Children's Health, Lessons from the Field

Find out how "La Placita Bilingüe" succeeded in creating an atmosphere where Spanish-speaking parents could help each other become confident about raising their families in a new culture.

Talking to young people about teen pregnancy is tough. Read about how two Sound Partners grantees, KSTX-FM in San Antonio, Texas and KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, created programming regarding the teen issue for older and younger audiences.

Teens write, film and act in TV PSAs talking about reducing methamphetamine use as part of a Sound Partners for Community Health project in Eureka, CA. This multi-media community partnership provides opportunities for teens to become the producers of media, not just consumers. Read more about local media partnerships in the on-line publication Local Voices. The February 2006 Local Media Issue is the third
in a series telling stories from the successful projects of Sound Partners for Community Health. Download the 9-page PDF document.

This profile takes an in-depth look at the structure of Sound Partners for Community Health and its effects on participants and their communities, including an overview of the type of programming and outreach used to reach audiences, interviews with stations, community organizations and Sound Partners' staff, and what the future holds for community-based journalism. This report appeared in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's 2001 Anthology. (2001)

This site examines how technology can be harnessed to improve the health of communities. One of the case studies presented is KCUR/Kansas City's Partnership for Children, a Sound Partners project.