Homeless find home working on a public access TV show
by wcca - October 6, 2009 7:20pm
Public access television as a community resource has many levels of value. To assess the tremendous value accurately and to do justice to it, it is very challenging. How do you account for people who are developing and enhancing life skills to communicate, or develop career skills in television production, or how someone discovers personal assets that are transferable and may serve a multitude of purposes to the benefit of a community? How do you account for the value of shared information, or the breaking down of cultural barriers through electronic media or for the rewards one receives through the creative experience of working in a proactive community of television production?
Everyone has a gift that they can share. Public Access is a vehicle that provides a vehicle for such sharing in the light of a public forum or behind the scenes of teh production experience.
How do you value the homeless who take advantage of WCCA’s computer lab or occasionally work on cameras or take for instance this wonderful true story of a person defying the hopelessness of being homeless by contributing to his community through public access television at Chicago’s public access center?