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The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and The Essex County Bar Association sponsored a gun buyback on March 31 to help remove deadly weapons from the streets. Essex County Bar Association President Raj Gadhok discusses the results of the effort and this first time public/private partnership.

Dancing Dreams provides dance classes and performance opportunities in New York City and Long Island for children ages 3-21 with medical or physical challenges. Founder and Executive Director, Joann Ferrara, discusses how their unique leadership program helps connect teens with young dancers, and the school's performance "City Nights" on May 5th. For more, visit dancingdreams.org

The book THE COURAGE TO RISE: Using Movement, Mindfulness & Healing Foods to Triumph over Trauma, by Liz Arch, offers insights on understanding the nature of trauma and practical and effective tools to strengthen emotional resiliency.

Walk MS New York City on April 28th raises funds for people living with multiple sclerosis and for MS research. Natale Raimo, Director of Walk MS, explains how the walks help people in our community, and former dancer Michelle Tolson, tells the story of her surprise diagnosis and finding the right treatment for an unpredictable disease. For more details on Walk MS NYC and other area walks, visit WalkMS.org

For the book, THE BRAVE LEARNER: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, author Julie Bogart distills decades of experience homeschooling her five now grown children and training homeschooling families around the world, to help re-energize parent-teachers when the job they began enthusiastically has begun to feel like a grind.

While anxiety and depression can exist in any kind of weather, NYC clinical psychologist Dr. Jeptha Tausig is an expert on seasonal effective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs during the same season each year, and for most people, during the winter. For more, visit drjeph.com

Priya Parker, author THE ART OF GATHERING: How We Meet and Why It Matters, explains how to make meetings of all kinds more effective, and what kind of rituals will open up a crowd who's inhibited or distracted.

In his new book SICKER, FATTER, POORER, pediatrician and environmental health researcher at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, Dr. Leonardo Trasande, discusses the urgent health threat of hormone disrupting chemicals, and what we can do about it.

Ballet Hispánico, America's leading Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater with two world premieres from March 26-31, 2019. Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro gives us a preview. For more, visit ballethispanico.org and/or Joyce.org

Queens Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Grech joins for his views on the Amazon/Long Island City Deal, it's impact and the next horizon for the borough and the city. For more, visit queenschamber.org.