Communications et publications
Youth Use Your PhotoVoice!
Project Partners: Kativik School Board; Saputiit Youth Association; Uvikkait Dome Youth Center.
Financial support: Brighter Futures; Canadian Institutes for Heath Research; Institut national de santé publique du Québec; National Network for Aboriginal Mental Research; Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services (Planning & Programming).
The goal of Youth Use Your PhotoVoice! was having 15 to 25 year-old youth in Kuujjuaq voice their opinions and expressing their ideas to improve Nunavimmiut youth mental wellness by taking pictures and discussing them together.Often, youth are not directly consulted on issues that are important to them by those who make decisions. PhotoVoice is a way for people including youth to express themselves in creative ways, to have their voices heard, by taking pictures on their community's strengths and needs and discussing and reflecting upon them together in a group format. It also a way for them to voice their ideas for social change and their solutions to the issues they face to others through the pictures they have taken. Youth Use Your PhotoVoice! isan important part of a participatory research project focused on understanding and improving youth mental wellness in Nunavik, entitled “Nunavimmiut youth’s concepts of mental wellness: a community-based participatory research”, led by Georgia Vrakas (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) and Louise Fournier (Université de Montréal). The project’s partners are the Kativik School Board, Saputiit Youth Association and the Uvikkait Dome Youth Center. Collaborators are the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services (NRBHSS) and the Prevention activities Public awareness coordinator of Kuujjuaq. The Institut national de santé publique du Québec (Santé des autochtones), Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Brighter Futures and NRBHSS (Planning & Programming) provided financial support for the project.
The exhibit showcases select pictures taken by the Youth Use Your PhotoVoice! participants in the summer of 2010.
