Using Spoken Word to Prevent Youth Diabetes
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“We want an end to type 2 diabetes in young people. We believe that by causing diabetes, greed-blended corporations and deficient living conditions are directly responsible for blinding, maiming, and killing thousands annually. This disease overwhelmingly devastates poor people of color.” These are the words of youth poets as part of The Bigger Picture campaign. These poets’ web-based, spoken word videos about type 2 diabetes (T2D) have gotten over 1 million views and have inspired people to see the disease as a health and food justice issue. With this view of T2D, young people have become activated to advocate for policy change to fight T2D in their communities, and together, we are developing a Policy Playbook to catalyze this advocacy. Come meet one of the youth poets moving this campaign forward, and experience the spoken word films that are changing the conversation about T2D.
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Using Spoken Word to Prevent Youth Diabetes
- 1. The Bigger Picture: Using Spoken Word, Film Media, and Policy Advocacy to End Type 2 Diabetes in Young People Aaron Cadiz, Youth Speaks Sarah Fine, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations Jean Junior, UCSF Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved Hannah Sheehy, ChangeLab Solutions
- 2. 10 YEARS AGO, ONLY 1 IN 11 HAD PRE- DIABETES. NOW…
- 3. Compared to 25% of white youth
- 5. Vehicles for a Youth-Generated Diabetes Prevention Campaign Medically-curated workshops with health professionals and poet mentors --> “Spoken word" films by YS poets
- 6. Vehicles for a Youth- Generated Diabetes Prevention Campaign • School assemblies • Live performances • Social media and website
- 7. The Bigger Picture: Live Performance by Aaron Cadiz
- 8. Perfect Soldiers by Gabriel Cortez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgh8NxNnhoI
- 9. High School Assembly Outcomes (n=1604) 70% 37% 38% 31% 89% 82% 57% 48% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Agreed that DM2 is preventable (True/False) Included environmental causes as influencing DM2 risk (Multiple Choice) Cared a lot about DM2 prevention (Ranked 1-5, 5 being "a lot") Given a choice of soda or water, would choose water (Multiple Choice) Pre Post
- 10. Reach and Recognition • 23 short films (two Spanish, website in Spanish) • >5000 high school students from 20 public schools • 50 trained poet mentors from 8 poet workshops • >1 million video hits • Recognition on major media outlets + Awards, such as: – Food Farm, Sacramento, Real Food Media Film Festivals – Latino Coalition for a Healthy California Young Champions for Latino Health
- 11. So what’s next…?
- 12. Collaborating to create a youth-centered policy playbook
- 14. The Policy Playbook • Goal: To create an accessible resource, aimed at youth and their adult allies, which can be used as a quick-start guide to catalyze youth engagement in policy change for health and social justice
- 15. Youth Focus Groups • 41 youth aged 14-19 across California in 4 focus groups: – John O’Connell High School in San Francisco – Fathers & Families of San Joaquin in Stockton – Youth Leadership Institute in Fresno – iLead North Hollywood in Los Angeles
- 16. The Policy Playbook: 3 Main Parts 1) Advocacy 101 2) Examples of success stories 3) Organizations to get involved with
- 17. The Policy Playbook: Focus Groups “I feel like all the general information you should know should be less than 10 minutes to read or to see.”
- 18. The Policy Playbook: Focus Groups “Honestly, I think the immediate thoughts are website or book…But I think what would be more effective and more widespread probably is…the infographics that have political information on them that people…making as much information as concise as possible with the phone numbers of local representatives and stuff on it. Because that's the type of thing that people tend to circulate. And then having that and then a link to a website…”
- 20. Thank You! • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation • University of California San Francisco Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program • UCSF Pathways Grant program ☺
- 21. Questions? • Aaron Cadiz (aaron.cadiz@berkeley.edu) • Sarah Fine (Sarah.Fine@ucsf.edu) • Jean Junior (jean.junior@ucsf.edu) • Hannah Sheehy (hsheehy@changelabsolutions.org)
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- HS Describe strengths of each participant/their organization, eg: CVP/PLUS: research skills TBP/YS: arts-based youth engagement YLI: youth advocacy & organizing CLS: demystifying the policy process
- HS ChangeLab’s mission is to create healthy communities for all through better laws and policies. This policy piece is so important for something like Type 2 diabetes, where the root causes are structural. At ChangeLab, we believe that structural problems need structural solutions – essentially, we need to change the rules of the game. One way we do that is by building communities’ capacity to advocate for healthy change. We demystify the policy process so people’s concerns are heard and their needs are met. We’ve created resources that help communities get heard during the policy process, but never specifically for youth.
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