FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Coos Bay Public Library’s “Mindful Mondays” series
continues on Monday, May 9th at 7:00 p.m. The insightful and powerful
documentary “The Homestretch” will be screened.
The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to
stay in school, graduate, and create a new life. Each of these smart, ambitious
youths — Roque, Kasey, and Anthony — will surprise, inspire, and challenge
audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their
educations while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early
age. While told through a personal perspective, their stories connect with
larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and
LGBTQ rights.
With unprecedented access into Chicago public schools, The
Night Ministry “Crib” emergency youth shelter, and Teen Living Programs’
Belfort House, The Homestretch follows these kids 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 the homelessness crisis.
The Homestretch examines the struggles these young people
face in obtaining a high school level education, and then follows them beyond
graduation to focus on the crucial transition when the structure of school
vanishes, and homeless youth often struggle to find the support and community
they need to survive and be independent. A powerful, original perspective on
what it means to be young and homeless in America today while striving to build
a future.
This free program, sponsored by the Friends of Coos Bay
Public Library is open to the public. For more information call
541.269.1101 or visit www.coosbaylibrary.org.
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Ellen Thompson, Assistant Library Director
Coos Bay Public Library
541.269.1101 x228
www.coosbaylibrary.org
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