Stan and Clarence chat with Patty Bowler - Director of Policy and Community Programs at the Minneapolis Health Department - and Kara Hirdman - Senior Public Health Specialist for Mental Well-being at the Minneapolis Health Department - about the government's interest in the mental health and well-being of its citizens. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships. More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's episode is on government interest in mental health and well-being. So we're going to be doing a couple of shows on mental health overall. And this is the first one that really, really kicks it off. So stay tuned. We've got two great guests with us.
As always, I'd like to introduce our great background crew that is really second to none and helps Clarence and I do these shows on a weekly basis. So we have Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, and Deandra Howard that do our background research for us and give us some good talking points and ideas to discuss with our guests that we bring on. Matthew Campbell,
is our production manager and makes sure all the logistics of getting the shows out as well as our website up and running. So thank you to Matthew. And then finally also Sheridan Nygaard helps with our research and our marketing. So these are great, great behind the scenes people.
And like most productions, movies, TV, whatever, you have to have good people in the background to make things really work and they really help us. Of course, there's Clarence Jones. Without Clarence, we wouldn't be able to do this. Great podcast, Health Chatter. And I greatly appreciate his collegial insights and his friendship. So thank you, Clarence. And then finally, Human Partnership is our
is our sponsor for this. It's a great community group that's involved in the community. Specifically, they started out in the African-American community and now they do just about everybody in a variety of different things. I encourage you to visit their website as well as ours. So thank you, thank you, thank you. So today, we're looking at governmental interest in mental health and well-being.
We have two great guests with us. Patty Bowler, who we've connected on a variety of different things over the years, is the Director of Policy and Community Programs at the Minneapolis Health Department. She directs and coordinates local, state, federal policy proposals in her arena, does a lot of programmatic work. endeavors. Today we'll be talking about mental health.
If I really wanted to, I could add all the different things that you've been involved with over the years, but that would take up the whole show. But thank you, thank you so much for being with us. Cara Kurdman has just started at the Minneapolis Health to Carbon a couple months ago, so thanks for being with us and being willing to be
vocal already on the subject matter, senior public health specialist for mental well-being at the city of Minneapolis, and has done some great things in the past. She was the director of healthy living at YMCA of Greater Twin Cities for a few years, and so thank you. I mean, I'm sure the perspectives and the kickoff, I'm really saying this, the kickoff as it relates to
Mental health really starts with the two of you. So thank you very much. So, all right, Clarence, I'll let you kick her off and let's get the show moving here.
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