Chapter 1: Homelessness & mental health
Spreading awareness and addressing Melbourne's homelessness & mental health problems. Human beings in rough circumstances sleeping on the streets. The number one reason for homelessness is family & domestic violence, people are experiencing mental health conditions while being homeless and had mental health conditions prior, but statistically more mental health conditions following homelessness. Being in such conditions increase the chances of forming bad habits like begging people for money, & or forming drug addictions. Statistics state drug addiction is not the cause of homelessness, but rather the cause following homelessness. Drugs being in close proximity and easily available in Melbourne, make it hard for someone experiencing homelessness. A minority use drugs as a means to cope, even more so if they had addictions before homelessness. Not everyone who is homeless is on drugs, Family's, children, people just like you and I, are experiencing homelessness daily, every race, religious background, age or colour of your skin, homelessness does not discriminate. This is my first attempt trying to help people and educating the youth, to get a better understanding of the human condition experiencing these problems, in Melbourne.
I chose to start with mental health & homelessness as chapter 1, first to spread awareness so people can help others experiencing a crisis in their lives right now.
If you see someone begging on the streets today or tomorrow, stop and ask them ,"RUOK." U.V.M is trying to get in contact with organisations and or services that are under funded to help where we can. We hope to create something in the future that can be funded to help someone sleeping rough. Things like this take time to do, but that's the goal for Chapter 1.
If you want to donate to the homeless now, go on the internet and search "donate to homeless services in Victoria". It's important to find the right organisations and services who are underfunded, needing the funds to reach & help more people, U.V.M will also be exploring and documenting other topics being other chapters in a series, whether it be woman's & men's mental health, addressing issues of homelessness, hardcore drug addiction, addictions, sex-work, family & domestic violence, abuse, trauma, suicide prevention, crime, prison, death & deaths by misadventure, what lead people there and everything in-between. lets listen to these unheard voices, help others share their stories, addressing these sensitive topics & educate people while doing so. I hope this makes a positive impact on people, giving everyone a deeper understanding. These matters do not discriminate.
Regards
U.V.M
Unheard Voices Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional true owners of this land, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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(music played on Aboriginal artists/buskers beatbox speaker in this film is not copyrighted by U.V.M)
Unheard Voices Melbourne. (C) intro music for U.V.M theme. All rights reserved theme introduction by The Band - Royal Commission.
Song by Royal Commission - Broken do you hear the weeping
Producer/Director: A bipolar former drug addict
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25 авг 2024
