FAMILY VOICES

1900-30, 18 minutes, 2004 This documentary is about family group decision making, a restorative approach to problem-solving used worldwide that enables families to make decisions for themselves, in child welfare, youth justice and other situations. In the empowering spirit of FDGM, Family voices lets families do the talking. Request

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LET’S PUT OUR MINDS TOGETHER

#1900-29, 25 minutes This video portrays families being interviewed about Family Group Conferencing, which is an intervention bringing everyone together who have a relationship with the child in a family crisis. The video demonstrates the benefits of family conferencing. Phase one is giving the information to the family members. Phase...

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PATHWAYS TO PERMANENCY: FAMILY GROUP DECISION MAKING

#1900-28, 31 minutes This video portrays Family Group Decision Making through various models in the communities where they are in use. FGDM is rooted in strengths-based, child-centered, and family-focused philosophies. A strenghths-based approach helps to identify what a family does well or what is good about a family. The child’s...

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BLINDSPOT

1300-49, 10 minutes, 2003 In the dramatic short Blindspot, six-year-old Joe is caught in the tumult of his parents’ disintegrated marriage. Poignantly accurate, the film depicts a violent family crisis through the eyes of a child.   Request

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FAMILY VIOLENCE: Breaking the chain

#1300-38, 28 minutes, 2000 This program looks at the effects of family violence on the abused and the abuser: at the danger that the abused children will grow up to repeat the pattern of violence in their own relationships; at the problems of date violence; at the physical and emotional...

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THE IMPACT OF VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN

#1300-37, 28 minutes, 2001 What is the future of our children in America? Kids today live in a volatile world where violence in the school, home, and streets is an everyday occurrence. Statistics are staggering as children are not only abused by adults, but are killing each other. This program...

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILDREN

#1300-35, 14 minutes, 2000 Severely wounded, their mother kept crying out, “Please don’t kill me! Please don’t kill me!” What effects do the sights and sounds of domestic violence have on the malleable minds of children? In this program, ABC news anchor Hugh Downs seeks to answer that question through...

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BEHIND THE SCREENS

#700-1, 16 minutes, 2002 We think it is important for parents to understand that porn on the Internet is like knowing a child needs to learn to cross the street properly – cars are going to come; you have to teach them to do it properly. Porn is going to...

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