ABOUT: Yellow Hat Films provides creative media training and tools to foster youth, giving them a voice in a complex system to express what is important to them.
Video Self-Portraits Created By Foster Youth
Program Description
Foster youth are given cameras and guided in the creation of video self-portraits, recording what is important to them--drawings, favorite places, music, dancing. A filmmaker provides training (camera techniques, lighting, angles) and coaches the youth during a process of discovery and self-expression. With youth as creators, the videos are authentic and representative of their personalities and personal values, thereby giving them a voice in a complex process. The program will focus on teens in foster care and foster youth transitioning out of care. [The videos of foster youth in care will be available to case workers and child specific recruiters as a resource to help place the child.]
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Video Portraits of Adoptive Families
Yellow Hat Films also provides video services to adoptive parents: short-form videos of parents and families who are looking to adopt.
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The Pilot Program
The Pilot Program is a market test and proof of concept, creating the first videos. There are two groups: Six young men currently in foster care and five young men and women who were formerly in foster care. Their participation, feedback, and experience will help refine the process for a solid program. They are awesome people ready to contribute and create.
About:
2019 Cycling Fundraiser & Awareness Campaign
The Cycling Fundraiser and Awareness Campaign—raising awareness for foster youth and CASA and raising funds for the pilot program—began early morning on August 14. We cycled from Northeast PA to CASA-SHaW in Washington, NJ and then to CASA of Camden County in Camden, NJ, arriving to CASA-Camden on Thursday August 15 in the afternoon.
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A CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) is a trained citizen who is appointed by a judge to represent the best interests of a child in court. CASA-SHaW (Somerset, Hunterdon, Warren) and CASA-Camden are affiliates of CASA of NJ, which are nonprofit organizations providing well-trained volunteer advocates for children living in foster care. CASAs understand the vital need for the child to have a voice in the courtroom—and that each child is an individual with unique needs.
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The fundraising campaign is for the Pilot Program.
Click the donate button for the GoFundMe page (gofundme.com/YellowHatFilms)
ABOUT YELLOW HAT FILMS
Yellow Hat Films Inc. is a newly formed 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit dedicated to creating videos for under-represented youth.
