Abstract
Photovoice is a qualitative community-based participatory research (CBPR) method used by researchers and communities to inform policy and advocate for community change. Photovoice was piloted within an established community-based intervention, Your Family, Your Neighborhood (YFYN), within a predominantly Latinx community. YFYN is a dual-generation, evidence-based, manualized curriculum supporting and strengthening bonds between parents and their children while fostering neighborhood social cohesion among families living in low-income communities. The photovoice project was conducted with five families (n=20 participants) in English and Spanish. Participants guided the photovoice process to uncover complex community issues from their direct perspectives to accurately capture the challenges and strengths they encounter in their community. Community challenges identified by participants included the dumping of trash in their neighborhood, inadequate space for their children to play, and heavy traffic that impedes their ability to walk their children to school safely. Participants identified three main community strengths: the local park, the Boys & Girls Club, and personal connections with other YFYN family participants. When participants guide the photovoice process, it helps stakeholders understand and uncover complex issues from community members’ direct perspectives to capture the meaning of the issues accurately. Production of knowledge from the community rooted in their lived experience can help reshape the narrative of Latinx families living in low-income communities and allows for social workers to more adequately respond to their specific needs.
Highlights
Photovoice is a qualitative community-based participatory research (CBPR) method developed by Wang and colleagues (1996) in the early 1990s to assist rural Chinese women in documenting their everyday health and work conditions
Photovoice has proven to be a convenient research method that can be used by a variety of researchers and communities, and it supports elevating community members into the policy sphere to advocate for local community change (Harley, 2015; Jarldorn, 2019; Lennon-Dearing & Hirschi, 2019; Mitchell, 2018; Rahman et al, 2020)
Photovoice was incorporated into an established community-based intervention, Your Family, Your Neighborhood (YFYN), to support the curriculum’s original goals and highlight accommodations made to honor community preferences and the realities of community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Summary
Photovoice is a qualitative community-based participatory research (CBPR) method used by researchers and communities to inform policy and advocate for community change. Photovoice has been used to convey a variety of issues and concerns with diverse communities, including food justice with youth of color (Leung et al, 2017), environmental change and water with American Indians (Mitchell, 2018), and health and nutrition education with Latinx groups, among others (Alcazar et al, 2017) In this project, photovoice was incorporated into an established community-based intervention, Your Family, Your Neighborhood (YFYN), to support the curriculum’s original goals and highlight accommodations made to honor community preferences and the realities of community-based participatory research (CBPR). YFYN aims to build socially cohesive communities among family cohort participants to address adverse conditions in neighborhoods with a high concentration of poverty by fostering a network of trusting and cohesive relationships among participants (Brisson et al, 2019) This photovoice project was piloted with a Latinx community in English and Spanish simultaneously to accommodate the participant's preferred language
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