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Abner talks about how he responded to his own bad choices and the problems they created by joining the Army. In Urban Warriors, Abner connects with...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 05:56
At young age, Victor is taken from his mother and lives at three foster homes. After witnessing violence against his family, he has a realization w...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 04:38
As an Urban Warriors facilitator, Charles has learned strategies for connecting with youth by strategically encouraging them to open up about their...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 05:43
Jacobi shares the struggles he encountered while growing up and how they led to his involvement with a gang. He talks about how he channelled his p...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 06:10
Urban Warriors is a program that pairs youth and veterans in trauma-informed, mentorship-based relationships. The program helps to promote self-emp...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 02:02
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
We all live with the knowledge of our own mortality, but what about those who know more, how do you chart a course through the world when the end i...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 22:34
Jarvis Johnson was a basketball prodigy by age 2. He’d developed elite basketball skills by the time he was 12, which is also about the time he dis...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00:04
Live Art, sponsored by the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC), is the only program of its kind in the country. It’s th...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 25:38
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
29 year old Kate hasn't eaten for six months. She has been hospitalised 11 times this year. She's had an eating disorder since she was a teenager. ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 51:41
Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:13
Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
More babies are being born dependent on the opioid drugs their pregnant mothers were taking. Their condition, called neonatal abstinence syndrome, ...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:47
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...
- Added: May 12, 2014
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 20
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:35
The students at Riverview School are in most ways no different to teenagers at any other New England boarding school. They play soccer and run cro...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 04:50
"Long Game" is a new radio documentary about ongoing culture war battles over education in the Lone Star State.
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WESM 91.3 FM, Louisville Public Media, KERA, WRPI and more
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 05:12
A Long Island mother faces immense challenges as she tries to educate her three autistic sons through New York's public school system.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 17, 2013
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 1
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
