Projects
10 Steps to Better Healthcare: A Guide for Chinese-American Seniors

Partners: Chinatown Service Center, Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), LA 18 KSCI TV, L.A. Care

Project Summary The ten project videos produced during the New Routes initiative help Chinese American seniors overcome cultural, language, and navigational barriers so they may communicate effectively with... read more

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Abriendo las Cajas (Opening Boxes)

Partners: ZeroDivide, La Clínica de la Raza, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)

Project Summary Latinos in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, California gained technical and storytelling skills as they created nearly two dozen digital stories addressing their own experiences of... read more

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Domestic Worker Safety & Dignity Project

Partners: Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley, La Raza Centro Legal, Underground Advertising

Project SummaryIn San Francisco, a collective of Latina domestic workers developed a social marketing campaign advocating fair pay and healthier working conditions.  The women of La Colectiva not... read more

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Egal Shidad: Stories of Somali Health for Radio, TV and Classroom Use

Partners: Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), KFAI Community Radio, ECHO Minnesota (Emergency, Community and Health Outreach), Confederation of Somali Community

Project Summary  The Egal Shidad project uses folk tales and other cultural approaches to create a series of stories on Somali health for radio, television and... read more

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HEARMe (Health Education via Airwaves for Refugees)

Partners: Emory University, Sagal Radio, WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta

Project Summary East African refugees – now New Americans – and their Atlanta neighbors collaborated to create on-air, on-line, and on-stage productions promoting health and cultural understanding in their... read more

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Our Stories, Our Health

Partners: University of Pennsylvania Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition, Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning, WHYY, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Health Policy

 Project Summary In Philadelphia, Laotian and Vietnamese elders learned interviewing techniques and camera skills as part of a video project that aimed to increase access to... read more

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Salud: Healing through the Arts

Partners: National Museum of Mexican Art, Latinos Progresando, Radioarte WRTE

Project Summary Latino youth from the Pilsen/Little Village neighborhood in Chicago stepped up to positions of community leadership during an arts education partnership between a youth-driven local radio... read more

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Twa Zanmi (Three Friends)

Partners: Institute for Community Inclusion, Haitian Media Network, Haitian American Public Health Initiative

Project Summary Haitian Americans in Boston used various media and community events to build awareness that depression, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are  treatable illnesses. The team... read more

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