Hope from the Front Lines
Hope from the Front Lines peeks beyond the headlines finding stories of struggle, passion, and strength from essential caregivers of color doing the heavy lift - protecting Chicago’s most vulnerable during this COVID-19 pandemic. The series is produced by Juneteenth Productions with funding support from the McCormick Foundation.
Episodes
18 episodes
"Daycare Double Bind" reported by Judith McCray
Nine months into the Coronavirus pandemic, childcare providers are doing double and triple duty supervising school aged kids with remote learning for much of each day, while doing their regular duties caring for the children of working parents....
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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15:47
"Surviving Covid" reported by Bia Medious
Healthcare workers in homes face increased exposure risk to Covid-19, just like traditional front line workers. So why are employers using loopholes in the law to avoid paying some essential workers sick leave? The Families First Coronavirus Re...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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14:40
"Breaking Point" reported by Maurice Bisaillon
Throughout Chicagoland and across the country nursing homes continue to bear the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the past 11 months the linoleum tiled hallways of these facilities have carried not only orderlies, gurneys, and resident...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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13:07
"Enough Is Enough" reported by Judith McCray
Five months after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, the struggle for justice and equality for African Americans continues in peoples’ hearts and minds, if not still in the streets. Many Black Americans are encouraged that...
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Episode 14
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15:55
"Esperanza en Practica" reportado en Ariel Mejia
Lakesia Collins es una CNA decidida a cambiar la narrativa. Trabajando en múltiples trabajos de cuidadora mientras criaba niños, tuvo que declararse en bancarrota porque su hogar de ancianos pagaba salarios de pobreza. Convirtiéndose en organiz...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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19:11
Hope from the Front Lines: Mid-Season Review
At the midpoint of our first season of Hope from the Front Lines we look back at some of the episodes we have produced so far. Throughout the season we’ve heard from frontline workers receiving no pay for time spent in quarantine, daycare provi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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9:04
"Pago Perdido" reportado por Aiden Kent
La industria del cuidado de la salud en el hogar está creciendo rápidamente, con un valor de más de $30B USD. La industria ya lucha con prácticas laborales justas, pero COVID-19 golpeó y expuso esas debilidades. Marisol García ha e...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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27:31
"Home Sweet Home" reported by Jonathan Aguilar
Long-term healthcare workers have been overlooked for a long time, and during the time of a pandemic, things are no different. These healthcare workers are often the ones who are looking after those most vulnerable in our society. In this episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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12:26
"Hope in Practice" reported by Ariel Mejia
Lakesia Collins is a CNA determined to change the narrative. Working multiple caregiving jobs while raising kids, she had to file bankruptcy because her nursing home paid her poverty wages. Becoming a union organizer empowered her to run for st...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:53
"Home Away From Home" reported by Briana Higgins
Loneliness, isolation, depression, anxiety and other mental health crises have infiltrated nursing homes long before the March lockdown and peak of COVID-19 in Illinois, but the pandemic has only heightened those feelings among staff and reside...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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10:50
"Cuidado Infantil: Modo de Crisis" reportado por Erica Carbajal
La demanda de cuidado infantil asequible ha sido históricamente alta, con COVID-19 exacerbando el sistema ya inestable. Para que los padres vuelvan al trabajo, necesitan un cuidado infantil seguro y asequible, pero algunos proveedores aún no es...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:38
"Protecting Me Means Protecting Us" reported by Kortni Smyers-Jones
With COVID-19 related hospitalizations increasing and many hospitals allowing visitation to resume, hospital workers worry about their protection from contracting the virus. In this episode, hospital workers Bernita Drayton and Caprice Nevils d...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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8:36
"Divided We Stand" reported by Judith McCray
Nearly six months into the pandemic, hospitals across the U.S. still struggle to keep up with rising admissions of COVID-19 patients. While Chicagoland has yet to see a flattening of the curve, some hospitals have resumed elective surgeries and...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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18:22
"A Failure To Communicate" reported by Maurice Bisaillon
Take a look at how communication between nursing home management and their staff and residents is vital to treating and preventing the spread of the Covid-19. In this episode we look at two Chicago facilities taking very different approaches to...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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11:18
"Detective Caretaking" reported by Ariel Mejia
In group homes for developmentally disabled adults, the contraction of COVID-19 happens faster, and deadlier than any other population. Not only are these numbers under-researched, but also underreported. In this episode, one home care giver us...
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Episode 3
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13:39
"Child Care: Crisis Mode" reported by Erica Carbajal
Demand for affordable child care has historically been high, with COVID-19 exacerbating the already unsteady system. For parents to get back to work, they need secure and affordable child care, but some providers aren’t ready to reopen yet. Oth...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:15
"Lost Pay" reported by Aiden Kent
The home health care industry is growing fast, poised to be worth over $30B. The industry already struggles with fair labor practices, but COVID-19 hit and exposed those weaknesses. Marisol Garcia has been working with the same in-h...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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23:36
Trailer: Stories by health caregivers of color in the time of COVID-19
Hope from the Front Lines peaks behind the COVID-19 headlines to reveal the voices and day-to-day challenges of essential health caregivers and staff who support Chicagolands’ most-at-risk during the pandemic: the ill, seniors, ...
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