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Welcome to Thrive Dispatches, a podcast that explores the stories behind helping children, families, and communities thrive. Join host Dr.
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This Is Your Space”: Children’s Museums and the Radical Power of Agency (with Laura Huerta Migus) (opens the original)
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Isolation among families is usually discussed as a feeling. This conversation puts it somewhere more concrete: in what a community has built and kept. Laura Huerta Migus is Director of Fellowship Alumni Engagement and National Activation & Impact at Ascend at the Aspen Institute. Before that she spent more than a decade leading the Association of Children’s Museums. In this episode of Thrive Dispatches she joins Dr. Matt Biel to talk about the places families have left. She works from a simple t
Where Belonging Begins (with Rebecca Ralston) (opens the original)
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In this video episode of Thrive Together, hosts Maya Smith and Jason Lehmbeck speak with Rebecca Ralston, Senior Director of Early Childhood and Preventive Health at Special Olympics, and an alumna of the Thrive Center’s Innovation Hub fellowship. Young Athletes, the early childhood program she has led for ten years, reaches about 350,000 children across more than 170 countries. Roughly 53 million children under five have intellectual and developmental disabilities. The guiding theme of the conv
Geographies of Resilience (with Efren Aguilar) (opens the original)
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Efren Aguilar is a researcher and community engagement specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles, working at the intersection of early childhood measurement, spatial epidemiology, and systems transformation. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has worked in domestic violence prevention, refugee support, homelessness, public health, and early childhood systems, treating each role as a study of a different stage of human development. In this episode of Thrive Dispatche
A Big Enough Deal (with Maria Barrera) (opens the original)
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In this video episode of Thrive Together, hosts Maya Smith and Jason Lehmbeck speak with Maria Barrera , Co-Founder and CEO of Clayful and an alumna of the Thrive Center’s Innovation Hub fellowship. Clayful partners with schools, its financial and distribution partners, to give students across the country on-demand coaching by text. Young people hear the statistics about a youth mental health crisis and conclude that other people need the help more than they do. So they wait, the problem grows,
When Culture Meets Climate: A New Map for Mental Health (with Dr. Shabab Wahid) (opens the original)
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Dr. Shabab Wahid is an assistant professor of global health at Georgetown University’s School of Health and a global mental health researcher working at the intersection of culture, climate, and wellbeing, with active studies in Bangladesh, Kenya, Senegal, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. In this episode of Thrive Dispatches, Dr. Wahid joins Dr. Matt Biel to explore what cross-cultural science tells us about how people experience mental distress. They start with the study that drew Wahid into the field, in
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