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30-August-1996 
 
 
96316          Healing America's Violent Youth Is  
                   Focus of Television Program 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--"Children and Violence: Toward Solutions," produced by the 
Episcopal Church for the National Council of Churches, will air on ABC 
television network stations Sept. 29.  The program takes a close look at 
the violence that pervades the lives of young people today. 
 
     NCC spokesperson Mary Byrne Hoffmann says of the program, "Not just 
simply a growing roster of predators and victims, of drive-by shootings and 
parental abuse, the violence done to children and by children is a long 
story that tells of increasing poverty and neglect among our children." 
 
     Hoffmann says the escalating violence "also reveals a growing sense of 
apathy and hopelessness to their plight that points fingers of condemnation 
rather than opens arms of understanding." 
 
     That's the point at which "Children and Violence" picks up the story, 
telling about people and communities of faith who have made extraordinary 
efforts to reach out to children and counter the violence in their lives. 
The program is produced and directed by Martin Doblmeier of Journey Films 
in Alexandria, Va. 
 
     "Children and Violence" is the first program in the 1996-97 "Vision 
and Values" series.  Other programs in the series include a profile of Pope 
John Paul II, produced by the United States Catholic Conference, Oct. 13; a 
show about the U.S. space program produced by the Southern Baptist Radio 
and Television Commission, Dec. 29; and a program featuring the 
environmental awareness group Outward Bound, produced by The Jewish 
Theological Seminary of America, Jan. 12, 1997. 

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