“Life is like this tree. You never know what path you will take.”

~Participant Six

“No deje de sonreir la vida sigue. Keep smiling.”

~Participant Three

Café Photovoice Virtual Participant Exhibition

Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center

“Beware of external forces that want you to stop instead of keep going...”

~Participant Five

“Blue Skies remind me of all I have sacrificed.”

~Participant Four

Café Photovoice Virtual Participant Exhibition Gallery

“Observing things from different viewpoints can change your perspective, your energy, your outcome and what works for you.” ~Participant Five

  • Participant One

  • Participant Two

  • Participant Three

  • Participant Four

  • Participant Five

  • Participant Six

“Una dia afuera. A day outside.”

~Participant One

“Keeping my head to the sky.”

~Participant Four

Participant Feedback

Participant Feedback

“Because there’s no way I could have said any of this without this (Café Photovoice) program—I would never talk to my therapist about this kind of stuff—It just doesn’t, it wouldn’t come up.”

~Participant Five

“We would like to invite you to also think about how these exhibitions can be a tool for social change.”

~Rebecca Krakauer, MPH, LMSW, Director Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Expansion Grant

2023 Bowen Humanitarian Awards Program

Cafe Photovoice Permanent Exhibition Participants Three and Five are featured in a specially produced interview for the Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center Gala, 2023. Interviewed by Shelita Birchett Benash, MSW, starts at 50.39-1:06