VISTA PROJECT FOR DISADVANTAGED ADULTS – 2011-2013

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Press Release HP - MOS and its 5 European partners are engaged in a project using, Participatory

Video (PV) methodology as means of therapy for Training disadvantaged Adults

Project Title: Participatory Video and social Skills for Training disadvantaged Adults (VISTA)

� The main objective of the project is to work with six different European institutions/

organisations form the UK, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Spain & Germany to research

and explore the use of Participatory Video (PV) as a set of technique to involve

groups or communities in shaping and creating their own stories in a therapeutic

context

� The target groups of the project are people with mental disabilities from the UK,

unemployed with psychic or social hardship form Italy, Roma community from

Lithuania, adults with physical disabilities from Greece, groups of long-term

unemployed with social difficulties form Spain and disadvantaged migrants from

Germany

� The use of Participatory Video (PV) methodology in this project serves as a means of

therapy by documenting the experiences of marginalised and disadvantaged adults

from their own perspectives within a therapeutic context

� Documenting the experiences of marginalised and disadvantaged adults from their

own perspectives, initiates a process of analysis and change, that celebrates their

experiences, whilst stimulating creativity both within and beyond the groups

� The use of Participatory Video (PV) methodology gives a voice and a face to those

who are normally not heard or seen, even in participatory programmes

The project has received finding from the European Commission