New Orleans VideoVoice
New Orleans VideoVoice is a community-based participatory research project that builds on the strength, motivation, and innovation of REACH-NOLA, an existing community-academic partnership. REACH-NOLA (Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a multi-agency partnership dedicated to improving community health and access to quality healthcare services in post-Katrina New Orleans through community-academic partnered programs.
REACH-NOLA partners have worked together since April 2006, lending mutual support, bolstering one another's capacities and leveraging each others' strengths to conduct community needs assessments (via key stakeholder interviews and community discussion groups); to implement action plans for health-related recovery ( e.g. bringing novel clinical services to devastated areas; developing community health resource guides); and to help struggling community members to have a voice during what has been a slow and difficult period of healing, recovery and rebuilding ( e.g. hosting community feedback conferences; engaging community members in partnership leadership). REACH-NOLA projects build on community-identified priorities, objective analysis of the problem, the available evidence base, and diverse stakeholder interests and strengths to develop rapid, effective, partnered solutions for the community health challenges facing New Orleans residents since hurricane Katrina.
REACH-NOLA and the VideoVoice Collective are working together to engage the New Orleans community in a videovoice project. We will reach out to 15-20 diverse community members and train them to produce their own media around health and resilience issues that are important to them and the neighborhoods in which they live.
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