Episode #5: Stories

Episode #3: Yolanda Randles 🍠

Meet Yolanda Randles, Executive Director of West Fresno Family Resource Center. Her organization created The Sweet Potato Project, a community initiative that aims to empower youth through education and hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture. Yolanda joins our host, Kekoa Lopez-Paguyo, for a discussion tracing the origins, data insights, and funding strategies sustaining The Sweet Potato Project. They also explore its impact on youth education and mental health, driven by its dedicated program leaders in Fresno County.

Episode #2: J Kho

Meet J Kho, a non-profit strategist and mental health disparities researcher, as we trace the history of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and The California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) Phase 1 and Phase 2.

Episode #1: Stacie Hiramoto

Meet Stacie Hiramoto, a mental health champion and advocate with deep expertise on Community-Defined Evidence Practices and The California Reducing Disparities Project.  "Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]

Episode #5: Stories

Episode #5: California lawmakers vote on whether to put changes to critical mental health funding on the March ballot, but not before advocates have one last say. And a Karuk tribal member in Humboldt County uses the power of storytelling to help people find their voices.

Episode #4: Kids

Episode #4: In the battle over mental health funding in California, an advocate takes a stand for kids. Then, woman in Stockton starts to see cracks in the system when a third-grade teacher moves her son’s desk outside the classroom. Decades later this same woman is a social worker committed to ending the school-to-prison pipeline.