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3 months after airing, did "No Room in Paradise" make a difference [HawaiiNewsNow.com]

 

The film director and producer of "No Room in Paradise" appeared on Sunrise this morning to talk about the impact of his documentary, 3 months after it aired. Anthony Aalto said that some progress has been made, but we have a long way to go. Here are some of the issues he addressed:

Q: It’s been three months since your documentary first aired right here on Hawaii News Now.  It created quite a stir.  More than a million people watched the trailer,  members of the Legislature asked you to testify, we were flooded with comments.  I am interested to know if you think any of this attention has moved the needle in terms of our political leaders and the reality on the streets?  But first I wonder if there have been any major developments in the lives  of the people in the documentary?



Answer: Fixing the lives of people who are chronically homeless is not just like flipping a light switch.  Even if we’re able to help them get off the streets and into subsidized housing you still have to contend with the issue that made them homeless in the first place.  It’s often a case of taking two steps forward and then one step back which means that as a community we have to show patience and persistence as well as compassion.  Take the case of Nancy, who in some ways is the central figure in the film.  When we first met her she was living in a tent by the Kapalama Canal with her 5 children.



[For more of this story, written by Grace Lee, go to http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/s...se-make-a-difference]

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Thanks for posting this article.  It includes some great examples of how film can be used to mobilize action to prevent and address ACEs.  Something we have observed in many MARC and other communities organizing around ACEs and resilience (see our shared learning on this here). It also points to the link between policies like raising the minimum wage and increasing access to affordable housing and ACEs. Policies that Assistant Professor at Drexel School of Public Health and ACEs Connection member, Jonathan Purtle, refers to as "trauma preventive policies."  You can view a webinar by Dr. Purtle on trauma and policy here.

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