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FILMS AND FORUM ON
THE STATE AND FATE OF CHILDREN
November 21st Sunday
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New book released with dedication in book to thePDFF State and Fate of Children |
The Power of this Forum will spread, as the pictures, the stories and the DVD footage spreads across the Nation...from a small group in Central California where a great words were spoken, and they came from tears, and passion and caring...stay tuned for hope, and doing the impossible rather than the ordinary...
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THE PASO DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL
...is deeply dedicated to shedding light in the darkness of the millions of homeless, runaway & missing children, the abused, the autistic, and those falling between the cracks in our society, in historic numbers, here in these United States of America...
WE WERE THE CHILDREN, Benford Standley, Festival Producer
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Congresswoman DIANE E. WATSON called in on phone to festival, and the call is broadcast to the room via cell phone over the PA system to an audience...that included kids, family, entertainers, and some people trying to stem the tide of darkness in the lives of so many children and youth in this Nation...
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most all festival photos on page by Richard Bastian
PLEASE GO TO THE WEBSITES ON THIS PAGE AND DONATE, VOLUNTEER, DO ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN...OUR GOAL IS TO CONNECT YOU TO THEM...THEY ARE ON THE FRONT LINES WORKING WITH OUR NATION'S YOUTH... LEARN FROM THEM AND GIVE TO THEM...
Congresswoman Diane E. Watson was not able to make the special day, but called in on the phone
Phillip Hain, Autism Speaks
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worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, and is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. ======================
STAY TUNED FOR THE AUCTION OF THE FENDER GUITAR SIGNED BY THE BACON BROTHERS RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT DAVE SOMERVILLE, GARY BUSEY, AND OTHERS... and other items...
Ballad of Ramblin Jack signed by Jack to be auctioned with many other items on our ebay.com Auction
"Once we started the process it was like a runaway train. We felt this song was going to be recorded, this thing was going to happen. Sometimes you were hanging on for dear life just to keep up with what was happening...It was impossible enough to be possible." Ken Kragen
FILMMAKERS AND KIDS...SUBMIT YOUR FILMS TO THE FESTIVAL
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SINGING HANDS OF PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA they performed We Are The World and Hands Across America for Mr. Ken Kragen, and Children of the Night for Dr. Lois Lee and Kathleen Quinlan...twas not a dry eye in the room...and these kids were a very important element of the special day...and gave us all the hope we needed to tackle THE STATE AND FATE OF CHILDREN
We are so proud to present to you Mr. Kevin Bacon's Six Degree.org
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Paso Robles High School Student Resource Center LOST THEIR FUNDING...A CRYING SHAME
NORTH COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER & RESOURCE CENTER IS TRYING TO HELP...GO TO THEIR WEBSITE TO HELP THE KIDS IN PASO ROBLES AND SURROUNDING AREA...
DREAM LIST FOR THE VIDEO DEPARTMENT AT THE SCHOOL...A WAY TO HELP...IF YA HAVE ANY VIDEO OR AUDIO EQUIPMENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE TO THE SCHOOL... LET US KNOW prfilmfest@gmail.com HERE ARE SOME THINGS THEY NEED... CRAB DOLLY, DEXTER DOLLY, ANY LIGHTING EQUIPMENT, CAMERAS FILM, SECTIONS OF DOLLY TRACK, SCRIMS OR JELL HOLDERS
Kevin and Michael Bacon with the ladies of the Paso Robles High School Student Resource Center |
Walt Disney said, "If you can dream it, you can do it." Panelist George Wilkins composed and produced the song for EPCOT"s "Horizon's" Pavilion, and past festival panelist Richard Bellis orchestrated.
If you are interested, and have time, we would like to send you to a very sad story, that will reconfirm why we dedicate this festival in some way to helping children and youth that are left behind...that suffer in the streets, homes and institutions of these United States of America...
We were the Children... Benford Standley Festival Creator/Producer/Director
SAD WORDS ON THE STATE AND FATE OF YOUTH
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To a hero of mine, a man that I met and feel that is a brother in arms in the war to help children and youth, Mr. John Walsh...we love you, and may the memory of Adam live forever and.
Ashley, Lance, Desiree, Benford and Robby Standley The Paso Digital Film Festival is Dedicated to my 4 kids, 3 grandkids, and our Nation's Youth
Here you can see WHY |
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I READ THE NEWS TODAY...OH BOY!!!
New Findings Reinforce the Urgency of Autism as a Major Public Health
Crisis, Requiring Intensified Action from the Public and Private Sectors the American Academy of Pediatrics' journal Pediatrics that found a parent- reported autism prevalence rate of one in every 91 American children, including one in 58 boys. The most recent ASD prevalence estimate reported by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2007 was approximately one in 150 (including one in 94 boys), making autism the most prevalent childhood developmental disorder. Autism Speaks said the new findings reinforced the fact that autism is an urgent and growing public health crisis that affects most individuals across their lifespan and demands a commensurate level of action from both the public and private sectors.
One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says
most states have inadequate plans to address the
worsening and often-overlooked problem. the best ranking. Texas is at the bottom. "These kids are the innocent victims, yet it seems somehow
or other they
get left out," said the center's president, Dr. Ellen Bassuk. "Why are
they America's outcasts?" lessness at least once that year, and says the problem is surely worse now because of the foreclosures
and job losses
of the deepening recession. Pennsylvania, who wrote a foreword to the report. "By end of this year, it will be that much worse."
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Homicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among youth aged 10–24 years in the United States. Violence is also a major cause of nonfatal injuries among youth. No state is immune to the devastating impact of youth violence.
STATS RUN FROM 1.5 MILLION TO 3 MILLION CHILDREN AND YOUTH RUNAWAY EACH YEAR IN THE US OF A. AVERAGE AGE IS 14 1/2 AND 2/3 ARE LITTLE GIRLS...
meanwhile back at the ranch
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In another recent survey in Massachusetts, almost 1 in 5 female high-school students said they had experienced physical and/or sexual violence in a dating relationship It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing. THEY ARE PREGNANT. (CBS/AP) A day after laying Shaniya
Davis to rest, the 5-year-old girl's aunt blasted the justice system for
providing her alleged rapist and murderer with a better quality of life
than many Americans have. "We have a lot of people … [who
have] lost their jobs, who don't have health care, even children that
are in homes don't get three square meals a day. But this man sits with
guards protecting him, he's receiving free medical, free meals," Carey
Lockhart-Davis said on CBS' "The Early Show" Monday. The figures are devastating. At any one time on the Internet it is estimated there are around three quarters of a million predators searching for sites featuring child pornography. The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’jid in a report to the latest session of the Human Rights Council says, “there is more and more child pornography on the Internet, becoming what is today a very profitable business, with a worldwide market value estimated at billions of dollars.”
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Mary Brosnahan, longtime executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless used the city's own data, and says homelessness has been
increasing each of the last five years, and currently is at an all-time high. At the end of September, 10,494 homeless families lived in shelters,
including 16,615 homeless children.
"What does that mean for those children, and their future? That they will spend
a substantial amount of their childhood …
in a homeless shelter?" asked Bill de Blasio, the chairman of the City Council General Welfare Committee.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is widespread in U.S. cities and constitutes "America's dirty little secret,"
said survivor Theresa Flores during NBC's The Today Show this morning. She will be featured on the MSNBC special,
"Sex Slaves: The Teen Trade,"
One in every 6 boys will be sexually molested by 16 years of age, and 93% know their attackers.
Reporting from Washington - More than a month after the FBI announced it had rescued 52 children from "sexual slavery"
in a nationwide crackdown on child prostitution, none of the victims is receiving the help experts say is necessary to overcome
such trauma and rejoin society. Experts underscore that sex-trafficking victims struggle to find the care they need once they
escape from an industry that may involve at least 100,000 children in the U.S.
Lois Lee, founder of a 24-bed Los Angeles shelter called Children of the Night, sees the problems firsthand." When America's
child prostitutes are identified by the FBI or police, they are incarcerated for whatever reason possible, whether it be an unrelated
crime or 'material witness hold,' " she said. "Then they are dumped back in the dysfunctional home, ill-equipped group home or
foster care, and [often] disappear back into the underground of prostitution with no voice."
GO SEE PAGE 2 OF HELP THE KIDS
SAD WORDS ON THE STATE AND FATE OF YOUTH
