Inner-city populations remain at high-risk for poor health outcomes, and premature death due to preventable diseases and en- vironmental factors associated with known socioeconomic and primary health care inequities. In many of these communities COVID-19 spreads at faster rates than other communities. We will take a look at inner city communities in and around Baltimore and ask the questions: Where are we in the midst of COVID 19 and what is the outlook for tomorrow? How do we positively impact health outcomes at the individual, family and community level looking at population health management, standards of care, and selfcare. Profound Conversations is a moderated discussion with a question and answer segment for listeners to contribute thoughts and seek guidance.

Show Topics and Highlights

What about the coronavirus is having the greatest impact on communities?

Are certain people truly essential workers, or are they sacrificial?

“Some cities are doing a good job of getting data and tracking who’s been impacted by the coronavirus, how are poor neighborhoods in Baltimore reacting?”

You’ve got to go to those places that are ugly.

It doesn’t matter how wealthy you are if your lungs are collapsing.

“We have systems set up to advantage one group over another.”

We need to keep allowing community leader to share their struggles and their successes. There needs to be an outlet for community voices.

“I care because I was raised in an environment where I was always taking care of somebody and I learned to enjoy it early on. So essentially, what I'm doing is an outgrowth of environment I was lucky enough to grow up in and I want other people to have an environment that has something of beauty in it, even though the circumstances may be quite dire.”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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In a time with so much uncertainty, sickness and death how do we continue to maintain a positive outlook? What are the best ways to share em- pathy and create harmony in our homes and in our neighborhoods once things return to a semblance of ‘normal’? This week we look at several therapeutic approaches to these and other prescient questions with mental health thought leaders working on the front lines. We encourage first responders and medical professionals to participate in this most Profound Conversation. Profound Conversations is a moderated discussion with a question and answer segment for listeners to contribute thoughts and seek guidance.

Show Topics and Highlights

Will we see a post traumatic pandemic syndrome?

“We are experiencing financial challenges, health challenges, we have fears about today, and we have fears about tomorrow. And many of our families are in crisis.”

We have this innate sense of helplessness and hopelessness that starts seeping into our own personal lives.

“What have you been seeing in terms of what some of the first responders has been have been experiencing?”

“When we use the word mental health, that it kind of seen as a red flag for most people, something to be stigmatized. So we can hide it and say Behavioral Medicine or behavioral health . . . . We are not talking mental illness, we are talking mental health and wellness.”

We rarely go to the underlying disease, which is the social, economic, cultural disparities, the inequalities that are still very prevalent in the country.

Hugging is a warm exercise in compassion. . . everybody will literally need a hug.

What kind of advice do we have for nurses and other first responders who are struggling with the life and death challenges on the front lines?

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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The global economic picture is looking bleak. Economists predict there will be a recession in almost every devel- oped economy across the world. The US economy is expected to contract by 2.8% this year. The New Economic Reality: Social-economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic is a Profound Conversation focusing on how this will dictate economic realities for individuals, families and communities within the United States? What will be the evident new, stark realities facing us as we continue to brace for these tectonic shifts? Profound Conversations is a moderated discussion with a question and answer segment for listeners to contribute thoughts and seek guidance for current challenges that exist within the family and organizational dynamics of our current times.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

*this episode is reposted from 4/2/2024

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