A HOME CALLED NEBRASKA Screening Resources

Press Stills

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Powerful 4-min music video of kids from Parkland performing Peter Yarrow's "The Children Will Lead The Way", a plea for gun control< produced by Gage & Gage Productions

ORGANIZATIONS

Refuge Empowerment Center We provide holistic and culturally effective refugee resettlement services that empower newcomers to thrive in their new lives.

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is a non-profit organization that welcomes and supports refugees and migrants entering the United States.

The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants works to protect the rights and address the needs of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide and support their transition to a dignified life.

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Rights Program defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced people worldwide, responding to emergencies as well as chronic situations, focusing especially on documenting government efforts to block access to asylum, to deprive asylum seekers of rights to fair hearings of their refugee claims, and to the forcible return of people to places where their lives or freedom would be threatened. 

FILMS

This is Home Sundance award-winner puts a human face on the global refugee crisis by providing an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in the US and struggling to find their footing.

Refuge: Caring for Survivors of Torture Refugees, asylees and caregivers share their stories to help professionals and volunteers understand the needs of the more than a million survivors of torture rebuilding lives in the US.

The Storytelling Class An after-school storytelling project in a diverse, but divided, city school breaks cultural boundaries and creates community.

Day One Traumatized Middle Eastern and African teen refugees are guided through a program of healing by devoted educators at a unique St. Louis public school for refugees only.