Hearing Our Voices: A Participatory Research

Being involved in designing and carrying out an academic participatory research project on housing for people with severe psychiatric challenges. Research team members also reveal their personal experiences and symptoms of schizophrenia, and talk about the group program The Unsung Heroes. Includes video of the Making Our Voices Heard presentation, a powerful theatrical reading from their research findings [PDF script]. Lots more info at a luxe project web site with a photo essay, graphic novel (!), script & performances, travelling exhibit, publications and more. “Back when we started, I never thought we would get that far. I never thought that it would be such a difference, you know, of yeah, we’ve discovered these facts. We’ve discovered that homelessness is a universal problem, and that it doesn’t have to be, and if we have the political will we can make a difference, and that if we lend our voices and our expertise and our experiences, we can put it into a format to make our voices heard.” — Candace Watson.

Producer: University of Calgary	Featuring: Jamal Ali, Laurie Arney, George Benson, Cindy Calderbank, Claude Mathieu, Mary Mitchell, Michelle Misurelli, Barbara Schneider, Dale Silbernagel, Mark Sunderland
Format: Flash	Date: 2007
Length: 00:29:16
http://www.jetvision.tv/video.aspx?playerID=14&videoID=835
Tags:brain, CanCon, consumer, housing, mental_health, research, schizophrenia, video

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