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How Serious Health builds an emerging model of care. Against the odds, the mission of CNP Haiti endures. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Gideon Thomas is a health care entrepreneur here in Chattanooga. In 2019, she founded Serious Health, which provides in-home medical care services. Her company places elderly and disabled clients into the personal homes of nurses who care for their daily needs.

For years, the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti - a nonprofit here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley - has helped women and families to break the cycle of malnutrition in a remote and mountainous area of southern Haiti.

United Way of Greater Chattanooga celebrated its centennial of service last year. This year, it launched “Learn United,” a community-wide conversation series - partnering with Millions of Conversations, a national nonprofit.

What’s next for the Rossville Boulevard corridor? For the past few years, The BLVD Project has been working with residents and businesses to build a thriving community along the corridor, which stretches more than two miles south of downtown Chattanooga to the Tennessee-Georgia state line.

Lessons for localities from “The Economics of Placemaking.” A milestone for The Speech & Hearing Center in Chattanooga. Voices of an orchestral concert for the Empress of the Blues. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Next week here in Chattanooga, urban planner James F. Lima talks “The Economics of Placemaking” at The Camp House on Thursday, May 4th starting at 5:30 PM for the CIVIQ speaker series hosted by Chattanooga Design Studio. Here's the rest of our conversation with James.

For seventy years, The Speech & Hearing Center has helped thousands of people in the Chattanooga area who have a speech or hearing impairment. Taylor Bostwick is the Center’s president and CEO.

Bessie Smith, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” was born here in Chattanooga in the middle of this month in 1894. A concert earlier this year at Memorial Auditorium presented full orchestral arrangements of her music.

Carolyn Dorfman is a choreographer and the child of Holocaust survivors. Her work - "The Legacy Project" - honors her Jewish heritage. Next month, her contemporary company based in New York will come to Chattanooga for a community residency, including a performance here at UTC.