For the People

Today we're introducing a couple of new members of the For the People resource network - ALEX, Inc. and the  Startford-based Health Care Advocates International. Both of these organizations are offering important stigma-busting support services to individuals and families who are part of the regions LGBTQ+ communities.

Then, we'll help celebrate 150 years of science and discoveries that continue to protect and benefit Connecticut residents as we engage a deep dive discussion about the the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

And we'll wrap things up bringing you the next segment of our Mental Health Awareness Month series as we re-connect with the Executive Director of CatalystCT, a regional agency in part addressing  and enhancing behavioral and mental health for children and teens and their families in Fairfield County and beyond.

We're inviting you to head to one of seven local parks or open spaces for Black Birders Week. We'll hear from an inspired organizer, as well as representatives from Gather New Haven and the Sierra Club about how and why to get involved in all the local Black Birders Week activities.

In the next segment of our Mental Health Awareness Month series, For the People is calling on one of the front line leaders of Wheeler’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services to talk about how it's responders are focusing on youth mental health support - and addressing stigmas tied to asking for help.

We're checking in with one of the new voices representing a familiar community partner - Green Village Initiative - which is successfully collaborating to address hunger, farming, and food insecurity in greater Bridgeport.

We're going to open with one of the new voices representing a familiar community partner - Green Village Initiative - which is successfully collaborating to address hunger, farming, and food insecurity in greater Bridgeport.

Then, In the next segment of our Mental Health Awareness Month series, For the People is calling on one of the front line leaders of Wheeler’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services to talk about how it's responders are focusing on youth mental health support - and addressing stigmas tied to asking for help.

And we'll close inviting you to head to one of seven local parks or open spaces for Black Birders Week. We'll hear from an inspired organizer, as well as representatives from Gather New Haven and the Sierra Club about how and why to get involved in all the local Black Birders Week activities.

We're connecting with the Connecticut Democracy Center and focusing on Connecticut History Day, one of 58 affiliate programs of National History Day, that is encouraging students in grades 6-12 to explore local, state, national, and world history. 

Meet the co-founder of Hang Time, and learn how this highly successful program is igniting a grassroots movement to empower and reintegrate ex-offenders back into society by embracing and guiding those suffering from Post-Traumatic & Present Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to urban gun violence.

Are you feeling stressed? Then you are so not alone. But in our opening segment - and the first of several marking Mental Health Awareness Month - our guest and co-founder of Your Village Journey will explain that it's all how you deal with it. And she'll follow up with tips to help take some of the pressure of our everyday world away.

Are you feeling stressed? Then you are so not alone. But in our opening segment - and the first of several marking Mental Health Awareness Month - our guest and co-founder of Your Village Journey will explain that it's all how you deal with it. And she'll follow up with tips to help take some of the pressure of our everyday world away.

Then we'll touch base with the co-founder of Hang Time, igniting a grassroots movement to empower and reintegrate ex-offenders back into society by embracing and guiding those suffering from Post-Traumatic & Present Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to urban gun violence.

And we're closing with the Connecticut Democracy Center and a special focus on Connecticut History Day, one of 58 affiliate programs of National History Day, that is encouraging students in grades 6-12 to explore local, state, national, and world history. 

This segment is delivering you a little culture - literally - as we meet the co-founder of cARTie, a nonprofit mobile art museum bus bridging inequities in education and arts access by providing families and children exciting art and museum adventures.