Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine at Central Michigan University

This special episode features an interview with Larry Burns, the president and CEO of the Detroit-based Children's Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises money to make positive impacts in the lives of children, adolescents, and young adults.

Many pharmaceutical companies spent most of 2020 trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Learn about the development of the vaccines, and how they work to prevent COVID-19 infections.

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and healthcare providers scrambled to provide adequate care at a distance. This episode will focus on how healthcare providers navigated the shift to virtual patient interaction forced by the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed a light on healthcare inequalities along lines of race and socioeconomic status.  People of color have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in America and in Michigan.  

Persons of color are less likely to seek and receive mental healthcare.  This episode will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating that reality, and what individuals and communities can do to improve access to mental healthcare.

This episode is Building Resilience in Caregivers.  The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyone's normal routine.  This episode will show how healthcare professionals can support children by working with their parents and caregivers.

This episode is Building Resilience in Children. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all of our lives and caused stress and tension in adults and children. We will discuss what children need during this time and provide some resources to help build resilience. 

This episode will discuss the immediate and long-term mental health effects the pandemic is having on children and families, and how professionals are finding ways to help families cope. 

This episode will introduce you to COVID-19 and explain how children respond to a COVID-19 infection, as well as explain a rare condition that can follow a COVID infection, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or MIS-C. 

Working with adults with ACEs