{"id":14401,"date":"2023-09-21T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2024-02-01T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T03:26:47","slug":"one-on-one-with-swope-health-erik-dickinson-urban-ranger-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swopehealth.org\/one-on-one-with-swope-health-erik-dickinson-urban-ranger-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"One on One with Swope Health: Erik Dickinson, Urban Ranger Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swope Health announces a new edition of its podcast, One on One with Swope Health, featuring Erik Dickinson, president, Urban Ranger Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eric Wesson, founder and publisher of The Next Page KC, a newspaper focused on the Black community, hosts the show\u2019s conversations with Kansas Citians about issues of importance to the community\u2019s health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Urban Rangers is a non-profit dedicated to mentoring young men from the urban core, helping them develop individual talents, skills, and abilities, while growing successfully from boyhood to manhood. The program provides paid jobs as well as training for the young men, with a focus on personal responsibility, respectful work, effective interactions and making a difference through community service.<\/p>\n

Erik, a native of Wyandotte County, discusses his 30 years of non-profit work with urban youth, from the Boy Scouts of America to YMCA to Urban Rangers. He describes how he came to this work, which he now calls \u201cthe most fulfilling job I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n