Community Matters with Monica Pierre
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06-04 7:30 am Community MattersWWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
In the exhibition guys like. General Morton. Who played there we mentioned Louis Armstrong . Who grew up in the uptown or black story of old neighborhood and played some in both districts. Tom King Oliver there's -
05-28 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
not know it census says this. Usually we will talk about the mental health awareness. And what metropolitan human services district is doing to help people get back on track. Mental health is something everyone should. Care about which talking about mental health awareness joining us is doctor Rochelle had done them. Executive director and medical director with metropolitan human services district doctor had done a welcome to the show thank you. Let's begin about talking about mental health . What does that really mean. Some mental help. Really speaks to one's ability to emotionally. And cognitively be stable. In other wordsno excessive sadness all confusion. All of those things speak to our mental health . It seems like almost de Silva may fall short in some of those areas but how do you know that you've gone from just dealing with the normal stresses. Things happen and then you know we pray for a sound mind and body. It's just something that's not. Necessarily. Functional all right you council that's a great distinction to make. Com fortunately unfortunately. In mental health treatment. Our emotions really are what we are measuring here and we all have them. Com unlike other disease states where if you have that condition everybody does not have that condition. But in mental health treatment our mental illness we all have emotions and our emotions are always a 100%. Functional order on a 100% period. Armis what I need to do that's exactly right. We're talking about mental health and awareness of mental health issues. Joining us is doctor Rochelle had done them executive director and medical director of medical human services . At metropolitan human services district. The month of may sense of not 1949. Has been designated mental health awareness. I'll talk about how we have maybe a involved in the conversation about mental health . A particularly for some who feel that businesses. You know we don't talk about uncle jell O we don't talk about a -
05-21-17 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
don't come in. Every couple of weeks with a a bag of new books they read quickly. And they turned them right over to us there in great condition so there's a lot of different reasons. -
05-14-17 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
well and makes it more popular and people about what site. My new book but it is coming out party I'm really excited about that in the league or the theory that we've. This year. He -
05-07-17 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
group of sponsors are known as the kitten crude. Like all the Mardi Gras crews out there. And they usually consists of two to five kittens between the ages of 15 weeks of their attack are -
04-30 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
medium sized private institutions. These institutions repression enormous. Diversity of approaches to. Higher education that are. Great books college's women's colleges and historically black colleges and cult is affiliated with a pretty. Religious denomination you cantalk about it think about the cost and the rising cost of higher education . Well to talk about this and two liters per one news the liberal urged countries and toward extol. And you know therealso an essayist and your essays have appeared in the chronicle of higher education and university business inside tire and Washington Post so you have really looked at this examine this in your apparently your passion -
04-23-17 7:30 am Community Matters
WWL’s Monica Pierre discusses various community projects and services that benefit the infrastructure of Greater New Orleans.
In the exhibition guys like. General Morton. Who played there we mentioned Louis Armstrong . Who grew up in the uptown or blacks or own neighborhood and played some in both district. Tom King Oliver there's some -
04-16 7:30 am Community Matters - Lemonade Day
25,000 kids to learn business through Lemonade Day Louisiana Find out how budding entrepreneurs develop business skills through owning and operating lemonade stands.
day dot com Louisiana. And register or you can go to came raising cain's restaurants and you can reddish hair raising Cain restaurants. When you register you can I add raising canes and other locations around the city you can pick up the backpack and a backpack is an entrepreneur or a workbook. That tells you how to become a lemonade out of an hour and what do you have to do. What we try to do with the profits are you gonna borrow. Money from an investor and a chow will probably be that parent. They can help them put a lemonade stand together. When you sell you gonna put a product is seller obviously the morning because you feel that a with a profit. -
04-16 7:45 am Community Matters - Addiction
Are we born with addiction? Dan Forman with Dependency Pain Treatment Centers discusses opioid addiction. Plus, Joy Sutton with American Addiction Centers highlights the “Truth Behind the Numbers” community forum at Xavier University.
we appreciate it. We're going to continue the conversation about addiction and Xavier University will be the size of a community forum called truth behind the numbers in dealing with addiction. It takes place at this Thursday beginning at 6:30 PM. We spoke to joy Sutton with American addiction centers about how the conversation. Around addiction needs to change. We just not viewing addiction as a moral feeling. That somehow this is a moral issue and really recognize it for the brain disease that it is and it there's a large genetic component to it. And I think once we start looking at this is a disease it changes the way we look at treatmentsDouble when you really listen to that that staggering and that's why Xavier University American addiction centers and Townsend. Our party together for this form we see it it's just that important. And we have five analysts who are going to be participating. As experts and giving their. Inside into the problem. We have doctor Howard Weitzman he's the founder and chief medical officer of Townsend. Which is a network of treatment centers located right here throughout south Louisiana he also the author of three books including question and answers on addiction. We had the CEO of a mere addiction centers which is Michael Hart right he's actually worked on fifteen federally funded grants on addiction. And he is a recovering addict himself so he can bring -
04-16 7:38 am Community Matters - Diner en Blanc
The location is a secret: They won’t disclose where, but organizers of Diner en Blanc share a few details about this annual event that draws thousands of guests all dressed in white popping up for dinner and fun.
about the nay homegrown. New Orleans and we joined by Michelle to Rob Lowe with spears group this special events director. Talking about this year's event Michelle welcome to the show and you've granting me it sounds. And is even though the