We are Anything but Out-of-Home-Care-Children!
A Movie to Break the Stigma of Living in a Youth Welfare Residential Care

While pedagogy evolved a lot over the last decades, children in residential care still face prejudices from half a century ago. These prejudices inflict the wellbeing of around 100,000 children in German residental programs.

Graf Recke Foundation initiated a campaign for breaking the taboo of out-of-home care. Youth welfare organizations, schools and individuals are working together to educate the public about out-of-home-care and facilitate dialogue.

The main part of this campaign is a video movie. The independent journalist Anke Bruns captured the daily lives of children in residential care and the work with traumatized children over two and a half years, and also interviewed adult people who were placed in residential care in their childhood.

Children from residental programs, practitioners and the director of the residential care share their feelings and experiences in this documentary. The residents intend to break this taboo. They say: „We are anything but out-of-home-care-children!“

The session consists of two parts: The 47-minute documentary and a following discussion.