Series About Camden Homeless To Screen In Haddonfield

HADDONFIELD, NJ — The plight of four homeless men in Camden will be chronicled in an upcoming series from WNET’s Chasing the Dream and NJTV. “Getting off the Streets” follows four homeless men who work to change their lives through a rigorous homelessness rehabilitation program with the Interfaith Homeless Outreach Council (IHOC).

An early screening of the documentary will be held at Grace Performance Hall in Haddonfield on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m. A panel discussion moderated by NJTV News Correspondent Briana Vannozzi will follow. The discussion will include Sonya Jacobs, IHOC program coordinator and Bill Lowery, an IHOC program graduate, with Victor Murray, Director of Care Management Initiatives at the Camden Coalition and Sheila Linz, a nurse practitioner and professor at Rutgers School of Nursing in Camden.

“These streets of Camden will eat you alive,” Jacobs explains in the series. “We take them out of the city of Camden. We’re trying to eliminate some of the triggers (that cause truancy and addiction relapses).”

Screening attendees must RSVP for admission. Seating is limited. Confirmations will be made on a first-come basis. Click here for the event invite and to RSVP.

“Getting Off the Streets” will stream as a digital series in late August and air as segments on NJTV News with Mary Alice Williams in September. A broadcast documentary special will follow on NJTV, THIRTEEN and WLIW.

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