Not Home Documentary Screens at the Abilities Expo in Atlanta, GA
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Mathew Harp will be the guest speaker!
Abilities Expo is pleased to screen a 30 minute excerpt from Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities on Saturday, February 9th from 2:30pm-3:30pm. Mathew Harp, a young man that spent time living in a geriatric care facility and is now living in the community, will be the guest speaker.
Not Home examines the complex national phenomenon of children living in nursing homes and state-run institutions. The Abilities Expo is the trusted source where people with disabilities, their families, seniors, vets, caregivers and healthcare professionals gain knowledge and empowerment (and have a little fun!). For more than 30 years, Abilities Expo has also provided an excellent forum for companies with disability products and services to reach out and enhance the lives of this Community.
Can you imagine how a child feels growing up in a nursing home? Celebrating Christmas, birthdays and other milestones alongside elderly bedridden patients is the mainstay for thousands of children with a developmental disability throughout America. Award-winning filmmaker, Narcel Reedus, reveals the stories of children growing up without a childhood in the heart-felt documentary, “Not Home.” Often times parents of medically-fragile children feel forced to make the decision to institutionalize their child because some states disproportionately allocate funding for brick and mortar institutions rather than the less expensive home and community based living. Time for questions and answers will be available following the session. Learn more at www.nothomedocumentary.com. A limited number of DVD’s will be available for purchase following the screening.
Filmmaker Narcel Reedus will present the film and lead a Q&A with the audience.
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Not Home Documentary Screens at the Abilities Expo in San Jose
Abilities Expo is pleased to screen a 60 minute excerpt from Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities on Friday, November 16th from 11:45am-12:45pm. Not Home examines the complex national phenomenon of children living in nursing homes and state-run institutions. The Abilities Expo is the trusted source where people with disabilities, their families, seniors, vets, caregivers and healthcare professionals gain knowledge and empowerment (and have a little fun!). For more than 30 years, Abilities Expo has also provided an excellent forum for companies with disability products and services to reach out and enhance the lives of this Community.
Can you imagine how a child feels growing up in a nursing home? Celebrating Christmas, birthdays and other milestones alongside elderly bedridden patients is the mainstay for thousands of children with a developmental disability throughout America. Award-winning filmmaker, Narcel Reedus, reveals the stories of children growing up without a childhood in the heart-felt documentary, “Not Home.” Often times parents of medically-fragile children feel forced to make the decision to institutionalize their child because some states disproportionately allocate funding for brick and mortar institutions rather than the less expensive home and community based living. Time for questions and answers will be available following the session. Learn more at www.nothomedocumentary.com. A limited number of DVD’s will be available for purchase following the screening.
Presented by Eliza Riley, Abilities Expo San Jose Ambassador
Not Home Screens in DC
Can you imagine how a child feels growing up in a nursing home? Celebrating Christmas,
birthdays and other milestones alongside elderly bedridden patients is the mainstay for thousand
s of ch
ildren with a developmental disability throughout America. Award-winning filmmaker, Narcel Reedus, reveals the stories of children growing up without a childhood in the heart-felt documentary, “Not Home” that will screen in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 3PM at the National Youth Transitions Center during Di
sability Awareness Month.
Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities is a 99-minute film that examines the complex national phenomenon of children living in nursing homes and state-run institutions. Often times parents of medically-fragile children feel forced to make the decision to institutionalize their child because some states disproportionately allocate funding for brick and mortar institutions rather than the less expensive home and community based living.
“Being a 24 hour nurse and parent is more stress than most of us can imagine” Reedus explained. “I’ve seen parents struggle with the guilt of placing their child in a facility. I’ve also seen overwhelming joy of a child living in the community with love and support.”
In September, the Department of Justice issued a letter to the state of Florida accusing them of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Many children entering nursing facilities in the state are unnecessarily separated from their families and communities for years,” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas E. Perez wrote in a scathing letter. “With adequate services and supports these children could live at home with their families or in other more integrated community settings.”
Florida officials responded in the press that they believe they are in compliance.
Reedus, the writer and director of the award winning short documentary Waddie Welcome, believes his documentary will become a catalyst for educating people by showing independent living success stories and the evolving socioeconomic hardships and obstacles parents face caring for a child with a developmental disability without support.
The Not Home documentary features a mixture of interviews and verite footage including homecomings, doctor visits; support group meets and travels with a parent on a visit to a long-term pediatric care facility. There are four interweaving stores: Mathew, Qualeigh, Essie Evans and Nola Sayne – a young adult, a child and two parents who separate lives intersect through institutionalization. “With these stories, we hope to reveal incredible threads of commonality that cross community, class and race.”
The National Youth Transitions Center is located at 2013 H Street, NW, Suite 300. The screening is free and open to the public.
Not Home Documentary is available on DVD, as well as a book format. Learn more about the film at http://www.NotHomeDocumentary.com/ http://www.NotHomeDocumentary.com/blog Follow the documentary’s updates on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/NothomeDoc and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/NotHomeDocumentary
