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Poster Reception #1

Qualitative Methods

Session: Poster Reception #1

116 - Collaborating through Photovoice – elevating lived experiences and training novice evaluators

Stream: Evaluation Foundations and Methodology

Wednesday, October 23, 2024
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Abstract Information: What do you get when experienced and newer researchers and evaluators, students, and Community Health Workers (CHWs) come together on a local evaluation project? This session will describe and share evidence from a Photovoice project in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Photovoice is a participatory and empowering research and evaluation method that situates people experiencing a condition as the experts and puts the data collection in their hands. Broadly experienced CHWs and evaluators, ranging from new to seasoned, worked together to explore impactful and satisfying aspects of the CHWs’ work. Session leaders will provide an overview of Photovoice and describe how their experientially diverse team applied this method in their evaluation work, discuss findings and lessons learned from the Photovoice activity, and describe a public exhibit featuring CHWs’ photographs. Participants in this session will be able to: o Describe the Photovoice method, o Apply Photovoice in their own work, o Integrate team members of varying levels of experience into Photovoice activities, o Explain key findings from this Photovoice project.