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Flint Photovoice: Community Building Among Youths, Adults, and Policymakers

Caroline C. Wang, DrPH, MPH, Susan Morrel-Samuels, MA, MPH, Peter M. Hutchison, BS, Lee Bell and Robert M. Pestronk, MPH

Caroline C. Wang is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Ann Arbor, Mich, and Susan Morrel-Samuels is with the Prevention Research Center of Michigan and the Youth Violence Prevention Center, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At the time of the project, Peter M. Hutchison was with the Neighborhood Violence Prevention Collaborative, Flint, Mich. Lee Bell is with the Prevention Research Center of Michigan, Flint. Robert M. Pestronk is with the Genesee County Health Department, Flint.



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  		FIGURE 1— Looking Back at You While You Are Looking Back at Me. Photograph by Cynthia Parkin, Flint, Mich, 1999.

 


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  		FIGURE 2— Exploded Frustration. Photograph and text by Eric Dutro, Flint, Mich, 1999.

"Violence. The line of the snow and concrete dividing the bullet hole shows that there are two sides to every story—a person with a gun and demands and a person with fear and a wallet. I am going to school. I can tell that the bus I ride in is always different because the bullet holes are always in different windows. This is rather disturbing. Many people use public transportation, which should not be a place where you should be scared. Not that riding the bus is scary, but the bullet holes are cold reminders that you never know what will happen next. This violence exists because people don’t know how to deal with hardships and anger. They think it’s easier to rob people for money or shoot when they are scared. But in the long run, it is much harder. We need to give people positive confidence somehow. Show them that they have special skills and help them find out what their gifts are. Once they believe that they are not victims of circumstance and they can determine their destiny, they will find this strength many times more powerful than a gun."

 




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