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With her book THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG: Finding Home Wherever You Are, Journalist Melody Warnick, suggests ways to calm your restlessness and create to a deeper attachment to wherever you currently live.

Thursday, December 19th, 106.7 Lite FM presents our Hope for the Holidays Radiothon, raising funds for the children families of Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone. Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Cordelia Carter discusses her work, and how Hassenfeld is specifically designed with the needs of children and families in mind. For more, visit nyulangone.org and Litefm.com.

Julie Mower, Executive Director Julie Mower of The Phoenix Center in NJ, suggests ways to minimize stress for special needs children and their families for a successful holiday. The Phoenix Center in Nutley, NJ is an accredited non-profit, private school that serves students ages 5-21 with living with multiple disabilities. For more, visit ThePhoenixCenterNJ.org

As a New York City based non-profit, Theatre Forward has pioneered community engagement and education programs that promote equity, diversity and inclusion, in an effort to make theater accessible for all. Executive Director Bruce Whitacre talks about the priority of building theaters that represent the communities they serve. To get involved, visit theatreforward.org

In BEDLAM: An Intimate Journey Into America’s Mental Health Crisis, Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg offers an inside look at what he calls the greatest social crisis of the twenty-first century. For more, including clips from his documentary film, visit drkenrosenberg.com

Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children provides adoption and adoption support services to women, children and families. Spence-Chapin’s Chelsea Guffy talks about the process for children, adoptive parents, and expectant birth parents. More at spence-chapin.org

In NEW AGING: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever, Architect Matthias Hollwich challenges us to think creatively and realistically about how we want to spend the rest of our lives.

VOLUME CONTROL: HEARING IN A DEAFENING WORLD, by New Yorker staff writer David Owen, takes a look at the surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear better.

For National Hospice & Palliative Care Month and National Family Caregiver Month we speak with Kate Mohan of Calvary Hospice, in conversation about palliative, hospice and end of life care. Calvary Hospital, operating as a not-for profit hospital in connection with the Archdiocese of New York, offers hospice & palliative care including inpatient and home hospice in the five boroughs, Westchester and Long Island. For more, visit calvaryhospital.org.

For National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month, Roy Capps of Sunnyside Community Services and Carma Augustin, a caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s, discuss the challenges of caring for family members and the free resources for caregivers available through Sunnyside’s Care NYC program. To find out more call 877-577-9337 or visit scsny.org.