Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 4:49:48 GMT
The children's series Sesame Street has been characterized by breaking taboos, and continues to demonstrate this by introducing a new character that addresses the issue of drug addiction and the impact on families.
On their YouTube channel, Sesame Street shared a video in which they introduce a puppet named Karli. She appears next to the famous Elmo, whom she thanks for taking care of her while her mother was "at a meeting."
Elmo imagines that this meeting is a typical meeting of friends and assures that he also loves participating in this type of gatherings, however, Karli confesses that her mother goes to a help group against drug addiction.
She goes daily to stay healthy. It's just, you know? My mom needs help to take better care of herself.
Introducing this new character is part of the Chile Mobile Number List producers' decision to align with the Sesame Street initiative in communities , a digital platform that has multimedia tools in English and Spanish to help children's development.
This platform shows a wide variety of topics: from how to prepare for school and creating healthy habits, to difficult topics such as divorce and hunger.
Viewers will be able to see that an “adult topic” is addressed in this episode. It was launched by Sesame Street because according to its creators, approximately 5.7 million children under the age of 11 in the United States live in homes where one parent has a substance abuse disorder.
This does not include those children who do not live with a parent due to separation or divorce, incarceration, or death as a result of their addiction.
According to Kama Einhorn, content manager at Sesame Workshop, “there is currently no program or initiative for young children that addresses the issue of substance abuse from their perspective.”
Karli had already been introduced in the program at the beginning of the year, as a character who is in a foster home. Now viewers will understand why her mother had to leave for a while.
These episodes are available online, in them you can see Karli with 10-year-old Salia Woodbury, a girl whose parents are in recovery, and she also shares what it has been like for her and her little sisters to deal with their parents' addictions.
Additionally, in other episodes characters such as Elmo's father, Louis, appear explaining that addiction is a disease.
Jerry Moe, national director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Children's Program, and one of the advisors to the Sesame Street initiative, said in a statement: “For children who connect with Karli, hearing, 'It's not your fault, you're not alone, and there are people and safe places that can help,' opens a path to hope and healing.”
Sesame Street is taking it upon itself to address these types of issues because the statistics are truly concerning. Without a doubt many children will be able to identify with what they see, thanks to the fact that Sesame Street is handling the issue in a clear way and without taboos.
On their YouTube channel, Sesame Street shared a video in which they introduce a puppet named Karli. She appears next to the famous Elmo, whom she thanks for taking care of her while her mother was "at a meeting."
Elmo imagines that this meeting is a typical meeting of friends and assures that he also loves participating in this type of gatherings, however, Karli confesses that her mother goes to a help group against drug addiction.
She goes daily to stay healthy. It's just, you know? My mom needs help to take better care of herself.
Introducing this new character is part of the Chile Mobile Number List producers' decision to align with the Sesame Street initiative in communities , a digital platform that has multimedia tools in English and Spanish to help children's development.
This platform shows a wide variety of topics: from how to prepare for school and creating healthy habits, to difficult topics such as divorce and hunger.
Viewers will be able to see that an “adult topic” is addressed in this episode. It was launched by Sesame Street because according to its creators, approximately 5.7 million children under the age of 11 in the United States live in homes where one parent has a substance abuse disorder.
This does not include those children who do not live with a parent due to separation or divorce, incarceration, or death as a result of their addiction.
According to Kama Einhorn, content manager at Sesame Workshop, “there is currently no program or initiative for young children that addresses the issue of substance abuse from their perspective.”
Karli had already been introduced in the program at the beginning of the year, as a character who is in a foster home. Now viewers will understand why her mother had to leave for a while.
These episodes are available online, in them you can see Karli with 10-year-old Salia Woodbury, a girl whose parents are in recovery, and she also shares what it has been like for her and her little sisters to deal with their parents' addictions.
Additionally, in other episodes characters such as Elmo's father, Louis, appear explaining that addiction is a disease.
Jerry Moe, national director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Children's Program, and one of the advisors to the Sesame Street initiative, said in a statement: “For children who connect with Karli, hearing, 'It's not your fault, you're not alone, and there are people and safe places that can help,' opens a path to hope and healing.”
Sesame Street is taking it upon itself to address these types of issues because the statistics are truly concerning. Without a doubt many children will be able to identify with what they see, thanks to the fact that Sesame Street is handling the issue in a clear way and without taboos.