Here's what they said on the Gero-Ed website
http://www.cswe.org/CentersInitiatives/GeroEdCenter/Events/gerotrack/11Film.aspx
"Audience Choice Award voters selected Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania as the winner of the 2nd annual Audience Choice Award of the Gero-Ed Film Festival. The documentary, available in either 29 or 56 minute lengths, highlights grandmothers and grandchildren from Tanzania and the Bronx to show how inspired partnerships can create opportunities for renewal and hope. In Sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has orphaned 13 million children. Across America, AIDS, drugs, and violence are wiping out a generation of parents, leaving millions of children behind.
The Audience Choice Award was offered at the 2011 Gero-Ed Film Festival. The winning film was determined by audience scores for content on aging; presentation; technical aspects; whether students would benefit from the film; and the portrayal of positive views of aging."
The Gero-Ed film festival is a project of The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) which is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. It's great to know that social work faculty will be showing this film to their students, especially since by 2020 it is estimated that one out of every six Americans will be 65 or older.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
GRANDMOTHER EMPOWERMENT COMES FROM NY TO TZ!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Funding for Grandparent Family Apartments about to be cut
Does it make any sense that a wonderful, successful program gets threatened with funding cuts when 400 individuals in the USA own as much wealth as half of the population combined, THAT IS 155 million people in this country, if you combine their wealth, have the same amount as 400 rich citizens. No wonder we are in the mess we are in.
Please read the following alert from the Executive Director of Presbyterian Senior Services, and if you live in New York state, please contact your legislators.
New York State is home to the ONLY residence in the U.S. built specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren.
The state budget is about to eliminate funding for this nationally recognized model program – as well as 20 other vital programs.
Click on this link to see a very brief but compelling video about this unique home in the Bronx.
Share this email with others and tell your legislators that they cannot allow Kinship funding to be cut!
Spread the word and SAVE the PSS/WSF Grandparent Family Apartments!
Fifty grandparent families in the Bronx thank you for taking one minute to make a difference.
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