Tight Knit
Tight Knit: a podcast about the many ways people are working to build stronger relationships and communities. In Season Two, we follow teens and adults as they navigate the various pathways that can lead to good jobs and careers, and the systems that can support or impede their success.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Ep. 8: Working on a Bigger Picture
This season of Tight Knit has covered a lot of ground seeking to understand the landscape of workforce development in Southeast Michigan and Western New York. In our final episode, Tight Knit host Sh…
01:02:09 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Ep. 7: The Bus Stops Here: Employers Try Solving Turnover
A missed phone bill, a late bus, or even a not-quite-completed degree can derail employment for many. Meanwhile, employers suffer the cost of poor retention and few promotions within their entry-leve…
00:30:28 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Ep. 6: Who Are You Willing to Hire?
If businesses want to find enough workers, they’ll need to change their hiring practices, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. We look at programs that provide job opportunities fo…
00:24:18 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
Ep. 5: An Electric Future for Gen Z
From solar cells and batteries to electric vehicles, the future is electric. Getting there takes a coordinated effort among nonprofits, schools and colleges, businesses and governments. We talk to se…
00:38:05 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
Ep. 4: Jump Starting Careers in Construction and Beyond
Take a deeper look at how workforce development programs, government, and businesses cooperate to keep workers and build economic opportunity. This episode also explores financial risks of these chan…
00:35:12 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ep. 3: Manufacturing in a New Era
At Buffalo’s Northland Workforce Training Center on Buffalo’s Eastside, men and women are finding new careers in advanced manufacturing. The center’s programs help to fill a skilled trades workforce …
00:29:37 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Ep. 2: Get Your Education!
This week we look at how public education helps the workforce, and we talk to one teenager who loves shop class at Detroit’s Randolph Career and Technical Center, and to Don Hutchison who had a bumpy…
00:32:15 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Ep. 1: The Workforce Pipeline
Learn more about the Tight Knit series from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation at tightknit.org.
Tight Knit is hosted by Shannon Cason. Our supervising producer and editor is Sea Stachura and our exec…
00:28:51 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Introducing Tight Knit: Workforce Development
Our award-winning series returns with Tight Knit Season 2 focused on Workforce Development. In this season, we follow teens and adults as they navigate the various pathways that can lead to good jobs…
00:01:25 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Ep. 8: Canopy of Neighbors
Many people in the U.S. are getting older without a close family member who can take care of them. A Buffalo organization is one of a growing number of global “villages” that draw on volunteers to he…
00:23:24 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 7: The Unseen Hand
A neurologist found himself entirely unprepared, emotionally and professionally, for his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease. But over time, Alzheimer’s revealed a side of his father that changed the son’s …
00:24:08 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 6: 4 Generations + 1 Cute Dog
Four generations of the Roberts family live in one house in central Michigan. They use the house itself, off-the-shelf technology, and other creative ways to help look after a family member with deme…
00:27:23 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 5: Family Photo
We meet two women who moved across the country to look after their respective sets of aging parents, even though their elders, who came to the U.S. from India, had trouble accepting them: both indivi…
00:29:21 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 4: Difficult Relationships
You might become a parent’s caregiver out of love, or a wish to give back. But that’s much harder for children who were abused by the parent who needs them.
00:28:07 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 3: It Just Takes One Person
Aging in place can be harder in rural communities, where resources and trained help can be scarce or far away. But in Chautauqua County, New York, we meet one woman who’s making a huge difference for…
00:27:31 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 2: Stepping Up
Detroit’s Angelena Taylor was only 28 when she became her father’s main caregiver after he had a stroke. This millennial daughter, educator, and former Ms. Black Michigan is focused on her dad while …
00:30:13 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Ep. 1: Caregiving In A Digital World
Two families approach their roles as caregivers with a combination of tech, ingenuity, love--and in one case, a very smart little dog.
00:21:46 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
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