Summary: Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Short 2014Summary: Shimon Schocken is a computer science professor and dedicated educator who spends much of his free time on a mountain bike. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an intensive outdoor program aimed at improving the lives of Israel's juvenile inmates. In this TEDTalk, Schocken describes being moved by both the extreme difficulties and profound successes of those he has...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The importance of guidance programs for prisoners can’t be overstressed—they help society as well as the individual reentering it. Following young people who have been discharged from Rikers Island Academy, this program focuses on the payoffs that come from educational and counseling services for those behind bars. A lively peer-to-peer class setting is featured, while the process of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Ferguson, Gary
Summary: Gary Ferguson recounts the experiences he had while spending two months in the Utah wilderness with a group of troubled teens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 FERSummary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program discusses why a teen might choose to turn to a gang and how gang involvement typically leads to personal risk and imprisonment. Subjects covered include what a gang is; problems a teen can have with gang involvement; different groups that can provide support; support or protection that is positive; why teens join gangs; violence; and racism and gangs. Correlates to all applicable...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program examines the close correlation between gang activity and the music many youths are listening to today, "gangster rap. The program features Sgt. Ron Stallworth, who heads the unit dealing with gangs at the Utah Division of Investigation. Sgt. Stallworth has frequently testified about gangs and gang violence before Congress and police and civic groups. He is the author of Gangster...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: For many inmates at juvenile correctional facilities, looking ahead to freedom brings anxiety and doubt. This program illustrates the challenges that often await young offenders following incarceration and shows teen inmates preparing to face the corporate world, their families, and themselves. Overcoming illiteracy, building marketable work skills, and becoming familiar with employment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008