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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 3, 2025

Johanna Bergan and Gina Albano discuss the history and current status of youth peer support with host Rowan Willis-Gorman. This episode is part of a series featuring youth peer workers and recovery innovators discussing how to improve and uplift behavioral health systems for youth.

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Oct 6, 2025

John Dellick and host Rowan Willis-Gorman share what it is like to find the path from youth advocate to advocate for youth. This episode is part of a series featuring youth peer workers and recovery innovators discussing how to improve and uplift behavioral health systems for youth.

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Sep 22, 2025

Natalia Muñoz and Ash Wheeler share insights about youth peer support and mentorship with host Rowan Willis-Gorman. Mentorship is ingrained in most peer spaces, but is uniquely important in youth and near-age peer support, existing in the relationships between youth peer workers and the youth they serve and between...