HEAR US Inc.

To raise awareness of and compassion for families and youth experiencing homelessness as to improve their access to housing and services.

Film and produce documentaries that give families and youth the opportunity to share their struggles, hopes, and dreams.

Utilize social media to share these documentaries and other news about families and youth experiencing homelessness.

Work on public policy efforts to help families and youth experiencing homelessness.

Since 2005, we have filmed and produced award winning films featuring families and youth experiencing homelessness. This has been done in geographically diverse settings across the country, typically where families/youth stay.

Our experience on this issue — running shelters, successfully advocating for local, state and federal policy changers, presenting at state and national conferences, conducting educational sessions to a variety of audiences, training educators and administrators on educational implications of laws governing access to students experiencing homelessness and more—gives us tremendous insights on this issue. Our rapport with families and youth experiencing homelessness makes the interview process easy for them, so their openness allows for a sharing not possible in more structured settings.

Since our start in 2005, HEAR US has cultivated a reputation of integrity and responsiveness to this largely invisible world of family and youth homelessness that has given us access to interviews based on trust. We have delivered our work as promised, at a reasonable price and have worked with our “customers “ to make sure they get the most use out of our documentaries.

Our website (www.hearus.us) makes all these films available at no cost so they can be shared as widely as possible. Our use of social media also expands viewership.

HEAR US has made statewide McKinney-Vento films for:
Texas, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Hawaii

Filming also done in:

Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, California, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wisconsin

On our future project list:
Co-author 2 books on family homelessness, utilizing input from interviews from our video productions.
A pending film project on college students experiencing homelessness.