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Are
the Kids Alright?
 Good
News!!
Are The Kids Alright? was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary.
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2004
Producer/Director:
Karen Bernstein
and Ellen Spiro
runtime: 56:00
With unprecedented access to families and institutions who are forced to
deal with the crisis of minimal mental health care in Texas, Are The
Kids Alright? is a one-hour television documentary to air on statewide
PBS (lead station, Houston PBS)
Are The Kids Alright? portrays the stresses and heartaches confronting
families struggling to get help for their children through the stories of
children, therapists, parents, and judges, who confront these issues daily.
This is the first television documentary in Texas to address issues surrounding
children's mental health care and is the product of nearly two years of
research and interviews to understand the multifaceted issues and tough
decisions confronting the state's mental health system.
Unlike physical illness, mental illness often can be difficult to identify.
Families from a wide variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds, a judge,
state legislative lobbyists, politicians, probation officers, state workers,
and psychiatrists, are intimately shot in roving DVCAM as they are in the
midst of their daily lives.
Audiences will experience the complexities and obstacles confronting the
overburdened state mental health system and the difficult questions facing
both families and policymakers in searching for resources and remedies.
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