Subcommittee 3: Photovoice Study with Informal Workers

 

The goal of Subcommittee #3 Photovoice Study with Informal Workers is to use photovoice methodology, an iterative Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methodology, that integrates visual images (photos), storytelling, and group analytic discourse to identify healing-centered interventions to promote healthy work among informal workers including street vendors, in-home candy stores and in-home hair stylists.

  • Using a healing framework, co-design a Photovoice study for informal workers in Greater Lawndale to explore their work experiences.
  • Recruit 20 informal workers to be co-researchers of the iterative, 12 session capacity-building study.
  • Share findings through a public exhibit to engage policy makers about the lived experience of the informal workers and identify actionable change.
  • Identify priority policy issues that impact informal workers.
  • Our SC #3 members have been trained in photovoice methodology and human subjects training.

 

  • Our research protocol, consent document, recruitment flyer, and recruitment script are under Institutional Review Board review.

 

  • We are developing refresher modules for ourselves on recruitment and consent processes.

 

  • Student partners are creating a study manual of procedures and internal processes to implement the research.

 

  • We will be co-developing the orientation and research sessions materials for research participants.