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12/02/2025

🎬 Now Streaming: “Enough” by Morgan Smartt

ABOUT THE FILM: Grappling with the effects of obsessive-compulsive disorder on a monotonous daily basis, one teenager rises above the persistent voice of their personal enemy. How will this interaction change them? How can it change how you face your demons?

Watch now on Apple TV, along with an exclusive panel featuring Laurie M. Tisch, John Turturro, and Changing Minds filmmakers: https://tinyurl.com/4shfj5vu

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

11/28/2025

🎬 Now Streaming: “Before My Eyes” by Simone Thomas-Rowe
ABOUT THE FILM: After getting caught in the middle of a school shooting, a boy hides in a bathroom and recalls the moments of happiness that shaped his life.

Watch now on Apple TV, along with an exclusive panel featuring Laurie M. Tisch, John Turturro, and Changing Minds filmmakers: https://tinyurl.com/4shfj5vu

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

11/27/2025

Here’s one Thanksgiving throwback from the Community Access archives! Recognize any familiar faces here? 👀

Happy Thanksgiving from our table to yours! 🍂🦃

11/26/2025

The wait is over! Watch the official trailer for Changing Minds, ten award-winning short films and one powerful conversation moderated by John Turturro, changing how we think and talk about mental health. ✨ 🎬

Now streaming on Apple TV! https://tinyurl.com/4shfj5vu

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

11/24/2025

It’s here! Changing Minds, celebrating 10 years of youth mental health storytelling through film, is now available to watch on Apple TV.

Experience ten award-winning short films created by young filmmakers who open up powerful conversations around anxiety, identity, recovery, and resilience. Each story reveals how creativity and honesty can change the way we think and talk about mental health.

Plus, don’t miss an exclusive panel featuring John Turturro, Laurie Tisch, and filmmakers Kendra Brown, Denise Chan, and Morgan Smartt, reflecting on how storytelling can break stigma and inspire empathy around mental health.

💡 Presented by Community Access with support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and the Isora Foundation.

Start watching now and join the conversation that’s changing minds!

https://tv.apple.com/ai/movie/changing-minds-young-filmmaker-festival/umc.cmc.5pqcb08a04nzjk11dox1gkcq1

11/23/2025

Artists at work. 🎨✨

📸: Community Access Art Collective

11/20/2025

Congratulations to our newest Howie the Harp Advocacy Center graduates! 🎓👏

We gathered at NYU’s Kimmel Center to celebrate more than 80 peers who completed Howie the Harp’s classroom and boot camp training between 2023 and 2025, marking a powerful milestone on their paths to meaningful careers in mental health and human services.

Since 1995, the Howie the Harp Advocacy Center has been a revolutionary space for peers to transform their lived experiences into leadership. Every graduate contributes to a more compassionate and recovery-focused mental health workforce, grounded in dignity and self-determination.

11/18/2025

Next week! 🎬 Don’t miss a FREE community screening of the 2025 film selection for the Changing Minds Young Filmmakers Festival at Sunset Park Library!

Come watch inspiring short films on mental health, created by young filmmakers, and partake in a thoughtful conversation with our filmmakers on changing how we think and talk about mental health.

11/17/2025

Exciting news: Changing Minds is coming soon to Apple TV+, Amazon, and YouTube! 🎥

This tenth-anniversary special features ten award-winning short films created by young filmmakers (ages 15–25), each shedding light on topics such as anxiety, depression, identity, and recovery.

Alongside these powerful films, join John Turturro, Laurie M. Tisch, and three talented young directors, Kendra Brown, Denise Chan, and Morgan Smartt, for an honest conversation on how storytelling can break down stigma and inspire empathy around mental health.

💡 Presented by Community Access, with generous support from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund and the Isora Foundation.

11/13/2025

Honoring Howard Geld, better known by the moniker “Howie the Harp.”

A pioneer, advocate, and changemaker whose legacy continues through the Howie the Harp Advocacy Center, now marking 30 years of impact. 💙

11/10/2025

“This is the American dream for me. I’m as happy as I’ve ever been in my life. I’ve changed the whole narrative and am proud to say this is my home.”

After years in the shelter system and the heartbreak of losing a child, Patrice and her husband dreamed of a stable future for their young family. At our River Avenue residence in the Bronx, they finally found home.

Today, Patrice raises her daughters in a stable, supportive community, where she writes poetry, joins yoga classes, and cares for her friends and neighbors. “Whatever I do next, I know it will be in service to others,” she says. ✨

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