Whether you’re getting ready to re-enter the world post incarceration or you’re on probation or parole or you are just struggling with drugs, employment, housing, and more, the All-Inclusive Support Services Program is ready and available to help!  AISS is a division of the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office, and they provide access to individualized services no matter what level of help you need, AND they were the first full-service reentry program in the U.S., launching in 1996! Of course there is SO much more at AISS than could be covered in this episode so paste this link in your browser - http://hcsdma.org/aiss-3/ for more information.

The Hustler Files Ep 1 - Meet AISS (The All-Inclusive Services Program)

2/9/24: Rep Natalie Blais: road repairs, revenue & reparations. MTA Pres Max Page: teachers' right(?) to strike. Donnabelle Casis with Karen Webb: the exhibit "Queer Voices." Smith profs Carrie Baker & Loretta Ross - freedom fighters!  SCMA Dir. Jessica Nicoll: amazing exhibits -- now free.

MTA Pres Max Page: teachers' right(?) to strike

Rep Natalie Blais: road repairs, revenue & reparations

2/13/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: school funding & receivership. SABR star Duke Goldman: Red Sox, NYY & the first woman MLB umpire. Ed. Collab's Todd Gazda: our schools need money. UMass prof. Amilcar Shabazz w/ spoken word artist & Black Artistic Freedom (AF) Conf. organizer, Amani Wallace.

Rep Patricia Duffy: school funding & receivership

2/14/24: Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans:"Point-Counterpoint".  Alpinist Christian Beckwith: the 10th Army Div's victory over Hitler. Scott Coen: NHS b'ball star Ava Azzaro's 1000th point. Amherst BID's Liz Larson: "Take a Dino to Dinner". Amherst educators Alex Lopez & Claire Cocco: unfounded Care & Protection complaints.

Amherst BID's Liz Larson: "Take a Dino to Dinner"

Scott Coen: NHS b'ball star Ava Azzaro's 1000th point

Amherst educators Alex Lopez & Claire Cocco: unfounded Care & Protection complaints

Alpinist Christian Beckwith: the 10th Army Div's victory over Hitle

Amherst Prof Ilan Stavans:"Point-Counterpoint"

This will air on 7.13.24: Wisconsin Congressman Scott Klug (1991-1999) and the current CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Adam Hinds, join host Dan Torres to discuss democratic polarization, social media, and Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.

Panorama -- Episode 81 -- Former GOP Congressman Scott Klug and EMK CEO Adam Hinds

Launching a social entrepreneurial venture is no easy task, and for Founder, President, and CEO of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute it was not an overnight success. Brandon conceived the EDWINS concept in 2004, with a three-fold mission: teach a skilled and in-demand trade in the culinary arts, empower willing minds through a passion for hospitality management, and prepare students for a successful transition home. The students who participate in this mission are all justice involved looking for a new life back in the community. But Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it took another three years for Brandon, a formally trained chef and sommelier, to build out the social enterprise model and then another four years before Brandon could launch the Culinary Club classes at the Grafton Correctional Institution. Brandon opened EDWINS restaurant in 2013 and here in 2024 EDWINS has a French Restaurant, Butcher Shop, Bakery, and a Second Chance Life Skills Center which itself is a campus with housing, childcare, library, fitness center, computer lab and more!  600+ have graduated from the EDWINS culinary programs and can boast that only 1% of students have recidivated. Like Brandon says, when asked, how he accomplished so much, his response, “just knock down one problem at a time”.

The Hustler Files Ep. 73 - Reimagining Reentry So It Feels Like a Warm Hug

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The Hustler Files Ep. 73 - Reimagining Reentry So It Feels Like a Warm Hug

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