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Thrive Dispatches

Thrive Center for Children Families and Communities

Welcome to Thrive Dispatches, a podcast that explores the stories behind helping children, families, and communities thrive. Join host Dr. Matt Biel, director of Georgetown University"s Thrive Center, as he connects with researchers, clinicians, community leaders, and families who are reimagining mental health and well-being. Each episode brings together diverse perspectives and innovative approaches that are transforming how we support child and family mental health.

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00:57:24

Breaking the House of Cards (with Jay Chaudhary)

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2025/12/10

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Jay Chaudhary, former Director of Mental Health and Addiction for Indiana, about transforming an entire state's behavioral health system. Jay describes the mental health financing system he inherited as "a house of cards built on top of a shell game," where providers were locked into rigid financial formulas that made any deviation potentially catastrophic.Jay's journey began as a civil rights lawyer launching medical-legal partnerships

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00:44:33

Love as an Operational Strategy (with Shawn Hardnett)

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2025/11/12

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel has a conversation with Shawn Hardness, Founder and CEO of Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys in Washington, DC.Shawn built a school that challenges everything we think we know about supporting students from high-need communities. At Statesman, 90% of students come from families engaged with public support systems, and the school serves three times the typical rate of students needing special education services. Yet these boys are thriving.At the heart of

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00:38:23

Building a System That Values Everyone (with...

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2025/10/29

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky, who leads New Mexico's Early Childhood Education and Care Department, the first cabinet-level department of its kind in the country. When she arrived in New Mexico in 2019, the state ranked 50th in many national measures of child wellbeing. Now they're building what many see as a national model for early childhood systems change.Secretary Groginsky shares her journey from program evaluator to systems change leader,

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00:36:22

Creating Communities of Mental Health (with Dr. Susan...

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2025/10/15

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. Susan Swick, Executive Director of the Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health on California's Monterey Peninsula. Dr. Swick is building a comprehensive mental health ecosystem for her region.Rather than simply expanding services that are reactive to crises facing young people, she's creating a model that integrates promotion of emotional wellbeing, prevention of mental health challenges, treatment for those who are struggling, and

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00:42:27

The Emotional Work of Caregiving (with Dr. Maya Coleman)

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2025/10/01

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. Maya Coleman, Director of Hand in Hand Parenting and faculty member at the Thrive Center. Hand in Hand is an international organization that has been supporting families for 35 years across nearly 40 countries.Dr. Coleman brings a unique perspective shaped by her experiences as both a clinical child psychologist and as a parent who discovered firsthand that professional expertise doesn't automatically make the work of caregiving any easier. The

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00:48:45

Gaming to Build Better Decision-Making (with Dr. Lynn...

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2025/09/18

In the first episode of season 2 we’re talking about video games. More specifically we’re speaking with Dr. Lynn Fiellin Play2Prevent Lab about how their video games are used as tools for substance use prevention in adolescents and health education.Through five games developed with young people as co-designers, Dr. Fiellin's team creates virtual environments where teens can experience the consequences of their choices safely and develop an understanding of risk, build refusal skills while

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00:23:41

Thriving Together (Season One Finale)

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2025/07/08

Thriving isn’t a solo act. In this closing conversation, host Matt Biel looks back on 11 episodes that help shape how Thrive Center pursues its mission.Anchored in Dr. Jack Shonkoff’s insight that thriving is “the match (or mismatch) between what’s unique about each child and the environment that child is living in,” Matt revisits the season’s most resonant lessons on collective transformation.From Maria Vasquez on communities forging resilience before systems catch up, to Jen Drake Croft’s

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00:53:51

Putting Families First: Reimagining Mental Health...

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2025/06/24

There’s no impact without funding. This week. Thrive Dispatches Podcast explores the family-centered approaches to mental health through the lens of impact investing.Our guest is Louise Langheier, founder of Luminary Impact Fund, the first venture capital philanthropy fund dedicated exclusively to family mental health. Louise brings a unique perspective shaped by personal experiences and decades of social impact work, including co-founding Peer Health Exchange, which now serves over half a million

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01:06:17

Building Community Through Culture (with Jennifer...

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2025/06/10

🎧 Building Community Through Culture: A Conversation with the Navajo NationIn this special extended episode of Thrive Dispatches, we explore how culturally grounded partnerships can drive sustainable change in early childhood mental health. Host Matt is joined by Thrive Center’s Jen Drake-Croft, who introduces a powerful conversation with Kim Kee and Charnielle Desiderio—two inspiring leaders from the Navajo Nation who helped guide the transformative work of Project I-LAUNCH.Together, they reflect

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00:57:58

The Science of Thriving – What Children and...

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2025/05/28

What does it really take for children to thrive—not just individually, but within families and communities? In this episode of Thrive Dispatches, host Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. Jack Shonkoff, renowned pediatrician and funding director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, about what he calls Early Childhood Development 2.0.Together, they unpack how decades of developmental science point beyond parent-child relationships to include broader community and environmental factors. From

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00:27:38

The Innovation Hub - Where Ideas Become Solutions...

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2025/05/14

As they prepare for their first Solutions Fair on May 22nd, 2025, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Jason Lehmbeck and Kinsley Cuen from the Thrive Center's Innovation Hub, exploring how the first cohort of innovators at the Hub benefited from building and learning with academic and clinical experts from Thrive.The Innovation Hub, launched earlier this year, enables collaborative partnerships that bridge research and practice. Jason, as director, and Kinsley, as program manager, share insights from their

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00:41:51

Relational Health and Thriving With David Willis

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2025/04/29

This week, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Dr. David Willis, a pediatrician who dedicated his career to understanding how relationships shape child development and wellbeing and putting in places policies and support structures to enable these relationships to flourish.David brings a unique perspective shaped by his experiences as a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, academic scholar, leader of federal policy in early childhood, and founder of the Nurture Connection Network.The discussion explores

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00:41:48

Expanding Our View of Men in Early Childhood (With...

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2025/04/11

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Rob Harris, an expert in early childhood mental health and education. Their conversation explores the critical role of relationships that young children form with the adults in their lives - caregivers, parents, extended family members, and educators.Rob brings a unique perspective shaped by his experiences as a classroom teacher, mental health counselor, consultant, and father. The discussion challenges conventional thinking about children's behavior,

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00:34:16

The Power of Self-Determination (With Andy Arias)

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2025/04/02

In this episode, Dr. Matt Biel speaks with Andy Arias, whose work spans policy, advocacy, and program development in disability rights. Their conversation explores what it means to thrive at the intersection of disability, cultural identity, and lived experience. Andy brings perspective as a professional in disability policy, as a member of Latino and LGBTQ+ communities, and as someone who has lived with cerebral palsy since birth.The discussion challenges conventional thinking about disability,

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00:36:36

Early Childhood Trauma, Resilience, And ‘Bouncing...

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2025/03/18

This week, our Thrive Dispatches host and Thrive Center director, Dr. Matt Biel, chats with colleague Kelli McDermott about setting foundations in early childhood mental health, the nuances of childhood trauma, and a framework for resilience. Kelli McDermott is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with specializations in trauma and interpersonal violence and early childhood mental health. She has worked with young children, their families, and early childhood education centers to

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00:35:52

The Importance Of Recognizing ‘The Dignity Of Every...

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2025/02/26

This week, Thrive Dispatches Host and Thrive Center director, Dr. Matt Biel, has a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with Thrive faculty member Wendy Jones about inclusion, self-determination, and working with families with parents who have intellectual or developmental disabilities. They also discuss how her past experiences working as a bilingual special educator in New York City inform her work and spirit of advocacy now.

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00:27:54

What It Means To Innovate (with Jason Lehmbeck)

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2025/02/18

In the second episode of Thrive Dispatches Podcast, Matt Biel chats with Jason Lehmbeck, who heads the Innovation Hub @Thrive. The two discuss what it takes to create a space for innovations in the world of mental health and well being for children and families. They dive into Jason’s career in startups and how that merges with his own personal motivation for creating a space for innovators. To read interview highlights or access the transcript, visit Thrive Center’s website:

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00:42:46

Thrive Dispatches: What Does It Mean To ‘Thrive’?...

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2025/02/05

In this first episode of Thrive Dispatches, a new podcast from Georgetown University’s Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities, our host and Thrive Center director, Dr. Matt Biel, chats with Thrive faculty member Tawara Goode about what it means, exactly, to thrive in the context of their work with child and family mental health and well-being. Tawara Goode is an Associate Professor and the director of Georgetown University's National Center for Cultural Competence and the

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