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Micki Boas is the author of One In Five - How We're Fighting For Our Dyslexic Kids In A System That's Failing Them. Schools are failing to deliver the services mandated by federal law, usually due to a lack of funding. As a result, the problem is often denied, interventions are delayed, accommodations are faulty and many parents blame themselves. Micki Boas joins this episode of 411 Teen.Original airdate: October 25, 2020

Billy Francis is the Director of Florida State University’s Student Veterans Center. He speaks on the importance of hope. Billy also discusses the power of embracing adversity. He feels that the way we handle adversity and setbacks can shape a person’s outlook on life and ability to succeed.

Author Susan Cerulean is an advocate for the Earth, and close to home, the Apalachicola. She is looking for a sense of interdependence among us. She believes it is a novel time for humans because of the events our world is experiencing. Love will fuel us in finding our opportunity for survival.

In this age of COVID-19, WFSU is examining changes brought on by the pandemic. Tallahassee residents share their stories, then experts offer advice on how to handle these changes, some of which may be permanent.

In Episode 1: Missing Moments, we talk about what happens in the absence of busyness. Without our normal routines, many of us have had to confront what’s missing from our daily lives and relationships.

Since it first opened in the early 1980s, Leon County's Innovation Park has had moderate success in attracting major tenants, such as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Danfoss Turbocor. That goal is still part of its mission, but the Park and its partners have expanded that role to support new homegrown enterprises. To talk about it are: Ron Miller, Innovation Park executive director; Michael Tentnowski, director of entrepreneurship; and Board Chair Kim Moore.

On tonight’s program: With Florida a toss-up state, President Trump makes back-to-back visits today. But in a traditionally solid GOP stronghold, not everyone is on the Trump train; Famous election attorney Barry Richard, a key player in Florida’s 2000 electoral meltdown, says allegations of voter fraud should be taken with a heaping helping of salt; One hundred years after women got the right to vote, their voices are growing stronger and louder; Florida election supervisors take pandemic precautions for long-term care residents who want to vote; Florida’s pandemic-battered tourism industry is still struggling to get back on its feet; Governor Ron DeSantis insists Florida schools will stay upon regardless of what happens with the pandemic; Two North Florida counties, still recovering from devastating storm damage, have found ways to handle the election.

Civic activist and educator, Byron Greene, lives in Tallahassee, Florida. Byron grew up in Tallahassee, believes in the city, has seen it grow, and considers it a good place. He shares info about the Tallahassee Community Remembrance Project, created to honor people and families, and helping to fill in the blanks of the city's history. Byron is inspired by hope in our community.

Jadyn Luberto, 17, of Apalachicola, was crowned Miss Teen International on August 1, 2020. The International Pageants system is the only platform-based competition, emphasizing each contestant's community service work with 40 percent of the competition score based on knowledge of and work with her platform. Jadyn Luberto talks with 411 Teen.Original airdate: September 6, 2020

The combination of the coronavirus pandemic, economic uncertainty, contentious politics and other stressors seem connected to the recent rise in substance abuse across the nation. To talk about it are: Kathleen Roberts, executive director Community Coalition Alliance; General Arthur Dean, CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America); Joe Davis with Florida Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs; Florida State Representative Colleen Burton (R-Polk County); and Dr. Greg Colbath, an orthopedic surgeon based in Spartanburg, SC.