Product Overview
Kids Raising Kids takes audiences inside CCCares at Canberra College, a unique school for young parents, but our characters’ lessons are not confined to the classroom. Many of the students are single parents, some are overcoming family trauma and drug dependency, and all are navigating a complex system. What unites them is a will to transform their lives – to get an education, stay on the right side of the law, and be the best parents they can be.
In this incredible documentary, selected as part of the coveted SBS Australia Uncovered commissions, widely-held stereotypes of teenage parents are challenged in the most revealing, heart-warming and compelling ways. Audiences walk alongside these young people as they manage their relationships, home lives, and strive toward graduation – all while navigating the demands of new parenthood.
The stereotype that only teens from low-socioeconomic, or specific cultural backgrounds fall pregnant is challenged by the diversity of CCCares’s student body. The policy at CCCares is, ‘If they’re willing to come, we’re willing to take them’, and there are new enrolments all year round. All students at CCCares have something to prove, something to learn, and a child they hope will have a better life than them.
Curriculum Links
Kids Raising Kids is relevant for mid to senior secondary students in the areas of:
- English
- Media
- Community Services and Health
- Family and Community Studies.
It may be used as a supplementary text for Physical Education and Health (in the context of exploring impacts of pregnancy, wellbeing, and community health), and the development of the Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability. The film may also be of interest to tertiary students studying Education and Social Work.
