The Voices Within: Recent Episodes
Fountain House Studios
This podcast presents the voices of the Fountain House community - people living and working with mental illness who volunteer to create a place of recovery and mutual aid. In a collaboratively produced show, we dismantle the stigma surrounding mental illness while discussing our perspectives, experiences, and the social issues relevant to our lives.
People in the midst of mental health emergencies are frequently confronted by police officers, not medical or mental health professionals. This approach escalates crises, exacerbates fears around seeking assistance, and causes the injury and death of innocent people. In this podcast, Fountain House members share harrowing stories of experiences with law enforcement. Because of the stigma and potential personal consequences of sharing such stories, they have elected to remain anonymous. You will hear accounts ranging from a young man’s traumatizing first encounter with the police when he was thirteen years old to Deborah Danner’s final, fatal one when she was sixty-six. These stories make it clear that we must change how we respond to mental health emergencies, and that we must do so now. An Individual experiencing a mental health emergency is not a criminal, and should never be treated as one.
This project was a model of rehabilitative Social Practice: it was inspired, created, and produced by Fountain House members, who were engaged and guided through every step by Social Practitioner Tristan Chirico and the Advocacy Committee.
Cover Art: “Harm Undone” by Ray Lopez
HostsLance and Robert Ferrara
Original Music by FH MembersIntro: "Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
Outro: "Nuthouse Baby" by Issa Ibrahim
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HostsLance and Richard Courage
Original Music by FH Members"Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
"Don't You Go Away" by Floyd Avery
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HostsMichael Hamlin and David Reines
Original Music by FH MembersIntro: "Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
Outro: "Benefit Blues" by David Reines
Music Segments by Austin Rockman and Dave Reines
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HostsZeus Walton and David Reines
Original Music by FH MembersIntro: "Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
Outro: "Trouble in Paradise" by Terrell Henry AKA "Uncanny"
Music Segments by Robert Ferrara, Richard Crevelle, Kenneth D'Silva, and Guillermo Dávila
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HostsPhillip Williams-Cooke and Zeus Walton
Original Music by FH Members"Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
"Working Stiff" by Issa Ibrahim
Selections from "Opera Selecta" an album by Guillermo Dávila
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HostsPhillip Williams-Cooke and Judith Berman
Original Music by FH Members"Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
“After the Autumn” by Eva Tortora
“Hope St. L.A.” by Susie Press
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HostsJudith Berman and Richard Courage
Original Music by FH MembersIntro: "Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
Outro: "Carried Away" by Kane Dulaney Balser
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HostsMichael Hamlin and Elyse Shuk
MusicIntro: "Give the Sun" by Greg Stanger
Outro: "Sunrise" by Kane Dulaney Balser
Produced by Fountain House Studios
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