Detroit Radio Information Service Staff
Kim Walsh.........................................................................................Director
Irene Woodell..........................................Volunteer/Outreach Coordinator
Steve Sholtes, Myreo Dixon.......................................Production Assistants
Anita Hinks, Fran Burke, Ruby Graham, Katie Orloff.......Office Volunteers
Monica Isaac, Stephen Lucas, Zak Rosen, Annette Walowicz.........Interns
Detroit Radio Information Service (DRIS): c/o WDET-FM
4600 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201; Phone (313) 577-4146
Studio Line: (313) 577-3322; 24-Hour Program Hotline: (313) 577-4207
Website/Webcasting: www.dris.org / Archives: www.drisarchives.org
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Sound Partners Project Puts DRIS on the Road!
Sound Partners Project Puts DRIS on the Road!
Sound Partners Project Puts DRIS on the Road!
Sound Partners Project Puts DRIS on the Road!
Sound Partners Project Puts DRIS on the Road!
Partnership expands with traveling events!
The Detroit Radio Information Service
(DRIS) and the Luella Hannan Memorial
Foundation's Senior Voice program have
received a collaboration grant from the
public broadcasting initiative, Sound Part-
ners for Community Health, to craft hands-
on learning experiences and multimedia
programming designed to empower par-
ticipants with vital health information.
Prompted by studies conducted by the
Hannan Foundation and the Detroit Area
Agency on Aging, DRIS and Senior Voice
will take information access to a new level
through a series of traveling town-hall-
styled events that will help produce com-
munity engagement and radio content.
Emphasis will be on supplying practical in-
formation on healthy living, disease pre-
vention, nutrition and social engagement.
DRIS will reach a large audience, which
includes targeted seniors with vision or
mobility impairments while offering a
closed-circuit support system. Hannan will
work with town-hall sites and partners to
develop outreach and community involve-
ment. Together, we will use the Senior
Voice model that trains seniors in grass-
roots advocacy and journalism and pro-
motes senior volunteerism. WDET-FM will
support the project with promotion.
The project is an extension of DRIS' exist-
ing work with Senior Voice and endorsed
by the Aging Services Consortium of De-
troit and SE Michigan's professional tele-
communications group, NATOA.
Programming will be delivered to current
DRIS listeners, Senior Voice participants,
new listeners identified through the
project and targeted senior housing fa-
cilities. Program elements will also will
be webcast, archived online, offered to
other radio reading services and distrib-
uted by cable and radio partners.
Sound Partners for Community Health is a
project of the Benton Foundation. Sup-
port for this project was provided by a
grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
