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Home
About
What is Photovoice?
About our Photovoice project
Results
Connections
Habits
Service
Spirituality
Stigma
One person's story
Contact
Connections
Many participants talked about two primary supports- peer mentoring and health and wellness activities- that served as a catalyst for forming strong personal connections to each other and to their collective work towards wellness.
You just get a little sort of feel for the community, the part of the supportive house, the community we have here.
There’s nothing like right elbow-to-elbow, cooking, shopping, whatever it is – showing people how to do it, that is lasting memories, and that is education.
The people in house right now are all getting along very well together … they decided to pose as a group. They're all getting along very well together and working together.
He doesn’t usually participate at all – this particular guy – and all of a sudden he’s been participating like every week, and that’s a good thing, because a lot of them are elderly and they don’t get out of their houses. I'm actually very proud of him.
One of the biggest supports for him is the cat. Things need to be a certain way for him, and this cat really improves his mood.
We try to keep it home-like here. We can get 10 people around the dining room table.
He’s had some negative things happen since he’s been in a program – specifically, his apartment did not pass inspection, so he had to wait but he took it in stride; this picture is actually the day he found out.
We work together, and co-facilitate the group together. It’s a women’s group mostly.a lot of times its just an open discussion type of group, We talk about self-esteem, taking care of ourselves.
We may just end up sitting on a patio, or here, just talking, the way that any friends would talk. … that’s different because its not sort of a clinical model.