Season 1, Episode 32: Dec. 15, 2025 18:07

This week, we’re rolling into the holidays Mystery Machine–style, cruising foggy Oregon roads with a full cast of Scooby-inspired stories — from compassionate holiday moments to agency-wide reminders that keep our teams safe, steady, and informed. We’re talking festive decorating do’s and don’ts, a federal update that cuts through the rumor fog, and a Velma-level spotlight on staff whose courage, clarity, and lived experience keep ODHS moving with heart. And as always, we close with a Writer’s Round-Up that pulls all the clues together — lanterns, belfries, meddling kids and all.

What’s Inside

Deadline: ODHS (5:28)

• No new deadlines, but…

• A few holiday decorating reminders on tree safety, light sensitivity, and inflatables

Fact of the Week (8:29)

• Proposed federal public charge updates
  

Design, Real, Delivered (10:06)

• Darla Sett: Leadership in military service & mental/behavioral health review

• Billy Cordero: Lived experience shaping resource family recruitment

• Joy Plummer: Disability advocacy and AbleNet leadership

• Liesl Wendt and Rolanda Garcia bid adieu to KOIN’s Jeff Gianola

Writer’s Round-Up (15:47)

• A mystery solved by ODHS’s “meddling” everyday heroes

Credits

Host: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe — Communications

Produced by: Dr. Bethany Grace Howe
Contact: [email protected]