An Act of Courage

Mar 05 2024
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It only takes one Act of Courage to build a movement. Led by Founder, President and CEO, Jean Pierre-Louis, MPH, capracare is a global health nonprofit organization focusing on improving the health and well being of the people of Haiti. This podcast showcases the courageous stories of the ever growing community of changemakers, leaders, partners, advocates, and those who have joined forces with capracare to create better lives and opportunities for the people of Haiti, and globally. 

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Reining in Cervical Cancer — What's Next?

Mar 05 2024 34 mins  
Welcome to Episode 8—the final episode of the third season of An Act of Courage! Over the last seven weeks, Jean Pierre Louise and Jo Ann Heppermann have talked with lots of folks about how capracare’s and PG Rotary’s story began and how they got to where they are today. Now is the time to talk about what is next. While today is the final episode of this third season, it clea

Reining In Cervical Cancer— The Hope of Screening: Three Haitian Women’s Story

Feb 06 2024 34 mins  
Welcome to Episode 7 of this 3rd season of an Act of Courage podcast. Today we are going to hear from three Haitian women who heard about the opportunity to be screened for cervical cancer by the folks from capracare—and said yes!Support the Show.______________________Help us fund critical healthcare, emergency relief, education and development programs to residents in the Southe

Reining in Cervical Cancer — Surviving and Conquering: capracare’s Story

Jan 23 2024 39 mins  
Welcome to Episode 6 of this 3rd season of an Act of Courage podcast. Today is about capracare’s Surviving and Conquering story! We’re going to hear from members of the capracare staff in Fonfrede, Haiti—who, by hook or crook, continue to screen women, working to rein in cervical cancer in Haiti!Support the Show.______________________Help us fund critical healthcare, emergenc

Reining in Cervical Cancer —Bringing Cervical Cancer Screenings to Maison de Naissance

Jan 16 2024 59 mins  
Welcome to Episode 5 – Bringing Cervical Cancer Screenings to Maison de Naissance! Today, we are talking about Maison de Naissance, a birthing home in Torbeck, Haiti. In the midst of our hope, sometimes despair, and resourcefulness needed to get the capracare project off the ground, by fate, faith, or chance, we learned of another opportunity to bring cervical cancer screenings t

Reining in Cervical Cancer —Hope, Despair, and Resourcefulness

Jan 09 2024 56 mins  
Welcome to Episode 4 – Hope, Despair & Resourcefulness! We’ve talked a bit about the adversity we encountered to get our cervical cancer screening off the ground—and we promised to tell you the rest of the story! Today, Jean and I are going to talk with Dr. Steve Papillon, the doctor with capracare at the beginning of this saga—and the project manager of the Global Gran

Reining in Cervical Cancer —The Highs and Lows of Adversity

Dec 27 2023 65 mins  
Welcome to Episode 3—The Highs and Lows of Adversity! So, we’ve talked about our story began, screening methods, and the importance of screening women in Haiti for cervical cancer. Today, laugh and sigh with Jean and Jo Ann as they talk about the challenges they dealt with as capracare and Rotary worked to get this project off the ground. Joining them are two fellow Rotarians f

Reining in Cervical Cancer — What We’re Trying to Do and the Science Behind It

Dec 19 2023 53 mins  
Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2 - What We’re Trying to Do and the Science Behind ItIn our first episode we talked about how the collaboration between capracare and the Prospect Goshen Rotary Club started. Today we are going to focus on the screening methods used to detect cervical cancer, the science behind it and why it is so important to the women of Haiti. Jean and I are very gr

Reining In Cervical Cancer—The Beginning

Dec 12 2023 34 mins  
Welcome to Season 3 Episode 1—The Beginning of Our Story. Jean and I are thrilled you have joined us. And we have with us today Stacy Bailey-Ndyaie. Stacy is the founder and executive director of Bridge Kids International, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky but with groups of young folks who are doing good work all over the world. Stacy herself was already well schooled in int

13 | More Than Skill Sets and Specialties, a Willing Heart On Mission Trips | Rory Sweeny McGovern, RN, EdD, MEd, MA

May 29 2023 52 mins  
This is episode number 13, our season finale, and today we’re talking to a long-time capracare friend and former co-chair of the CapraCare Health Care Committee, Rory Sweeny McGovern. Rory served in health care for over 35 years. She has held Nursing Education Administrative positions in several tri-state major safety net medical centers. She has worked all this time in underserv

12 | From Healthcare To Parenting to Daily Life, If you Fail To Plan, You Plan to Fail | Dr. Helene Nau, DNP, APRN, FNP-C (Health360 Direct Primary Care)

May 22 2023 60 mins  
This is episode number twelve, and today we dive into an amazing conversation with our very own Board of Directors member, Dr. Helene Nau, a board-certified Family Practitioner and Founder of Health 360 Direct Primary Care in Hollywood, FL. A Practice with the mission of delivering affordable and accessible quality care to families. Dr. Aunty Helene, as many of her teenage patients