Category: D&I Series

Sandy McGatha, a Clinical Social Worker with Arrow Senior Living, sat down to discuss grief with resident Janet Rose, a retired Home Economics teacher and manager of senior apartments.   Grief is the emotion, often overwhelming, we experience when we lose someone or something we had a bond with. While most of the conversation referred to […]

Sandy McGatha, Licensed Clinical Social Worker working for Arrow Senior Living, spoke with Debbie Dewey, resident of an Arrow senior living community, about anxiety. McGatha comes into the conversation with a background in community therapy and mental health, with experience working as an administrator at an inpatient acute care psychiatric unit for adults and geriatric […]

Sandy McGatha, a Clinical Social Worker with Arrow Senior Living, sat down with resident LaVerna Yarnell for a discussion on depression. Yarnell shared with transparency about the depression she experienced after health issues and the loss of her beloved husband of fifty-three years.   Depression comes in a variety of degrees and can be chronic or […]

Melissa Dove and Mary Pickering, Case Managers at Deaf Community Services of Easterseals Crossroads in Indianapolis, IN met with Gentry Park resident Ruth Chesmore to discuss Deaf Awareness Month.   Although Chesmore has friends who are hard of hearing, this was her first time meeting people who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Gentry Park […]

Professor April Regester, Department Chair at the College of Education University of Missouri –St. Louis, met with Larita Kaspar, Arrow resident, with a 30-year background in nursingeducation, for a discussion about autism. Professor Regester’s focus at the University is oneducator education and leadership, with a background in special education and supportingindividuals with autism.According to Professor […]

As part of Arrow’s Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series, Arrow resident Ellen Pierce sat down with Michelle Berry, assistant professor at the University of Arizona to discuss the importance of Women’s History Month. Berry begins by pointing out issues of visibility. To this day, women don’t often appear in the history we learn about in […]

As part of Arrow’s ongoing Diversity and Inclusion Series, Arrow resident Lois Davis met with Christopher Muscato, an adjunct professor at the University of Northern Colorado, to discuss the festival of Carnival. Carnival is an extended holiday that kicks off on Twelfth Night (the sixth of January, or Three Kings Day) and leads up to […]

Professor Huichun Liang has been teaching Chinese at the University of Missouri – Columbia for more than 20 years. She met with Arrow resident Agnus Lee to discuss the Chinese New Year.  Born in China, Agnus was raised and educated in both China and Taiwan. According to Professor Liang, the Chinese New Year is based […]

Bradley Nichols, Assistant Professor of History, specializing in the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust at the University of Missouri sat down with Leah Gallas, Lead Resident Services Director VITALIA Rockside, an Arrow Senior Living Community, to discuss Holocaust Remembrance Day for Arrow’s Diversity and Inclusion Series. According to Professor Nichols, the Holocaust […]

In December 2021, Arrow residents Dorothy and James Meyers participated in an online chat with Candice Raynor, Director and Faculty in Residence of the Afrikan Heritage House at Oberlin College in Ohio to talk about Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday celebrated December 26 – January 1 with each day dedicated to a specific principle […]

Clémence Boulouque, Associate Professor in Jewish and Israel studies at Columbia University, recently sat down with Ilene Savin, a resident at an Arrow Senior Living community, to discuss Hanukkah for Arrow’s Diversity and Inclusion Series.  Hanukkah in Hebrew means consecration. This Jewish holiday celebrates the reconsecration of the Temple of Jerusalem, a historical event that […]

As a company, Arrow Senior Living has made learning about and celebrating our unique differences a part of our company culture. So much so that, in recent years, it has become an extension of our core values. And for the past year, Arrow has expanded beyond yearly diversity, equity, and inclusion workshops to create Arrow’s […]