Storytelling Advocacy Project
L'Arche Atlanta is partnering with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD) to lead the GCDD Storytelling Advocacy Project. The project has three parts: a mini-documentary, a traveling roadshow, and a podcast series.
6,000 Waiting: A Film About Disability Advocacy
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6,000 Waiting tells the powerful stories of three Georgians with developmental disabilities whose lives are significantly impacted by the staggering lack and complexity of state Medicaid waiver funding. With persistence, courage, and self-determination, they fight to access the resources they desperately need to live life on their own terms.
L'Arche Atlanta created this film to encourage people to take action to increase access to Now/COMP waiver funding so people with disabilities can live life on their own terms. It costs Georgians 3 times more to care for someone in a nursing facility than to provide community-based care. But federal law requires states to pay for nursing facilities, while community-based care is not guaranteed. HOW TO GET INVOLVED 1. WRITE. Contact your legislator to advocate for increased funding for Medicaid waivers in Georgia. Find out who your legislator is here and write to them advocating for increased funding for Medicaid waivers in Georgia. Here is a template you can use. 2. JOIN. Join GCDD's Advocacy Network to receive advocacy alerts, calls to action, and legislator tracking. Sign up here. 3. SHARE. Use this guide for content to share on social media. You can also host your own screening of the film by signing up here! You can make a difference! Use your voice to spread the word! |
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Treasure Maps: Stories from 10 Georgians With Disabilities
This summer we partnered with GCDD to record the stories of 10 storytellers with developmental disabilities from across Georgia to share in a live local drive-in roadshow in six Georgia cities this summer. Over 150 people joined us for the Atlanta show including four of the film’s storytellers. Jim Burress of WABE was the evening’s co-host, Seed & Feed band performed, and six vendors operated by a person with a disability sold arts and crafts items. It was a wonderful evening celebrating people with disabilities in our community. Treasure Maps received press from the AJC and A Closer Look with Rose Scott on NPR (interview begins at 17:45) and is now available on GCDD’s YouTube channel!
Hidden Voices Podcast Series
The Storytelling Project has created a seven-episode podcast, called Hidden Voices, uncovering the stories of people with developmental disabilities.
The people you will meet here are kids, young adults, college students, athletes, employees, adults, entrepreneurs, siblings, parents – all with a story.
These are funny, heartwarming, challenging stories about people with developmental disabilities who are living, working, and advocating for their rights in Georgia. All want to be included in social circles, workplaces and communities of their choice. Just like all of us.
We explore issues that impact their lives like Medicaid waivers, employment, housing, transportation, advocacy, adaptive technology, and service animals.
Listen wherever you listen to podcasts and spread the word! iTunes, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, iHeartRadio
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Storytelling Project Team
L’Arche has teamed up with project manager Irene Turner of Resurgens Impact Consulting to lead the project. 6,000 Waiting is a collaboration between filmmakers Michael McDonald and Rhyme & Reason. The Hidden Voices podcast is a collaboration between FRQNCY Media and ListnUp Radio. Treasure Maps Roadshow is a partnership with StoryMuse. |
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2020 Storytelling Project Impact
In 2020 the Storytelling Project entered production for the second season of the Hidden Voices podcast. In season two, we follow a local investigative reporter as she explores the experience of isolation and the pandemic while having a disability. It will be released in 2021.
We also created the 6,000 Waiting website to promote the film and encourage advocacy. We worked with the film production company, Sound Off Films, to complete a screening and marketing plan for the documentary film 6,000 Waiting. The premiere for 6,000 Waiting was January 26, 2021 and has since been screened more than 50 times.
Also in 2020, the Storytelling Project had a marketing campaign with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). The project has spots on GPB's 13 television stations, radio channel, and website to let people know about the project.
We also created the 6,000 Waiting website to promote the film and encourage advocacy. We worked with the film production company, Sound Off Films, to complete a screening and marketing plan for the documentary film 6,000 Waiting. The premiere for 6,000 Waiting was January 26, 2021 and has since been screened more than 50 times.
Also in 2020, the Storytelling Project had a marketing campaign with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). The project has spots on GPB's 13 television stations, radio channel, and website to let people know about the project.
About Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities
The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, a federally funded state agency, works to bring about social and policy changes that promote opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities and their families to live, learn, work, play and worship in Georgia communities. Learn more at www.gcdd.org.
The Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, a federally funded state agency, works to bring about social and policy changes that promote opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities and their families to live, learn, work, play and worship in Georgia communities. Learn more at www.gcdd.org.
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