South Dakota Focus: Immigration in SD
October’s South Dakota Focus features stories of immigration and building community. Que Pasa Sioux Falls founder Nancy Reynoza shares her family’s journey to South Dakota and the need for Spanish-language news in the state’s largest city. Host Jackie Hendry also visits Huron and talks with members of the Karen community of refugees that have revived a shrinking town. SDPB1: Thursday, October 28, 8pm (7 MT)
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South Dakota Focus: Suicide Prevention
Join SDPB’s Jackie Hendry for in-depth coverage of topics important to South Dakotans.
Data from the first three months of 2021 put South Dakota on track for a record-breaking year of deaths by suicide. South Dakota Focus launched the new season with a personal story of suicide survival. Bridget Swier is the
communications and outreach director with The Front Porch Coalition, a non-profit suicide prevention and postvention organization that serves Pennington, Meade, and parts of Lawrence County. Eight years after surviving her own suicide attempt, Swier responds to scenes of recent suicide deaths to comfort loved ones. Throughout South Dakota, health systems, law enforcement, and others are finding innovative ways to increase access for mental health care—from a hotline dedicated to the state’s agriculture producers, to tablets that connect a counselor to a person in crisis from across the state. You can watch it again at sdpb.org/watch and share your own stories by emailing sdfocus@sdpb.org.
In Play Online Visit SDPB.org/inplay for South Dakota sports stories, history, video shorts and interviews. In Play with Craig Mattick Podcast Catch in-depth conversations about the players, programs and legends who shape the sports landscape in South Dakota. Craig Mattick and guests will discuss the latest developments in South Dakota high school sports, as well as local professional and collegiate sports. Listen to In Play with Craig Mattick wherever you get your podcasts. In Play is supported in part by Lake Area Technical College.
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