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Photovoice: Assessing Barriers To Health Among Maine's Somalian Refugee Women, Lilia Bottino, Collyn Baeder Mar 2014

Photovoice: Assessing Barriers To Health Among Maine's Somalian Refugee Women, Lilia Bottino, Collyn Baeder

Applied Arts and Social Justice Artist Talks

UNE Graduate students Lilia Bottino and Collyn Baeder present this Interprofessional Student-Led Mini Grant Team’s Photovoice project. This project involved the distribution of cameras to women in a refugee community in Portland, Maine, with the aim of enabling them to communicate health-related issues in their community through the visual language of photography.


Grant Application: Photovoice, Lilia Bottino, Collyn Baeder Sep 2013

Grant Application: Photovoice, Lilia Bottino, Collyn Baeder

Photovoice: A Visual Narrative Into The Lives Of Maine Refugee Women

IPEC Mini-grant application for funding of UNE student project Photovoice: A Visual Narrative into the Lives of Maine Refugee Women. Photovoice was proposed as a participatory action strategy which would provide Maine refugee women the opportunity to teach their community and policy makers about health and social issues they face. A UNE MSW student and MPH student sought to understand the barriers to health that Maine refugee women face. They proposed a project where participants would be given a camera to take photos of perceived health and social problems refugees face living in Maine. The photos would seek to …