[YEP-DC] Invitation- The Homestretch" film screening & panel discussion on homeless youth issues on Nov. 6th

Please join colleagues at the U.S. Department of Education

for a film viewing and panel discussion on

"The Homestretch:" Three Homeless Students' Struggle
 to Overcome Poverty and Graduate from High School

 

November 6, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Barnard Auditorium, Lyndon Baines Johnson U.S. Department of Education Building

400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington, D.C.

 

You are invited to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) headquarters for a film presentation and discussion about homelessness and youth. The event will include a screening of the 2014 film, "The Homestretch," a 52-minute documentary that follows three homeless teens in Chicago and chronicles their fight to stay in school. Then join us for a panel discussion about the topic, including issues around youth homelessness and the roles of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the federal government and community organizations in supporting homeless students and their pursuit of an education.   

 

Presenters and panelists will include:

·         David Esquith, director, ED's Office of Safe & Healthy Students

·         Bill Bentley, associate commissioner, Family and Youth Services Bureau,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

·         John McLaughlin, coordinator, Education of Homeless Children and Youth Programs, and Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk, ED's Office of Safe and Healthy Students

·         Anne de Mare, co-director and co-producer of "The Homestretch"

·         Darla Bardine, executive director, National Network for Youth

·         John Horan, president, North Lawndale College Prep Charter High School, Chicago

·         Barbara Duffield, policy director, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth

 

With unprecedented access into the Chicago Public Schools and community-based services, "The Homestretch" follows three young men as they move through the milestones of high school while navigating a landscape of couch hopping, emergency shelters, transitional homes, street families and a school system on the front lines of this crisis. The film examines the struggles these youth face in obtaining a high school-level education, and then beyond graduation to focus on the transition when the structure of school vanishes and homeless youth struggle to find the support and community they need to survive and be independent. The film is a powerful, original perspective on what it means to be young, homeless and building a future in America today.

 

Please RSVP by Nov. 3 to Kayla.Daniels@ed.gov. You must bring a photo ID in order to enter the Department as a guest for the briefing. 

 

The Department is located at 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., across Independence Avenue from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Our building is bordered by 4th and 6th Streets, S.W., as well as C Street and Independence Avenue. You should enter via the Visitors' Entrance on C St., East end. The nearest Metro station is L'Enfant Plaza. Exit at 7th Street and Maryland Avenue.

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