host and producer Donna Morrow Wolfe, Co-Hosts and Co-Producers Joseph Jackson and Shicagolyn Scroggins. Dr. Anderson's message to her school district, in part: We...

07/18/2015

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Dr. Gwendolyn J. Cooke, educator, author, discusses local urban education

Gwendolyn J. Cooke, Ph.D., discusses urban education, as a part of Urban Connections education series, leading up to the start of the new school year. Gwendolyn J. Cooke has worked in senior level positions* in these urban districts: Kansas City, MO, Warrensville Heights, OH, Cincinnati, OH and Savannah, GA and Baltimore, MD. In MO Cooke...

07/11/2015

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Brandon Ellington and Deniese Lieberman on Voter Protection

Today on Urban Connections we'll speak to Representative Brandon Ellington, (D), District 22, MO House of RepresentsDenise Lieberman, Senior Attorney and Missouri Voter Protection Advocate with The Advancement Project who testified on Tues, Jan 27th in Jefferson City before the Missouri House Elections Committee concerning bills HRJ1 and HB30 that...

01/31/2015

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Food Fight! continues…James Gustav Speth, author America the Possible: A Manifesto for A New Economy

James Gustave Speth is a professor at Vermont Law School and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization. A former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he also co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, was founder and president of...

09/27/2014

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