{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Healthy Project Podcast","title":"Youth, Homelessness, Mental Health & Showing Up: A Conversation with Community Advocate Royce Wright","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1926,"description":"Quad Cities advocate Royce Wright gets real about youth mental health, the homelessness crisis, and what it means to show up consistently for kids and communities that the system keeps overlooking.\nSHOW NOTES:\nSome of the most important public health work doesn't happen in clinics or conference rooms. It happens on street corners, in shelters, and in honest conversations with kids who just need somebody to show up.\nThis week on The Healthy Project Podcast, Corey Dion Lewis sits down with his cousin Royce Wright — a community advocate based in the Quad Cities who has built a reputation for doing exactly that. Royce works with at-risk youth navigating mental health challenges, behavioral issues, and identity crises, while simultaneously raising his voice about the growing homelessness crisis in his community. His approach is rooted in lived experience, patience, and an unshakeable belief that trust is the foundation of everything.\nIn this conversation, Royce shares what it's really like to work with kids who are struggling, why the family unit matters just as much as the child, and how a chance encounter while filming a TikTok video led to a viral moment — and a GoFundMe — aimed at opening emergency overflow shelters and youth spaces across the Quad Cities.\nWhat We Cover:\nYouth Mental Health & Advocacy\nWhy are so many at-risk kids caught in an identity crisis and performing toughness they don't actually feel\nHow adverse childhood trauma shapes behavior — and why patience is the most underrated tool in youth work\nWhat it means to be authentic with young people who can read you in seconds\nThe importance of modeling behavior, not just preaching it\nHow to advocate for youth mental health even if you're not on the frontline\nHomelessness in the Quad Cities\nHow policy changes around shelter placement have pushed the unhoused out of safe spaces\nWhy people become homeless faster than most of us realize — and why warm weather doesn't solve the problem\nThe viral TikTok moment...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MSRYwgzVwmOkZXeinjXJXt6vM1REXDF2oD3ZSMgwLMU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lY2Zl/MzVlNDRkOWQ4MDEz/ZTNkOTY2MzMyNzYx/M2I0MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}