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Moms Living Clean
This feature documentary-in-progress chronicles six moms who transform their lives
in whole-family substance abuse treatment over three years interwoven with
drug policies that impact pregnant and parenting mothers.
“Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world
and being a parent in recovery is ten thousand times harder. You’re going
to be dealing with all of the regular dynamics and a lot of wreckage
issues. I caused those issues. They didn’t have to be there.” LISA
R.
In the fury to clean up America, the war on
drugs has sent record numbers of women to prison and their children into
an overburdened foster care system. Since 1986, the number of women in
prison has jumped 400% and 800% for African American women. In 2004, 65%
of women incarcerated in state prison were primary caretaker of an average
of two children.
Moms Living Clean sheds light on the issues and individuals exploring
opposing ways of dealing with substance abuse ~ treatment vs
incarceration. The film chronicles six mothers
in a women and children’s residential treatment program over three
years, from entry through transition, where they learn recovery and good
parenting skills, and become self-sufficient. There is Rachel, a victim
of abuse, who learns to speak her truth. Lisa S was in prison for using
and selling drugs feels a sense of responsibility for her daughter.
Leslie forgives herself for her past prostitution and gains a feeling of
pride. Intersecting with
their stories is the progression of drug policies aimed at pregnant and
parenting women. Moms Living Clean combats the stigma and myths
impacting these vulnerable moms and kids, and promotes whole-family
treatment, where mother and children stay together, as an alternative to
punitive laws and the breaking of family ties.
Your generous donation now will help us
complete the film in 2008 for a 2009 launch. With a $100 donation your name, or someone you
designate, will be in the
credits of the film.
Click on the Donate button to make a credit card donation in any amount
through safe/secure PayPal. You will receive a Thank You letter in
the mail from the filmmaker, Sheila Ganz.
Click here for information on
how to make your donation tax-deductible.
Thank you for your generous support!
To be on the mailing list for future events email:
momslivingclean@att.net
To read about the people in the film click
on their photo.
"Thank you for making the documentary Moms
Living Clean and for including the Center Point women and
children in this extremely important project. We are hopeful that it will bring
attention to the issues which our clients deal with everyday and that the film will help
this program and others like it to continue for many years to come."
Dr.
Sushma D. Taylor, Chief Executive Officer
Center
Point, Inc.
Filmmaker, Sheila Ganz is a recipient of the 2006 Congressional Coalition on
Adoption Institute's Angels in Adoption™ Award for her documentary Unlocking the Heart of Adoption
and activism for openness and honesty in adoption. Press Release
Please contact us at: 415.564.3691 or
momslivingclean@att.net
if you or your group would like to host a fundraising screening. To make a
tax-deductible donation to help with production of this film click here. Thank you!
Funded in part by: Pacific Pioneer Fund, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, Open Meadows
Foundation, Inc. and Individual Donors. Non-profit
fiscal sponsor: Film Arts Foundation,
San Francisco, California
(c) 2008 Sheila Ganz
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