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What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
From Foster Care to College
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Typically turning 18 has also meant aging out of the system. So no more reimbursements to subsidize care. Studies show foster youth lacking financi...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicole Rocke and daughter., Credit: Leticia Miranda
This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
Considering Loneliness (59:00 / 54:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some researchers suggest that loneliness can be lethal in that it can have significant physical and emotional effects. When is a loner personality...

Bought by KSUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNIJ, WEKU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
#23 MIW Christian Calinsky - Body Piercer and Homeless Youth Advocate
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Christian Calinsky on MIWq, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
One night with the SF Homeless Outreach Team
From: KALW
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When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Margaret Haney on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Margaret Haney, a Professor of Neurobiology in Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Substance Use Research Center at the Columbia University Medic...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
Determined to Graduate: 'You're Going to See Me on That Stage'
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Paula Dinh, a student at West Brooklyn Community High School, Credit: Jennifer Hsu/WNYC
It was a battle to the end for high school senior Paula Dinh. After years of skipping class and other bad habits, followed by a big push to change ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Juvenile Incarceration
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nell Bernstein, Credit: NPR
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How One Student Who 'Hates School' Finds Her Path to Graduation
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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For high school senior Paula Dinh, the path to graduation has been a long one, with times when she questioned her ability — and desire — to finish ...

Bought by WNIJ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming the Commons
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The Alley Project, Detroit, Credit: Karpov the Wrecked Train
From pedestrian plazas to pop-up-parklets…cities are looking to create spaces for people to gather, interact and create. But are some people being...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Discussion with Reverend Martha Quintana on Spirituality and Social Justice
From: Generation Justice
Series: Spirituality and Social Justice
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In this episode Lucia Martinez talks with Reverend Martha Quintana, who is the Senior Minister at the Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living. Durin...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:37
Approaching juvenile crime head on
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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When people get into trouble with the law, they normally don’t have a chance to have a conversation with their victims. To explain what happened. H...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Working for Peace after Gun Violence (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We talk to three people who, when affected directly or indirectly by gun violence, have channeled their pain and upset into efforts to address the ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Stressed-Out Students
From: Humankind
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Ideal for broadcast late-Summer / early- Fall, this new 1-hr. documentary from Humankind examines the epidemic of high anxiety among secondary scho...

Bought by WVTF, WSKG, KRCB 104.9, KUAF Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 24
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda - The Ways Northern Community Radio Breaks the Mold
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Detonantes de la Violencia Juvenil (Triggers of Youth Violence)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Exploramos los causas que ponen a los jóvenes en riesgo de la cultura de violencia. We explore the factors the put the youth at risk to the cult...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1
Creating Nonviolent Schools and Communities: Highlights from MLK Day
From: On Blast
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How can we make schools safer without criminalizing youth? How can we confront bias violence? What kinds of restorative practices should we impleme...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Body Modification Segmemt
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by: bucaorg, Flickr
In this episode, youth in and around Santa Fe discuss the world of body modification. From tattoos having symbolic meaning to them being a part of ...

Bought by KUNM, Vocalo.org, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Youth bring fresh eyes to Alcatraz
From: KALW
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A local art and theater group the We Players has also been in residence on Alcatraz for the past three years. Their work is designed to spark discu...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
Violence prevention graduates take their lessons to the streets
From: KALW
Caption: College of Alameda staff congratulate graduates of Violence Prevention Initative Certificate Program., Credit: Nicole Jones
Shrinking school budgets and cuts to classes and staff are serious problems that will need answering, but it's gradution season, and that's cause f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
Playgrounds to the people: ending the play deficit
From: KALW
Caption: First Lady Michelle Obama joined KaBOOM! in 2009 for the opening of San Francisco’s Bret Harte Elementary School playground, Credit: Photo courtesy of KaBOOM!
Think about your neighborhood. Your house. The street. Does your neighborhood have a playground? If yes, you’re one of the lucky ones. And if not, ...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:28
Changing the foster care system from the inside out
From: KALW
Caption: Sokhom Mao (right) will be the next Commissioner of the Alameda County Juvenile Justice/Delinquency Prevention Commission
Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San F...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:43
Incarceration not the only option for juvenile justice
From: KALW
Caption: Downtown Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, a place known for innovations in juvenile justice, Credit: Rina Palta
California’s attorney general says the state has a correctional crisis. KAMALA HARRIS: We have a prison system right now that is accommodating twi...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 10:44
Making a difference with Oakland's Measure Y Street Team
From: KALW
Caption: Measure Y is a Violence Prevention initiative designed to provide easily accessible services to Oakland residents.
In Oakland, there are many strategies at play in the struggle to stem violent crime, which has actually decreased in recent years, though it’s stil...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:31