Karen James interviews Jay Auslander, the Jail Diversion Systems Coordinator
in Washington County, Oregon. Jail diversion helps divert individuals away
from jail and provide links to community-based treatment and support
services. Jay coordinates the systems of mental ...
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Bright Spark is a podcast about harm reduction. In this podcast series we
interview people doing the bold, innovative, and necessary work that is
saving lives and fighting against the stigmatization of drug use and drug
users.
Hosted by Alec Dunn - nurse and ...
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Thom Becker hosts and we hear--
Two organizers discuss plans and purposes for the International Women's Day
March and Strike happening in Portland on Thursday, March 8.
Bill Resnick and Joe Clement fill us in on the West Virginia Teachers'
Strike and its significance.
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Jan Haaken talks with psychiatrist Elizabeth Berger about psychological
dynamics of living under Israeli occupation for Palestinian children, and
some of the links between human rights and mental health. Berger is a child
psychiatrist living in New York City and on the steeri...
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What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What is it like
to be a queer pregnant teenager? Is it true that friends do make the best
medicine? Nina Packebush explores these questions and more in her
groundbreaking debut young adult novel, Girls Like Me...
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Ira Israel is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed
marriage and family therapist. He has graduate degrees in philosophy,
religious studies, and psychology. He has a private practice in Santa Monica,
California as well as on-line coaching. He leads...
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More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the
global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health
Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to
environmental causes, and as rates of childhood dise...
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The quality and depth of a relationship you create with yourself will equal
the quality and depth of all of your relationships. A deep and eye-opening
discussion with Barbara Beck, expert relationship coach and author of Love,
Sex and the Spiritual Path.
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KBOO News and Evening Public Affairs Director Zeloszelos Marchandt speaks
with "part biomechanist, part science communicator, and full-time mover"
Katy Bowman, who also is the founder of the Nutritious Movement program that
aims to bring non-exercise movement back into p...
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This week, we discuss pain and pain treatment with Professor Beth Darnall,
PhD, a pain psychologist, clinical scientist, and clinical professor at
Stanford University.
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