RE: Please let us know what you are doi ng

[Guest guest]

Hi Alayne,

I manage a cancer education and outreach program for the NCI in Florida, called the Cancer Information Service (CIS) Partnerhsip Program. I would very much like to find a way to get NCI cancer education and prevention information to the farmworkers in Flroida. Do you have any ideas?

Islara Souto, MPH CIS Partnership Program Manager Serving the Cancer Information Needs of Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands 305-243-4821

-----Original Message-----From: Alayne Unterberger [mailto:aunterbe@...]Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [ ] Please let us know what you are doingHi Joni and allsorry for the delay. Feel free to write me if you want more info...Briefly we have about 5 projects underway in Florida.First, our ongoing research and demonstration project Pocos Hijos Para Darles Mas continues in its 6th year with male to male outreach, education, family planning and a monthly radio PSA program on local AM radio. We are currently planning our second annual Exemplary Father of the Year Award (Farmworker Men Only). Second, the Rural Youth Soccer Association, a bilingual league for farmworkers and their children in Hillsborough County (N=200-300 kids 4-18), which grew out of Pocos Hijos, is entering its fourth season (we have BMI data as well). Third, I am working on an evaluation of family planning access issues for farmworker women, but also males, in Homestead this summer. Fourth, we have a small grant to do work with outreach workers and health promotors across the state. Fifth, but certainly NOT LEAST, is my dissertation research, which is currently about 1/2 done. It is based loosely on the pioneering work Rick Mines et al (and CIRS) have been doing on binational health status. My research looks at Urireo Guanajuato and Wimauma/Ruskin Florida (where I have worked for a LONG time), taking a critical medical anthropology approach to the study of health status. I am conducting comprehensive health interviews (health status) on 50 respondents in Urireo and 50 in Florida, with a large ethnographic component of how people live, think about health and am trying to look at whether or not, and in what ways, their views change upon migration.Glad to hear of all the good work out there! Would love to see the spreadsheet.AAt 10:08 AM 2/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:

Dear Egroup Members: The National Center for Farmworker Health has a Resource Center with extensive information about farmworkers. We would like to update our information about research conducted on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. If you are involved in such a project or know of someone who is please let us know. We will catalog the information and check in with the project officer periodically but we promise not to be a pest! Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. Students, don't be shy. about your work is valuable too. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. Please provide us with the following information Name of your organizationName of Project Officer or contact personPhone number/email addressBrief description of the project Thanks for your assistance. Joni Berardino