Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like hundreds of other kids each year, she had run to Place Runaway House. Located at 402 Marlborough St. in Boston, Place House cares for more runaways than any other residential shelter in New England. For teenagers (both boys and girls, ages 13-17) who are being abused, who are having difficulties at home or school or who have some other problem that temporarily overwhelms them, Place is a refuge where they can overcome crises and begin to work out their problems...
...hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...
...Once a runaway decides to enter the program at Place, he or she is allowed to stay up to two weeks (the limit is necessary because of the large numbers of runaways that pass through the house). Place offers a program of crisis intervention where children learn to confront their problems. The house has 72 hours to inform parents of their child's whereabouts, but, if it is safe to do so, a counselor (or preferably the runaway himself) calls the parents soon after the child's entry to explain that the child is off the streets...
...house staff member, says that the first thing he asks a client is what do you want to use me for?" It is a form of outreach to the child which tries to get him actively involved in solving his own problems. In a non-authoritarian environment, the runaway can hear an explanation of the options open to him. The facilities of the house can then be used as a sort of social service trouble-shooter to get the child the services he may need, such as a forster home, medical care...
...this film say that Paul Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, where Hardcore's modest, acutely observed opening sequences are set. They also tell us he was raised in the stern Calvinist tradition that sustains the heroic father figure (George C. Scott) as he searches for his runaway teen-age daughter. The girl has disappeared into the demimonde of pornographic film production in California, with its attendant agonies of drug addiction and prostitution. Schrader's feeling for the small-town society and values of his youth is respectful, never patronizing. There is an authenticity in his visualizations...