Audience: Mental health workers, policy makers, community agencies, family groups
Summary: Portrays the lives of people with long term mental illness. They have formed a theatre group to educate the public and to act as a support group. Situations enacted include: hospitalization, job searching, loneliness, housing, and stigma.The program challenges professionals and the mental health system to be more responsive to the needs of the seriously mentally ill in their own communities
With user's guide by Linda Hillhouse Donelson (filed under accompanying material for Video No. 6)
Audience: Family groups, mental health professionals, policy makers
Summary: Dramatization of the live of long term mentally ill people as they attempt to function in their communities. Portrayed by a theatre group comprising people with mental illness, situations include: frustrations with jail and social security situations, hospital readmission, helping in a crises hostel, developing life skills, and dealing with stigma