Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan
While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has...
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| author | Jennifer S. Carrera Kent Key Sarah Bailey Joseph A. Hamm Courtney A. Cuthbertson E. Yvonne Lewis Susan J. Woolford E. Hill DeLoney Ella Greene-Moton Kaneesha Wallace DeWaun E. Robinson Ismael Byers Patricia Piechowski Luther Evans Athena McKay Don Vereen Arlene Sparks Karen Calhoun |
| author_facet | Jennifer S. Carrera Kent Key Sarah Bailey Joseph A. Hamm Courtney A. Cuthbertson E. Yvonne Lewis Susan J. Woolford E. Hill DeLoney Ella Greene-Moton Kaneesha Wallace DeWaun E. Robinson Ismael Byers Patricia Piechowski Luther Evans Athena McKay Don Vereen Arlene Sparks Karen Calhoun |
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| description | While the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at elevating the frame of Flint residents in and around the Flint water crisis. This paper describes the coming together of the research team, the overall project design for each of the three research efforts, and lessons learned. The three sub-projects include: (1) a qualitative analysis of community sentiment provided during 17 recorded legislative, media, and community events, (2) an analysis of trust in the Flint community through nine focus groups across demographic groups (African American, Hispanic, seniors, and youth) of residents in Flint, and (3) an analysis of the role of the faith-based community in response to public health crises through two focus groups with faith based leaders from Flint involved with response efforts to the water crisis. Our study offers insight for understanding trust in crisis, which could be valuable to other communities and researchers seeking to address similar situations. The project offers community science as a model for considering community engagement in research as part of the process of resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75b417b0ea41453e9ce104d8b3732def2022-12-22T01:13:18ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602019-03-01839410.3390/socsci8030094socsci8030094Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, MichiganJennifer S. Carrera0Kent Key1Sarah Bailey2Joseph A. Hamm3Courtney A. Cuthbertson4E. Yvonne Lewis5Susan J. Woolford6E. Hill DeLoney7Ella Greene-Moton8Kaneesha Wallace9DeWaun E. Robinson10Ismael Byers11Patricia Piechowski12Luther Evans13Athena McKay14Don Vereen15Arlene Sparks16Karen Calhoun17Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lasing, MI 48824, USACollege of Human Medicine: Flint, Michigan State University, Flint, MI 48502, USACommunity Based Organization Partners, Flint, MI 48502, USAEnvironmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USAMichigan State University Extension, East Lansing, MI 48824, USANational Center for African American Health Consciousness, Flint, MI 48502, USADepartment of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USACommunity Based Organization Partners, Flint, MI 48502, USACommunity Ethics Review Board, Flint, MI 48502, USAHealthy Flint Research Coordinating Center, Flint, MI 48502, USACommunity Based Organization Partners, Flint, MI 48502, USAHope College, Holland, MI 49423, USAMichigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USACommunity Based Organization Partners, Flint, MI 48502, USAMichigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAMichigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USACommunity Based Organization Partners, Flint, MI 48502, USAMichigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAWhile the story of the Flint water crisis has frequently been told, even sympathetic analyses have largely worked to make invisible the significant actions of Flint residents to protect and advocate for their community. Leaving the voices of these stakeholders out of narratives about the crisis has served to deepen distrust in the community. Our project responds to these silences through a community-driven research study aimed explicitly at elevating the frame of Flint residents in and around the Flint water crisis. This paper describes the coming together of the research team, the overall project design for each of the three research efforts, and lessons learned. The three sub-projects include: (1) a qualitative analysis of community sentiment provided during 17 recorded legislative, media, and community events, (2) an analysis of trust in the Flint community through nine focus groups across demographic groups (African American, Hispanic, seniors, and youth) of residents in Flint, and (3) an analysis of the role of the faith-based community in response to public health crises through two focus groups with faith based leaders from Flint involved with response efforts to the water crisis. Our study offers insight for understanding trust in crisis, which could be valuable to other communities and researchers seeking to address similar situations. The project offers community science as a model for considering community engagement in research as part of the process of resilience.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/3/94community-based participatory researchenvironmental justiceknowledge productionteam sciencequalitative research |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer S. Carrera Kent Key Sarah Bailey Joseph A. Hamm Courtney A. Cuthbertson E. Yvonne Lewis Susan J. Woolford E. Hill DeLoney Ella Greene-Moton Kaneesha Wallace DeWaun E. Robinson Ismael Byers Patricia Piechowski Luther Evans Athena McKay Don Vereen Arlene Sparks Karen Calhoun Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan Social Sciences community-based participatory research environmental justice knowledge production team science qualitative research |
| title | Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan |
| title_full | Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan |
| title_fullStr | Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan |
| title_short | Community Science as a Pathway for Resilience in Response to a Public Health Crisis in Flint, Michigan |
| title_sort | community science as a pathway for resilience in response to a public health crisis in flint michigan |
| topic | community-based participatory research environmental justice knowledge production team science qualitative research |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/3/94 |
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