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Podcasts

Our Climate, Ourselves

This week we discuss the tremendous challenge of climate change and the  impacts of that challenge on mental health — especially the mental health of young people, who will bear a disproportionate trauma and hardship from our collective inaction.

Friends with (Public Health) Benefits

On this week’s episode, we speak with Jeff Ketchel, Executive Director of the Washington State Public Health Association, about the state of public health 18-plus months into a centenary pandemic.

Strangleholds

Many of our local law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about a set of new laws (HB 1310, HB 1054) that, among other things, require stricter standards for probable cause when detaining someone, require de-escalation during encounters, ban chokeholds and significantly restrict the use of

Kids, COVID and "Deep Loneliness"

Psychotherapist Meg Curtin Rey-Bear guest hosts a roundtable with fellow therapists Maggie Rowe, a clinical social worker and certified child life specialist, and Ingrid Price, a licensed mental health counselor and a child mental health specialist.

Idaho's Uncivil War

In early April, we brought you the strange story of the blood feud between North Idaho College’s administration and its board of trustees.

Housing First

This week we welcome Rae-Lynn Barden, Communications Director of Volunteers of America Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.

Missing but not forgotten

If you or a loved one are experiencing domestic or sexual violence and would like help, the StrongHearts Helpline offers assistance from within an indigenous cultural context.

Higher Dread

Hey y’all. A couple weeks ago the DC-based Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story from right in our backyard about a coordinated effort by Kootenai County Republicans to run for the ostensibly non-partisan North Idaho College Board of Trustees on explicitly conservative talking points