Making Sense of the Science: How Cannabis Use Impacts the Adolescent Brain

Lessons for Every Age: A Unique Partnership with Parents, Schools and the Community to Prevent Child Abuse

What do grade, middle and high school aged youth need to know about healthy relationships and bodily autonomy? What does an age-appropriate conversation include? Our guest will share a new initiative aimed at helping young people form healthy and safe connections.

Teaching Healthy Ways to Cope with Big Feelings

In this episode, we sit down with licensed mental health counselor Janine Halloran to talk about how to help young people manage their big emotions in healthy, effective ways. Janine shares what’s really going on beneath those intense feelings and offers practical, hands-on coping strategies that adults can teach and use in the moment. Whether you’re a parent, educator, or mentor, you’ll leave with simple, proven tools to support the emotional well-being of the young people in your life.

Choose Love: Teaching Young People Vital Skills for Getting Along in the World

Learn how courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion-in-action prevent violence and promote healthier relationships. Our guest, Shannon Desilets, NH program director of the Choose Love movement, is teaching essential life skills to build strong, compassionate and healthy communities.

Culturally Appropriate and Equitable Prevention with

Have you wanted to become more culturally effective in your prevention or health education work? Our special guest, Bobbie Bagley, focuses on ways to make your outreach, education and communication more fair and just by addressing the social conditions that can harm people’s health. She shares how the Nashua Department of Public Health and Community Services is making a lasting impact on their neighborhoods and people by embracing shared leadership and power, intentional deeper listening, and deferring to the community to name their priorities. Together, they work collaboratively with different groups in specific, sensitive ways to address health issues, resulting in better health for all.

Making Sense of the Science: How Cannabis Use Impacts the Adolescent Brain

Emerging brain science is challenging the belief that cannabis use is harmless, especially during times of active brain development. Amid growing concerns about the widespread legalization of cannabis, our guest Dr. Kristen Gilliland shares the science and her unique lived experience to help us gain knowledge, compassion, insight and hope. You won’t want to miss this interview if you are concerned about a young person using cannabis.