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61) Life, Animated
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From **Academy Award** winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films. This emotional coming-of-age story follows Owen as he graduates to adulthood and takes his first steps toward independence. LIFE, ANIMATED evocatively...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida's revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just thirteen, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window for audiences into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe. Moments in...
63) Big Mama
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category, Big Mama depicts a devoted grandmother's struggle to raise her orphaned grandson under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult social welfare system. Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles. Dees has taken care of Walter since the age of four, when his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight the Aborigines Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, the film weaves a moving account of a hidden history, the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights and self-determination. A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class. "A...
65) Another Child
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In a tale of twisted sex, religion and family, a mother and daughter finally stop fighting and team up - first to overcome their bitter differences; then to try to end a sexual curse that has plagued their family for generations.
66) No Loitering
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the filmmaker, as they work together to make a film and create expressive outlets for youth in the community. They organize dances and community events and paint a mural. At the same time, with humor and pathos, these young people raise issues around violence, feeling misunderstood by adults and lacking respect...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Producer Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein were inspired by their own birth experiences to provide a nation of mothers-to-be with insight into the process of childbirth and the various options available when preparing for life’s most special event. From pregnancy to the miraculous moment of birth, THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN is an entertaining and informative celebrations of the road to motherhood that “should be seen by every pregnant woman...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (5 video files, approximately 200 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Raising of America Series is a five-part documentary series that explores the question: Why are so many children in America faring so poorly? What are the consequences for the nation’s future? How might we, as a nation, do better? The series investigates these questions through different lenses: What does science tell us about the enduring importance of early life experiences on the brain and body? What it is like to be a parent today? And what...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 242 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Brooks?s own story, Small Animals is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In her signature style?by turns funny, penetrating, and always illuminating?which has dazzled millions of fans and been called "striking" by New York Times Book Review and "beautiful" by the National Book...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
79) Careless
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand.She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions. But this isn't a love story..."--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at...
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