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Understanding 9/11tv Invisible CSPAN June 3, 2017 3:55pm-4:04pm EDT
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loudly and clearly that enough is enough. the greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing americans. to watch all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year's studentcam competition, visit studentcam.org. matthew gannon is a student at gonzales college high school. he believes homelessness is an urgent issue in his documentary itled "invisible." take a look. ♪
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>> work with men who struggle with homelessness to provide them basic human service and the -- to support their growth toward stability, productivity, and meaning in life. lotomeless people are not a different than everyone else. intojust have fallen circumstances that eventually got out of their control. withactually got involved
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.ome people homelessly, i became because i got incarcerated. i did my time, and they released me straight onto the street. they gave me no assistance. and ex-con, just trying to get my life together. , ifor about 12, 13 months stayed in a homeless shelter in washington, d.c. i never thought i would be homeless. but most people right now in the country living paycheck to paycheck. i was. the root causes of homelessness are mental health, and that is the biggest one, but you also have troubles around addiction. third is unemployment.
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some of these guys truly are unemployed. fourth is incarceration. is dissolution of family. >> mental illness is huge here. about 60% of guys who come here for services have some form of mental illness. >> issues of depression, bipolar . these things can just exacerbate homelessness. dysfunctionasically . we don't really understand how deep a mental illness is. >> i've seen depression being too much for these guys, and
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they crumble under it. a year or two after these guys become homeless, it can be severe. i've seen many homeless we .aused to be mentally ill ♪ >> mental health care is the needed by resource
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the homeless. the affordable care act for all of its troubles and problems has afforded many at the bottom of the barrel the opportunity to get the mental health care they need. they can't afford going to a psychiatrist or psychologist. the can't afford the medication. >> it is absolutely beneficial. there's no question in my mind.
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it's disgrace. it doesn't make sense. we know having people living , we don't want to deal with that. you can't press a button and play god, and make it go away. lifetime anything this country has challenged itself to do, it has done. >> you just have to give us the chance. west >> we are a country where --
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>> treatment like a person. >> one of the struggles for the homeless is they become invisible. when we ignore, we are disrespected. , it's an treat them whole step forward. >> watch all of the documentaries in the studentcam competition. >> another c-span video coming up in just a moment. the quick reminder that immediately after the next video, we open up our phone lines to take your calls on the questions. what is the most urgent issue for the president and congress to address in 2017?
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democrats, independents and all others, 89, 22. we will look for your tweets and facebook comments as well. feel free to start following any time and we will go right to the time -- to the phones. >> mia is in the ninth grade. on refugeesntary and immigration policy is titled the tempest. >> is not about what political party you are. it's more about values and helping these people. >> as parents, this topic was particularly personal because both my parents were refugees. so i think that also drove them a little bit. when they do some vion
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