“We need their help”: Encouraging and discouraging adolescent civic engagement through Photovoice

Care leavers as helpers: Motivations for and benefits of helping others

“…This may not be surprising given that education was found to be the most consistent predictor of volunteerism (Wilson, 2000) and that compared to non-volunteering youth, volunteering youth show higher personal competency, more access to social power, and more contact with family, friends and teachers who volunteer (Sundeen & Raskoff, 2000). Nevertheless, studies documenting the effects of intervention programs aimed at engaging youth from adverse or minority backgrounds to volunteer for their communities have testified to positive effects similar to those presented earlier for the general population (Haski-Leventhal, Ronel, York, & Ben-David, 2008;Pritzker, LaChapelle, & Tatum, 2012). Regarding youth in care specifically, a number of authors have commented on the success of private initiatives supporting young people by encouraging them to actively care for others (e.g., Gilligan, 1999), but on the whole the issue has received very little attention.…”

“…Acknowledgment of the usefulness of this principle has led to a wide dissemination of interventions that promote volunteering that include nationally implemented high school programs (e.g., Raskoff & Sundeen, 1998) as well as interventions targeting specific risk populations (e.g., Brendtro, Brokenleg, & Van Bockern, 2002). Notwithstanding, accessibility of marginalized populations to opportunities of social involvement are still limited (Pritzker et al, 2012), and volunteering in many countries, is predominantly characteristic of young people of the middle class (Albert, Mathias/Hurrelmann, Klaus/Quenzel, Gudrun/Schneekloth, & Ulrich, 2011). As our analysis showed, one way of addressing this issue in the context of youth with care histories, is through focused interventions operated by substitute care systems and independent living programs applying similar models to the ones noted, that encourage the value of giving to others and provide young people opportunities to actively experiment in such activities.…”

On the fringes: How youth experiencing homelessness conceptualize social and economic inequality–A Photovoice study

“…Pritzker, LaChapelle, and Tatum () used Photovoice when exploring adolescent civic engagement among Latino youth in low‐income communities. In their study, Pritzker and colleagues () shared how youth reported increased self‐efficacy and empowerment as well as community attachment and awareness through their involvement with the project.…”

Using Photovoice as a Community-Based Participatory Research Method to Identify Perceived Risk and Protective Factors for Depression in Rural Adolescents

“…A sub-aim of this study was to carry out a preliminary evaluation of the relationship between participation in Photovoice and youth empowerment. Empowerment has been reported as the result of raised critical consciousness and social action in previous Photovoice studies with adolescents [12,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. By participating in research that has been tailored to address the unique needs of adolescents, they may gain empowerment, a sense of importance, and knowledge concerning the importance of policy and social change [12].…”