Building Buchanan Podcast

The Building Buchanan podcast is a platform for sharing the stories of visionaries that are helping push social change forward, here and across the nation.

Join our host, Colette Canchola, as she gets the scoop from pioneers in inclusion, community building, and, generally, making the world a better place.

Our podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and anchor.fm.

Podcast Episodes & Updates

Episode 08: Partnering to Respond to Crisis

Oct 30, 2020

In this episode, Colette spoke with Jen Gentry, who is the Community Mental Health Liaison with the Northwest Missouri Crisis Intervention Council. We invited Jen as a guest on the Building Buchanan...

New Episode of Building Buchanan Podcast highlights new legislation to prevent discrimination

Sep 25, 2020

In this episode, Colette interviewed Courtney Alsup and David Rotert, both parents of children with disabilities and Partners in Policymaking graduates. She talked to them about their experience...

Listen NOW to Episode 06 – The Cool Aunt of the Helping Community #BuildingBuchanan

Aug 7, 2020

In this episode, Colette sat down and spoke with Jess Gould. Jess is the Youth Services Department Manager at the East Hills Library, a branch of the St. Joseph Public Library system. In this...

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Colette Canchola- Cox is a local do-gooder and has deep roots to the community as a St. Joseph native. She found her passion when she began advocating on both a local, state and national level to bring attention and effect change for her son who experiences autism. She has more than seven years of experience, four of which have been here at Progressive Community Services where she used the lens of the family perspective to help shape the family navigation department.

Colette is proud to be a:

Partners in Policy making graduate
Graduate of the National Leadership Institute on Developmental Disabilities
One of the 20 Who Count by St. Joseph News Press
Nominee for Women of Excellence, for emerging leader in 2017 and again in 2019 for Women in Workplace Leadership
Charting the LifeCourse Ambassador
Community Relations Director for the Autism Alliance of NWMO
Board of Directors for MO-FEAT
Member of countless other advisory and committees

She was inspired to create a podcast to our community that helps to share the stories of people with disabilities, their family members, and professionals to provide a sounding board for innovation, collaboration and talking out ways to get our community to the next level. The dream would be to support St. Joseph to become on of the best places to live, visit, and work for ALL people.

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DISCLAIMER: Progressive Community Services is providing this podcast as a public service. References to a specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by PCS. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by PCS employees are those of the employees and do not necessarily reflect the view of PCS or any of its officials. This podcast is not intended to be used for medical advice. Consult your own medical professional for such advice.