Our 8th episode of season 2 on Impact stigma is all about early childhood behavioral and neurodevelopmental issues in children. The stigma and heartache parents face from the world and their families, friends and themselves is exhausting so we are talking about it. We are giving those parents a voice and having a great conversation talking about younger kiddos and their parents. Frontier Health has a fabulous free internationally recognized parent-implemented program that helps parents work with their own children with behavioral and neurodevelopmental issues. Come and listen while we laugh and dig deep with Regional Intervention Program Resource Consultant and a Case Manager for Holston Children and Youth, Rebecca Roosa! You don’t want to miss this one!

ATTENTION ALL PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS!!! This episode of Impact Stigma was made just for you! Mental health issues affecting children and youth in our communities and across the world is certainly not a new concept, however, with a dramatic increase directly related to the struggles and stress of dealing with COVID-19 our children’s mental wellbeing is more important than ever. We must be their mental health champions!
For this episode, we share how stigma specifically effects children and youth in need of mental health treatment, how to better communicate with them, and we share types of treatment that actually work. Our guest today is the Site Director for Frontier Health’s Adventure Program. This program is for youth under 17 that are struggling with substance use disorder and have a cooccurring mental health issue as well. Maranda Conner has her MS, LPC, LPC-MHSP, EMDR Certified, CSOTP and is almost finished with her EMDRIA Consultant Training.
Maranda is quite passionate about her “Babies” as she calls them and is joining us to share her personal story and talk with us about how mental health stigma is stopping our children and youth from getting help. She shares sound advice for parents and caregivers about effective communication when talking about mental health and what we can all do to Impact Stigma!
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month along with Foster Care Awareness Month! Join us for Season 2, Episode 6 of Impact Stigma as we welcome our two special guests from Frontier Health’s two therapeutic foster care programs, Traces representing Northeast Tennessee and Values representing Southwest Virginia.
Courtney Mauk is the TRACES Parent Trainer and Recruiter for Northeast TN and Jessica Keith is the VALUES Therapeutic Foster Care Coordinator for Southwest, VA. Foster care is a topic that unfortunately has been riddled with negative stigma in the media, movies and the news. This is a message we hope spreads far and wide! We loved this conversation and had such a wonderful time with both ladies!
We are honored to announce our first Impact Stigma Podcast Episode Sponsor, Food City! Thank you to Food City for sponsoring 5 upcoming episodes of Impact Stigma and for your continued support for the Frontier Health Foundation! If you would like to learn more about becoming a sponsor, please go to our website to find out more.

Join us as we have a fun and interesting conversation with Vonda Wagner, LPC, Director of Rehabilitation Services of Frontier Health’s Victory Center during April’s Counseling Awareness Month! We honor mental health counselors, school counselors, substance abuse counselors, and career counselors. We asked all of our Frontier Health counselors to answer the question, What’s Your Why? Vonda shares her answer to our “why? question along with her passionate views and educated experiences with psycho-social rehabilitation. We absolutely loved our conversation with Vonda and left with a new understanding for what it means to treat the whole person!

We are happy to share that our podcast is quickly approaching over 700 listeners and is listened to by our dedicated fans in over 19 states across the country! We can’t say a big enough thank you to everyone for your continued support! Join us for this very special episode of our award-winning podcast, Impact Stigma. For our fourth episode of season two we are honored to offer a different look at how addiction effects families. This special story is all about a mother’s unyielding love for her son, her battle with his addiction and the victory she celebrates with him today. This is a story of hope in the face of darkness. A story of a mother’s battle for her son’s survival that every parent or loved one that loves someone effected by substance abuse disorder needs to hear. Brenda Seals is the author of Son Down, Son Up, a story she wrote to bring hope to others with loved one’s suffering with addiction.
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