Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities
Not Home: A documentary about kids living in nursing facilities is a 90-minute documentary that investigates the history and current trends of the long-term institutionalization of children with developmental disabilities living in U.S. nursing facilities as seen through the lives of four families. There are more than 10 million U.S. children…
Essie & Cornelius
Essie Evans is familiar with long rides. It took her 8-hours, back and forth on Interstate 85, just to take her son Cornelius to and from his pediatrician appointments. Cornelius was a 14-year-old boy with multiple and severe developmental disabilities that require 24-hour a day, one-on-one care. When Ms. Evans…
Nola & Zach
Nola Sayne has perhaps traveled Interstate I-85 from Kennesaw, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama more than anyone. Kennesaw to Montgomery is an 8-hour round trip drive she took once, sometimes twice a month for the last nine years to visit her son Zach who resided in a long-term pediatric nursing facility. The…
Qualeigh
Qualeigh (Kwa-lee) spent the first six years of his life living inside an institution. And in those six years he had never been outside. He lived in a room on the 2nd floor of a state-run nursing facility along with 30 other children with developmental disabilities. But Mrs. Martins knew…