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Wonderscape
Keeping People and Animals Healthy in Our Community
This video introduces the community workers who help keep people and animals healthy, including doctors, school nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and veterinarians. Learn how each of these professionals provides care, from checkups and...
TED Talks
TED: Lessons from the past on adapting to climate change | Laprisha Berry Daniels
Laprisha Berry Daniels' grandparents left the Southern United States and migrated north to Detroit in the 1950s — a move that could be considered a big "climate change." Now, as a public health social worker, Berry Daniels mines the...
SWPictures
Community Health Workers in Bangladesh: Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate
This video showcases the work of community health workers in Bangladesh who are trying to reduce the number of women who die during childbirth. They identify pregnant women using simple urine tests and provide them with prenatal care,...
Wonderscape
The Environmental and Human Costs of Industrial Cobalt Mining in the DRC
Delve into the complexities of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where industrial and artisanal mining intersect. Learn about the environmental damage, displacement of communities, and health risks associated...
Curated Video
This Organization Feeds Their Entire Community
If you are a kid and your bed is a lumpy, old couch or a cold, hard floor and you leave home for school without a regular breakfast, you will not excel in your classes. This daily struggle is shockingly common...
The Wall Street Journal
Amanda Cage on the Future of the American Labor Market
As employers in the trade sector offer new recruits higher pay, better benefits and signing-on bonuses, Amanda Cage, president and CEO of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, joins us to discuss the future of trade schools across...
Curated Video
Let's Learn About Communities: People at Work
Community Workers takes students on a journey through their own neighborhoods. From firemen to dedicated postal workers, and from skilled mechanics to trusted bankers, this program sheds light on the crucial roles that community workers...
Wonderscape
Community Helpers: Keeping Us Safe
This video introduces the roles of police officers, firefighters, and paramedics in keeping the community safe. Learn how these workers solve crimes, fight fires, respond to emergencies, and provide medical care to those in...
Curated Video
Exploring Communities & Its Workers
From firemen and postal workers to mechanics and bankers, this program helps kids understand why people in a community work and how that work provides products and services that community members need and want. Basic economic concepts...
Makematic
Community Helpers
Learn about the important role that community helpers such as teachers, doctors, and firefighters play in our communities.
The Guardian
Living in fear of FGM in Sierra Leone: 'I'm not safe in this community'
Girls in Sierra Leone are under huge pressure to be initiated into all-female secret societies that practise female genital mutilation. Subscribe to The Guardian ►ttp://is.gd/subscribeguardian' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Guardian...
Amor Sciendi
The Harvesters: Who's in Charge? | AmorSciendi
In this video I discuss Peter Brueghel's painting the Harvesters which is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
TED Talks
What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls? | Leslie Herod
When you report an emergency in the US, police, firefighters or paramedics answer the call. What if mental health professionals responded, too? Colorado State Representative Leslie Herod shares a straightforward and research-backed...
TED Talks
TED: How we'll fight the next deadly virus | Pardis Sabeti
When ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
America's First Black Economist
Eighty years ago, Sadie Alexander was writing on the devaluation of household work, a topic that has only recently been covered by graduate economics programs. That’s just one of the ways the pioneering economist was ahead of her...
The Guardian
'Social workers are there to help people be independent of government'
Peaches Cadogan, co-director of youth charity Reality Bytes and star of Peckham Finishing School for Girls, on her own journey and her work in the community
TED Talks
TED: The laws that sex workers really want | Juno Mac
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) ... but...
TED Talks
The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will fix it | Angela Mahecha Adrar
Corporations and big business have wrecked the environment, but disadvantaged communities living in "sacrifice zones" -- urban areas heavily polluted and poisoned by industry -- are paying the price, says climate justice leader Angela...
The Guardian
Mine Closure Shakes Community, Sparks Job Losses in Queenstown
Queenstown residents process the announcement that the Mount Lyell copper mine is being placed on care and maintenance, leading to the immediate redundancy of 200 employees. There is widespread shock and disappointment among the workers...
Curated Video
This Angel Helps Immigrant Field Workers Live A Better Life!
** In celebration of National Farmer's Market Week, OGTV is sharing this heartwarming story about a husband and wife duo who are doing all they can to make life easier for California field workers after their...
SWPictures
The Struggle to Breathe: Training Health Workers to Save Lives in Communities
The Struggle to Breathe part 8/8: The video shows the graduation of health workers who will provide healthcare to children in their community. The program is supported by the village deputy governor and UNICEF. With their new skills, the...
Curated Video
A Texas Community Comes Together to Rescue Abandoned Animals
Dedicated workers established The Animal Shelter of Texas County to help the hundreds of abandoned animals in their community.
Curated Video
Dorothy Bolden: Unionizing Domestic Workers
Civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden made it her mission to empower America’s working class. Her activism empowered domestic workers across the nation – and created noticeable change in the workplace for thousands of Black women.