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May 22, 2021

Spotlight on Rethinking Mental Health Care
In this two part series from Call to Mind, you'll hear an honest critique of the nation’s mental health care shortcomings, while highlighting tangible solutions and models for improving access and quality of care.

Hour Two: Reinventing the Future of Mental Health Care.

Preventative mental health care is effective and can prevent early symptoms from becoming chronic illnesses. What will it take to reform the nation’s care systems and policies so that people get the wholistic care they need to prevent a crisis? 

May 15, 2021

Spotlight on Rethinking Mental Health Care
In this two part series from Call to Mind, you'll hear an honest critique of the nation’s mental health care shortcomings, while highlighting tangible solutions and models for improving access and quality of care.

Hour One: Our Mental Health Crisis, By Design

America’s mental health system is designed to deliver too little care, too late. Current policy and care systems devote the most resources to treating people in crisis, but provider and bed shortages remain common. How are people still finding ways to connect with help? 

May 8, 2021

Fifty And Forward: An Anniversary Celebration Of NPR

NPR grew up alongside a post-Watergate journalism ethos that shaped the media industry for decades. Hosted by Audie Cornish and featuring other NPR journalists, we'll unpack that ethos: how it developed in the newsroom and changed over time, through today. Analytical, critical and forward-thinking, this program tells the story of NPR's history in the context of the growth of modern media.

May 1, 2021

Small Change: Money Stories from the Neighborhood

Small change: Money Stories from the Neighborhood is an audio hour highlighting smart, practical and collaborative money skills developed by people living with lower and unstable incomes.

Hosts Chris Farrell and Twila Dang talk to community members who are redefining wealth, the value of community and the purpose of money. Money wisdom taught by the true experts –people who have learned from experience.

Brian is a Spokane native who has been interested in sound technology ever since playing with a reel-to-reel deck as a kid. He learned radio broadcasting on KSFC, before it was part of Spokane Public Radio but still was part of the broadcasting program at Spokane Falls Community College. Brian also studied radio at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, where he featured new age and fusion jazz on his own show. He admits that at heart he is a news junkie, which fits in well with his work Saturday mornings as regional host for NPR's Morning Edition.
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