“Welcome to We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream, a conversational podcast of community, humanness, and well-being rooted in Chaffee County, Colorado”
~ Adam Williams (host), at the beginning of each Looking Upstream episode
The Looking Upstream podcast is part of the broader We Are Chaffee storytelling initiative, which publishes community stories in multiple formats: video, audio & writing. It also includes the documentary, “A Home in Paradise,” directed and produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Julie Speer Jackson.
The podcast’s name, Looking Upstream, highlights the “upstream health factors” that go into making a community feel safe, healthy, vibrant and connected.
Topics have included: housing affordability, nutrition and health (e.g. outdoor activities, tick-borne disease, public health programs, Alzheimer’s, postpartum depression & anxiety), identity (e.g. race, gender), substance abuse and recovery, spirituality and faith, social and political challenges, local and broader history, nature and environment, community and entrepreneurship, creativity and change, death and resilience.
These topics and others drift as undercurrents within each of our personal stories. What’s personal often is universal. What’s happening in Chaffee County is relevant elsewhere, too.
New episodes of Looking Upstream are released on podcast players (e.g. Apple, Spotify) on Tuesdays. Support Looking Upstream @wearechaffeepod on Instagram.
Partners
The Looking Upstream podcast and We Are Chaffee are a collaboration with the Chaffee County Public Health and the Chaffee Housing Authority, and it’s supported by the Colorado Public Health and Environment Office of Health Equity.
Looking Upstream airs on KHEN 106.9 FM in Salida, Colorado, at 1 p.m. every Tuesday. A newspaper column publishes in the Chaffee County Times (Buena Vista) and The Mountain Mail (Salida) monthly.