David Grunwald
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Student
Projects
For my JMP masters' thesis and PRIME project, I am evaluating the
Centering Parenting Program at West Berkeley Family Practice. Centering
Parenting is a group model of well woman and well child care wherein
5-6 women are placed into a group where they receive their primary
care in addition to participating in education activities and benefiting
from group support. I will be using both quantitative methods (chart
reviews and descriptive statistics) and qualitative methods (ethnographic
group observations, interviews, and longitudinal in-depth studies
of 6 mothers) to determine the health outcomes for women and children
– and qualitatively the reasons behind those outcomes. |
JMP Masters
Thesis Project Description
Title: Oakland Asian Youth Envisioning Health Through Photovoice
Photovoice is a participatory action research method that blends a
grassroots approach to photography with social action, and aims to
foster social change. The goal of this Photovoice project is to build
community capacity by empowering youth to creatively express their
perception of pressing health and social justice issues through the
use of digital photography. This project was conducted during the
summer of 2007 at the Asian Health Services Youth Program with a group
of 8 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) youth aged 14-17 from
the Oakland community. The youth were given digital cameras at the
beginning of the project, and were encouraged to take photos that
represent what they perceived to be the most salient health and social
justice issues in the Oakland community. Over 6 weeks, the group met
regularly and used these photos as sparks to ignite critical reflection
and dialogue about these issues and brainstormed potential solutions
to the problems they identified. This Photovoice project is part of
a needs and strengths assessment for Asian Health Services Youth Program.
Through this unique community-based participatory research method,
AHS Youth Program is able to identify pressing health needs and gaps
in health care for its youth patients, which can ultimately inform
best practices in healthcare provision and health advocacy for the
community health organization. This project is unique because it gives
youth a chance to be heard and acknowledges them as empowered critical
thinkers and problems solvers, and thus as positive assets to their
communities. Through their photos and accompanying stories, the youth
participants in this project elucidated many social, economic, and
environmental contextual factors that affect youth health at the community
level, including gang and turf violence, lack of access to healthy
foods, the importance of health insurance, facilitated access to health
risks such as alcohol, tobacco and drugs, and the benefits of youth
programs.
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