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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.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Caroline C. Wang, DrPH, MPH, School of Public Health/HBHE, University of Michigan, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029 (e-mail: wangc{at}umich.edu).

Flint Photovoice represents the work of 41 youths and adults recruited to use a participatory-action research approach to photographically document community assets and concerns, critically discuss the resulting images, and communicate with policymakers.

At the suggestion of grassroots community leaders, we included policymakers among those asked to take photographs. In accordance with previously established photovoice methodology, we also recruited at the project’s outset another group of policymakers and community leaders to provide political will and support for implementing photovoice participants’ policy and program recommendations.

Flint Photovoice enabled youths to express their concerns about neighborhood violence to policymakers and was instrumental in acquiring funding for local violence prevention. We note salutary outcomes produced by the inclusion of policymakers among adults who took photographs.

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