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October 2022: Beacons of Hope: Part 1
Much attention has been given to a crisis in mental health for adolescents and teens, particularly in the wake of the COVID -19 pandemic. Join Levin College of Public Affairs and Education faculty members Frederick Hampton, PhD, Interim Chair, Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision and Adult Learning, Dakota King-White, PhD Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator, Dr. Kathryn MacCluskie, PhD, Professor of Counselor Education, and Marian Armstrong, School Counselor at Parma City School District as they discuss the complexities of teen mental health and what is being done to address the crisis. Specifically, the guests will speak about an upcoming mental health and safety summit planned for October 10 from 1 to 6 pm.

October 2022: Beacons of Hope: Part 2
On Monday, October 10, nearly 1,000 high school students from 15 local school districts will gather at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse to be trained as Mental Health Ambassador to support peers within their schools. In this two part podcast, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education faculty members Frederick Hampton, PhD, Interim Chair, Department of Counseling, Administration, Supervision and Adult Learning Dakota King-White, PhD Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator, and Marian Armstrong, School Counselor at Parma City School District will discuss this important event and its goals in addressing the mental health crisis in our community. Also appearing in this podcast is special guest Brooke, a senior at Parma City High School who serves her school as a mental health ambassador. Brook will discuss what it means to be a mental health ambassador and how this experience has informed her future.

September 2022: CSU's Community Learning Center Responds to Covid19
In this episode we meet Amanda Yurick, Associate Professor, Special Education at Cleveland State University. The Covid-19 Pandemic has impacted nearly every facet of our everyday lives. We have seen and felt these effects within our healthcare systems, economy and workforce, transportation sectors, mental health needs and services, and certainly the field of education is implicated as well. How we educate our children and youth saw some dramatic shifts from in-person to remote structures, which left the inequities that have always existed glaringly apparent in the light that Covid shed on our uneven access to resources. At Cleveland State we have help adapt the classroom for local students through our CLC (Community Learning Center).

September 2022: Society 5.0
Society is rapidly approaching a fifth stage of development that includes emerging disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, multi-sensory transfer, augmented and virtual realities, advanced robotics, and synthetic forms of life. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Nicholas Zingale of the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs and Dr. Sasa Drezgic from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Rijeka, Croatia to discuss implications for how the role of technology will continue to shape our everyday experiences as well as aspirational hopes for a better and more prosperous, fair, and equitable future.

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Planning Schools as Public Infrastructure: Linking Universities with Grassroots Education Organizing

This talk focuses on efforts to create a community-driven school facilities master planning process in Philadelphia. Building on decades of organizing and in partnership with parents and advocates across the city, we discuss the role of universities in supporting a movement for educational justice through school facilities planning. Specifically, we talk about the role of the classroom and pedagogy in bringing together researchers and communities in participatory action research (PAR). Drs. Ariel Bierbaum (University of Maryland) and Akira Drake Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania) have partnered across universities to collaborate in creating curricula that align with and are responsive to on-the-ground community needs for healthy school buildings and transparent school district planning in Philadelphia. Drs. Bierbaum and Rodriguez will discuss their multi-year project on planning for public schools facilities as equitable infrastructure, how their partnered courses provide a new component of PAR, and how their and their students' work support organizing for improved district and city decision-making. Watch Now » and Learn More »

Levin Podcast Resetting the Table: Building an Educational Ecosystem to Fuel Growth in Cleveland's Economy
The Levin College of Public Affiars and Education (Cleveland State University), in partnership with PolicyBridge, is hosting a year-long forum series based on its recent Urban Agenda Resetting the Table. The report explores the core question: why have so many low-income neighborhoods in Cleveland and its first-ring communities not seen a significant improvement in their quality of life and access to economic opportunity given many efforts to address inequality over the years? Watch Now » and Learn More »

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