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Andrus, Aubre Braun, Adam. Capes, Kirsty Garrity, Shaenon Kristof, Nicholas D. Lakey, GeorgeSummary: Directly or indirectly, people working in the education and social services fields make their living by helping others live better lives. This program profiles a preschool teacher, a vocational education instructor, and a school administrative assistant as well as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor, a social and human services assistant, and a recreation worker. Correlates to all applicable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Kristof, Nicholas D.
Summary: "From the authors of the #1 New York Times best-selling Half the Sky, a unique and essential narrative about making a difference in the world--a roadmap to becoming a conscientious global citizen. Equal in urgency and compassion to Half the Sky, this galvanizing new book from the acclaimed husband and wife team is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a deep examination of people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 360 KRIAndrus, Aubre
Summary: Suggests ways in which to make the world a better place, including ideas for helping others at home, at school, and in the community through donations and volunteering; environmental activities; and ways to improve oneself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.4 ANDSummary: For many Americans, the threat of sudden poverty has less to do with the nation's overall economy than it does with personal circumstances. This program discusses the hard facts of situational poverty with a focus on the four most common triggers: job loss, the fastest way to become impoverished; health issues, such as severe injury or long-term illness; the loss of a spouse through divorce or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Welcome to Camden, New Jersey-one of the most economically depressed and crime-ridden cities in America. Even so, children here have hopes and dreams that compete daily with terrible hardships. This ABC News program documents the lives of three young Camden residents over the course of 18 months: six-year-old Moochie, who has vowed to get straight A's in school; Billy Joe, a teenager determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: While poverty has traditionally been a problem only for the unemployed, a new demographic of Americans has emerged-the working poor. This program explores the disturbing realities that many people in low-wage jobs face every day-such as having to decide whether to pay the rent, buy groceries, or see a doctor. Viewers will learn how standards of living are often measured, how suburban areas have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: As more and more companies view low-income Americans as opportunities for profit, the "poverty business" is taking off. In this program, Bill Moyers Journal and Expose: America's Investigative Reports follow a team of BusinessWeek reporters as they track corporate practices that some say are exploiting the working poor. Bill Moyers then talks with economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The United States continues to be the wealthiest country in the world, yet one in eight Americans-approximately 37 million people-live below the poverty line. This program analytically and sympathetically discusses the effects and implications of poverty, examining factors such as illiteracy, insufficient job skills, substance abuse, and crime. The phenomenon of multigenerational poverty is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Capes, Kirsty
Summary: "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..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAPSummary: Filthy clothes, needle marks, panhandling.is this an accurate picture of teenage homelessness? Going behind common stereotypes, this video tells human stories about human beings-most of them young people who know homelessness firsthand. Amber and Tieshi describe the harsh reality of life on the street, clearly demonstrating the same needs, fears, and hopes that all teens have. Andy explains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Braun, Adam.
Summary: The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.9172 BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRAUN, ADAM BRALakey, George
Summary: "An academic and activist takes an entertaining look at the Nordic welfare state--and shows us how we, too, can have a far more equal and just economic system In America, many Democrats invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most Republicans fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 LAKGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: In its ongoing mission to assist America's nonhuman citzenry, Project Skin Horse is dispatched to Alaska, where someone's been dining on National Guardsmen. Snowbound, the field team falls back on its basic survival skills: Unity's zombie strength, Sweetheart's canin (and Canadian) instincts, and Tip's talent for coordinating boots with leggings. Will the frozen North be tamed? WIll Tip find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Couscous Collective 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARSummary: The Wolves are no ordinary motorcycle club as revealed in this gorgeous, surprisingly intimate documentary of trauma and survival. Still struggling after the Bosnian War, the Wolves organize a charity for their town and defend the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front line. Out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMOSummary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEAGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: "Somewhere in this great nation of ours is Project Skin Horse, an overworked, underfunded secret agency dedicated to assisting America's nonhuman citizens. The receptionist is a clockwork robot, the project head is a swarm of bees, the field team consists of Sweetheart the talking dog and her faithful zombie Unity, and Dr. Tip Wilkin, the lone human staffer, feels he can only do his job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARGarrity, Shaenon
Summary: When you work for Black Ops SOcial Services, there's never a slow day at the office. Maybe today's the day the clockwork receptionist's evil gears will kick in. Maybe the office supplies will vote to go on strike. Maybe a mad scientist will escape the facility and go on a high-fashion funkadelic rampage. But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of topless mud-wrestling, the staff of Project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GARSummary: Many at-risk youths see negative lifestyles such as hustling drugs as the only real alternatives open to them. Introspective in tone, this documentary presents a different point of view through the emotional journey of at-risk young black men attending an intensive retreat led by older black men whose life experiences qualify them as powerful mentors for positive personal change. Overall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Ten years ago, Merrill Jackson stole Cadillacs and helped his fellow heroin addicts shoot up-behavior that earned him the nicknames "Seville" and "The Doctor." This ABC News program explores the extraordinary transformation that took place in Jackson's life after he met Joann Muller, an activist Christian minister and mother of five from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Through one-on-one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The dangerous link between teen homelessness and HIV/AIDS has led activists to develop new forms of community involvement. Service providers are turning directly to youth for help, recruiting them to become messengers of HIV-prevention awareness and mentors of other at-risk young people. This video explores the how-to of designing peer programs by introducing viewers to five models for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Out in the streets of more than 100 countries, The Salvation Army is at war. Its zealous officers, soldiers, and adherents fight daily battles to minister both spiritually and physically to homeless addicts and the desperately poor-people whose lives have hit rock bottom. Filmed at The Salvation Army Gateway, a shelter and drop-in center in Toronto, this powerful program spotlights the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Formed in 1966 as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty, Legal Services provides free legal assistance in civil matters to those who cannot afford counsel. Using New Jersey as a microcosm of the condition of the impoverished throughout America, this program highlights the crucial work of Legal Services and its basic premise: without equal access, there is no equal justice. Case studies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This award-winning program takes an unflinching look at the lives of Bernard and Bobby, two men who live in an abandoned railroad tunnel that extends beneath Manhattan's Riverside Park. Bernard says that he came there for shelter and self-knowledge; for Bobby, having grown up in numerous foster homes, it was just a case of another type of homelessness. In the course of discussing the lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1990
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Summary: Jacqueline Novogratz founded and leads Acumen Fund, a nonprofit with a businesslike approach to improving the lives of the poor, and her book The Blue Sweater tells stories that evoke sustainable bottom-up solutions over traditional top-down aid. In this wide-ranging TEDTalk, Novogratz introduces us to people she has met through her work in "patient capital" - people who have immersed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011