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Beyond the Pod: Closing the Opportunity Gap Starts Before Kindergarten
In our season four finale of “No One Is Coming to Save Us,” we hear from Brooke Legler, the owner of a child care center in Wisconsin, who is struggling to keep her center open despite the strong demand for it even in a state with nearly universal preschool.
Beyond the Pod: Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on Young Children
In episode four of our hit podcast, “No One Is Coming to Save Us”, we hear from Dr. Lisa Patel, a pediatrician and associate professor at Stanford University, who discusses the physical and mental ways that climate change impacts kids.
Beyond the Pod: Addressing the Housing Crisis
Episode three of our hit podcast “No One Is Coming To Save Us” takes on the issue of housing. We hear firsthand experience from Caitlin Liversidge who became pregnant and homeless last year and has since moved through transitional housing into her own apartment with her healthy two-month-old daughter.
Beyond The Pod: Addressing Early Relational Health in Early Childhood Education
Meet Lisa Garcia, our new Director of Early Relational Health
Beyond the Pod: Empowering Economic Mobility Through Early Education
The first episode in Season 4, Empowering Economic Mobility Through Early Education, explores how early education can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.