Latest Tight knit Podcast Episodes
Ep. 8: Working on a Bigger Picture
Tight Knit - August 15, 2023 16:08 - 1 hourThis season of Tight Knit has covered a lot of ground seeking to understand the landscape of workforce development in Southeast Michigan and Western New York. In our final episode, Tight Knit host Shannon Cason brings several guests to the table to answer the question: Where do we go from here to...
Ep. 7: The Bus Stops Here: Employers Try Solving Turnover
Tight Knit - August 03, 2023 21:29 - 30 minutesA missed phone bill, a late bus, or even a not-quite-completed degree can derail employment for many. Meanwhile, employers suffer the cost of poor retention and few promotions within their entry-level workers. In this episode, we learn about the Employer Resource Network, ERN, which brings busine...
Ep. 6: Who Are You Willing to Hire?
Tight Knit - July 20, 2023 20:22 - 24 minutesIf businesses want to find enough workers, they’ll need to change their hiring practices, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. We look at programs that provide job opportunities for untapped workers and businesses, why things have changed, what it means for business, and how no...
Ep. 5: An Electric Future for Gen Z
Tight Knit - July 13, 2023 21:38 - 38 minutesFrom solar cells and batteries to electric vehicles, the future is electric. Getting there takes a coordinated effort among nonprofits, schools and colleges, businesses and governments. We talk to several organizations in Detroit and Buffalo about upskilling workers and enticing young people to t...
Ep. 4: Jump Starting Careers in Construction and Beyond
Tight Knit - June 27, 2023 20:24 - 35 minutesTake a deeper look at how workforce development programs, government, and businesses cooperate to keep workers and build economic opportunity. This episode also explores financial risks of these changes and the impacts on communities at large.
Ep. 3: Manufacturing in a New Era
Tight Knit - June 15, 2023 17:23 - 29 minutesAt Buffalo’s Northland Workforce Training Center on Buffalo’s Eastside, men and women are finding new careers in advanced manufacturing. The center’s programs help to fill a skilled trades workforce gap in Western New York. In Detroit, Sarah Gregory with Detroit Regional Partnership explains how ...
Ep. 2: Get Your Education!
Tight Knit - June 06, 2023 20:51 - 32 minutesThis week we look at how public education helps the workforce, and we talk to one teenager who loves shop class at Detroit’s Randolph Career and Technical Center, and to Don Hutchison who had a bumpy road after high school and is now Dean of Engineering and Advanced Technology at Macomb Community...
Ep. 1: The Workforce Pipeline
Tight Knit - May 25, 2023 19:59 - 28 minutesLearn more about the Tight Knit series from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation at tightknit.org. Tight Knit is hosted by Shannon Cason. Our supervising producer and editor is Sea Stachura and our executive producer is David Leins. This episode was produced and reported by Rob St. Mary, Cary Ju...
Introducing Tight Knit: Workforce Development
Tight Knit - May 25, 2023 18:24 - 1 minuteOur award-winning series returns with Tight Knit Season 2 focused on Workforce Development. In this season, we follow teens and adults as they navigate the various pathways that can lead to good jobs and careers, and the systems that can support or impede their success.
Ep. 8: Canopy of Neighbors
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:05 - 23 minutesMany people in the U.S. are getting older without a close family member who can take care of them. A Buffalo organization is one of a growing number of global “villages” that draw on volunteers to help otherwise isolated people with all aspects of caregiving.
Canopy of Neighbors
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:04 - 23 minutesMany people in the U.S. are getting older without a close family member who can take care of them. A Buffalo organization is one of a growing number of global “villages” that draw on volunteers to help otherwise isolated people with all aspects of caregiving.
The Unseen Hand
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 24 minutesA neurologist found himself entirely unprepared, emotionally and professionally, for his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease. But over time, Alzheimer’s revealed a side of his father that changed the son’s view of his dad--and of the brain--forever.
Ep. 7: The Unseen Hand
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 24 minutesA neurologist found himself entirely unprepared, emotionally and professionally, for his father’s Alzheimer’s Disease. But over time, Alzheimer’s revealed a side of his father that changed the son’s view of his dad--and of the brain--forever.
4 Generations + 1 Cute Dog
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 27 minutesFour generations of the Roberts family live in one house in central Michigan. They use the house itself, off-the-shelf technology, and other creative ways to help look after a family member with dementia, even training their very cute Bichon Frise to be a service dog.
Ep. 6: 4 Generations + 1 Cute Dog
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 27 minutesFour generations of the Roberts family live in one house in central Michigan. They use the house itself, off-the-shelf technology, and other creative ways to help look after a family member with dementia, even training their very cute Bichon Frise to be a service dog.
Ep. 5: Family Photo
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 29 minutesWe meet two women who moved across the country to look after their respective sets of aging parents, even though their elders, who came to the U.S. from India, had trouble accepting them: both individually, when they came out as lesbians, and as a married couple.
Family Photo
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 29 minutesWe meet two women who moved across the country to look after their respective sets of aging parents, even though their elders, who came to the U.S. from India, had trouble accepting them: both individually, when they came out as lesbians, and as a married couple.
Ep. 4: Difficult Relationships
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 28 minutesYou might become a parent’s caregiver out of love, or a wish to give back. But that’s much harder for children who were abused by the parent who needs them.
Difficult Relationships
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 28 minutesYou might become a parent’s caregiver out of love, or a wish to give back. But that’s much harder for children who were abused by the parent who needs them.
Ep. 3: It Just Takes One Person
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 27 minutesAging in place can be harder in rural communities, where resources and trained help can be scarce or far away. But in Chautauqua County, New York, we meet one woman who’s making a huge difference for countless isolated caregivers.
It Just Takes One Person
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 27 minutesAging in place can be harder in rural communities, where resources and trained help can be scarce or far away. But in Chautauqua County, New York, we meet one woman who’s making a huge difference for countless isolated caregivers.
Ep. 2: Stepping Up
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 30 minutesDetroit’s Angelena Taylor was only 28 when she became her father’s main caregiver after he had a stroke. This millennial daughter, educator, and former Ms. Black Michigan is focused on her dad while also setting goals for herself: to travel, do fulfilling work, and have her own family.
Stepping Up
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 30 minutesDetroit’s Angelena Taylor was only 28 when she became her father’s main caregiver after he had a stroke. This millennial daughter, educator, and former Ms. Black Michigan is focused on her dad while also setting goals for herself: to travel, do fulfilling work, and have her own family.
Caregiving In A Digital World
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 21 minutesTwo families approach their roles as caregivers with a combination of tech, ingenuity, love--and in one case, a very smart little dog.
Ep. 1: Caregiving In A Digital World
Tight Knit - July 23, 2020 16:03 - 21 minutesTwo families approach their roles as caregivers with a combination of tech, ingenuity, love--and in one case, a very smart little dog.
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