Housing Matters is very excited for you to join us for a screening and panel discussion of Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness. Skip the line and buy your ticket today!
ABOUT THE FILM
The team at A Bigger Vision Films noticed that most documentaries on homelessness offer few solutions, so they set out to create BEYOND THE BRIDGE, an ambitious documentary film about solutions to homelessness. The film crew drove over 40,000 miles to visit 12 cities and dozens of service providers, those with lived experience and policymakers to answer this question:
How can this country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
The answer: Working with deep coordination — a single homelessness response systems plan based on the principles of Housing First with community buy-in from law enforcement, judicial systems, business communities, service providers, volunteers, and leadership from the mayor and county executives, all working from the same page.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Housing Matters is very excited for you to join us for a screening and panel discussion of Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness, taking place on Thursday, February 13th at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, in collaboration with the City of Santa Cruz Department of Economic Development and Housing, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Mayor Fred Keeley and Housing Matters Board Member, Don Lane.
Our goal is for this film to be a part of a community-wide conversation to answer the question, how can Santa Cruz County solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
Emcee and Facilitator:
Don Lane, former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz and Housing Matters board member
Panelists (a-z):
Mace Crowbear – Panelist at the Restorative Justice Center through the District Attorney’s Office of Santa Cruz County, certified mediator for the Conflict Resolution Center, Board member at Santa Cruz Community Health and Housing Matters Speaker Bureau member
Justin Cummings – Third District Supervisor, County of Santa Cruz
Chris Field – Housing Matters Speakers Bureau Member
Tim Hashko – Filmmaker, Cinematographer/Editor
Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson – Vice Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
Don Sawyer – Filmmaker, Producer/Director
And more to be announced!
ABOUT THE [Beyond the Bridge] CAMPAIGN
solutions to homelessness. Each screening event will include post-screening panels and Q&As, calls- to-action and follow-up activities for audience members, and the opportunity for community members to discuss, together, how they can begin addressing homelessness in their local communities.
Ultimately, our goals with the campaign are to:
1. Change the narrative about people experiencing homelessness and solutions to housing inequity.
2. Inspire Santa Cruz County to develop a unified approach based on Housing First within our system of care.
3. Build unity among homelessness advocates
4. Expand public involvement on the issue of homelessness
And these goals and strategies are shared by Housing Matters!