This is a series about neighbors helping each other in Wayne & Medina counties, produced in partnership with Community Action of Wayne and Medina.
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For the last five years, Zaurice Stephens has been working to soothe the divisions in his Wayne County community through local events.
We team up with individuals and communities to record and present stories of life in Northeast Ohio. We also teach people to record and produce their own radio.
One in seven Ohioans faces food insecurity, according to Feeding America. This series is produced in partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio.
The local farming community is full of hardworking Ohioans who are finding new and creative ways to keep agriculture thriving. This series features farmers in and around Wooster, Ohio.
Poet and roofer Cardell Belfoure interviews formerly incarcerated people who are now activists. He coaches them on writing poetry about their experiences.
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In this “Sound of Us” story, an Amish farmer in Wayne County shares his journey of stuttering as a child. Eventually he became a bishop and public speaker.
With the proportion of never-married people 40 and older at an all-time high, our community storytellers explore why they got married or not — and, if they are married, how they're making their unions work.
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Found in rural, suburban and urban high schools across Northeast Ohio, gay-straight alliance groups provide safe spaces for students. Studies have found that the mere presence of a GSA is tied to less harassment of LGBTQ+ students.
People on the autism spectrum share stories of their lives – including dealing with sensory overload, being diagnosed in middle age and how they're learning to embrace rather than reject the way their brains work.
Senior citizens at an activities center in Parma share personal stories including surviving World War II in Europe, coming out as transgender later in life and maintaining romantic relationships into their 90s.
In connection with the International Institute of Akron, Arrivals tells the stories of five people who are newly settled in Northeast Ohio.
Arrivals
Former Ideastream Public Media intern Xeaiver Bullock interviewed Northeast Ohioans about their lives and work. His conversations covered creativity, car repair and overcoming generational poverty.
We Hear You
Ideastream Public Media’s 2022 summer interns – all college students – took part in a workshop series where they developed these very personal stories exploring topics important to them.
Ideastream interns
The students at Richmond Heights Secondary School have big questions, including “What’s the point of school choice with no transportation?” and “What happened to school spirit?” The answers in this self-reported series surprised them.
Richmond Heights
+Voices shares the stories of LGBTQ+ young people, in partnership with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland.
Poetic Reentry mixes poetry with personal reflections on life both inside and outside prison -- all told in the voices of formerly incarcerated men.
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Courtesy of RynReports of domestic abuse are rising in Ohio. In this Sound of Us story, a Wayne County woman comes to terms with her past to help others and raise awareness about the complex dynamics of abuse. -
Ygal Kaufman/Ideastream Public MediaHundreds of people in Cleveland each year are gunshot survivors. Those crimes impact families for years to come after, from medical expenses to physical disabilities and mental health challenges.
