Community Solutions
Community Solutions is a skill building podcast that aims to help community coalitions as they work to improve the health and social wellbeing of their neighborhoods. Listeners will hear stories about, and practical wisdom regarding, community engagement that promotes healthy, hope filled neighborhoods. Much thanks to bensounds.com for the use of the audio clip in the program.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Rooted in Culture: Supporting Latine Youth Through Family and Community Connections
Join us as we explore how families and communities can support the well-being of Latine youth facing stress and racial-ethnic discrimination. Dr. Natalie Guerrero shares how her work with families in…
Building community capacity to improve access to autism health services
Autism prevalence has increased over 400% in the past several decades but our service systems have not kept pace. Consequently, children are waiting months to years to access diagnostic evaluations w…
Putting YOU First in Reproductive Health Care
Dr. Tracey Wilkinson is a pediatrician and health services researcher in the Division of Children's Health Services Research (https://medicine.iu.edu/pediatrics/specialties/health-services) in the De…
Building the Foundation for Future Healthy Communities Starts with Us Building Respectful Interactions with Infants Today!
Providing respectful relationships with our infants today, will help them grow into caring adults that will build and sustain healthy, hopeful communities in the future. This episode provides listene…
Helping Mothers Successfully Transition from Prison to Community – Meet Mothers on the Rise!
Mothers on the Rise is an outgrowth of the Indiana Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative (https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/grassroots/index.html). Mothers on the Rise s…
How a Humanitarian Hero Brings Together Agencies to Reduce Hunger
Join our conversation to learn great insights about the realities, causes and consequences of hunger. Learn how bringing government, non-profits and people together can reduce hunger in neighborhoods…
Engaging the Farming Community in Efforts to Resolve Local Food Insecurity
For too long members of the farming or agricultural community have not been invited to discussions about resolving food insecurity. They are essential to solution strategies because of their vast kno…
Dreaming and Doing Big! Addressing Local Food Insecurity
SAFE [Students Advocating for Food Equity] is a new and growing service club at The Ohio State University. SAFE addresses local food inequities through advocacy, education, and service. We make a han…
The Effectiveness of Community-Based Chronic Disease Prevention Programs
This podcast episode presents an informative discussion about the diabetes prevention program in Arizona called Pasos Adelante. Dr. Lisa Staten, an Associate Professor at the Indiana University Fairb…
DIP IN: An Innovative Community-Based Diabetes Prevention Project!
Patrice Graham Adams, a community liaison and health education specialist in Indianapolis,IN, joins us on this episode of the Community Solutions Podcast. Patrice discusses her interest in public hea…
What is a Certified Health Education Specialist and WHY are they VITAL for Communities?
Episode 30: Becoming A Health Education Specialist
Has becoming a certified health education specialist piqued your interest, but not sure about what they do or how they play a role in public health?…
Episode 29: How Community Leaders Transform Society
This podcast episode highlights the book, "How Change Happens" by Duncan Green. This book outlines how community leaders can create change within communities, states and nations. The lessons from thi…
Episode 28: How Civic Engagement Makes You and Your Community Healthy
This podcast episode presents a discussion of the book “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community” by Robert Putnam. The author centers the book on the term social capital, which …
Episode 27: How to Compassionately Address the Needs of the Rural Poor
The majority of poor individuals around the world live in rural conditions. To significantly reduce global poverty, we need to work alongside individuals living in rural poverty to best understand th…
Episode 26: How to Lead the Fight for Food Equity!
Today our book club focuses on The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, by Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis. Listen and learn about the multiyear effort to cr…
Episode 25: How a Radical Approach to Poverty Reduction Changed Lives Forever
Community Solutions episode 25 discusses Muhammad Yunus’ autobiography,Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. Learn how and why Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen…
Episode 24: TIME TO TALK ABOUT GLOBAL POVERTY ERADICATION - LESSONS LEARNED
This episode of the Community Solutions podcast will be discussing key points from “The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty” by Nina Munk. This book is about Jeffrey Sachs, a world-r…
Episode 23: How to Lead a Large Group Meeting for Community Change
On this podcast three public health students discuss ‘The World Café’ by Dr. Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. They highlight the importance of facilitating conversations that are: inclusive of diverse…
Episode 22: Fostering Community Health Through Empathetic Conversations
MPH students at the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health engage in an enlightening discussion of the book “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by the late Marshall B. Rosenburg, who was an …
Episode 21: How a Simple Conversation Can Make our World A Better Place
Margaret J Wheatley is an outstanding teacher and writer who travels around the world learning about different cultures and people. She has come to the simple conclusion: “We can change the world if …