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Article: Summer camps teach kids life skills Unified Health Solutions runs 13 educational and recreational programs
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- Dayton Daily News
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- July 28, 2005
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When kids can watch a movie by a filmmaker who documented what it
was like living with a mother who was addicted to crack cocaine, and
then can answer questions afterward about her experience, saying "no"
to drugs takes on a whole new meaning.
Recently, filmmaker Serena Burks was a guest speaker at summer day
camps conducted by Unified Health Solutions, a nonprofit
organization, which hosts 13 educational and recreational summer
camps for 500 kids throughout Montgomery County.
Burks, a Wright State University film graduate from Cleveland,
showed the movie and asked the kids for feedback.
"What do you think I was trying to express with this movie?" Burks