UCSF conducts the largest study of homelessness in California in decades. Podcast storytelling workshop for people incarcerated inside San Quentin and Solano state prisons. Wildfire forest stewardship workshop for landowners. 

Study of California homelessness

It’s the largest representative study of homelessness in California since the mid-1990s and the findings shine a bright light on the leading cause of why so many people are living on the streets.  Today on Insight, Dr. Margot Kushel, Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative and principal investigator of the CA Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness, joins us with new research on why so many people are forced into the streets in California. We will also learn what the study recommends needs to be done to improve conditions in California to start finding solutions to this growing problem.

Uncuffed

A new show has taken to the public radio airways inside Solano State Prison where those incarcerated are DJs. The radio show is more than a music playlist, but an opportunity for those inside prison to story tell and share how certain songs shaped their lives. The “Uncuffed Playlist” is part of KALW, a public media station in San Francisco, which says this is California's first radio music program hosted by incarcerated people and broadcast to the general public. This is part of a larger audio storytelling program that has been going on  inside San Quentin State Prison for more than a decade, expanding to Solano State Prison in 2018. In that time, the “Uncuffed: Voices Behind Prison Walls” podcast has over 200,000 downloads and once released graduates have gone on to careers in media and advocacy. Eli Wirtschafter, the Uncuffed Program Director,  Maria Yates, the Lead Teacher of the Uncuffed Broadcast DJ Program in Solano State Prison, and Chanthon Bun, a graduate of the storytelling program at San Quentin State Prison and a former co-host of the Uncuffed podcast. Joined Insight to share more about this unique podcast.

Wildfire prevention workshop

"Helping People Help Themselves." That’s the mission of the UC Cooperative Extension, helping landowners in forest management. Susie Kocher, Forest Advisor with the Central Sierra Cooperative Extension, discusses the upcoming Forest Stewardship Workshop series for Solano and Sacramento counties from July 18 to September 12 to help landowners reduce wildfire risk and develop plans to improve and protect their forest lands in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner.