253543 Digital Stories

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:50 PM

Amy Hill, MA , Director Silence Speaks, Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, CA
Since 1992, the Center for Digital Storytelling (www.storycenter.org) has been a global innovator and leader in the development of community-based participatory media production. We work with partners from around the world to lead intimate workshops in which individuals share meaningful moments from their lives in the form of short digital videos called, “digital stories.” This session will feature a screening of a collection of stories created as part of public health projects designed to bring personal narratives into local efforts to address health, well-being, and prevention within Canadian First Nations, Arizona-based Asian Pacific Islander, and North Eastern African American communities

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Advocacy for health and health education
Communication and informatics
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Describe how to bring personal narratives into local efforts to address health, well-being, and prevention within Canadian First Nations, Arizona-based Asian Pacific Islander, and North Eastern African American communities

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a digital storytelling instructor, documentary filmmaker, and public health/community development consultant. After spending twelve years coordinating women’s health and violence prevention projects throughout California, I founded Silence Speaks, an international digital storytelling initiative that blends oral history, participatory mediamaking, and popular education in workshops to support the telling and public sharing of life stories that document injustice and promote gender equality, women’s health, and human rights.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

See more of: International Health Films Session 2
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