scholarly journals Empowering Maasai women behind the camera: Photovoice as a tool for trachoma control

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara B. Mtuy ◽  
Jeremiah Mepukori ◽  
Joseph Lankoi ◽  
Shelley Lees
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Upper Eyelid ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Repeated Infections ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
Engagement Intervention

Abstract Background Photovoice is a method used to help engage community members to understand local realities and promote social change. Photovoice uses cameras in the hands of participants as a tool to visually document a specified topic. Photos taken by participants allow for reflection and stimulate dialog on an issue to ideally lead to social change. Trachoma, hyperendemic in Maasai communities in Northern Tanzania, is the commonest infectious cause of blindness worldwide, caused by chlamydia trachomatis. The bacterial infection commonly occurs in childhood and over many years repeated infections leads to inflammation and scarring of the eyelid. Often as adults this leads to the upper eyelid turning inward and eyelashes scratching the eye, resulting in pain and eventually blindness. We used photovoice as a tool for Maasai women to share their lived experiences of educating peers on trachoma and ultimately empowering women in this society. Methods This public engagement intervention was conducted September thru October 2017. We held a workshop on trachoma control for 20 Maasai women including use of photovoice method. Women were asked to disseminate information from the trachoma control workshop to their community and to capture their experiences using disposable cameras. Five weeks post-workshop we facilitated a discussion and women displayed photos of the successes and challenges they encountered as advocates for trachoma control in their community. Intervention Outcomes It was observed throughout the process and at the photo discussion meeting, that women articulated empowerment by this experience; as educators, agents of change and a source of valued information. Conclusion Photovoice should be considered for future interventions as a communication tool on health issues and to empower women to be ambassadors for health promotion.

“For Everyone” Means “For No One:”: Membership Tensions in Community Collaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 089331892110003
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Tension Management ◽  
Practical Implications

Prior research suggests that tensions are particularly salient in nonprofit and interorganizational contexts but rarely considers the impacts of managing these tensions. This manuscript applies a constitutive view of tensions to a community collaboration. Applied tensional analysis suggests interrelated membership tensions identified by organizational partners (grassroots/grasstops and inclusion/exclusion). Partners respond in conscious and latent ways (branding/blaming) as they seek to include organizational and community members and ultimately rely on contradictory messages (affirmation/admonition) to retain members. Findings present theoretical and practical implications for tension management, as well as constitutive implications for nonprofits dependent on organizational and community involvement to enact social change.

A Seat at the Table: Designing an Activity-Based Community Advisory Committee With People Living With HIV Who Use Drugs

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1029-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Switzer ◽  
Soo Chan Carusone ◽  
Adrian Guta ◽  
Carol Strike
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care Hospital ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Advisory Committees ◽  
Hospital Stays ◽  
Living With Hiv

Recently, scholars have begun to critically interrogate the way community participation functions discursively within community-based participatory research (CBPR) and raise questions about its function and limits. Community advisory committees (CACs) are often used within CBPR as one way to involve community members in research from design to dissemination. However, CACs may not always be designed in ways that are accessible for communities experiencing the intersections of complex health issues and marginalization. This article draws on our experience designing and facilitating Research Rec’—a flexible, and activity-based CAC for a project about the acute-care hospital stays of people living with HIV who use drugs. Using Research Rec’ as a case study, we reflect on ethical, methodological, and pedagogical considerations for designing and facilitating CACs for this community. We discuss how to critically reflect on the design and facilitation of advisory committees, and community engagement processes in CBPR more broadly.

scholarly journals The effect of community dialogues and sensitization on patient reporting of adverse events in rural Uganda: uncontrolled before-after study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Byomire Ndagije ◽  
Leonard Manirakiza ◽  
Dan Kajungu ◽  
Edward Galiwango ◽  
Donna Kusemererwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Adverse Drug Events ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Before And After

AbstractBackgroundThe patients that experience adverse events are in the best position to report them, only if they were empowered to do so. Systematic community engagement and support to patients in a rural setting to monitor any potential harm from medicines should provide evidence for patient safety.MethodsThis paper describes an uncontrolled before and after study aimed at assessing the effect of a community engagement strategy, the Community Dialogues and Sensitization (CDS) intervention between January and April 2017, on the knowledge, attitude and practice of reporting adverse drug events by community members in the two eastern Ugandan districts. A representative cross-sectional baseline household survey was done prior to the intervention in September 2016 (n=1034) and the end-line survey (n=827) in July 2017.ResultsAfter implementation of the CDS intervention, there was an overall 20% (95% CI=16- 25) increase in awareness about adverse drug events in the community. The young people (15- 24 years) demonstrated a 41% (95% CI =31-52) increase and the un-educated showed a 50% (95% CI=37-63) increase in awareness about adverse drug events. The attitudes towards reporting increased overall by 5% in response to whether there was a need to report ADEs (95% CI =3-7). An overall 115% (95% CI =137-217) increase in the population that had ever experienced ADEs was also reported.ConclusionOur evaluation shows that the CDS intervention increases knowledge, improves attitudes by catalyzing discussions among community members and health workers on health issues and monitoring safety of medicines.

Hope in the Unexpected: How Can Teachers Still Make a Difference in the World?

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-406
Author(s):  
Julian Edgoose
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Background Context ◽  
Objective Research

Background/Context The central role of hope in teaching has long been acknowledged by authors such as Sonia Nieto and Larry Cuban, but hope has received little focused attention from scholars. This article seeks to compare multiple understandings of hope to examine how teachers can find hope in times of global crises that challenge the promise of a better future that is implicit in modern schooling. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study How can teachers find hope in hard times, when the usual promise of schools for a better future seems difficult to sustain? Research Design This article is an analytic essay. Conclusions/Recommendations This article concludes that while the long-dominant understandings of hope are inadequate for many teachers at times like these, Arendt's view of the hope that emerges in the unexpected occurrences of classroom life resonates strongly with the most rewarding and hopeful experiences of many teachers. Yet Arendt explains how the hope that teachers experience from these unpredictable and unexpected occurrences is not just a source of immediate reward, but rather contributes to political and social change. The article concludes with an account of Arendt's critique of historians’ narratives of social change and an affirmation of the impact that teachers can have as agents of change.

Cast Out

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Joanna Michal Hoyt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Mental Health Issue ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Devil

How do you deal with generalized fears? How do you learn to overcome a mental health issue so you can serve others? In this work of philosophical short fiction, Verity suffers from irrational fears. She is afraid the fire in her fireplace will catch her mattress on fire so she puts out the fire and rolls her mattress into the snow outside. A friend comes over, but she is too distraught to spend time with them. She heads to the community building and is told, “Tell truth and shame the devil.” And so she does. She stops trying to hide her mental health issues and, bit by bit, they get better. She gets a job helping the local healer. Eventually, when those from the neighboring community have childbirth issue that need help on the outskirts of town, she is asked to go in the place of the healer. The neighboring community members tell of a “fear plague” that has stricken communities they are fleeing. Time passes, and, eventually, a strange mist comes to the town; the fear plague. When a neighbor goes briefly missing the community jumps to the conclusion it was caused by the strangers on the outside of town. The fear has taken hold of them, everyone is a suspect, and everyone is at risk. Verity rush to the front of the group, talks sense into them, and calms them down. The missing community member is found.

Integrating Student Workers Into Museum Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Kathryn Medill
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
House Staff ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Student Workers ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
Successes And Challenges

Launched in January 2016 at a university art museum on a large campus, the Museum Engagement Student Worker position aims to reimagine the student work-study role. Conceptualized as a role where students can experience and contribute to the museum's internal culture, the program integrates students into the museum's internal fabric and empowers them to act as engagement agents for community members. Museum Engagement Student Workers function as front-of-house staff, provide all public tours, and assist with public programming. This narrative, written from the author's perspective as the manager of the student worker role, examines the successes and challenges of the Museum Engagement Student Worker program using tenets of the museum's strategic plan (innovation, accessibility, engagement, community, sustainability) as points of reference.

When Co-Creation meets Art for Social Change: the Street Beats Band

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Juliet Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Percussion Instruments ◽  
Found Object ◽  
Embedded Power

This chapter explores the interface between the concept of Co-Creation and the ‘Art for Social Change’ movement, taking the case of the Street Beats Band, a community-based percussion band in Vancouver, Canada. Local community members in the band collaborated with professional musicians, to perform a commissioned work at an International Contemporary Music Festival, on ‘found object’ percussion instruments that had been curated by members of Vancouver’s ‘binner’ community. The chapter illustrates that a Co-Creative process such as the Street Beats Band can empower and build community, as well as confront conventional thinking and trouble received narratives and expectations. However, while the methodology of Co-Creation holds critical potential as a tool to challenge stereotypes and marginalisation, it nevertheless operates with the structural constraints of deeply embedded power hierarchies that dominate discourse around urban disadvantage. The chapter also highlights the potential tensions and dilemmas that are embedded within a Co-Creation process, due to different visions, interests and inevitable power hierarchies. These issues should be acknowledged, addressed and negotiated by those involved, for Co-Creation to achieve its potential.

scholarly journals Mental health issues in pregnant women in Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-501
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Bhimsen Devkota ◽  
Padmadharini Fanning ◽  
Jillian Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
The Uk

Mental health of pregnant women and new mothers is a growing area of concern in both low- and high-income countries. Maternity services in the UK, for example, have focused more attention on maternal mental health. We recognise that pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period is a time of major psychological and social change for women.

The Cepa Project: A New Model for Community-Based Program Planning

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Buchanan ◽  
Edna Apostol ◽  
Dalila Balfour ◽  
Carmen Claudio ◽  
Joani Marinoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Community Based ◽  
New Model ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Successes And Challenges ◽  
Basic Philosophy

The article describes a new model of community-based program planning developed by the Centro de Educacion, Prevencion y Accion (CEPA) project, an HIV prevention program for Puerto Ricans located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Based on models of critical thinking, empowerment and participatory education, the basic philosophy of the CEPA project is to narrow the gap between program developers and program recipients to the greatest extent possible. The article discusses the successes and challenges encountered in approaching this ideal. The article concludes with recommendations for public health professionals considering the use of community-based approaches to address public health issues.

Communities, Cartography and GIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Hawthorne
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Members ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Real World Setting ◽  
Geographic Knowledge ◽  
Community Residents

This paper discusses an introductory cartography and GIS service learning course. The service learning experience, highlighted by a final mapping project and community presentation, resulted in 3,000 student-designed maps being distributed to community residents, a website of downloadable student maps, multiple student speaking engagements, and a sustained community-university collaboration. The course demonstrates the importance of applied geography in local communities and highlights the benefits of community-university partnerships for addressing social change. Such an applied geography experience offers an important twist on the conventional, introductory cartography course where students engage in pre-packaged lectures and labs, and are then asked to complete a final mapping project. Unlike the conventional approach, this service learning class experience allows students to use their creativity to demonstrate knowledge learned in the course and allows students to apply and present their geographic knowledge in a real-world setting to community members.

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