Reggie Holloway | Community Advocacy & Mental Health
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Care, systems, survival, and social change.
Outreach With Reggie is a reflective social justice show led by Reggie Holloway's close attention to systems and survival. Episodes move between foster care reform, therapy, school belonging, young adulthood, and the emotional cost of advocacy.
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Outreach With Reggie is a social justice and mental health podcast rooted in lived experience, especially the experience of aging out of foster care and learning how to name what survival has done. Reggie Holloway speaks in a warm, sermon-adjacent register, but the show is not polished into slogans. It thinks aloud. Episodes often begin with a direct emotional question, then move outward into the systems that shape families, schools, churches, courts, health care, and community life. Foster care is one of its central subjects. The show returns again and again to instability, placement changes, social anxiety, trust, case files, and the way youth in care can be misread when adults only see behavior. Juvenile justice enters through that same frame. A young person in trouble is not automatically reduced to a problem; the show asks what that person had to survive before anyone started writing about them in official language. Mental health is treated with similar patience. Therapy is described not as failure, but as a place to learn emotional regulation, grief, identity, anxiety, and the basic permission to be unwell without disappearing. Education also matters here. In the conversation with Kevin Cripe, classrooms become places where empathy, humor, chess, music, and public education's promise all sit beside hard questions about poverty and uneven opportunity. The show has room for faith, too, including reflections on church hurt and accountability inside institutions people still value. It also speaks to young adults who feel behind after college or after 25, caught between ambition and the cost of living, comparison, housing pressure, and mental health strain. The pacing can be repetitive, but that repetition has a purpose. It keeps circling the point until the human stakes are plain. Outreach With Reggie is at its clearest when it turns biography into advocacy without flattening either one. It is for people who want social change discussed through care, memory, and direct moral pressure rather than detached commentary.
Made for: For listeners drawn to foster care advocacy, youth mental health, education equity, and community leadership told through lived experience. It especially suits people who prefer reflective, emotionally direct conversations over detached policy talk.
What sets it apart: The show's strength is its movement from personal memory to system critique. Reggie Holloway frames foster care, therapy, education, and identity as connected parts of the same question: what support should have arrived sooner?
Outreach with Reggie is your weekly podcast on mental health, foster care reform, and community advocacy. Hosted by Reggie Holloway, it dives deep into nonprofit leadership, youth advocacy, and activism to inspire community change and social impact. With topics ranging from child welfare advocacy and trauma informed care to nonprofit strategy and policy advocacy, each episode equips listeners with tools for lasting transformation. Join us to amplify foster youth voices, champion social equity solutions, and lead with purpose in your community.
Thirty-plus placements turn "problem child" paperwork into a question you cannot comfortably ignore.
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A grounded look at a teacher who pairs chess, humor, and empathy with a broad case for public education.
Outreach With Reggie presents Kevin Cripe as a teacher who builds learning around empathy, humor, and repetition. He is framed through an after-school chess program in Modesto City Schools, a classroom shaped by constant turnover, and the simple habit of getting a child to smile…
Therapy, family pressure, and the burden of comparing private struggle to public highlight reels.
Reginald Holloway opens by asking who teaches people to regulate emotion, then builds a steady case around survival, healing, identity, therapy, and the slow work of unlearning what once passed for normal.
A plainspoken case for seeing foster youth as survivors before judgment or paperwork.
Reggie Holloway frames foster youth as survivors first, and the piece stays focused on what instability does to young people who have moved through three, four, five, or more homes by age 10.
A reflective season finale on advocacy, child welfare, church hurt, and the cost of caring inside strained systems.
Season Two Finale: Advancing Social Impact and Foster Care Advocacy brings Outreach with Reggie back to the questions that have shaped its season.
Canarian community radio for poetry, justice, education, and democratic culture.
Workplace truth with lived-experience clarity.
Lectionary reflection with pastoral depth.
Reggie Holloway asks who a person is when the phone is face down, the house is silent, and no audience remains.
Reggie Holloway opens by introducing Mr.
Reginald Holloway opens by asking who taught people how to feel and regulate their emotions.
It opens with a hard line.
Reggie Holloway kicks off Season 3 of Outreach with Reggie, reflecting on past episodes about foster care and mental health, and thanking listeners.
Reggie Holloway reviews 28 episodes of Outreach with Reggie, contrasting season one's focus on leadership, activism, DEI, public broadcasting, and social impact with season two's focus on private healing.
Reggie discusses the challenges and opportunities of life after college, emphasizing finding purpose through social impact.
Reggie returns for season two of his podcast, sharing a personal reflection and testimony on recent life changes and the importance of community and social justice.
Reggie discusses recent tragedies including a mass shooting, stabbing, and assassination, reflecting on the need for rethinking safety and social justice without traditional policing.
This episode critiques the effectiveness of DEI initiatives, using Emory University's elimination of its DEI infrastructure as a case study to question whether these efforts were ever more than performative.
Reggie Holloway opens his podcast by addressing recent mass shootings and the hanging deaths of two young Black men in Mississippi, framing these events as signs of ongoing racial trauma and calling for community reflection.