Was, find your brother. Keep the family together. That it wasnt your fault. [crying] sorry. That film is called around every corner. Joe gawalis is writerring with director and star you saw in the clip. Joined by Amanda Wexler for the ymca Counseling Service with service in Staten Island. Welcome to you both. Joe, lets breathe. [laughter] wow. Around every corner, the inspiration behind it, share. It is something i thought that need to be told in the world today especially in communities in the northeast all over the United States theres a major problem. Drugs are a huge issue right now and people are not willing to talk about it. Films are sugar coating it not see true lives of what an addict goes through and more importantly how it affects those around them. What people dont realize about addiction it is nnt just addict hurt by this substance but entire family unit. Friends everyone around them, their entire lives affected by this we want to show people need to open their eyes not as simple as black and white. Your first project. You picked heavy stuff for you right out of the gate here. How long personally is it for you and are there autobiographical elements in it at all . Theres always something theres personal elements to it. Sure. I unfortunately lost a friend when i was younger in high school to drug overdose, and a you know, that sits with you and you see people that had a lot more potential than they could have full in their lives an fell victim to substances so that does affect you a little bit. Not personal stories per se. But it did warp, you know, or did influence me to really get the message out there. So in the film you played john. Joe tell us about his character. Character that eu7g9ed to show was a regular middle class guy with a great career of a writing coming up. No reason for him of to walk in this lifestyle. It started as recreation he was in the arts. Drugs once in a while a cool thing everybody else around him doing it. Inspiration and before you know it a landslide an you dont realize youre on the top of the cliff and rocks start to shake and you start slowly going down. Before you know it, youre at the bottom. You know, you slip, you fall before anybody realizes you cant get up right now. Spirals down so fast that he now finally recognizes it at the point when the film opens on his last leg, and the film opens up with him going through morning ritual known for a shower, cup of coffee or exercise, and hes struggling for a needle. Runs out hes reaching for an first line is just him swearing and throwing a bottle against the wall and showing that adduct doesnt want to be in this position. They dont want to be, pain a lot of suffering that goes through this. And so much internal struggle but this gets them through the day. This is what gets their day started as powerful. It is hard to survive. Amanda youve been shaking your head listening and reacting to the clips, help me out. I didnt know that that addiction, you know, was still that particular addiction, you know, was still prevalent when grandparents back many that generation. But it is still a major, major problem. Yeah when youre seeing is true sort of a dip for a while with heroin, and now were seeing it on the upsweng last ten years theres been some serious increase in use especially in more suburban areas. So Staten Island where i work, long island, and parts of new jersey were seeing a huge increase in at of heroin use. What were really seeing in these communities, people are taking prescription pills and then the prescription pills lead into heroin because it is really a financial decision. The pills cost 20 to 30 dollars per pill. Where a bag of heroin is 5 to 10 so switch happens financially. Theres impact that it has on family, joes film goes into day. Just is it as you have it as we can only imagine as depicted around every corner . Absolutely. Clip that i saw was so accurate to what families experience, and like joe said it is really not just about the adibted person who suffers the whole family has to kind of change what they do, and react to the behaviors of the sick person. Of the addicted person. A lot of time well see families really struggle, break apart. You know not know what to do with themselves because theyre all trying to figure out what they can do for this person. And a lot of times it is unhealthy behaviors until people can start healing together. Tell me about services available. Counseling service on Staten Island where a member of tackling Youth Substance Abuse a coalition doing Community Awareness piece, so pushing to try to make sure that people have know what is going on and know what is available. Ymca offers counseling for addicted person, children anybody with addicted participant so trying to do services all around to help everybody involved in the family. How can people see parking the film anybody who is curious can see it . Right now were available on amazon prime and instant video. Itunes, and video on demand. Were going to have a couple of more services coming in near months so you can go to our website www. Facebook. Com around every corner the movie we update daily. Anyone who is watching this amanda, and has a situation that their family is dealing with. How can t ey reach out to services . Best thing that you can use is the internet. First thing, the offings of alcohol and Substance Abuse services always fast is your greatest resources you can put that into google and it will give you a resource for areas in new york. That is new york safety agency, but otherwise you can really start to look at what organizations are in the community and see hospitals are a good place to start. And if it is Staten Island you can always call the y and well try to get you to where you need to be. Amazon prime, itunes, film is called around every corner joe thank you so much. When you get your director awards and your best actor a awards come by and see us. Bring it because we have a nice little spot for you to put your oscar right there. Thank you for having us. Appreciate it thanks a lot. Stick around for a second. How the world of stem is helping when we come back. Because it works for our patients. Centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patients the freedom to fit their schedules, even on weekends. Because we believe in being here when our they can keep living their busy lives. Weekend appointments are now available here. 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Like me naturally wanting to build something and show that i made a creation that can actually move and function. Deleon and charles and robotics program. Students followed a computer manual how to build a robot and then deleon wrote a code to make it move. It can stop for a short period of time and start moving forward and come it a complete stop. Personalize it because it is your idea. And anything that you want to do. It doesnt have a fit sequence. University prep is a Charter School that opens two years ago in crown heights. It has a strong emphasis on stem, which stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Consulting and cultivating is so beneficial. Teaching them problem solving and logic incredibly important for any of the academic areas also in making sure that theyre able to sort out any problems encountinger in their personal lives. Chin says theyre learning skills they wouldnt have been exposed to anywhere else. We help them to think about what they want their lives to be like when theyre 35, 40 what kind of careers they want to pursue and strengths are that they can leverage for the future. Students already have goals that go beyond their high school years. My dream career is to be a technical engineer, you have to technology. Either biochemist or biomedical engineering. Robots of today leading to big or ideas tomorrow. Five news. Well theres a magazine shining the spotlight on diversity of stem professionals and students, joining the president of diversity in action no American Media llc. Tony howell is executive director of the Educational Opportunity program at the new Jersey Institute of technology. Jordan. Well diversity in action is a publication that is really focused on helping to create awareness around science, technologying, and engineering and math for diverse students and professionals. So when im talking about diversity, were talking about women, africanamerican, hispanics native americans, people with disabilities and also veterans. And the publications districted to both students that are majoring in stem again from diverse backgrounds that are 150 universities across the country a lot of historical black colleges like morgan state. Prairie view and also a number of universities that are very strong undergrad stem programs and strong diversity representation like m. I. T. Usc. Columbia university and we have a number of partnerships with organizations where theyre members that receive copies and it is free. A free publication both print and digital of diversity in action. And we distribute these magazines to the events and also directly to the members. So organizations like gnarl urban league, the historic engineer National Achievement award complex. Stem connector we work with orind international a Great Organization supporting veterans that put on career fairs. Seskly specifically for. So theres a number of stations that we work with, and it is very grassroots. You know, were out there attend conferences and career fairs you know it is a great way to engage the Younger Generation to become aware of opportunities in these fields which is for a niche area, it happens to have a wide range of Job Opportunities and education opportunities. Ferghts i was going to ask you about that growing field. Why concentration do you think now. Because educators are finally to specialize in this particular area . Yeah, i think theres a couple of reasons. The baby boomers are you know, retiring, and looking at me . [laughter] go ahead you know that is going to be a void in a lot of those jobs. Also, i mean this is where the future this is where we are right now. Everybody has a smart phone, technology is almost secondary now to the way that we live. So the jobs are all going to be not all a i should say but many of them are going to be in this area. Having a background in science, in technology, in engineering and math you know, it is key. Also theres another part of the stem acronym. Steam and a in there. Steam is incorporating the art into it which is great because i happen to have a background in music i produce music as well and music technology. Integrate as the art side, and how that ties into technology, and what is a great way to engage students to developing. Tony we saw in the piece that kerry drew did the little boy wrote his own code to make the robot move. Im embarrassed i dont know how control. You know, for the channels, you know, im just i cant figure that out. Is this really what were seeing kids writing his own code. By the wayim just as embarrassed as you are. Institution of more than 16,000 students about 4,000 engineers, and around 2,500 computer scientists, and i have no idea of how they do what they do. But i do know that i have to go out there and find them. That is what i do. Im responsible for about 1500 students that are precollege that come into the university around 2,000 that are in college, coming into university. There now, ideally pushed out there is a factor of what jordan had mentioned theres a lot of people retiring. And they looked around and said we cant run these industries anymore we cant produce things that we heed to produce. We have an institution better known as this nation, that is really crumbling from the inside. And weve got to build more things and do thing better. Yet at the same time bringing own young people who are Understanding Technology four to five times faster than weve ever understood it. So they together along with the circumstances has made a stem now be really, really an important and critical thing. What types of programs do you have once you get minds in, how are you shaping them and preparing them . You have to build on your math, science, that kind of thing. And then once you do that, then as the Institution Level since we have all of these different majors, civil, chemical engineers we start students at the fourth grade they come in the summer to fourth grade use a beautiful to see fourth dpraiders running around as a matter of fact we say to the students body they drop by about a foot and a half. In summer time everybody is much shorter but point is how we got them started. Theyre inquisitive. They already want to know how does this work . Why does it work the way it works so when get put a Computer Engineering person, the professor or graduates student or doctoral student working with it later. Fern is doing teaching now really has to really teach more than anything else. Because they have to think, how do i explain, how this thing really works to this young person who is really, really interested in trying to get it done. Where are you located in new jersey . The middle of the city in newark. How can people get the magazine jordan . Go to www. Diversityinaction. Net a Subscription Form right on our know get a copy, it is free. So also at the events that were distributed too as i mentioned and at the universities, you know, the easiest way to answer your question is really the website. Website. So also information on your website as well. Same thing. Link or just njit and go per the search engine. Just reeled that off. Tony knows his stuff. Yeah. Tony thank you so much. Coming up our dating apps and websites a threat to social relationships . Tengder this morning, people on medicaid who might otherwise be struggling to care for themselves wont have to. Because homefirst, a product of helping them with bathing, so they can remain safely at home. Homefirst, a product of continuing the work of the four brooklyn ladies caring in so many ways. Call 18663864180 so more and more people are using dating apps for hookups but are there rirvetion involved when it cools to quick encounters here to elaborate is addiction specialist author of rerequired of recovery. Hello. All right we know theyre out there. There are all sorts of them get to them in a molt. But is it really as big as were hearing . Huge every Single Person that ive talked to my clients are all in that i shall 20s majority of them they have experienced dating online whether match doink or now apps which you dont have to pay for a subscription you can download it and it is, you know, in two seconds you can start swiping right whether you like someone or not. It is accessible to people and it is easy to have. Most have smartphones these days most people really want to meet somebody outside of their circle. You know because we go to work, we drive home. We have smaller lives so this is a way to expand and meet new people. Lets get to it what are pluses of things if any. Pluses are that you get to meet people you wouldnt necessarily run into and people that have gotten married and have relationships from these apps. And these websites, but at the same time theres a lot of negative theres a lot of disconnect that is going on. Understanding how to be intimate they text and never meet and issues that come up. Asking about risk and how is it damaging social interaction . Right, right. I think a lot of people back in the day romance was something where you planned a date you went to dinner. You have a chance to be vulnerable an talk about your past, hirings history, now it is surface conversation. Texting for the most part you start out with texting, and you know what do you do, where do you live and you dont get to, you know, the depth of who you ares a person. So that way it becomes more of a hookup thing that is what culture has become. Is that help me out is that god or is that bad . Here im playing devils advocate where our Attention Spans weve reports on started to decrease. You know like that. So is that necessarily a bad thing with this . Personally i think it is a bad thing. I think patience people dont have patience but instant gratification. Instant gratification you want something fast. So you dont have the time to tolerate, you know, maybe the Actual Experience of meeting somebody, and assessing whether that person is the right match or not the right match. It is creating disconnect for majority of people. Of course there are stories with a wonderful tool for people to meet but at the same time i think the majority of people are finding it is actually creating more of a feeling of loneliness for them they dont feel as connected. I would imagine with the app. You dont get a sense of a person per se so then you talk about risk. You meet up with this person you dont know who youre meeting. Exactly. Theres no way to have a background check on somebody theres no way to really you know, know who is their friends who theyre coming from. How they have the job they have, and that is kind of the loophole what is happen is std only the rise people are not discussing this. But it is true that people are hooking up and then they cant get ahold of one another if something should happen. You know, something should happen terribly. Rights. People disappeared so im hearing these nightmare stories that are going on too. So people ha