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- A national public health emergency is sweeping through North America. In this close examination of the opioid crisis - the most deadly epidemic to devastate the US in recent years - medical professionals come together to deliver their verdict. Narrated by Ed Harris, Do No Harm shows us the devastating effects of these drugs, and casts light up on those who must be held accountable.
- This documentary series will call attention to the crisis of ignorance, indifference, and inaction. As important, the project profiles ongoing best practice solutions from across the country.
- Youth gang members are helped to make better choices in life. It was created by Lynette Jones, a retired probation officer, and Ron Gardner who runs a youth group home. In 2010, two of Ron's kids were jumped by gang members. That's when he and Lynette brainstormed in his kitchen to figure out what they could do. They currently have 20 culturally diverse kids ranging in age from 13-22 many of whom look to Lynette and Ron as role models and "family."
- A documentary about how society treats and fails the caregivers in the United States.
- How lower income students are affected by the lack of opportunity.
- A university program that provides a wraparound environment for both parents and their young children.
- Christina Gibson-Davis, from Duke University, and Christine Percheski, from Northwestern University explain the difference between wealth and income disparity.
- Dr. Benjamin Danielson has been focusing on trying to get to the roots of illness before it begins: using social determinants such as poverty, racism and being marginalized. Eighty-five of the patients are on Medicaid. Literacy is a major initiative. Every child leaves the clinic with a book. Families are taught healthier eating habits when they are guided in their food shopping at the local grocery store. Dr. Danielson states: "You can't educate an unhealthy child, and you can't keep an uneducated child healthy." These two issues are inextricable.
- Harry Wiland was a wet-behind-the-ears, 22-year-old Brooklyn film student back in 1968, when the then 36 year old Johnny Cash agreed to let Harry chronicle eight months of his life at home and on the road. Together with his new bride - the great love of his life, legendary country artist June Carter - they lit out on an odyssey Harry had never dreamed of. Johnny Cash and Me allows Johnny to tell his own story, through his actions, his words and more importantly through his music. And now for the first time, over 40 years later, Harry is able to tell what the camera didn't capture and place in perspective the man he knew.
- There is a food revolution going on in America. According to best-selling author, Michael Pollan, people are "voting with their forks": more and more, they care about where their food comes from and how it is produced. In an alternative to corporate farming, new generations of ecologically minded family farmers have sprouted up throughout the country, spawning thousands of local marketplaces. Living close to Nature's cycles, farmers know that agriculture contributes - some say 20% -- to global carbon emissions and they want to do the right thing to reduce that danger. These farmers markets, specialty distributors, and a growing legion of environmentally conscious chefs, food critics and agricultural experts, are changing how we grow our food and distribute it throughout the country. The "green food" movement---a diversified menu of chemical free, healthy, and delicious food direct from the farmer---has achieved momentum.
- Snatched from the jaws of victory. Fear over results dooms a successful program.
- How a caring citizen created a social services oasis for her neighborhood.
- BACKFIRED: When VW Lied to America tells the inside story of the VW scandal.
- How mobility offers a second chance to those who most need it.
- Weinland Park does not refer to itself as a "model" for other communities but rather, an "example." With nearly 20 non-profits working together, Weinland Park has been transformed into a mixed-income neighborhood with both remodeled Section-8 housing and market-level homes. The concept is to create one-community without disparity between neighbors. Those living in subsidized housing receive supportive services and programs that enable them to cope with challenges.
- Housing stability can be critical to children succeeding in school. Families in Transition-New Horizons provides housing for homeless families as well as "wrap around" services including social and case workers that help families deal with substance abuse, childcare, transportation, etc. Today, they have 20 properties with 200 housing units. Eighty-five percent of their clients are homeless and single mothers.
- A creative approach to nurture homeless young people.
- Healthcare programs that successfully reach out to low income and immigrant groups.
- The film examines the connection between poor community design and burgeoning health costs based upon key public health indices: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression, a concept first researched by Dr. Richard Jackson, a pediatrician turned public health officer.
- Our systems are failing the potential and future of young people who experience foster care or homelessness. The Mockingbird Society is working to change that. Using its youth-adult partnership model, Mockingbird develops young people who have experienced foster care or homelessness into leaders and advocates who develop and advance policy reforms. Mockingbird's youth advocates safely share their experiences as they advocate passionately for a brighter future on behalf of each and every foster and homeless youth in Washington. Mockingbird also created and is implementing MOCKINGBIRD FAMILYTM around the world. This empowerment-based approach to delivering foster care has been proven to be more effective at supporting foster parents and providing significantly more stability for youth than traditional systems.
- The vital links between a healthy society and a sustainable environment.
- The Circle and Mayhew Programs of New Hampshire are more than just summer camps for at-risk youth. They provide year-round mentoring and make a commitment to each child for eight years.