For the People is welcoming back our community partners from the Annie C. Courtney Foundation, providing connections for thousands local kids seeking foster care with trainings, support groups, referral services, and recruitment of families for children who need them. We'll focus on Annie C's New Beginnings initiative and ways that you can help the cause better care for kids who are aging out of foster care eligibility.

In this segment we head to The Elm City to check-in with the founder of cARTie - a traveling art classroom that recently found its forever home and greatly expanded space for creatives in the heart of New Haven's Westville Village. We'll get caught up on everything cARTie and prep you for their upcoming Fall Festival. Hang around and discover all the reasons you should get to know cARTie better!

If we had a baton we'd wave it. But we have something even better - the Conductor and President of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony are previewing the upcoming GBS season honoring great American composers and classics. Tune in and find out how you can attend and enjoy one or all of the symphony's upcoming offerings.

Pat interviews Ward 6 candidate Denis Marier.

Doug interviews Ward 9 candidate Soham Patel.

Doug interviews Ward 7 incumbent Angelo Marignani

Bridgeport's Southwest Community Health Center is a growing public health agency providing high quality, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health services to individuals and families - especially the uninsured who reside in the medically underserved Southwest Bridgeport community. Find out if they offer a health care service you may need or learn about their upcoming annual gala. We'll explain how and why you should consider supporting the cause through this event, direct donations, or

Since the early 1950s, Stamford-based ARI has consistently been ahead of the curve developing programs and facilities and helping destigmatize and integrate alternately abled and neurodivergent young people and adults into the community and our regional workforce. So, tune in and learn all about ARI and the agency's upcoming benefit event that will give y'all a chance to break out your cowboy boots!

As we move through September - Suicide Prevention Awareness Month - hear from a local lawmaker who was a driving force behind the state establishing its Transforming Behavioral Health Policy and Planning Committee. You'll learn how that committee is now partnering with United Way of Connecticut and others to publicize both the immediate resources available for the families of young people experiencing mental health emergencies, as well as a network of mental health intake centers especially for

Listen for information on how to score free tickets to the Chamber of Commerce Mayoral Debate on September 29th.

Tap into our latest informative conversation with The Connecticut Project. Since 2025, The Connecticut Project has been advocating for the state to protect the more than 32,000 residents who have lost SNAP due to federal cuts and changes, so we'll be focusing on what's to like and what's not to like for working class people who participated in the recent statewide one-time SNAP grocery card plan.

We're welcome back our friends from the Women's Mentoring Network - providing the foundational skills for women to secure quality employment and pursue their educational goals - all at no cost. We'll discuss how you could play an important role in the work they are doing, or support the cause at the nonprofit's upcoming gala coming up later this week in Greenwich.

We're rolling with Wishes on Wheels, a local nonprofit dedicated to bringing families, the trucking community, and supporters together to raise awareness, hope, and funds for children facing life-threatening illnesses. On September 27, Wishes on Wheels is hosting their annual Truck Convoy and Family Fun Day, so we'll talk with a rep from the nonprofit to let you in on how to attend or get involved.

We're connecting with an organizer for Boobstock 2026. Boobstock is a 100% volunteer-run charity music festival held annually in Deep River. Since 2013, Boobstock has brought together musicians, families, and friends for a day of live music — all in the name of supporting breast cancer patients at Middlesex Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven. Stick with us and learn how you can attend!

Let's talk recycling - specifically about recycling gas cylinders  — you know, the ones typically used for camping, cooking, DIY projects, filling balloons and other household tasks. Nearly a year ago, Connecticut began partnering with the Cylinder Collective, and we're going to fill you in about how this stewardship program  makes it easy to support recycling these cylinders easily and efficiently, thereby reducing our impact on the environment.

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For the People is reconnecting  with community partners at McCall Behavioral Health Network. We'll talk about how that regional provider was recently accepted into the World Trade Center Health Program, becoming a provider of coordinated behavioral health and primary care services for eligible 9/11 responders and survivors in Connecticut.