Always News:  Live real-time webcasting continues, 24-7.  Save the handy url on your desktop at home, in your community center, senior center library or school.  If you are teaching others how to use special software for low vision or accessing online news, remember the audio versions available via DRIS.org.  If you represent an institutional care partner organization or residential facility and want to register to access DRIS' stored online audio archives which include daily and weekly uploads of popular programs, contact the DRIS Outreach Office today: (313) 577-4207.

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Legislative Forum on Aging Issues Still Worth a Listen:  Hosted by the Aging Services Consortium of Detroit (ASCD) at Hannan House and recorded by DRIS, this forum represents a who's who in metro Detroit’s senior service sector.  Hear what 30+ organizations are doing for and with Detroit-area senior citizens:  Listen Now!

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Barrier Busters: Wellness for Life:  Also in partnership with ASCD, DRIS was the only Radio Reading/Audio Information Service to win lead media role in a public broadcasting Sound Partners for Community Health grant initiative. The 2-year social marketing project focused on using closed-circuit radio, the Internet, community journalism and storytelling to improve the health and wellness of isolated, vulnerable senior citizens.  The project enrolled more than 30 senior services organizations and some-50 volunteers to help produce four town hall meetings, eight targeted radio programs and a two-year, on-air health awareness campaign using the recorded stories of project participants to emphasis the message.  The Barrier Busters kick-off was presented at Michigan's first Elder Friendly Summit.

Barrier Busters was a project of "Sound Partners for Community Health! -- a program of the Benton Foundation, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health and health care for all Americans."

To learn more about this effort or other opportunities to collaborate with DRIS t reach you consumers, contact Director Kim Walsh