Mosavel Maghboeba, Thomas Teleangè
Dept. of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
New Solut. 2009;19(4):407-22. doi: 10.2190/NS.19.4.c.
Marginalized communities need to be heard and validated within their local context, so that individual and community support can be garnered and ownership of the concerns can be embraced. This article reports on three modalities that were used in the community outreach activities of Project REECH. The goal of Project REECH is to engage residents in low-income neighborhoods in a dialogue with researchers to identify the major health concerns in their community. With the aid of these community conversations, the goal is to identify and train community residents to conduct such community-identified research in their neighborhoods. This article primarily explores and evaluates the use and effectiveness of an arts modality called Playback Theatre. Also, it briefly reports on the use of Readers' Theatre and graphic facilitation to aid in the dissemination of the data collected from these community conversations.
边缘化社区需要在其当地背景下被倾听和认可，以便获得个人和社区的支持，并接受对这些问题的主人翁意识。本文报告了在REECH项目社区外展活动中使用的三种方式。REECH项目的目标是让低收入社区的居民与研究人员进行对话，以确定他们社区的主要健康问题。借助这些社区对话，目标是识别并培训社区居民在其社区开展此类社区确定的研究。本文主要探讨和评估一种名为“回放剧场”的艺术方式的使用及其有效性。此外，它还简要报告了读者剧场和图形辅助手段的使用情况，以帮助传播从这些社区对话中收集到的数据。
