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Welcome to Changing the Conversation! We discuss critical and timely topics focused on equity, homelessness, substance use, mental health, and trauma. Our hosts interview health and human service experts, researchers, and advocates. Conversations explore how we can adapt our systems to the rapidly changing landscape of social services.

Nov 7, 2016

Andre Johnson, President and CEO of Detroit Recovery Project, discusses how peer workers make use of mindfulness, massage, and other self care modalities in helping to reduce recidivism rates in the addiction recovery movement.


yolanda roberts
over eight years ago

I thank you for your inspirational speech. Working with the hardest community to serve, addictions, low-income, Homelessness, sexually exploited, domestic violence, criminal background, trauma and crisis daily is very important for staff to maintain there own self care and I like the tools that you apply in your life is very helpful advise.

Debbie Scott
over eight years ago

Fist time listener.