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| Join in the conversation live at 7 Eastern this morning on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| C-SPAN's student camp competition challenged middle and high school students nationwide to create documentaries with messages to the new president. | ||
| Our panel of judges evaluated over 1,700 thought-provoking student films on their use of multiple perspectives. | ||
| C-SPAN awarded $100,000 in total cash prizes, and our grand prize of $5,000 goes to Dermot Foley, a 10th grader from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. | ||
| Congratulations to all our winners. | ||
| The top 21 winning entries will air on C-SPAN this month. | ||
| You can also watch all the award-winning documentaries anytime at studentcam.org. | ||
| c-span bringing you democracy unfiltered nearly 3500 students across 42 states and dc participated in this year's c-span student cam documentary competition This year, we asked students to create short videos with messages to the president exploring issues important to them or their communities. | ||
| All this month, we're featuring our top 21 winning entries. | ||
| One of this year's second prize high school central winners are two 12th graders from Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma, where C-SPAN is available through Cox Communications. | ||
| Their winning documentary is titled Invisible People, Hidden in Plain Sight about Homelessness. | ||
| Just their mere presence intimidates people. | ||
| They live that type of lifestyle because that's the type of lifestyle that they desire to live. | ||
| These are the homeless, unkempt and disorderly. | ||
| All of the homeless are a problem for society. | ||
| January 1st of 2009, I officially became homeless. | ||
| I got out of jail. | ||
| I have literally lost everything I own. | ||
| And believe me, I own a lot of stuff. | ||
| Well, I've had a rough time. | ||
| I came out to California in 2000, I think it was March 1st, 2014, to kind of start over a new life. | ||
| I've been living in my car for approximately about six years. | ||
| Trying to find a place is just about impossible to the point where you kind of give up. | ||
| I just won't go home. | ||
| Had enough. | ||
| We've had an explosion of homeless in Tulsa. | ||
| They're no longer confined to just one-hearted town. | ||
| They're everywhere. | ||
| We're known as the invisible people. | ||
| I'm not invisible. | ||
| You're going to know I'm there. | ||
| Currently, 653,104 people are unhoused in America, which is a 12% population increase since last year. | ||
| Last year, we know that what's called the pit count increased 26% just in one year. | ||
| I think that unfortunately every city in the United States has a homeless problem that is very different than what they've encountered in the recent past. | ||
| The housing market is extremely expensive right now, and there's very few anyway that are affordable. | ||
| We need more homes is bottom line. | ||
| Oftentimes, these people who are suffering from addiction, they don't have anything that they can turn to within 100 miles of where they live. | ||
| 20% of young adults become homeless the moment they turn 18. | ||
| 50% of the homeless population has spent time in foster care. | ||
| The lack of the family structure is a huge cause of homelessness. | ||
| They deserve to be seen. | ||
| To bunch everybody in the hole as being addicts is really unfair. | ||
| I'm not okay with the stigma and the way the homeless community is looked at by the rest of the world. | ||
| The people that come in here, they're full-time camping. | ||
| And if you've ever been camping, you realize that that is not a lazy man's thing. | ||
| The closer we are to be with people, the more we are going to be able to understand where they're coming from. | ||
| Most of our residents have had issues with mental illness. | ||
| The Tulsa County Jail has the largest mental health facility in the state. | ||
| But the question is, is the jail the right place for these resources? | ||
| When we have police officers that are having to deal with mental health crisis and that is not their specialty, we have to figure out a way to work together. | ||
| If they don't get treatment or find sobriety while in prison, they are way more likely to recommit the same types of crimes than anybody else. | ||
| Providing access and spending the money on facilities that are going to help people with short-term and long-term mental health issues is what I would tell the government that they need to start doing. | ||
| Many people are just one mistake away from losing the place they call home. | ||
| Leaving people on the street introduces a conflict with law enforcement. | ||
| There is a large criminal element within this community. | ||
| We actually have to be criminals to live. | ||
| One bail that is now law is Senate Bill 1854 by Senator Daryl Weaver, which prohibits unauthorized camping on state-owned lands. | ||
| It's only for state property. | ||
| They could simply just move across the street and get on city property and there's no issue with that. | ||
| Last week, Tulsa approved an ordinance that allows the city to find people lying in a walkway or leaving items in a walkway without a permit. | ||
| Tulsa police may find people up to $100 who are in violation of the ordinance. | ||
| We wanted to make sure that the police had the ability to cause somebody to move enough off of the sidewalks that when they're asked to leave, they have to leave or else Tulsa police have to get involved and they can't obstruct our sidewalks. | ||
| We in their eyes are disposable people think an equal balance of enforcing the law and getting these people the help that they need. | ||
| It's a very difficult hole to dig out of. | ||
| We want a peaceful environment. | ||
| We want an environment where people can feel safe. | ||
| Eden Village will be one step closer to placing 63 chronic homeless people into their own tiny home. | ||
| Eden Village, I am excited about it. | ||
| A normal living routine for starters, running water, logging amp in, playing my guitar. | ||
| What we're all about is providing not just a home, but a community of people that really care about these folks and can help them deal with the many issues that they are battling every day. | ||
| Everything is geared to give this person a hand up to reintroduce them back into society. | ||
| Charles Freeling, one of the lucky firsts, getting a home just in time for the holidays. | ||
| I can't express in words how thankful I am that a new chapter has opened. | ||
| The Congress has other priorities. | ||
| They've invested in this sum. | ||
| President Biden has proposed in his campaign that we provide housing to everyone who needs it. | ||
| That would be cheaper for taxpayers than leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless. | ||
| Passed a bond issue last fall, I believe it was. | ||
| Some of that was money that was supposed to be delegated to homeless housing. | ||
| We haven't seen it, yeah, maybe it'll come, but we haven't seen it. | ||
| This means that shelters and organizations rely on philanthropists like businesses, individuals, and churches. | ||
| The government needs to support new developers wanting to help with housing and rehousing. | ||
| Some of our zoning laws being redone would be extremely helpful. | ||
| One of our greatest needs is just to keep our operation running. | ||
| We need far more resources than what we have in order to take care of the issue. | ||
| The thing we have to remember is the shelter is not a permanent solution. | ||
| So I would hope that the president is really focused in on funding and finding solutions to this problem. | ||
| It's always though a fine line between is the help from the government actually helping or is it hurting? | ||
| I think I would encourage policymakers to get in proximity to the people that we are trying to lift out of homelessness. | ||
| Just try to think of the bigger picture. | ||
| Personally, I would appreciate a little more compassion. | ||
| Helping someone out of homelessness is not a quick fix. | ||
| Support looks different for every individual. | ||
| It's important to sit down and listen to what they need and not automatically judge and think you know what's best for them. | ||
| I try to tell people the inner side of every cloud is ever bright and shining. |