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Eastern Kentucky Flooding: How You Can Help
Please consider offering whatever you can to help our neighbors recover
- Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund: Click here
- The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. Click here.
- Appalshop Appalachian Flood Support Resources: Click here
- Cowan Community Center Flood Funds: Click here
- Appalachians for Appalachia: Click here
Your neighbors, friends and family in Eastern Kentucky thank you for your help and support
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The science behind the misery: State Geologist William Hanesberg and UK hydrologist Chris Barton on how the topography of Eastern Kentucky’s mountain region contributes to destructive and deadly flash flooding. LISTEN: Hanesberg / Barton
Lindsay Kampfer joins us from BlueGrass Care Navigators on how the flooding was so harrowing for many hospice patients - and, a new program to provide age-in-place care. LISTEN
We hear about recovery and rebuilding efforts from Gerry Roll and Lora Smith of the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. LISTEN
And, we learn about the physical and emotional impacts of racism from Dr. Candace Hargons, Interim Department Chair, Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology and professor of Diagnosis/Psychopathology, Ethics, Social Justice Consultation at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hargons is Gerald Smith’s guest for this latest in our series on racial justice and equality. LISTEN
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Contact: Tom Martin at es@eku.edu or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358
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