by Emily Bhargava | Aug 4, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
After a few more mosaic sessions with about 70 youth participating, the mosaic garden bed numbers are coming along beautifully. We’re creating variations on a theme, with each number placed inside a circle, and many other design elements being determined by the...
by Emily Bhargava | Aug 4, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized
Two of the larger projects that Connection Lab has been working on lately are related, but they’re not formally connected. The first project is helping the Greater Boston Suicide Prevention Coalition conduct and analyze a series of focus groups to learn about...
by Emily Bhargava | Jul 20, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
What’s Connection Lab’s favorite thing to do? Collaborative art in the interest of public health! And what does a community garden need to make it appealing in the winter as well as in the summer? A mural? Yes! We’ve done that. What else?… Frost-proof mosaics!...
by Emily Bhargava | Apr 9, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized, youth development
What better way to talk about change than through a story? The narrative arc of a story usually takes us from a problem all the way to a solution. As one way for the young people who are part of the HOPE coalition in Worcester to think about what they care about,...
by Emily Bhargava | Apr 9, 2015 | community art, community health, Uncategorized, youth development
After book making, paper cutting, collages, photovoice and drawing, members of the HOPE coalition pulled their best ideas together into an action plan that will guide the coalition’s work over the coming years. This was no standard action plan, but instead...
by Emily Bhargava | Mar 24, 2015 | community health, Uncategorized, youth development
In Worcester, youth members of the HOPE coalition have made tremendous impact on the substance abuse landscape. They’ve impacted local and statewide policy and continue to work on changing social norms. When I met them last week they had just returned from...