Feels Like Home

Immersing audiences in the homes of children with medical complexities and disabilities, and their families.

What does your home mean to you?

“Feels Like Home” is a project led by Dr. Rebecca Seltzer and Dr. Lauren Arora Hutchinson. For children with medical complexity and their families, the home serves many critical functions: as a site of medical care, therapies, schooling, play, socialization, and family time together. Through this project we hope to highlight how families of children with medical complexity adapt their home environments to meet their child and family’s needs.

For the past year, the iDeas Lab has developed relationships with families across the country, from Ohio to California to Maryland. The film draws entirely from footage sourced from these families, detailing moments throughout their homes – from physically navigating through the house, to birthday celebrations – to capture both the challenges of daily life and families’ ingenuity in addressing those challenges.

By increasing visibility of the lived experience of children with medical complexity and their families, we seek to advocate for meaningful policy change and greater support for these families.