Featured Breakout Session: Film
Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital

Inside Outside is a work of hope. It captures the story of how eight individuals with significant histories of institutionalization made the transition from psychiatric hospitals and/or nursing homes, to successful community living. The intended audiences are people in psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes, and adult homes or other long-term residential/treatment centers that may be released to community-based settings under the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling. Professionals, family members, policy developers, advocates and people in partial-hospital and community-based mental health programs will also benefit from watching the film. The film will inspire hope for recovery as viewers marvel at the tenacity and resilience of these eight people as they move from "inside" the institutions to "outside" life in the community. In addition to the film presentation at this conference, the DVD will be available to peer-specialists and others for use at Hawaii State Hospital and other institutional settings.