The NJ YMCA State Alliance and NJ Department of Health have launched Community Conversations: NJ’s COVID-19 Storytelling Project, which aims to gather the accounts of up to 500 NJ residents from across the state about how they have been impacted by COVID-19. The project’s focus is to listen to and learn from the voices of residents, especially those who have faced increased vulnerability or have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, to better inform New Jersey’s public health planning moving forward.
All project submissions, which can be short audio- or video-recorded interviews, focus groups, creative works, or other forms of storytelling, will be analyzed by the Walter Rand Institute at Rutgers-Camden to identify emerging themes and priority health needs. Through this analysis, the voices of community members will directly support the development of data-driven actionable local and state public health objectives for implementation in New Jersey’s State Health Improvement Plan, helping to achieve a data-to-action cycle toward health equity and health justice that can benefit all NJ residents.
All CHEMED patients are invited to share their stories. Each participant that shares their story will be eligible to receive a $25 VISA gift card from project organizers in appreciation of their time if all submission criteria are met. Submissions can be sent to info@chemedhealth.org.
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