132 | Homecoming: Life after Incarceration Video Project
Tracks
Workshop
| Tuesday, April 9, 2024 |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Room 309-310 |
Session Overview
“Homecoming: Life after Incarceration” is a multimedia toolkit designed to highlight the challenges and struggles people experience as they try to re-enter society. Homecoming showcases examples of organizations and individuals who are leading the way in supporting the reentry population. It likewise highlights the connections between HIV and incarceration and the challenges and opportunities that exist in addressing the housing and healthcare needs of people living with HIV when exiting jails and prisons. www.hudexchange.info/homecoming
In the first half of Episode VI: Trauma and Dignity, we attend a reentry-led workshop on understanding and addressing trauma and examine the cyclical nature of trauma. In the second half, formerly incarcerated individuals share what dignity means to them, and talk about finding light in the darkness. The filmmakers will be on hand to answer questions and engage in dialogue with participants after the 35-minute screening.
Description
“Homecoming: Life after Incarceration” is a multimedia toolkit designed to highlight the challenges and struggles people experience as they try to re-enter society. Homecoming showcases examples of organizations and individuals who are leading the way in supporting the reentry population. It likewise highlights the connections between HIV and incarceration and the challenges and opportunities that exist in addressing the housing and healthcare needs of people living with HIV when exiting jails and prisons. www.hudexchange.info/homecoming
In the first half of Episode VI: Trauma and Dignity, we attend a reentry-led workshop on understanding and addressing trauma and examine the cyclical nature of trauma. In the second half, formerly incarcerated individuals share what dignity means to them, and talk about finding light in the darkness. The filmmakers will be on hand to answer questions and engage in dialogue with participants after the 35-minute screening.
Josh Hayes
Video Production Manager
Upstart Media
Presenter
Josh Hayes is a Cinematographer and Documentary Filmmaker based in
London, England. He was born and raised in Joshua Tree, California and got a degree in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University in 2005. He’s the Director of the award winning film The Invisible Class. The Invisible Class tells the story of homelessness in America and examines the systemic causes of mass homelessness in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Additionally Josh is the Executive Director of a small nonprofit called Visual
Anarchy, which both makes provides pro bono video production for philanthropic organizations in crisis and teaches them how to create their own media.
Jacob Mihalak
Dude
HFPC 2024
Presenter
Jacob Mihalak has a long career as technical assistance advisor to local and state governments, nonprofit housing and service providers, and philanthropists regarding housing and services for people living HIV and/or experiencing homelessness. He has been a core member of the HFPC organizing team from the beginning, and in 2022, with London-based filmmaker Josh Hayes, he produced “Homecoming: Life after Incarceration,” a suite of 10 training videos and a companion resource toolkit. You can access them at: www.hudexchange.info/homecoming
