CONSULTING
Our team of experts can:
Train-the-Trainer
Develop interactive, engaging, online training and professional development workshops tailored to the specific needs of your project, organization, or team.
Co-Facilitate Photovoice Sessions:
Partner with your organization to train your facilitators, co-facilitate project sessions, build photo-sharing platforms, and create exhibits.
Provide Technical Assistance:
Assist your organization with the technical aspects involved in developing and implementing an online photovoice project and/or exhibit.
Conduct Data Analysis and Evaluate a Program/Project:
Develop surveys and facilitate virtual focus groups with program participants to gather data for impact.
Produce Outreach Options to Engage Stakeholders:
Work with you to showcase your participants’ photos and captions in an online or in-person exhibit, create a toolkit, book, social media event, panel discussion, or website.
Train-the-Trainer
Develop interactive, engaging, online training and professional development workshops tailored to the specific needs of your project, organization, or team.
Co-Facilitate Photovoice Sessions:
Partner with your organization to train your facilitators, co-facilitate project sessions, build photo-sharing platforms, and create exhibits.
Provide Technical Assistance:
Assist your organization with the technical aspects involved in developing and implementing an online photovoice project and/or exhibit.
Conduct Data Analysis and Evaluate a Program/Project:
Develop surveys and facilitate virtual focus groups with program participants to gather data for impact.
Produce Outreach Options to Engage Stakeholders:
Work with you to showcase your participants’ photos and captions in an online or in-person exhibit, create a toolkit, book, social media event, panel discussion, or website.
Why Work with Us?
We have decades of experience using photovoice for research, community engagement, evaluation, and education.
Our consulting is not a one size fits all. Since every photovoice project is unique, we create short- and long-term consulting plans based on your project, team, and context.
All of our consulting services are available both online and in-person.
Trainings for organizations and agencies include real-life, relevant examples from the literature.
We collaborate and listen. If you are successful, we are successful.
Examples of our work
The Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska asked PhotovoiceWorldwide to develop photovoice trainings for Institute staff, faculty, researchers, and early childhood stakeholders. The intent was to: identify stories of inequities, strengths, and gaps in early childhood services, and share findings with state legislators to ensure that all Nebraskan families have equal access to these services. We facilitated online trainings, including a 2-session photovoice orientation (bringing in relevant literature and examples from our work) and 3 advanced workshops in creative methods, photovoice for evaluation, and interpretation of photovoice data. Institute staff and partners are currently implementing their photovoice projects.
In 2020, Indiana University School of Medicine and National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI Greater Indy) partnered with PhotovoiceWorldwide on a multi-site photovoice project to explore lived experience with mental illness in greater Indianapolis during the covid-19 pandemic and inform policy change. Our team trained support group facilitators, co-facilitated project sessions, built the online asynchronous sharing platform, and created exhibit posters. A peer-reviewed paper is under development. The photos and captions are informing NAMI efforts to reduce the stigma of mental illness and inform planning to support individuals living with mental illness in the US state of Indiana during future pandemics.
From 2021 to 2023 University of California Irvine partnered with the nonprofit Abrazar and PhotovoiceWorldwide to develop and implement an online photovoice project for SparkPoint clients and coaches, to address financial insecurity in minoritized communities in Greater Los Angeles. Working in close collaboration, our team oriented project partners to photovoice, mentored the facilitation team, created online and in-person exhibits, and developed a photovoice toolkit for SparkPoint coaches. The result? A new, effective, and inclusive way for Abrazar to communicate with SparkPoint clients, strengthen their financial security skills, and generate data for change.
PhotovoiceWorldwide is evaluating an Essential Partners’ multi-method program, which engaged facilitation teams in 12 communities in Reflective Structured Dialogue and Photovoice training, mentoring, and Community of Practice sessions over the last two years. Our team will develop a survey and facilitate virtual focus groups with program participants, to understand the experience in the program activities as related to shifts in practice or approach and the larger movement of working in community together. The resulting evaluation brief that our team develops will uplift the best practices and provide recommendations for the future share by the participants.
PhotovoiceWorldwide created an online exhibit and multiple online outreach activities for the Oxfam Canada and Oxfam India research project “Exploring the Transformative Power of Feminist Research to Address Knowledge Gaps in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Based Violence.” Carried out by Oxfam Canada in collaboration with Oxfam India, their partners, Astitwa Samajik Sansthan, and McGill University, the project engaged 50 youth leaders in the Indian states of Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. Their photos, captions, and cellphilms show the transformation of harmful gender norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors around sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence among India’s youth.
PhotovoiceWorldwide worked closely with the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence (OAESV) and local prevention programs to develop the OAESV Photovoice Toolkit, intended to inform the use of photovoice in violence prevention efforts throughout the US state of Ohio. Funded by the Centers for Disease (CDC) and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health, the open-access toolkit provides information on the benefits of photovoice, organizing sessions and tasks, and aiming for impact. The toolkit is a comprehensive, agreed-upon understanding of photovoice and its processes and tools, ready for violence prevention programs to adapt to their contexts and make photovoice their own.
The Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska asked PhotovoiceWorldwide to develop photovoice trainings for Institute staff, faculty, researchers, and early childhood stakeholders. The intent was to: identify stories of inequities, strengths, and gaps in early childhood services, and share findings with state legislators to ensure that all Nebraskan families have equal access to these services. We facilitated online trainings, including a 2-session photovoice orientation (bringing in relevant literature and examples from our work) and 3 advanced workshops in creative methods, photovoice for evaluation, and interpretation of photovoice data. Institute staff and partners are currently implementing their photovoice projects.
In 2020, Indiana University School of Medicine and National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI Greater Indy) partnered with PhotovoiceWorldwide on a multi-site photovoice project to explore lived experience with mental illness in greater Indianapolis during the covid-19 pandemic and inform policy change. Our team trained support group facilitators, co-facilitated project sessions, built the online asynchronous sharing platform, and created exhibit posters. A peer-reviewed paper is under development. The photos and captions are informing NAMI efforts to reduce the stigma of mental illness and inform planning to support individuals living with mental illness in the US state of Indiana during future pandemics.
From 2021 to 2023 University of California Irvine partnered with the nonprofit Abrazar and PhotovoiceWorldwide to develop and implement an online photovoice project for SparkPoint clients and coaches, to address financial insecurity in minoritized communities in Greater Los Angeles. Working in close collaboration, our team oriented project partners to photovoice, mentored the facilitation team, created online and in-person exhibits, and developed a photovoice toolkit for SparkPoint coaches. The result? A new, effective, and inclusive way for Abrazar to communicate with SparkPoint clients, strengthen their financial security skills, and generate data for change.
PhotovoiceWorldwide is evaluating an Essential Partners’ multi-method program, which engaged facilitation teams in 12 communities in Reflective Structured Dialogue and Photovoice training, mentoring, and Community of Practice sessions over the last two years. Our team will develop a survey and facilitate virtual focus groups with program participants, to understand the experience in the program activities as related to shifts in practice or approach and the larger movement of working in community together. The resulting evaluation brief that our team develops will uplift the best practices and provide recommendations for the future share by the participants.
PhotovoiceWorldwide created an online exhibit and multiple online outreach activities for the Oxfam Canada and Oxfam India research project “Exploring the Transformative Power of Feminist Research to Address Knowledge Gaps in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Based Violence.” Carried out by Oxfam Canada in collaboration with Oxfam India, their partners, Astitwa Samajik Sansthan, and McGill University, the project engaged 50 youth leaders in the Indian states of Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. Their photos, captions, and cellphilms show the transformation of harmful gender norms, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors around sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence among India’s youth.
PhotovoiceWorldwide worked closely with the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence (OAESV) and local prevention programs to develop the OAESV Photovoice Toolkit, intended to inform the use of photovoice in violence prevention efforts throughout the US state of Ohio. Funded by the Centers for Disease (CDC) and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health, the open-access toolkit provides information on the benefits of photovoice, organizing sessions and tasks, and aiming for impact. The toolkit is a comprehensive, agreed-upon understanding of photovoice and its processes and tools, ready for violence prevention programs to adapt to their contexts and make photovoice their own.
Consulting with PVWW
For example, some clients want everyone on their project team to receive training in the method and then our support (TA hours) for project implementation and putting together an exhibit. Other clients want us to plan and facilitate the photovoice sessions, conduct data analysis, and/or develop a way to showcase the photos/text for their project stakeholders.
Use the form to tell us a little about you and your project and we will work with you to design a consulting plan tailored to your needs.
Testimonials
Here is a list of the funding partners for some of the photovoice projects we have consulted on:
A
Abrazar
Adelphi University School of Social Work
African Immigrant Health Research Consortium
B
Behind the Seen (Australia)
Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts
Broward County Nancy J. Cotterman Center
Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska
C
City College of New York
City University of New York, School of Medicine
D
Duke University, School of Nursing
G
Girls Inc. of Greater Lowell
H
The Hackett Center for Mental Health, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
I
Indiana University School of Medicine
J
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
L
La Clinica de la Raza
M
Maryland Veterans Association
Memorial Sloan Kettering Foundation
Multicultural AIDS Coalition
N
National Alliance on Mental Illness, Greater Indianapolis
O
Ohio Alliance to Eliminate Sexual Violence (OAESV)
Oxfam Canada
S
Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation (COIN)
Stephen F. Austin State University, James I. Perkins College of Education
T
Texas Department of State Health Services
Trillium Health Partners (Canada)
U
Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center
United Way of Broward County
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Irvine
V
VA: Eastern Colorado Health Care System
VA: Maryland Health Care System, Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center (MIRECC)
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