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Growing Up in America is a production of Children at Risk: The Voice of Texas’ Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to research, public policy, law and collaborative action on behalf of Texas’ Youth.

Every week we aim to fill these same 60 minutes with lively discussion on the children of Texas Today’s guests and topics are:

Today’s guests and topics are:

• Dr. Melanie Johnson, President & CEO, Collaborative for Children – Accolades Nominee.

• Accolades nomination, Outstanding Child Advocate - Houston, Gulf Coast and East Texas. Collaborative for Children mission and work.

• Claire Dutreix, Sr. Associate Director of K-12, C@R

• Education Summit

• Kim Kofron, Sr. Director of Education, C@R

• Non-traditional child care, child care outside the typical work day and what that looks like.

• Dr. Grace Lewis, Senior Health Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

• Climate Vulnerability Index mapping tool (will launch on Oct. 2nd).