Participatory Photo Mapping to Build School/Community Partnerships

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• Participatory Photo Mapping to Build
  School/Community Partnerships
• Suzanne Gaulocher MPH, MA
• Think Win Win Workshop
• July 25, 2012

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Participatory Community-Engaged Health Action
Research with Youth

• Focused on small geography where young people
• live
• work
• play
• study

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Participatory Photo Mapping www.la.wisc.edu/ppm
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Theory and Methods
Data integration Layering
PPM Foundations

• Lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Perceptions
• Interactions

• Corresponding methods
• Maps
• Photography
• Narratives
• Analysis
• Networks

Perceptions
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Data Collection Analysis
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Youth Engagement

• All voices present
• Describe the issues
• Community grounded
• Solution oriented

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What can we learn from a map?
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After Toki Middle School lets out, students in
groups large and small pass Meadowood Shopping
Center on the way home. Older white residents and
business owners have complained that the students
are annoying, obstructive or even threatening.
The kids cant always understand the way people
react to them, according to workers at the
Meadowood Neighborhood Center. - State Journal
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I took a picture with Leah. She works at
Walgreens. We like to go to Walgreen and get
snacks. Shes a grown lady and her roommate is
named Tamara. Shes really nice. I get discounts
on cakes and stuff. I go there all the time. Its
a safe place. People know my name, and we know
theirs. I just go to Walgreens to get snacks. A
sign says only two kids at a time, but they let a
lot of people in at the same time. Meadowood
youth

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Food and nutrition
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• Liquor Store

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Physical activity and outdoor play
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Outcomes

• Kids engaged in generating knowledge building
  self-efficacy (I can do that!)
• Information exchange youth presentations
• Outcomes
• new knowledge
• changed adult behavior
• new events
• new partnerships
• new programming

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Nothing about us without us

• Generates place-based change
• Problems solutions defined by the people

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Thank You! Suzanne Gaulocher
gaulocher_at_wisc.edu