Facilitating Team Pre-Session Tip: Ideas for the final product(s) may be wide-ranging and may be larger and expensive or outside of the scope/budget of this project. Before this session, gather ideas from the facilitating  team and assess what is actually possible to move forward according to your: timeline/budget/resources/space, etc. Bring these options to share and guide participants during the session. The final outcome should be decided by and led by your Photovoice participants, but it should also remain within the scope of your resources.

Once themes have been finalized, discuss how the project might inspire action. Facilitate a discussion with participants on the final project. Here are questions to begin those discussions:

What do you want to do for the final project? 

• Think about and reflect on: 

• - Who do you want to see your pictures? Who should hear these stories?

Examples include: Potential host sites, local media

-Who needs to hear the messages from your pictures?

Examples include: Teachers at sites, Community Councils, Advocacy Organizations, Community School Coalitions

• - What is a good way to get these pictures to this audience?

Examples include: social media, short-form videos, newsletter,  online Flipbook, press release

Next steps: The facilitating should prepare next steps to create final product(s).

The final session should recognize the time, creativity, and vulnerability participants have invested throughout the project and bring the Photovoice project full circle. Participants can reflect on their journey, finalize the stories they want to share with others. See activity options below: 

Group Reflection Activity: Create space for participants to reflect on their experience together. Invite participants to reflect and share using group reflection questions: 

• - What are you taking away from this Photovoice project?

• - What was the highlight of your experience?

• - What did you learn about yourself, your community, or others?

• - What challenged you the most?

• - Is there anything you would do differently?

• - Is there anything else you would like to share

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• Collect Project Feedback: Before concluding the project, ask participants to complete an end-of-project survey. Participant feedback is an important part of improving future projects and understanding the project's impact.

See Section Four for Project Feedback Form 

Recognize Participant Contributions: celebrating each participant's contributions. Take time to thank participants for sharing their stories and acknowledge the trust they placed in the group throughout the Photovoice process. Recognition may include:

• - Certificates of Completion

• - Small tokens of recognition

• - A group photo (with permission)

• - A celebratory meal or refreshments

• - Share how you will share final materials with participants 

See Section Four for certificates of completion template

Encourage participants to stay connected with planning for the final display or presentation. If a decision is made on the final outcome, schedule time for follow-up with participants (either 1:1 or in a group) before closing your final session. 

Facilitating Team Tip: Before ending the session, confirm participants' preferences regarding the public use of their photographs and stories, review any remaining consent considerations, and provide information about upcoming exhibits, presentations, or opportunities to stay involved. This helps ensure participants remain informed and connected as the project moves from reflection to community sharing.

Final displays or presentations can take many forms, depending on your audience, goals, and budget, you may be able to do multiple products. Here are some example formats:

As a group, review the photographs, notes, discussions, and participant feedback from previous sessions to identify key insights and opportunities to use these materials in your communications, programming, report writing or other development-related activities. 

Consider questions such as:

- What stories and themes appeared across multiple participants' photographs?

- What strengths or opportunities did we discover?

- What challenges or barriers were consistently identified?

- What surprised us?

- What messages do we want others to take away from this project?

- Who still needs to see and hear this work? How can we share the photos and their messages to demonstrate impact or improve programming whether internally or externally?

Discuss, decide and take the next steps to maximizing the impact of your Photovoice project.