In Your Faith Based Community
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Why?
Faith Based Communities have had to confront massive compliance and safeguarding processes in recent years and adopt zero tolerance for abuse of children. Have you broadened your remit to address harassment, bullying and workplace injuries? We hope you will consider sharing Shattered with your faith based teams to foster empathy, raise awareness, and deepen understanding of the importance of supporting community members injured at work.
Ways to screen the film
Bring the film to your community through screenings in your location or in a local cinema. Register below to access resources including discussion guides to reflect after watching the film.
In Your Location
Synopsis
Shattered is a documentary series exposing how a system once created to protect injured workers has been reshaped by policy, profit logic, and now automation — turning recovery into conflict and care into a calculation.
It follows the people caught inside it: workers, families, doctors, employers, whistleblowers — and the growing number of lives derailed not by the injury itself, but by the system meant to respond to it.
Behind the scenes, governments and insurers quietly shifted decision-making from human assessment to computer-driven triage — using algorithms to decide whose pain is believed, whose treatment is delayed, and whose life is written off as “too expensive.”
The result is a national crisis hidden in plain sight:
a system that harms the people it was built to heal — and a public who won’t know until it happens to them.
This is not a story about broken people.
It is a story about a system that was redesigned — and the human cost of pretending it still works.
When a nation abandons the injured, it abandons its moral centre.
Every faith tradition teaches care for the wounded, justice for the oppressed, and dignity in suffering.
But modern systems treat injury as liability — not humanity.
Why this film matters to faith communities
This is not just a policy failure — it is a moral one.
A society reveals its values in how it treats those who can no longer work, produce, or perform.
Right now, our system punishes the injured for being injured.
The question for faith-based leaders is not political.
It is deeply spiritual:
Who are we, if we allow harm to be normalised and suffering to be bureaucratically justified?
What the film reveals
How injured workers are treated as burdens, not people
How financial systems override compassion
Why the most vulnerable are left to fight alone
How silence from moral institutions enables structural cruelty
Why restorative justice requires public truth-telling
Why faith communities should watch
Because this is about human worth, not legislation
Because care cannot be conditional on economic value
Because faith has always been the counterweight to systems without conscience
Because the moral voice is always needed before the crisis, not after
A Call To Action
If moral leadership is not exercised here, where will it be?
Host a screening with your congregation or ministry group
Use it as a formation resource on justice, compassion, and dignity
Join the national call to restore humanity to the systems we create
Stand alongside the injured — not because it is strategic, but because it is right
Care is not charity.