Podcasts by WCA Ground Truthing
Ground Truthing unites community voices from across Westchester County to discuss topics that impact children and families. Guests represent content experts, advocates and youth voices. The show will highlight bright spots and critically question existing policies and practices through data-informed conversations. Hosted by GPS4Kids Program Manager and WCA staff, Erica Ayala.
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Rebroadcast: "Separate and Unequal" podcast - The School-To-Prison Pipeline In Westchester from 2021-05-19T20:49:53
Michael Randall of the Fellowship between Bronxville High School, Mount Vernon High School, Yonkers Public Schools, and Sarah Lawrence College invited our executive director, Allison Lake, along wi...
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WCA Ground Truthing Season 3 Episode 3 - Westchester Youth Leading Change from 2020-08-18T00:00
Westchester Youth Speakers, Sandra Aderemi and Diego Rivera, speak about how they are active in their communities and striving for change for themselves and others during latest episode of Ground T...
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Ground Truthing Season 3 Episode 2 - Part 2: Child & Youth Homelessness from 2020-06-23T16:36:51
Part 2 of our latest episode is full of important insight from our two guests, Dr. Lilian Reynolds and Karl Bertrand, child homelessness and race in Westchester County, New York. In part 1 of this...
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WCA Podcast S3E2-Part 1 Child Homelessness from 2020-03-25T10:02:10
WCA Podcast Season 3 Episode 2 - 'Ground Truthing' interview of Dr. Lilian Reynolds and Karl Bertrand regarding child homelessness and race in Westchester County, New York. Hosted by Erica Ayala
WCA Podcast Groundtruthing S3E1 Dones from 2019-10-18T00:00
Interview with WCA's Advocacy Breakfast keynote speaker, Marc Dones, for our 1st episode of Season 3 for 'Ground Truthing'.
Dones is the Executive Director of National Innovation Services that ...
Ground Truthing Season 2 Episode 6: Karen Blumenthal 'Helping Kids Thrive in School' from 2019-07-29T18:19:22
Welcome to Season Two of Ground Truthing, Westchester Children’s Association's monthly podcast where we offer policy insights from the ground up by featuring community voices from Westchester count...
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Ground Truthing Season 2 Episode 5: Advocacy through Storytelling from 2019-05-03T12:16:38
Nicholas Kristof has been a columnist for The New York Times since 2001. Over his career, Kristof has won two Pulitzer Prizes, along with many humanitarian awards. This year, he will receive the Ed...
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Ground Truthing: Getting Westchester Youth 'READI' feat. John Tolomer from 2019-04-01T15:59:51
This month, our guest is John Tolomer, President and CEO of Westchester Bank. John has 40 years of experience in the banking industry and it all started with an internship.
Since then, Jo...
Building Community through Collaboration: Part II of an interview with Dr. Bostic from 2019-02-19T15:37:25
On Season 2, Episode 2 (Part II) of Ground Truthing, we welcome Reverend Dr. Jim Bostic to the show.
Dr. Bostic is the co-chair of the Yonkers My Brother's Keeper initiative, one of 10 MB...
Ground Truthing: Dr. Bostic, Yonkers MBK building community through collaboration from 2019-01-03T13:42:21
On Season 2, Episode 2 (Part I) of Ground Truthing, we welcome Reverend Dr. Jim Bostic to the show.
Dr. Bostic is the co-chair of the Yonkers My Brother's Keeper initiative, one of 10 MBK...
Ground Truthing Season 2 Episode 1: Flipping the Script on Vote for Kids from 2018-10-31T20:13:36
In 2013, the Westchester Children’s Association launched the Vote for Kids campaign that aims to elevate Westchester’s children and youth to the top of the public agenda among candidates, elected o...
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BONUS EPISODE: Vision 0 to 3 Conference from 2018-09-21T11:19:03
We are gearing up for the second season Ground Truthing, set to launch next month. Until then, enjoy a special BONUS EPISODE ahead of our Vision 0 to 3 Conference on Tuesday, October 16 at the Doub...
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Season Finale: Students Speak on Gun Violence from 2018-08-08T15:00:04
The first season of Ground Truthing has focused on creating positive learning environments for children in Westchester County. We would be remiss to omit the issue of gun violence before closing o...
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GROUND TRUTHING EXTRAS: Local student organizes March for Refugee Families from 2018-06-26T14:08:34
Listen to a short interview with Daniel Marshall, rising senior at Irvington High School and rally organizer.
Daniel talks to GPS4Kids Project Manager Erica L. Ayala about organizing the ...
Ground Truthing Episode 5: Data on the Ground from 2018-05-23T14:00:02
This month, we are joined by Katie Pfeifer, the Director of Programs & Evaluation at Volunteer New York.
Katie brings a strong professional and volunteer service background to Volunteer N...
Ground Truthing Episode 4: Beyond Just Sports from 2018-04-18T10:00:04
This month, we are joined by Danny Bernstein, the Executive Director of Backyard Sports.
Backyard Sports was created to bring these powerful youth sports experiences to today’s aspiring y...
Episode 3: The Health of Our Babies from 2018-03-21T16:43:41
Welcome our third episode of Ground Truthing, a Westchester Children’s Association podcast where we offer policy insights from the ground up.
For the month of March, we are joined by Chery...
Ground Truthing Episode 2: Raising the Age in New York from 2018-02-21T14:31:44
We are joined by author and Raise the Age advocate Jim St. Germain on the latest episode of Ground Truthing.
At the age of 15, Jim found himself in trouble with the law, just months away f...
Ground Truthing Episode 1: Early Childhood Learning in Westchester County from 2018-01-24T14:50:17
Welcome to the first episode of Ground Truthing, a Westchester Children’s Association podcast where we offer policy insights from the ground up.
This month, we will discuss the state of e...