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One Small Step partners Paula McElwee (70) and Mary Jane Gilmer (72) have a conversation about their fathers as great influences in their lives, believing in keeping people at home and out of nursing homes, and discussing how the government...

Will Newman (23) talks with his mentor Dr. Carolyn Aidman (73) about their work with the Urban Health Initiative (UHI).

An interview with Manny Martinez about the stigma of mental illness and media representation.

Talking about mental illness

Veteran and Single Father of 3, Eugene Reece (40) speaks with Al Lejarde (37) on how the Easterseals Bob Hope Veteran Support Program assisted Eugene navigate out of homelessness and unemployment during the Holidays back in 2019.

One Small Step Conversation partners Louann Talbert (69) and James "Jim" Dierke (75) talk about their shared experiences in education and find common ground in their view of the current political climate.

One Small Step participants Madison "Maddie" Mueller (23) and Valerie Lipow (69) have a conversation about adoption's influence in their lives, their shared Jewish heritage, and mensches.

Kathleen O’Dell (68) interviews her long-time friend, Annie Busch [no age given], about her work in the Springfield community, from serving as the Executive Director of the Springfield-Greene County Library to her efforts to aid children experiencing homelessness.

Sedrick (22) and his sister Ruth (27) discuss First Step Communities, an organization that works with the homeless in order to find them homes in Sacramento, CA.

Anne Marie Walsh (43) is interviewed by her friend Mark Horvath (53) about experiencing homelessness and how she met Mark.

One Small Step conversation partners Roxxi Davis [no age given] and Joseph Shepard (27) discuss their relationships with their fathers and consider how faith has shaped their lives.

This interview was about beauty ideals, body image, objectification, and mental illness.

Joshua Elder and Ryan McLaughlin are nearing the end of a Mexico to Canada bike ride along the Continental Divide Trail. Stories from their mountainbiking trip, which is awareness raising about Alzheimer’s disease

Friends, Danielle D'Haiti (27) and TaTeasha Davis-Brown (34) have a conversation about Danielle's experience with homdlessness and the events that lead up to her being a homeless single parent.

Gillian Giagio (37) interviews her friend, Alia Michelle Weiner, about her time in CEDU as a teenager, the trauma she faced their and how it's affected her mental health as an adult.

Lisa Ostler is interviewed by her sister Liz about her troubled youth, molestation by an uncle, alcoholism and sobriety.

A woman interview her 56-year-old mother about her childhood and her family

A young woman interviews her father about being a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

Ruth Kockler (54) interviews her father, Norbert Kockler (91), about being an orphan, attending Girard college, and having his own family.

Norris Streetman (65) interviews his friend Daniel Warrior (40) about his journey as an actor, finding his identity as a Native American, and the struggles that he overcame along the way.

I (Oliver Short, 19) interview Chris Taylor from Therapeutic Life Choices in Tulsa, OK.

In this interview we are discussing my mothers view on mental illness (PTSD).

Mental illnesses

Colleagues and friends Stephanie Hoffman (54) and Kelley Kellis (47) discuss the meaning of home, houselessness in Kalamazoo, MI, and housing being a human right.

I was very surprised as to the little amount of information my mother had with mental illness.