
Getting Off the Streets: Blackout (Chapter 1)
Meet the four homeless men that are trying to change their lives. They are fighting addiction, poverty, and their pasts to get off the streets-- but in all wars, there are casualties.
Meet the four homeless men that are trying to change their lives. They are fighting addiction, poverty, and their pasts to get off the streets-- but in all wars, there are casualties.
These four homeless men are embarking on a program to end their addiction and homelessness. However, as the process gets more rigorous, we see who can make it off the streets and who will falter.
The Homelessness Hospitality Network encourages its participants to confront the internal struggles that led them to addiction and homelessness. As they come face-to-face with their inner demons, it becomes harder to stay in the program.
With only a few weeks left in the program, the remaining men prepare for life off the streets. What challenges wait for them there?
After the nearly seven-month journey, a few men stand at graduation day. However, their path, as well as the issue of homelessness, doesn't end here. Who was able to make it and where are they now?
In our digital extra for "Getting Off the Streets", Sonya Jacobs, the program coordinator/case manager for IHOC, gets a chance to tell her story. In a job that is so emotionally invested, learning how to help these men without losing…
It was once an epicenter where the underworld met the elite. Tonight, we take you inside the “New 42nd Street”.
Getting Off the Streets chronicles the dramatic journey of four homeless men from the streets of Camden, New Jersey, who have an opportunity to change their lives. Over six months, our cameras followed them in a rigorous homelessness rehabilitation program.…
Improving the lives of the smallest New Jersey residents will take time, money and determination, but now there’s a benchmark to measure progress.
We’ll take you inside a program that’s been enriching the lives of low-income city kids, for over 140 years, by introducing them to the great outdoors.