'Forecaster' reports on grad students鈥 Photovoice project
On March 11, 2014, the Forecasterfeatured an article on the collaboration of Somali immigrants residing in Portland鈥檚 Riverton neighborhood with two 新香港六合彩资料 graduate students, Lily Bottino and Collyn Baeder, to document potential health hazards in the Riverton community through a Photovoice research project.
Bottino, who is studying for her master鈥檚 degree in social work, and Baeder, coordinator of Graduate Program in Public Health, who is enrolled in the Master鈥檚 of Public Health program, organized the project as part of a study that received a grant from 新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Center for Excellence in Interprofessional Education.
The project involved members of the neighborhood taking photos of the dangers that surround them, such as piles of cigarette butts and an unfenced playground close to a busy street, in hopes of bringing about change in the community.
鈥淭here was something tangible for the participants, which doesn鈥檛 always come from research. It鈥檚 not just like taking numbers and making a paper,鈥 said Bottino.