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What to look for when your family needs a Nanny ?! We speak with Nanny's Tender Loving Care, Inc. Founder Kelly Bozeman and she gives us the best o...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 27:30
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine's children receive grossly inadequate services from Child Protective Services. Three have been murdered or had a perpetrator convicted in Mai...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:52
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
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Estamos volviendo a la escuela! That means we're headed back to school on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. We're visiting the Toledo SMART ...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries you"ll meet Chad Bringman, the CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities for northwest Ohio.

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed to meet Dr. Crawford Strunk, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist, at ProMedica's Children's Hospi...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Seeing consequence before it happens..., Credit: Susan Cook
We know the consequence of indifference.In late 2017, Maine witnessed 3 murders of children: 2 by foster care-takers, one at the hands of the no...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:20
Caption: No Increased ChildCare Credit or ChildHealthcare $ from US Senate Tax Overmaul, Credit: Susan Cook
The recently passed Tax Overhaul bill declined to increase the child care credit while leaving no money for the Children's Health Insurance Program...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
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Last week on The Rough Draft Diaries we started a a two-part conversation on The Beach House Family Shelter in Toledo, Ohio with Tammy Holder, CEO ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
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This week The Rough Draft Diaries starts a two-part conversation on The Beach House Family Shelter in Toledo, Ohio. This week Haley will speak with...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Linda McGurk wanted her children to love the outdoors, just like she did as a little girl in Sweden. But when she moved to the U.S., she found out ...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Charles climbing the summit of Cadillac Mountain., Credit: Charles McGuigan
The schools claim there is zero tolerance for bully, but one school system practices bullying against students and parents alike.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 21:35
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Vicki Obee former director at Bittersweet Farms, a private non-profit that offers services to adul...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Karla, Lula and Jamie, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 27:11
Caption: Karla Helbert, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Karla Helbert is many things. An accomplished writer and veteran therapist. Wife, mother, artist. A seeker, too. Libertine in matters spiritual. A...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
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The RDD returns to the theater this week as we join The Children's Theater Workshop for one of their rehearsals.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
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Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:55
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The Miracle Workers of Holton Elementary School are Christal Mark, Ricky Gay, Mary Pace, Robin Barber, Cheryll Hughes and Latonya Brown-Oliver. Wha...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:46
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This week, The Rough Draft Diaries is at The Toledo School for the Arts with Dave Gierke, TSA's development director. Tune it to hear how this rock...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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I’m not sure how one marries the  proprietary "I give the right to life”  to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 06:17
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We're hitting the gym, yet again, on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we return to Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this tw...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
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We're hitting the gym on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Join us as we visit Soul City Boxing and Wrestling Gym in this two-part series. H...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:29
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, The RDD meets the YAAW, that's Young Artists at Work. In part one you'll hear from Michelle Carlson, Pr...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
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
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
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