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Videos: Awareness Videos on Homelessness
and Homeless Education
America's Invisible Children
Host Joan Lunden looks at the dire state of homeless children
and their struggle to get a basic education. America's
Invisible Children shares the personal stories of some of the 1.3
million homeless children in the U.S. who overcome unimaginable obstacles
every day, in order to stay in school and break the cycle of poverty.
This video shatters preconceived notions of homelessness, reminding
us of the hidden victims of homelessness—the children.
Even You
This half-hour video from Project
ACT in Cleveland tells the story
of Josh, a popular and successful student whose world comes crashing
down when his family becomes homeless. The video
deals with myths about homelessness and is designed to
sensitize school personnel and students to the difficulties
and complexities of homelessness. The accompanying facilitator's
guide provides detailed information about homelessness in America and
includes ideas to stimulate the creation of community service learning
projects.
Faces of Homelessness
This 13-minute video from the National
Coalition for the Homeless is a great resource to begin a group discussion about homelessness in America or to use with a "Faces of Homelessness" panel presentation. The video features images taken by award-winning photographers from around the country. Photographs are accompanied with powerful music that enables the viewer to see the many men, women, and children of America who experience homelessness every day.
Fly Away Home
This educational resource from The
Reading Rainbow includes
a feature book, Fly Away Home; a
video about families in homeless situations (available on VHS or DVD);
a teacher's guide; a social sciences guide; and a family activities
guide.
Great Beginnings:
Enrolling Homeless Children and Youth in School
This video from the Texas Region XIII Education Service Center
Homeless Education Project explores the issue of the immediate enrollment
of children and youth experiencing homelessness. Through information
and interviews, the video explores what federal law states about
the immediate enrollment of homeless students and what schools can
do to overcome the perceived obstacles to immediate enrollment.
In Their Own Voices
This 16-minute video from the Santa
Barbara County Education Office presents what children
experiencing homelessness have to say about school and homelessness:
the challenges of not having a home to go to
after school, or enough
food, or a warm bed in which to sleep. For more information,
contact Melody Stankosky at 805-964-4710 x4410.
My
Own Four Walls 2008
My Own Four Walls is a unique documentary featuring accounts of homelessness from children and youth. My Own Four
Walls 2008 is an expanded version of the original My Own Four Walls dvd, a collection of short documentaries depicting
homelessness as experienced by children and teens in non-urban areas of the country. It was filmed and produced by HEAR US Inc., a national nonprofit organization dedicated to giving voice and visibility to homeless children, youth and
families. These young homelessness experts share their challenges and their dreams, common to over 1.5 million children and youth in this country who typically remain invisible, struggling to get into and succeed in school.
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