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Adult Education in Arizona has big plans for their digital stories. We just finished up another institute in Tucson. Not only will the process of storytelling and multimedia be incorporated into ESOL and GED lessons throughout the state, but we expect to see some of the new student and teacher-created videos on the Support AZ Adult Education Facebook site soon! Great work!

KING COUNTY, WA – Mapping Our Voices for Equality (MOVE), a new online map and digital storytelling website launches today. MOVE features on-going changes that improve healthy eating and physical activity and create tobacco-free environments in King County.  The website showcases over seventy-five multi-lingual digital stories produced by community members and a local map that illustrates policies changes that are improving health. 

“MOVE provides a forum for voices from the community as well as a visually interesting way to capture the exciting changes that are happening in King County” said Dr. David Fleming, Director and Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County. 

The MOVE website includes:

• First person narratives about the personal impact of health inequities, such as lack of access to healthy food
• A mapping interface for exploring which housing developments and campuses have become “smoke free” in 2011
• An extensive “take action” section with information on how to effect change

“Through the MOVE website, community members have become more involved in creating positive changes for their communities while learning new technologies,” said Natasha Freidus, Project Manager for MOVE.

MOVE is part of on-going chronic illness prevention efforts in King County, through Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW), a federally-funded campaign to fight obesity and tobacco use.

Take a look, www.mappingvoices.org

After more than a year in the making, the Mapping Our Voices for Equality project is just a few short weeks away from launching! Please click on www.mappingvoices.org after October 20th, when our website goes live. We'll be featuring over seventy stories produced by local community members in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese about healthy eating, active living, and tobacco prevention. Or join us in person when we take MOVE on the road, showing our stories and the maps of changes we've made in our neighbhorhoods to local decision-makers. Contact us if you have any questions!