Philadelphia Community Podcast
Have you listened to Healthy Rowhouse Project Executive Director Jill Roberts’ interview with Loraine Ballard Morrill of iHeartRadio? They speak about our Restore, Repair, Renew home improvement loan program and the importance of protecting your home to build wealth. Listen below, starting at the 13-minute mark.
The Family Practice and Counseling Network is opening a birth center in the Woodland Village Plaza next year and on October 30th they’re offering free services at the grab-n-go event including: health screenings, FREE COVID testing, FREE flu vaccines, give-aways, FREE haircuts and more 6120 Woodland Avenue from 11-3 pm. I speak with LaQuesha Garland, the Center Director of the impending Family Health & Birth Center
Shante Brown, Director of Operations for PHLpreK in the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Children and Families tells us how to sign up for free, quality Pre-K.
www.PHLprek.org
or call 844-745-7735
One of the best strategies for supporting affordable housing – is offering home owners help to repair and maintain their homes with low cost loans and assistance finding reputable contractors. That’s what the Healthy Row House Project does. I speak to Jill Roberts, Director Healthy Rowhouse Project. To determine if you are eligible, call 215-866-5200 or submit an RRR form at wwwclarifi.org/rrr.
Wanda Bryant Hope is Johnson and Johnson’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and she comes by profession inspired by her Civil Rights activist mother – we’ll tell you about a dramatic story of courage in the face of Jim Crow. We also discuss about the upcoming PA Conference for Women which takes place November 11th.
www.paconferenceforwomen.org