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These Are Your Neighbors

These Are Your Neighbors

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These Are Your Neighbors is a podcast hosted by Thea Jorgensen and Sargianna Wutzke who are members of the City of Bismarck’s Human Relations Committee. Through conversations with diverse change-makers in the community, the podcast hopes to strengthen inclusivity amongst the Bismarck community, by encouraging others to get to know their neighbor.Copyright Dakota Media Access Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • TAYN Ep. 77 - Julie Horntvedt

    TAYN Ep. 77 - Julie Horntvedt
    Mar 10 2026
    Julie Horntvedt has served as the Executive Director of the North Dakota State Council on Developmental Disabilities for the past nine years. In this leadership role, she is responsible for the overall strategic direction, administration, and daily operations of the Council, a 23-member body appointed by the Governor to advocate for system change and promote inclusion and independence for individuals with developmental disabilities across the state.

    Julie provides executive oversight for the Council's federally mandated initiatives, including the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive five-year State Plan. She is responsible for authoring the Council's annual federal performance report and work plan, ensuring alignment with both state and federal priorities under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act. As a key liaison between the Council, state and federal policymakers, Julie works collaboratively with public agencies, advocacy organizations, and community stakeholders to advance policies and practices that improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities. She has a strong focus on capacity building, interagency collaboration, and community engagement.

    Julie also serves in several appointed and elected capacities that support cross-system advocacy and coordination. She is a member of the North Dakota Olmstead Commission, the Comm unit of Practice for Secondary Transition, Bismarck-Mandan Transit, and the North Dakota Cross Disability Advisory Council. She currently chairs the North Dakota Disability Advocacy Consortium and serves on the board of Uspire ND, contributing to statewide initiatives focused on accessibility, equity, and inclusive education and employment outcomes.
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    31 m
  • TAYN Ep. 76 - Morgan Turner

    TAYN Ep. 76 - Morgan Turner
    Feb 24 2026
    Morgan Turner is an LCAC (Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor) and Clinical Supervisor practicing in Bismarck, ND. She is currently in her 11th year of counseling. She earned her Bachelors degree through Minot State University. She completed her 1400 training hours through the Missouri Valley Training Consortium and started her career at the Bismarck Transition Center (and for 6 years to follow) then to the Heartview Foundation from 2020 to mid 2025.

    Throughout her career, she has worked in many areas of addiction, to include evaluations, group therapy, individuals, grief therapy, trauma informed care, client centered therapy and now focusing on women specific treatment.

    Morgan’s drive to help women in addiction and focus on women with children only grew stronger when she had children of her own. Her priority became working to reunite the family unit, starting with mothers. Her opportunity came in June 2025 to use her passion and expertise to help exactly this group of women and children will at the New Freedom Family Center. This opened just a few short months ago in September 2025.

    The New Freedom Family Center focuses on parenting moms, mothers working within the foster care/CPS and pregnant mothers that are residential appropriate. There is a daycare provider on site for children 5 and under if children are currently with mom, allowing them to receive treatment during the day and work back into structure, regimen and routine in the evening. For those children within the CPS system, NFFC works to encourage unique visitation outside just a room in a center as well as when appropriate, overnight trials with those children, as a transition back into their parenting.

    For the pregnant mothers, NFFC works to establish them with proper prenatal care, with a team onsite every other week to complete these visits as well as prescribe medications as needed for common medical needs. Further, are partnered with a behavioral health doctor, Geri Wolf, who is on site weekly and visits with most all women individually to aid mental health components, as they are willing.
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    33 m
  • TAYN Ep. 75 - Chad Oban

    TAYN Ep. 75 - Chad Oban
    Feb 12 2026
    34 m
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