Kids Today - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Few subjects are nearer and dearer to hearts than babies and
children. On this edition of Out to Lunch Stephanie talks with
guests who are Baton Rouge and nationwide experts on delivering
them and educating them. Dr. Ryan Dickerson is the owner and
medical director of The Birth Center of Baton Rouge, the only
freestanding birth center in Louisiana. A freestanding birth center
is a homelike facility not affiliated with a hospital. It provides
family oriented care for healthy women before, during and after a
normal pregnancy, labor and birth, and is run by certified
midwives, doulas and nurses. Ryan, an OB GYN with Louisiana Women s
Healthcare, spent two years developing the center and more than
half a millon dollars to open it and in the three years since it is
attracting a growing following. Sarah Broome is the founder of
Thrive Charter School, a boarding school that caters to the
underserved community in Baton Rouge. Sarah founded the school in
2011 when she was just 25. What makes Thrive so successful is its
focus on educating the whole child and addressing all their needs
not just educational, but physical, nutritional, emotional and
spiritual. Thrive gives its students many of the things they can t
get at home and it s making a tremendous difference in their lives.
Sarah is an inspiration. The next time someone suggests Baton Rouge
is not a cutting edge city with progressive thinkers and
innovators, point them to this conversation with two of Baton Rouge
s finest minds and people. Recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on
the Boulevard.

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