Have You Heard … the movement

Peer to Peer Health Ed through the Arts in Los Angeles

The talented and busy Eve Tulbert, and her collaborator Prof. Eric Rice have been super busy this north american summer (’09) working on the Have You Heard project, or movement… I last wrote about Eve back in July, introducing her and the collaborative media for health work with LA street kids and other young people, focussing on HIV/STI prevention.  Since then the project has done amazing work – which they have posted on UTUBE and myspace and which we can now all see, think about, get inspired by and share with others…

Check out their myspace site (you could become a friend!), or go directly to their blog spot to see all the videos (health education videos developed by the kids for their peers), interviews (about personal perspectives on HIV/STI prevention made by the young people with their friends and peers) and a seriously rocking comic strip about drugs and HIV/STI prevention… the first page of which I am posting below because I like it so much and want you to look at even if you don’t want go to their site… which you will have to do to see pages 2, 3 &4…

Buddy comic page 1 - from http://www.myspace.com/haveyouheardthemovement

As Eve said “This project has taught me that the arts are very healing–arts participation can keep a community healthier!  Some of the youth in our project have been through tough times, having to leave their families or growing up in foster care, struggling with addiction to drugs and alcohol, or doing sex work to make it on the streets.  But these are exactly the experiences that make them great artists and peer educators!  They know what its like to keep yourself healthy in very challenging situations–its a knowledge that “professional” public health workers just don’t have.  I am so proud of the vision, humor, and life stories that the young people brought out to make this project happen.”

Tags: Comic Life, HIV/AIDS, social work, youth; Have Your Heard

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 9:19 am and is filed under Comics, Have You Heard, Health Promotion & Education, Los Angeles, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.