About the Training

When: 5/24 and 5/31, and 6/7/2023, 10-12pm (MT) both days!

Format: Online via Zoom

Cost: No-Cost

Description

Day 1: An overview of public health narrative examples and a background overview of the powerful ways community engagement can be used to enhance public health prevention and promotion efforts in Montana communities. Examples from research as well as community engagement with Indigenous communities will be reviewed and shared.

 
Day 2: An overview of the mechanics of digital storytelling and how to make digital stories, craft interactive scripts with participants, create storyboards and collect images to advance compelling story videos. Discover how culture and community identity can be shared in creative ways through video and narrative approaches. This will be an interactive session and give you the basic training to create your own digital story.

 
Day 3: A short sharing of created videos from participants willing to share and an exploration of the ways digital storytelling can be adapted and shared to meet diverse public health needs in Montana. This will include some of the research as well as applied ways digital storytelling has been used effectively in public health practice.

 
Learning Objectives

• Engage with communities using diverse techniques on public health challenges such as health promotion, mental health, suicide prevention, substance use intervention, and more.
• Understand the basics of digital storytelling and how it can be used to advance community engagement strategies at local public health agencies or tribal communities.
• Examine health disparities in Montana and ways to reduce areas by improving community and public health engagement using social media and narrative approaches to public health.
• Develop hands on experience with basic video production techniques and create ideas for creating video/podcasting/compelling social media content.
   

The Trainer

Annie Belcourt

Dr. Belcourt is an American Indian Professor and clinical psychologist in the College of Health at the University of Montana’s School of Public and Community Health Sciences Department. She is also the academic chair of the Native American Studies Department. She is an enrolled tribal member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfeet, and Chippewa descent. She completed her clinical training and doctoral studies at the University of Montana with advanced postdoctoral science training completed at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the University of Colorado Denver. She has worked as a clinician with diverse populations specializing in posttraumatic stress reactions including multiple psychiatric conditions. Her research and clinical priorities include mental health disparities, posttraumatic stress reactions, risk, resiliency, psychiatric disorder, and environmental public health within the cultural context of American Indian communities. She currently teaches American Indian public health courses at The University of Montana. She was selected by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health to serve as a JPB Environmental Health Fellow 2014-2018. She was raised on the Blackfeet Reservation and is mother to three children.