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.

• John McCarty, District Manager, Mattress Firm, The importance of sleep
• Jamie Freeney, DrPH, MPH Director, Center for School Behavioral Health, Mental health in teens
• Susannah Young, Literacy Coach, Texas A+ Challenge
• Rachna Khare, Executive Director, Daya: Empowering South Asian survivors of domestic and sexual violence