{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/js9h41k84k/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["RO's Story"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/191/original/LOGOS.png?1653683791","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Race"]},"value":{"en":["white"]}},{"label":{"en":["Gender"]},"value":{"en":["female"]}},{"label":{"en":["Role"]},"value":{"en":["Provider"]}},{"label":{"en":["County"]},"value":{"en":["Chittenden"]}},{"label":{"en":["Artist-Facilitator"]},"value":{"en":["Cami"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-10-14 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}}],"provider":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Clemmons Family Farm, Inc."]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Clemmons Family Farm, Inc."]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/191/original/LOGOS.png?1653683791","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/584/small/ROsStoryFULL.mp4_1676318649.jpg?1676318654","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - RO's_Story_FULL.mp4"]},"duration":343.77677,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/584/small/ROsStoryFULL.mp4_1676318649.jpg?1676318654","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-clemmonsfamilyfarminc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/174/584/original/RO's_Story_FULL.mp4?1676318637","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":343.77677,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/transcript/41694","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["RO's Story [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/transcript/41694/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So the first question is what was your experience of the first vaccine that you gave, and the, huh, it was the first day that vaccinations were being given to those 75 and up, and I was a backup vaccinator for the Integrated Arts Center, and was told I wouldn't need to come in, unless something happened. Well at 1030 I got a late call saying how fast can you be here because the vaccine hadn't thawed and they were, they had a back load of people it was January, they had 90 year olds in the street waiting in the cold to try to get inside. I hadn't done, none of us had done any of this, and I hadn't been prepped with the system to, computer system and whatnot. But what was amazing is I came around the door and there to the doorway and the people were waiting outside to be let in because they were trying to be careful about not spreading COVID and all of that. When I said, I'm a nurse, to the guy at the door, and this cheer went up. It was like I was, I was brought to tears. And so that was the start of my experience and what I'm showing here is that I had a 95 year old gentleman with a very heavy overcoat, that was blue. That's my, my workstation and that's me and you know trying to converse with this person and, and the other obstacle to that was, he had the probably seven layers of clothing on, you know. It was January it was freezing. He was an old man. And so to just get to his arm was an experience, and then put them back together and move him to the checkout so that's what that depicts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584#t=0.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/transcript/41694/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Your first one was not a Black Vermonter, is that correct?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584#t=150.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584/transcript/41694/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right. This was a white elderly gentleman who was, you know, brought in with family, the family who couldn't receive, but he was of age, so he could. Yeah, so it's more of an age related thing. So, want me to go on to my next one, thoughts and observations feelings, giving your first Black patient, um, barriers, perceived or communicated to you the difference. This was months later, because it was for me at the one center. And that we worked, sometimes, often with translators. So, this is supposed to represent a family, dressed, they were so beautifully dressed in color and, you know, garb, not all the younger ones more Americanized, but in the elder Black population, very proud, very, you know, just those African colors. And, and working with a translator again, to help them understand what they needed to do, try, trying to get the outfit again down so that they could get, ah, we could give them the vaccination. But I never perceived any sort of challenge, I felt like that probably had already transpired before I was able to provide the vaccination, on some level they had already been brought in. They'd been, you know, with the, probably through the translators or I don't know what the system was that brought them to us. I was simply there to input it and give them the vaccination and help them with any questions that they might have and I really don't recall any obstacles at all I mean I felt like it was a very, you know, we were just doing what we needed to do they didn't really want to be there. Who did, but very, you know, very respectful on both sides. So that's, Oh, keep going. Okay, so what's your experience giving vaccine to a white Vermont patient any different than giving to a Black patient. Yeah so I sort of felt like that was like me giving to me. I was seeing people like me. And so, you know, sort of a reflection of my community, um, much less colorful. And then, is there anything you want to share about your experience, giving COVID vaccine your own personal experience or additional observation of Black patients. I just, what I'm trying to say here is, is if these represent the Black population that I was so privileged to be there to be able to reach out and do something. So that's, that's a privilege.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174584#t=154.0,343.77677"}]}]},{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - RO's_Explanation_FULL.mp4"]},"duration":482.31517,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/585/small/ROsExplanationFULL.mp4_1676318967.jpg?1676318972","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-clemmonsfamilyfarminc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/174/585/original/RO's_Explanation_FULL.mp4?1676318949","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":482.31517,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585/transcript/41693","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["RO's Explanation [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585/transcript/41693/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was there any reason why you chose visual art to be telling your story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI knew that you would be involved, and I thought, oh my gosh I know her from ages ago and I know she's an incredible artist, so I wonder what that would be. So there was an, you know, but but I also thought it was going to be this, I thought it was going to be more storytelling and, and, you know, a little vignettes about experiences we had because, yeah, every every clinic, and I don't know how many I can't keep count, that I attended but there, there was always a pearl, or 10 in every, in every opportunity it was just the best way, as a retired person in healthcare, to be able to give back and you look around the room and they were people that you'd, formerly known professionally and to see, you know, to see, you know, a pulmonologist, giving somebody you know, comfort, walking them after they got their vaccination or something like that. You know it was just amazing to see our community pull together for all Vermonters. And, yeah, in these very stark settings I would say you know the Integrated Art Center, we were in, you know, sort of the cafeteria cold, and it was cold, it was January, February, March, I mean it was just sort of a dank place, and people were coming in cold and parking was an issue and all of that but everybody was so grateful. I don't know how many times I've been in people's photos of their mom and dad getting Mom and Dad, Can you do it. Can you look. So we I'm sure we've been photographed a million times getting vaccinations and families just so so so grateful. So, you know, what did you ask me, visual arts. No, I had no idea I was gonna be able to even put something together that would represent anything close, but I hope it does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt does, it does.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, why did I choose. Why did I choose visual arts. Well I have, I come from a very artsy family and dabble in that somewhat myself, and since I retired had decided that one of the things I was going to do was work on art more, and I've been taking watercolor classes for the last couple of years and so forth so I thought okay well I can do that. I used to sing I don't sing anymore so I'm not gonna do that part. But, but, but also in our watercolor class we share, even when you have a Zoom class we share our artwork which I've gotten very comfortable with which in the beginning I was not at all comfortable with so that's a little easier. So that's one of the reasons I chose art, but I have to say the same thing, Robin said as far as like, people being so grateful and like all the selfies of getting this picture, I was like okay we got to get it so we don't get other people in the picture because confidentiality, but get the arm with the needle and it's been a really, it's been a very, very, I'd say must be the most, one of the most rewarding things that I've done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, it sounds like when you say that sounds like like when you say there's a gem from. There's so many gems from every time. That, does it seem like that is something that should be somehow ways to share those gems, get the chance to tell those gems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAh, you know, it's hard to, say, because a lot of is like just feeling. Yes, space, yes. And the Winooski, armory which is like bare, and cold, and military lockers over here and, and, or somewhere where the room is barely painted and, you know, almost third world like, but people are pouring in the doors, and getting their shots. And so, yeah. Also, giving shots to some of my neighbors and seeing many of my neighbors that are elderly particularly,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd you'd go to their homes?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo, no, no in these clinics.   In these clinics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYeah, you're not allowed to give a shot to your family member. That's a rule, but, but certainly somebody shows up your table and they live next door to you or something like that. As long as you're both comfortable with it you can do that. But it's been, that's been great and I think that we were talking earlier about attitudes and I think especially in the older group of people are very grateful and want to be able to continue to go about their lives and people that are maybe a little bit less affected, but if they get COVID, ah, it's light it's a little different. And I know that in some of the earlier, like last April, May, when the younger groups of people were, were coming to get vaccinated and this is mostly Caucasian, folks. Many of them had had COVID and same with the BIPOC community, many of them had had COVID in like two weeks ago they had COVID and was like, okay, you know what, but it's okay as long as they're no longer sick, no longer being treated or whatever they, you know, from the time period of in the right space from whatever they were treated with. You can give them their vaccine but, um...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI found that to be true of the BIPOC community, much more so than the general community because it was part of our form it was to ask whether Yeah, prior history of COVID. So, when we did the one center, Old North End BIPOC community, it was, it was more than not, I think who had had the experience of COVID. And now we're coming in. And, you know, the, the reality about that is that these are the folks who were out there doing the work and the front line, you know, they were, whatever, you know. They did not have the luxury of lockdown and stay home and be protected. So if one family member brought it home I'm sure it spread because they live, you know, as the, as they appeared, I mean they came in as groups, they were very much a group. And, you know you just sort of say, oh, man, if one of them had it, they pretty much all had COVID and some were more, you know, more affected than others, but.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was also the first community for Burlington, anyway, I think that was the hardest hit, and it had some in the early in the early phases of the of the pandemic had to do with communication, and, awareness and getting the word\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRight, but that but also the materials weren't translated and so there was a big scramble to get, you know, the word out in the community in the appropriate languages if if reading was, if they could read too because many people, when we assume everybody can read and not everybody can. So, but that was the very beginning of the pandemic that was a real big issue in the BIPOC community was pretty particularly hard hit with COVID, and so there were a lot of questions about like wah wah. You know what's going on there and it just has to do with the word had not been communicated into that community, community effectively, and by a means that was traditional for them. You know, we were getting our news on the media, and maybe on online or something and maybe they weren't or whatever, I don't know. But, so we did see a lot of people but I thought I saw a lot of people, particularly, again the younger, you know 40 ish people that had had COVID of all, of all races, and they're now coming in to get their vaccines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat's sort of related to the next question, actually I want to keep that for a moment, which is, in your opinion what can be done to improve vaccination information and services.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think that's the improving vaccination services that's a real struggle. I mean I think the state has done an excellent job in getting the word out. I'm not so sure what it's like in the, when you get out of Chittenden County where it's so populated because I think it's a little bit harder to get somewhere but I think they've done a, an incredible job of like, you know, having a COVID clinic at the fire station or something like that, so that people can, you know, access to the access and, and, knowing about it. And everybody knows about COVID I think they, there's still a certain amount of hesitancy about trusting this vaccine. And then of course that's been exploded, but, but, you know, I just think, more, more, more awareness, More talking, the more you talk about it. You know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think the thing that we've already said on some level, but I cannot emphasize enough is the importance of our translators in this community and in a pandemic. I had no idea I've worked with translators forever, in a, you know, in the clinical setting. It comes up infrequently but in these Old North End, you know the one center clinics of the BIPOC community. They know their community and they are you know there was a lot of respect, you could see, you know, in, in their translation to one another if they had any question about it and how they, how they, you know communicated with one another. So I would wonder if there's some way that through this translator group I don't know how they were approached or what their role was in the rollout of all of this but, boy, they do a substantially important job of reaching their community in a way that is, you know, understood better than, you know. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I think the leaders, church leaders, church leaders and other religious leaders in whatever community they've been a very important piece as well. So I think the, the more people who get on board, and they spread the word of particularly people that have a position in the community like the translators and I think many of the translators are also somewhat of a leader in their community as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo there's another question, which is in your opinion, what can they do this would be the Department of Health to improve Black Vermonters trust in the COVID-19 vaccine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI feel the Department of Health has done an incredible job as far as it trying to engage that community and I think, you know, I've been working more recently, a little bit with the Community Health Center which also is seeing a similar demographic for patients, and just we're just trying to be where they come. So, school at the end of the school day. And, or in the community center at a time when people can can come, I mean that's always, access is always an issue for any kind of thing. And taking away as many barriers as possible, you know, making the appointment online I think everybody that's coming to the one community center is doing it through their community liaison and not actually having to go online to make an appointment, which removes a huge barrier for people, even if they have a computer but just navigating through the system to get an appointment made. But I just, I just think that, I think also if there are more people of color in the community that are, are spreading the word, too, I mean I think there's still a lot of hesitancy, particularly in that community as far as trusting what, what's going to happen but I think people are I think people are really trying hard, and but I think we can always work harder at it too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI always say, what do I say, you know, on some level, social media has just done such a disservice that it's, that's not a good way of reaching I, I, through, I guess through, you know, educational venues, I you know I think of the college, health, the college systems I mean I used to work in college health. I can't imagine they aren't, you know that there aren't certain requirements, and I don't, I don't know I don't, I don't know how, how, I actually don't know where we're at with respect to uptake of vaccination in the Black community and how well we're doing. I would tend to think we're doing pretty darn well comparatively, you know, certainly compared to the south, and so many other communities that are just getting hit hard by disease and for that I'm so grateful that Vermont Black population has stepped up and said, You know, I think we're doing a better job but how to reach, how to reach them it's you know, for me it was eye opening to just see clinic after clinic after clinic of of BIPOC community of people who I don't interface with on a regular basis, it's not my, it's not my community, it's not my town and yet it was probably the most rewarding part, because I know my town, they can get they'll find it they'll go to Kinney (?) drive, they'll do to whatever but but reaching that community and seeing how how successful I thought that whole outreach was, you know, it's just huge. But not perfect, I'm sure never perfect, you know, we can always do more. I think, once again, our leadership in this state outdid itself, right from the get go, very clear, lots of communication to those who could take it in. And we're very fortunate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYeah. Thank you. So, is there any last thoughts?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI want to say, I still know of people, particularly in the Black community that are very hesitant, and even people that have had COVID and are still really hesitant and mistrusting of, you know what, what could happen to them. So I think that's the barrier is reaching that reaching through that somehow even, I mean I think we've done a fantastic job. And I hope we can do, you know we can break down that barrier but that barrier still does exist, and I think that I don't know I don't know the answer. I'd love to know the answer, but I think that that's, that's the next step and then it's a different kind of a barrier than I think for the rest of our community that you know we're reading, misinformation. It's a different kind of a barrier. And so, trying to figure out a way to go around that because I think it can be dealt with. But I didn't maybe more help from the Black community, as far as reaching to their own people, you know, I don't want, I mean I don't want to see it that way you know not reaching to their own people but reaching their community, in a more effective way. How can they, How can we all do that together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1659/collection_resources/52214/file/174585#t=0.0,482.31517"}]}]}]}