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Storytelling & Narrative Methodology

Organizations
Prevention Speaks
Prevention Speaks is a project that is part of the Prevention Services division of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our goal was, and is, to support and teach communities storytelling - particularly through the use of video stories - to achieve environmental change at the local level to prevent chronic disease such as stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease

Mapping Our Voices for Equity
MOVE is a grassroots program that provides over one hundred stories in multiple languages surrounding health equity. MOVE is involved with residents in King County, Washington who disproportionately experience chronic disease to become engaged with the community and change policies.

Silence Speaks
Silence Speaks promotes the use of digital storytelling to support healing and violence prevention. This organization supports people to share their narratives, photographs, radio pieces, and more. Silence Speaks then partners with organizations to develop and carry out thoughtful and impactful approaches to story distribution which bring attention to systemic causes of chronic poverty, ill health, violence.

Articles
Perkins, J., & Mara, Y. (2008). Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care. National Health Law Program.
 
Banks, J. (2012). Storytelling to access social context and advance health equity research.
Preventive Medicine, 55(5), 394-7.
 
Rosal MC, Olendzki B, Reed GW, Gumieniak O, Scavron J, Ockene IS. Diabetes self-management among low-income Spanish speaking patients: A pilot study. Ann Behav Med 2005;9(3):225-35.
 
Rosal MC, Ockene IS, Restrepo A, White MJ, Borg A, Olendzki B, Scavron J, Candib L, Welch
G, Reed G. Randomized trial of a literacy-sensitive, culturally-tailored diabetes self-management intervention for low-income Latinos: Latinos en Control. Diabetes Care 2011;34(4):838-44.
 
Ockene IS, Tellez TL, Rosal MC, Reed GW, Mordes J, Merriam PA, Olendzki BC, Handelman
G, Nicolosi R, Ma Y. Outcomes of a Latino community-based intervention for the prevention of diabetes: The Lawrence Latino Diabetes Prevention Project. Am J Public Health 2012;102(2):336-42.
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