Divided Attention Community Screening Information
The documentary Divided Attention is a product of Delaware County Advocacy & Resource Organization’s (DCARO) Engaging Support Enriching Lives (ESEL) Program. This program is DCARO’s “Combatting the School to Prison Pipeline Project.”
Divided Attention follows 4 students from Toby Farms, a public middle school in the historically underfunded Chester Upland School District, as they learn and practice mindfulness amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of charter takeover and the various contributors to the school to prison pipeline. Their challenges and growth are contrasted by the unstable support and funding inequities that have plagued Chester for decades. A call-to-action, the film looks at how the history of inequitable school funding has impacted the community and how organizers are fighting back.
This project is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council; in part by grant number 2001PASCDD-02, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.”
** No revenue generation is permitted by the use of this film and no community screening can be “price-ticketed” event. This film is also prohibited from being used in any political lobbying effort.
Divided Attention follows 4 students from Toby Farms, a public middle school in the historically underfunded Chester Upland School District, as they learn and practice mindfulness amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of charter takeover and the various contributors to the school to prison pipeline. Their challenges and growth are contrasted by the unstable support and funding inequities that have plagued Chester for decades. A call-to-action, the film looks at how the history of inequitable school funding has impacted the community and how organizers are fighting back.
This project is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council; in part by grant number 2001PASCDD-02, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy.”
** No revenue generation is permitted by the use of this film and no community screening can be “price-ticketed” event. This film is also prohibited from being used in any political lobbying effort.
If you would like to request your own Community Screening of Divided Attention please complete the form below.
Once your completed Request Form has been received and processed, you will be contacted by a member of DCARO's staff and providedwith a downloadable link to the film for your screening.
Divided Attention Discussion Guide
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