An empty shell where a downtown building once stood

What to do with kids’ ideas – even the ones that will “never work”

The other day, I told you about how the kids’ Photovoice project stopped me in my tracks and why we made a video for those kids.  Today, I want to share one of the photo ideas the kids made and what Deb Brown and I said to those kids. It’s also part of the video…

A collage of pictures of young people and people taking photos with their phones

From photos to action: The power of following up with kids’ voices

At the Rural Renewal Symposium last year, I was stopped in my tracks by a research poster presentation by Rural Scholar Stephanie Harvey on a youth photovoice project.  Why did it strike me? It featured photos taken by kids ages 7 to 17 about what they wanted in their towns. I think you’d recognize their…