Episode 15– Youth Perspectives on Mental Health: Supporting the Next Generation

by Eden Desta | May 23, 2023 | Blogs & Podcasts, Podcast, Uncategorized

  Guest Speakers:    Melanie Avila  Fanta Guindo  Yeina Han  In this MCH Bridges episode, three members of The Adolescent Champion Teen Advisory Council (TAC TAC), Melanie Avila, Fanta Guindo, and Yeina Han, share what adolescent and young adult mental health...

Episode 14- The Joy of Autism: A New Way of Thinking

by Eden Desta | Apr 25, 2023 | Blogs & Podcasts, Podcast

Guest Speakers:    Dave Caudel, PhD, Associate Director, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University  Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, PhD, Advocate, Public Speaker, Writer, Educator, Researcher, Mom  Haley Moss, Esq, Attorney, Author, Advocate  Listen to...

Bonus Episode: The AMCHP Annual Conference Experience

by Eden Desta | Apr 19, 2023 | Blogs & Podcasts, Podcast

  Guest Speakers:    Katherine Harvey, 4-H Extension Agent, Colorado State University  Dana Yarbrough, Director, Center for Family Involvement, Virginia Commonwealth University  Quatia (Q) Osorio, Founder of Our Journ3i, LLC  Xenia Mendez, Research...

Episode 13– Healing Through Breastfeeding: Honoring the Past, Investing in the Future

by Eden Desta | Mar 27, 2023 | Blogs & Podcasts, Podcast

  Guest Speakers:    Dr. Kimarie Bugg, Chief Empowerment Office and Change Leader, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc. (ROSE)  Dalecia Young, Founder and Full Spectrum Doula, Due North Support Services  This interview-episode highlights the journeys of Kimarie...

Episode 11 – Community-Led Solutions for Change: The Story of Colorado’s Birth Equity Bill Package

by Eden Desta | Nov 28, 2022 | Blogs & Podcasts, Equity & Anti-Racism, Maternal & Infant Health, Podcast

  Guest Speakers:    Laura Powis (Moderator), Program Manager for Evidence-Based Policy & Practice at AMCHP  Indra Lusero, Birth Justice Advocate and the Founder and Director of The Elephant Circle   Demetra (Mimi) Seriki, Midwife at A Mothers Choice...

Episode 10 – Queering Perinatal Mental Health

by Eden Desta | Oct 24, 2022 | Blogs & Podcasts, Equity & Anti-Racism, Maternal & Infant Health, Mental Health & SUD, Podcast

Guest Speakers: Leo Andreas (he/him), Dad of a two-year-old Jenna “JB” Brown (they/he), Full-Spectrum Community Doula and Educator at Love Over Fear Wellness & Birth In this episode, Leo Andreas and Jenna “JB” Brown join us to explore the...