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Urban Service Talks is a student centered, student run podcast series developed and produced by Urban Health/AHEC Scholars, and is sponsored by CT AHEC. Urban Service Talks explores issues and answers questions important to today's and tomorrow's healthcare workforce. The focus of the podcast includes key pillars of the Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars program: interprofessional education and team-based care, addressing social determinants of health, and care for the underserved, while featuring the voices of students from a variety of healthcare profession training programs at UCONN and Quinnipiac University. The topics for the podcasts are varied and feature students, professionals, and community members. The target audience includes health professions trainees, health and public health professionals, as well as pre-health professions students. To listen to the podcast, access Urban Service Talks through your preferred media account. Stay connected with Urban Service Talks through Twitter @TalksService and Instagram @urbanservicetalks. We welcome listener feedback about topics, presenters and most importantly, the dialogue and energy of our podcast series. Please contact us at ust.pod@gmail.com.
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Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
In this episode titled From Lived Experience to Leadership: A Journey of Resilience and Recovery, hosts Jay Kinuthia, a UConn School of Dental Medicine student, and Kate Adams, a Quinnipiac University PA student, explore the often-overlooked intersection of incarceration, mental health, and addiction, focusing on how healthcare professionals can better support individuals with criminal justice backgrounds. They’re joined by Victoria Steele, a Mental Health Assistant at Connecticut Valley Hospital and Board Member at Community Partners in Action, whose powerful journey from incarceration to recovery now fuels her work in advocacy and patient care. Through Victoria’s story, the episode highlights the importance of empathy, dignity, and understanding in healthcare, and calls for a shift in perspective to truly see the person behind the criminal record.
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