Fotonovelas are very versatile educational tools. RWHP fotonovelas are designed to reflect the target audience by presenting realistic role models and realistic options.
You can use fotonovelas to …
- encourage health behaviors
- teach steps towards positive choices
- support face-to-face education by lay-health workers
- enforce clinical recommendations
- initiate discussion among a group or at meeting
- encourage self-identification with risk factors
- raise awareness
- support community education outreach
- celebrate!
How to decide how to use your fotonovela materials?
- Review the piece for content, audience and ending (is the story open-ended or does it deliver a clear set of concepts).
- Intimate materials are better utilized to reinforce a face-to-face education session.
- General materials are great for massive distribution. These materials can be distributed at:
- Clinic waiting rooms
- Local Hispanic food store check-out counters
- Laundromat
- Day care centers
- Migrant Education offices
- Review the material for the health message. Does the material suggest actions that require support to accomplish or is the message self-manageable?
- Need support-offer this novela as follow-up to face-to-face education.
- Self-manageable actions: this material can be left in locations where people will enjoy finding information that responds to their interests.
