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15m Apr 12, 2024
15m
Protect yourself from scams with AARP Connecticut
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21m Apr 12, 2024
21m
Connecticut's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities
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23m Apr 12, 2024
23m
CT Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities - AARP Scam Alert - Greater Bridgeport Symphony
This program features a conversation with Connecticut's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO). They're working hard to eliminate discrimination, to establish equal opportunity and justice for all persons - and they want to invite you to a couple of upcoming events so you can learn more about how they can go to work for you! Then we're connecting with AARP Connecticut to get brief...
1hr 1m Apr 07, 2024
1hr 1m
Making the rounds at CT Ag Day 2024
We harvested a bounty of great interviews from our recent visit to Connecticut Agriculture Day at the Capitol. Why is CT Grown so important? Stick around and learn why as we chat with folks from the Association of CT Ag Fairs, the UConn's Sea Grant Aquaculture Program, the regional USDA Rural Development Office, the School Nutrition Assoc. of CT, the Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Assoc., the ...
1hr 7m Mar 31, 2024
1hr 7m
Homes for the Brave - Governor M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Service - ARI of Connecticut
Every day thousands of Connecticut veterans and their families experience homelessness or are at risk to become homeless. So, we're reconnecting with Homes for the Brave -  working and growing to serve more vets and their loved ones with a range of critical supports and services, and inviting you out for a few laughs to benefit the agency at its 8th Annual 'For Veterans, By Veterans' Comedy Nig...
58m Mar 24, 2024
58m
Wheeler’s Bettor Choice Gambling Treatment Program - CT Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais - Filling in the Blanks
It's a good bet most folks are unaware March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month - a time to acknowledge the challenges of problem gambling. But for those living with a gambling issue, we're connecting with an expert on the subject helping to remind you that hope and recovery are possible through Wheeler Health network’s Bettor Choice Gambling Treatment Program. Next, we'll hear from Connectic...
55m Mar 17, 2024
55m
Opportunity Youth - Jersey Mike's Month of Giving / Make-A-Wish CT - CT's Chief Manufacturing Officer
Today we'll help you form some perspective on severely disengaged and disconnected youth in Connecticut. A growing coalition of organizations has just released a series of recommendations to state policymakers to address the 119,000 Connecticut youth in need of guidance and support to get back on track. So stick around and learn how you can help inform your state lawmakers about supporting Oppo...
57m Mar 10, 2024
57m
Central Connecticut Coast YMCA - Ruth's House - Encore: AdvanceCT
We're heading back to the Y - The Central Connecticut Coast YMCA. We'll chat with their new CEO about this tried and true charitable, not-for-profit, community service organization that remains dedicated to putting principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all the 25 communities they serve. Meet the founder and director of Ruth's House, a home in S...
56m Mar 03, 2024
56m
WBDC's IGNITE Grant Program - Beardsley Zoo's FrogWatch - Ann's Place
Since For the People provided WBDC's founder with her first radio interview oh so many years ago, we brought her back, in part, to announce and invite women to apply for the Women's Business Development Council's brand new IGNITE grant program, and to come out to the upcoming Women Owned Business Day at the Connecticut Capital. Then, we're welcoming two Beardsley Zoo educators to talk about a ...
57m Feb 25, 2024
57m
Annie C. Courtney Foundation - McCall Behavioral Health Network - Connecticut Psychological Association
We're visiting a co-founder of the nonprofit Annie C. Courtney Foundation - assisting families and individuals touched by all aspects of the child welfare system. Did you know as many as half of our youths exiting foster care experience homelessness by age 26 and many more are unstably housed. Stick around and learn how you can help Annie C. do something about it. Then we're pivoting to the le...
57m Feb 18, 2024
57m
2-1-1 Day - New Haven Legal Assistance Association - Valley Community Foundation
February 11 isn't just Super Bowl Sunday - maybe more importantly it's 2-1-1 Day here in Connecticut, the day when we celebrate and recognize 2-1-1-Infoline, which had its humble beginnings right here in our state and last year, provided assistance to 1.7 million people. Then, we're heading to the Elm City to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The New Haven Legal Assistance Association, which o...
56m Feb 11, 2024
56m
Choose Love Movement - CT Forest & Park Association - LIV IT UP
It's CHOOSE LOVE AWARENESS MONTH, so we're going to talk about how you can choose love as defined by the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement and its founder Scarlett Lewis - who is on a mission to create safer and more loving communities through proven programs suited for all stages of life and everybody from you and your family, to your entire community and even your workplace. Then we're introd...
55m Feb 04, 2024
55m
CT Violence Intervention and Prevention - 98th Annual Salisbury JumpFest - Chick Rosnick Boxing Club
We're bookending For the People with folks and nonprofits working to address and reduce violence in our communities. First we'll meet the Program Manager at CT Violence Intervention and Prevention who is Connecticut's only representative to the first ever Community Violence Intervention Leadership Cohort at the University of Chicago who is prepping for her upcoming graduation at the White House...
56m Jan 28, 2024
56m
CT Council on Problem Gambling - AARP Connecticut Legislative Agenda - CT Green Bank
With An estimated 7 million Americans struggling with gambling addiction, we contacted our source with the nonprofit Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling to discuss a proposal to secure federal funds to treat and research gambling addiction. Then we're welcoming back AARP Connecticut to review some of the high points of their 2024 Legislative Agenda, and to remind local communities and qual...
55m Jan 21, 2024
55m
CT DCP Adult Use Cannabis - CT Voices for Children - SustainableCT
This week marked the one-year anniversary of Connecticut launching its legal adult-use cannabis marketplace, so we'll connect with a spokesperson from the agency overseeing that program to look back on year one, and give us some insight on how this marketplace will be expanding in 2024. This year's CT Voices for Children State of Early Childhood report is responding to the Governor's Blue Ribb...
56m Jan 14, 2024
56m
CHDI / CONNECTing Schools to Care IV Students - The Governor M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Service - CTLCV 2024 Environmental Summit
Our first guest of the new year is from CHDI discussing their newly launched CONNECTing Schools to Care IV Students initiative to integrate trauma-informed comprehensive school mental health supports into the existing community-based network of care - as well as connecting you to their helpful Connect4Families Toolkit. Then we'll introduce to you the Governor M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Ser...
55m Jan 07, 2024
55m
Best of '23 Replay: Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center - East Coast Greenway - CT Dept. of Education
Our New Year's Eve program is visiting a few of our most informative and special segments, including our mid-July chat with the CEO of the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center talking about how his team is delivering a wide range of physical, mental, dental and wellness services to neighborhoods that need it the most. We'll also celebrate the opening of the center's new Dixwell Q-House. Then we'll...
55m Dec 31, 2023
55m
Back Yard Beekeepers Assoc. - CT Age Well Collaborative - AdvanceCT
Hey,  it's not too late to consider giving someone you know one of the most special and unique gifts ever - tuition to Bee School which comes with membership to the Back Yard Beekeepers Association (BYBA), so we'll feature an association member who will be sharing knowledge about beekeeping, and is dedicated to educating beekeepers and promoting the benefits of beekeeping to the public. Then, ...
56m Dec 24, 2023
56m
AFL Foster Caregiver Program - Bye-Bye Mattress - Harbor Watch @ Earthplace
Holidays mean visiting with loved ones - and if you notice developing issues related to aging, we'll connect you with experts from Assisted Living Services and one of Connecticut's Area Agencies on Aging to explain the little-known Adult Family Living-Foster Caregiver Program that can help loved ones continue aging in place at home. Then we're revisiting Connecticut's groundbreaking mattress r...
58m Dec 17, 2023
58m
Touting the Food Farmacy of Greater Danbury - The Barnum Museum, work in progress
For the People hits the road again, landing at thge region's first of its kind Food Farmacy of Greater Danbury - that's Farmacy with an 'F'. We'll visit folks who helped create this unique public health program as well as the facility to help support it and  hundreds of families it's already serving since it opened a few weeks ago. Then we'll head from the 'Hat City' to the Park City for a can...
56m Dec 03, 2023
56m
Special Report: A visit to the Green Village Initiative's 2023 Harvest Fest
Our on site visit to this year's Green Village Initiative Harvest Fest was bittersweet. While it preceded a major change for this urban agricultural nonprofit that has done so well supporting equity, community, anti-racism, wellness, knowledge-sharing, and youth mentorship, along with responding hunger and promoting food justice - the festival also provided an opportunity to meet and learn abo...
1hr 3m Nov 26, 2023
1hr 3m
Child Health and Development Institute - CT Health Foundation - Wheeler Foster & Adoption Network
The Child Health and Development Institute's latest research produced a blueprint for strengthening Connecticut's behavioral health workforce for our children, so tune in and be among the first to learn how this report can help fast-track the help our kids need! Then....we'll hear how grants from the Connecticut Health Foundation will support advocacy efforts to expand health care coverage to ...
55m Nov 19, 2023
55m
Continuum of Care - AAA Northeast - Encore Replay: Western CT Food Farmacy
Since 1966 the nonprofit Continuum of Care has been serving adults diagnosed with mental illness and severe developmental and intellectual disabilities. The agency is preparing for its Holiday Bazaar that will help fund a brand new and comprehensive program that will save taxpayers millions addressing homeless individuals diagnosed with one or more of these issues - so tune in and see how you c...
59m Nov 12, 2023
59m
SCORE of Western CT - Put CT Grown On Your Plate - Eversource Energy Assistance Programs
Hear from the leader of SCORE of Western CT about all the free and confidential resources for you whether you are a business owner who wants to take things to the next level, you're ready to break out on your own as an entrepreneur, or if you are a business person who's willing to share your talents and expertise as a mentor or coach. Then, we'll connect with Connecticut's Agriculture Commissi...
55m Nov 05, 2023
55m
Waveny Lifecares - CT DOT Fall Update - Gifts of Love
Meet the CEO of Waveny LifeCare Network and hear how this regional nonprofit is delivering a comprehensive continuum of healthcare to seniors with diverse therapeutic programs, services and living options. Waveny is celebrating 50 years of service and an important new partnership going into 2024, so tune in and learn all about them. Then it's time to check in with our source at the CT DOT on s...
55m Oct 29, 2023
55m
'AARP & You' Pt. 3 Fraud Protection - CT Housing Partners - CT DDS STEP Program
We're closing out our 3-part series 'AARP & You' - tapping expert sources from the national AARP network to provide critical information to better protect everyone in Connecticut. In this segment, you'll learn the 3 most important things to immediately do if you are the victim of fraud. Then we're circling back with CT Housing Partners CEO and one of their developers to provide some insight in...
57m Oct 22, 2023
57m
Impact Fairfield County - Thin Line Peer Support Team - CT Women's Hall of Fame
Meet Impact Fairfield County - a women's collective giving organization funding large transformational grants for qualified nonprofits. The next application period opens October 16, so if you are involved with or volunteer for, get services from a nonprofit that operates or programs in Fairfield County, listen in and learn more. Then we're introducing Thin Line Peer Support Team, Inc, a non- p...
55m Oct 15, 2023
55m
Liberation Programs Pt. 2 - United Way of Connecticut ALICE Update - Greater Bridgeport Symphony
During International Overdose Awareness Week we featured the first of a two-part interview with the leader of Liberation Programs, which serves about 1,000 people a day in our region with addiction recovery and mental health support initiatives. Now, we're continuing that conversation. Then we're turning our attention back to ALICE - Asset Limited Income Constrained & Employed. United Way of C...
55m Oct 08, 2023
55m
'AARP & You' Pt. 2 Veteran Fraud Prevention - The "READI Set…Music Conference'' - CT Social Equity Council
Can you believe veterans, active-duty service members and their families are nearly 40% more likely to lose money to scams and fraud? So, for the 2nd part of our latest series "AARP & You" we'll go to a veteran and AARP expert to help share how to identify and combat veterans-related scams. Then we'll connect with the CT Office of the Arts to tout the October 7 READI Set Music Conference, a dy...
56m Oct 01, 2023
56m
'AARP & You' Pt. 1: Fraud Protection - VCF Health & Wellness Forum - CTData / Multigenerational Households
AARP has something for everybody - and we'll prove it as we kick off our latest series 'AARP & You' - a three-pert deep dive into issues that could affect us all, including ways to help protect yourself from imposters stealing your identity, supporting our veterans, and a few important things you need to know regarding gift cards. Then we'll reconnect with the Valley Community Foundation and p...
56m Sep 24, 2023
56m
CTC's Women of Innovation - Bigelow Tea Community Challenge / Bridge House - Lupus Foundation Norwalk Chapter
The Connecticut Technology Council's Women of Innovation event is the state's first women in tech awards, which now includes over 800 women as winners and finalists. So we'll touch base with CTC's new Executive Director to get the latest on how the CTC can help if you are in a tech or STEM field - and how you can help support Connecticut's Women of Innovation. Then, we'll welcome back Cindi Bi...
57m Sep 17, 2023
57m
Children in Placement - The Exceptional Sidekick Service Dogs / YNH Children's Hospital - Abilis
This morning we're reconnecting with Children in Placement to discuss their critical work with young people. Since 1979, CIP has advocated for the best interests of Connecticut’s abused and neglected children throughout the child welfare and judicial systems by securing them safe homes, supportive services, and a stable transition into adulthood. Then we'll meet a representative From The Excep...
55m Sep 03, 2023
55m
CMAK Sandy Hook Memorial Foundation - CT OHS/Dr Deidre Gifford - Liberation Programs Pt. 1
We're welcoming back Rebecca Kowalski who co-founded the CMAK Sandy Hook Memorial Foundation to honor her son Chase Michael Anthony Kowalski - one of the 20 student victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We'll hear about how their programs have been ramping back up since the COVID era, and remind you about how to get your kids involved, or to support the cause at a couple of cool upcoming eve...
56m Aug 27, 2023
56m
JoeAbate Foundation - Probus Club of Greater New Haven - Green STEP Summer Training
Meet the founder of the nonprofit JoeAbate  Foundation, and learn how it's supporting families with babies in the Yale New Haven Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, as wll as creating micro-internships to help students discover career possibilities. We'll also invite you to the nonprofiit's upcoming Light Up the Night fundraiser. Then we'll be inviting you to join or support the Probus Clu...
55m Aug 20, 2023
55m
CT Violence Intervention Program - Sen. Tony Hwang - Histoury (Encore)
This week, we're introducing the CT Violence Intervention Program - CTVIP. This nonprofit practices trauma-informed care and unconditional care with every youth they come in contact with, providing a one-stop shop for at-risk youth and generally at-risk victims of violence throughout the New Haven region. Then we're checking in with State Senator Tony Hwang to discuss some of the most importan...
57m Aug 13, 2023
57m
CT Small Business Development Ctr - CT Council of Family Service Agencies - Waterbury Black Giving Circle
If you are a small or medium size business, a start-up or entrepreneur who is ready to rock and roll, we've got a representative of the CT Small Business Development Center to let you in on everything the SBDC can do for you. Then we'll help parents, friends and loved ones of adolescents and teens facing possible mental health challenges access an important new resource from the CT Council of ...
55m Aug 06, 2023
55m
GVI's Urban Farming Extravaganza - CT Voices for Children - Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center
We're inviting you back out to the Reservoir Community Farm to attend next weekend's Green Village Initiative (GVI) First Urban Farming Extravaganza connecting farmers and gardeners to engage in beginner and intermediate hands-on workshops with the goal of growing knowledge and interconnection, rooted in our shared goal to feed our loved ones and communities. Next — are you aware that right no...
55m Jul 23, 2023
55m
SHU symposium on Creating Antiracist Solution - Children's Center of Hamden - AAA Northeast Bank Student Loan Support
This morning we're going to bookending our show promoting programs that will be directly or indirectly addressing two key recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and student load debt. We're opening by briefing educators, nonprofit representatives and community members about the upcoming Sacred Heart University symposium on Creating Antiracist Solutions, that will be addressing th...
55m Jul 16, 2023
55m
CT Food System Alliance pt 2 - AARP Community Challenge Awards - Visionary Physical Therapy
Check out the second of our two-part discussion with the Connecticut Food System Alliance about their recent collaborations and report to help inform all of New England as they pursue the goal of producing and consuming 30% of New England’s food needs in the region by 2030. Then, we'll focus on communities across Connecticut receiving AARP Community Challenge grants. This year, five Connecticu...
54m Jul 09, 2023
54m
CT Food System Alliance - USDA Summer Food Safety Advisory - CTLCV Legislative Recap
We're going to do a lot of talking about food and the environment this week starting with the first of a two-part discussion with the Connecticut Food System Alliance. We'll begin unpacking a recent report they helped produce to inform consumers, state governments, farmers, and the food industry in pursuit of producing and consuming 30% of New England’s food in the region by 2030. Then we'll t...
56m Jul 02, 2023
56m
CT Library Assoc - LGBTQ+ Moveable Senior Center Program - CT DOT Summer Update
A lot of people don't think much about libraries ...until they can't get reliable, factual answers they need asking their mobile device or smart speaker. So, we're catching up with the outgoing president of the CT Library Assoc. talking about these vital localized or specialized resource centers and the professionals who staff and stock them. Then we'll conclude our June Pride Month focus chat...
1hr Jun 25, 2023
1hr
Center for Empowerment & Education - AARP-CT - Naugatuck Valley Transportation Forum
For victims of interpersonal violence, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, the Center for Empowerment & Education provides support services while empowering individuals to find their voice and choose their path toward healing as they rebuild their lives. Tune in and hear all about it. Then we're going to check-in with our partners at AARP-CT to learn about a number of successful initiat...
56m Jun 18, 2023
56m
Wilton Pride / Norwalk River Valley Trail - International Festival of Arts & Ideas - NWF Pollinator Month
We're continuing our Pride Month focus showcasing a unique collaboration between Wilton Pride and the Norwalk River Valley Trail and the upcoming Push N' Pull Pride Month celebration. Tune in and find out how to be part of this first of its kind events at one of Fairfield County's newest recreational destinations. Then it's time for one of Connecticut's premier activities - the global cultural...
55m Jun 11, 2023
55m
United Way WCT Food Farmacy Pt. 2 - Westport Pride/Westport Museum Oral History Project - CT Dept of Education Teacher Recruitment/Diversity Initiative
We're wrapping up our 2-part series focusing on United Way of Western CT and its partnership with Nuvance Health on an innovative "Food Farmacy" - a community-based site designed to increase access to and consumption of healthful foods for those individuals across western and southwestern Connecticut diagnosed with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and/or hypertension. Then we'll be putting so...
55m Jun 04, 2023
55m
United Way WCT Food Farmacy Pt. 1 - Career Resources Second Chance Job Fair - Bethel CT Pride
We're kicking off the first of a two-part series focusing on United Way of Western CT and Nuvance Health which just opened their Food Farmacy - a community-based site increasing access to and consumption of healthful foods for those across the region diagnosed with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and/or hypertension. Then we're heading down to Bridgeport to chat with representatives from Car...
55m May 28, 2023
55m
Junior Achievement SW New England - Clean Energy Industry Report - Histoury
A lot of really exciting things happen when Junior Achievement is part of your kid's education. So For the People is Bringing in a former educator - now the leader of Junior Achievement of Southwest New England to learn how JA is inspiring students and young people to be productive contributors to Connecticut's communities and near-future workforce. Then we'll stay with the workforce theme — a...
57m May 21, 2023
57m
McCall Behavioral Health - Preusser Research Group/Transportation Trends - Yoga In Our City
While April was Alcohol Awareness Month, health and safety issues tied to alcohol use and consumption are affecting our communities 365 days a year, so we're circling back with McCall Behavioral Health to talk about how they are carrying alcohol awareness initiatives into the summer, along with some other exciting news involving this regional health agency. Then we're going to have a candid ch...
55m May 14, 2023
55m
Special Report: CT Cannabis Expo
As Connecticut's recreational cannabis market continues to flourish, and the date for legal home grown cannabis approaches, the award-winning For the People hit the floor of the Mohegan Sun convention center to chat with the organizer and a number of vendors at the recent XPOCANNA Connecticut Cannabis Expo to learn more about cannabis pharmacology, obtaining a medical cannabis card, cannabis te...
55m May 07, 2023
55m
Annie C Courtney Foundation - UConn's Korey Stringer Institute - CT Breast Health Initiative
Since May is National Foster Care Month, we're opening with the director of the Annie C. Courtney Foundation, to learn how this nonprofit is supporting and promoting positive, empowering, loving and healthy communities for vulnerable children, youth and families with the goal of preventing the need for foster care. Then it's off to UConn to learn a thing or two about preventing serious sports ...
55m Apr 30, 2023
55m