How "hello" can change the world with Donald Pope

The Fight for Family PCS with Jessica Jackman

Jessica Jackman is a disability and family caregiver advocate from Pocatello, Idaho, and is affiliated with Fair Care Idaho, a grassroots organization focused on protecting and strengthening supports for Idaho families who provide in-home care to loved ones with disabilities. Drawing from her lived experience as a caregiver for her son, Jessica has become an active voice in statewide discussions surrounding Medicaid-funded family caregiving, home and community-based services, and Idaho’s direct care workforce shortage. She has worked alongside advocacy coalitions, caregivers, and policymakers to highlight the critical role family caregivers play in keeping individuals with disabilities living safely and independently in their homes and communities. Find out more about Fair Care Idaho at https://faircareidaho.substack.com/ [https://faircareidaho.substack.com/].

Standards of Justice with Don Kostelec

Don Kostelec is a transportation and community planning professional with more than 25 years of experience focused on creating safer, healthier, and more equitable communities through transportation and land use planning. His work across the United States has emphasized active transportation, Complete Streets, Health Impact Assessments, and the integration of public health into planning processes, with particular expertise in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ADA transition planning, accessibility compliance, and inclusive community design. Don is widely recognized for helping communities better understand how street and infrastructure design impacts safety, mobility, and equity, while encouraging approaches that prioritize people over vehicle movement. He has served in leadership roles with organizations including the Idaho Walk Bike Alliance and Bike Walk NC and is a frequent national speaker and contributor on walkability, accessibility, and safe street design. Learn more about Don's work at www.vitruvianplanning.com [www.vitruvianplanning.com].

How "hello" can change the world with Donald Pope

Donald Pope is a father, a chef, a stroke survivor, and a LINC consumer who has worked like hell to get out of a nursing home and back into the community. He shares his story of escape, hope, joy, and more.

Opening Digital Doors with Laine Amoureux

Laine Amoureux is a prominent digital accessibility and assistive technology consultant, trainer, and community advocate based in Boise, Idaho. She is widely recognized for her leadership in promoting inclusion and universal design across public infrastructure and digital platforms in the Treasure Valley. You learn more about Laine and her work at https://learn.amoureuxatconsulting.com/.

Counseling the Space Between Prison and Life with Felica Duce and Richard Renz

Our guests today are Felica Duce and Richard Renz with Vision Counseling Services and Education. Felica, the founder and owner, and Richard, a social worker and combat veteran, talk about their passion for helping people, particularly people in the correctional system, and their big plans for their new podcast, "I don't want to talk to you." Learn more about Visions Counseling:https://www.visions-counseling.com/ [https://www.visions-counseling.com/] Help a neighbor in need:https://www.visions-counseling.com/fundraisers [https://www.visions-counseling.com/fundraisers]