Resident's Voice Challenge

Creative writing and artistic expression are meaningful and compelling ways to highlight the importance of residents’ rights and how these rights can be carried out in all long-term care settings. The Resident’s Voice Challenge encourages residents to submit essays, poems, artwork, drawings, or videos related to the theme.

How to Participate

This year’s theme recognizes the power of long-term care residents being vocal about their interests, personal growth, and right to live full, enriching lives. Residents are encouraged to get creative in demonstrating the power of their voice. Use these questions to inspire you:

1. What makes you feel empowered?

2. What types of interests, hobbies or activities enrich your life?

3. How do you use your voice to empower yourself and others?

Consider using a unique medium to share your voice – make a video or audio recording describing what makes you feel empowered or what enriches your life, reading a piece of original poetry or a short story, playing original music or singing a song, showing and telling us about your artwork, etc.

How to Submit

• Read the full Resident's Voice Challenge Criteria before submitting.
• Email submissions to info@theconsumervoice.org.
  • Include a mailing address with your submission for residents to receive certificates of participation.
  • Video submission options:
    • Upload your video to YouTube and send us the link.
    • Email us the MP4 video file. If the file is too large to email, let us know at info@theconsumervoice.org, and we can arrange the transfer of large files.
    • Learn about more options for submitting your video entry here.
    • Each person included in the video must sign and submit a release form.
  • Artwork submissions: Take a high-resolution photo of your artwork and email the JPG or PNG file as an attachment to info@theconsumervoice.org. Do not send images in the body of the email, as the file is sometimes compressed.

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