Crisis Center Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Crisis Center
Featuring frank conversations with Crisis Center staff about their personal relationships to suicide as well as warning signs and ways to talk about this important health issue.
Our Just A Call Away 5K started in 2015 with some BIG help of a few of our favorite Jefferson County Sheriff's Officers. Hear from the people who started it, as well as those who joined along the way.
This year's Just A Call Away 5K will be held both as a virtual run and as a chip-timed 5K. For more information, visit https://runsignup.com/Race/AL/Birmingham/ACallAway5K
In this episode, you'll hear from Crisis Center staff and friends about their personal experiences with mental health in the black community. Tashee, Tira, Kierston and Cindy provide insight on how we can provide better access to mental health for people of color.
For more information bout the Crisis Center, please visit www.crisiscenterbham.org.
Musical contribution - "Distortogram" by James P. Fahy.
Featuring Dr. John Michael Falligant (Johns Hopkins University Hospital), Mike Falligant (Piper Place), Ana Sullivan (Senior Talk Line), Leslie Plaia, John Bayles, Stephanie Schilling and Tira Judkins (Recovery Resource Center.)
Featuring "Periwinkle," an electronic piece by Jim Fahy.
In this episode, we explore three additional populations who are vulnerable to sexual assault: homeless/housing insecure, sex workers, and incarcerated individuals.
Featured speakers - Zuri Bryant, a Crisis Center Liaison to the Jefferson County DA, Rhiannon Reese, who is our Clinical Director of Crisis Services, and Jesse Mitchell, a Rape Response Counselor and PREA Coordinator.
Intro and Outro Music by Dr. Dale Wisely
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saam
Data Sources: NSVRC.org, homelesshub.ca, vawnet.org, npr.org
We talk with Tiffany, a Legal Advocate for the Crisis Center at One Place Metro Family Justice Center, Katelin, an intern and volunteer advocate with the Crisis Center's Rape Response program, and Rebecca, our Mobile Unit Counselor for the Rape Response program about three specific groups of people who are vulnerable to sexual assault: racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and individuals with cognitive/developmental disabilities.
Intro piece by good friend of the Crisis Center, Dr. Dale Wisely.
Supporting articles:
- https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/570224090/the-sexual-assault-epidemic-no-one-talks-about
- https://www.shatteringthesilence.org/latest-news/underreporting-of-rape-in-minority-communities/
- https://vawnet.org/sc/sexual-violence-immigrant-communities
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (aka #SAAM), a time when we focus on advocacy, awareness and activism supporting survivors of sexual assault. This campaign's goal is to make our community safer.
By looking at vulnerable populations, we can better understand the barriers to accomplishing a safer community, and how we can help remove those barriers. In this first part of what will be a three-part episode, we hear how senior citizens are affected by sexual assault, as well as the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ youth. Featured speakers are Ana Sullivan, our Senior Talkline Coordinator, Jesse Mitchell, a Rape Response Counselor and PREA Coordinator, and Tashee Brown, our UTalk Line Coordinator
Thank you to longtime Crisis Center supporter and emeritus board member Dale Wisely for the intro and outro music.
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Crisis Center staff discusses what sexual assault awareness month (SAAM) is, how we can participate, and what services the Crisis Center offers for survivors, as well as how those services are being delivered under our current Shelter In Place order.
Intro Music provided by Dale Wisely
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