{"id":5131,"date":"2020-11-17T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:10:00","slug":"new-jerseys-covid-19-storytelling-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/2020\/11\/17\/new-jerseys-covid-19-storytelling-project\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey&#8217;s COVID-19 Storytelling Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project Name: <\/strong>Community Conversations: NJ&#8217;s COVID-19 Storytelling Project<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsor: <\/strong>NJ YMCA State Alliance<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates:<\/strong> Submissions accepted through Nov. 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> To learn more or sign up, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njymca.org\/communityconversations\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>COVID-19 has touched every New Jersey community. From the immediate threat of contracting, spreading, and weathering the virus, through the trauma of social isolation and intersections with poverty, racism and all forms of health and environmental injustice, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare our deepest vulnerabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Community Conversations: New Jersey\u2019s COVID-19 Storytelling Project<\/strong>\u00a0is a statewide collective ethnography to gather and transform the personal accounts of New Jersey residents, especially those who have faced increased marginalization or greater risk as a result of the pandemic, into the building blocks of a more resilient, compassionate and Healthy New Jersey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a collaboration between the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance, the New Jersey Department of Health and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/health\/healthynj\/2030\/\">Healthy NJ 2030<\/a>, Community Conversations aims to portray COVID\u2019s mostly painful and sometimes hopeful cadences by integrating\u00a0<strong>interviews, focus groups, social media dialogues, creative artworks, journaling, participatory observation, or document analysis.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This project will memorialize the voices of New Jersey residents during a critical period of unprecedented change in our state\u2019s history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With generous support from the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.russellberriefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.russellberriefoundation.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601558639492000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFly5501kkuqQDkSowq7s5CJ9UQRA\">Russell Berrie Foundation<\/a>, all stories collected will be analyzed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rand.camden.rutgers.edu\/\">Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs<\/a>\u00a0to identify themes and key disparities that will inform actionable recommendations for improving public health in Healthy NJ&#8217;s 2030 State Health Improvement Plan.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Name: Community Conversations: NJ&#8217;s COVID-19 Storytelling Project Sponsor: NJ YMCA State Alliance Dates: Submissions accepted through Nov. 2020 Application: To learn more or sign up, click HERE COVID-19 has touched every New Jersey community. From the immediate threat of contracting, spreading, and weathering the virus, through the trauma of social isolation and intersections with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":5134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-call-for-proposals-and-submissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss-digital-media-colab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}