How Does Your Program Reach Farmworkers?

[Guest guest]

Dear Farmworker Health Colleagues,

As farmworker health advocates, we know that outreach is essential in

order to increase access to health care for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. However, outreach activities are often

limited due to funding and staffing considerations.

Outreach programs across the country are reaching farmworkers in their

communities in unique ways that maximize available resources and recognize

farmworkers’ unique barriers to health care. For example,

An outreach program in the Southeast makes

arrangements with a local grower to attach information about the

clinic’s activities to farmworkers’ pay stubs.

A health center in the Midwest has implemented several strategies

to employ and retain bilingual nurses. Retention strategies include

alternative compensation methods such as diversifying work tasks and

increasing flexibility in work schedules.

An outreach program in the West, in partnership

with the local Housing Authority, has established its main office in the

area’s largest labor camp.

We want to share your

successful practices with your farmworker health colleagues! Farmworker Health Services, Inc., is currently accepting submissions for our 2006 Innovative Outreach Practices Report. All 330(g) grantees are

eligible to submit an innovative outreach practice. In addition, organizations that deliver

health services to farmworkers in local communities will be considered for the

Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award in their migrant

stream.

The deadline for submissions is this Friday (September 16th)

at 5:00 p.m.

Guidelines and the submission form are available at: http://www.farmworkerhealth.org/sister.jsp. Call or email

Stoimenoff at 202-347-7377 (kristen@...)

if you have questions or would like to receive the information via email or

fax.

Best wishes,

Stoimenoff

Project Manager

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

1221 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Suite 5

Washington, D.C. 20005

202-347-7377 (phone)

202-347-6385

(fax)

www.farmworkerhealth.org

*******Attention 330g

grantees!!! ********

Farmworker Health Services,

Inc. is currently accepting submissions for our 2006 Innovative Outreach

Practices Report. Submitting

organizations will automatically be considered for the Sister Cecilia B. Abhold

Award. Visit http://www.farmworkerhealth.org/sister.jsp

for guidelines and a submission form.

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, September 16, 2005. Call or email

Stoimenoff at 202-347-7377 (kristen@...)

with questions.

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[Guest guest]

Hello

,

Just

read your outline, just wanted to also mention that outreach in health care to Hispanic

farm workers is limited due to racially

motivated

decisions.

Limited funding is not always the reason because it is not done even

when funds are fully available.

Thank you,

Rene Quintana

ALMA Del Norte

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How Does Your Program Reach Farmworkers?

Dear

Farmworker Health Colleagues,

As farmworker

health advocates, we know that outreach is essential in order to increase

access to health care for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. However, outreach activities are often limited

due to funding and staffing considerations.

Outreach

programs across the country are reaching farmworkers in their communities in

unique ways that maximize available resources and recognize farmworkers’ unique

barriers to health care. For example,

·

An outreach program in the Southeast makes

arrangements with a local grower to attach information about the clinic’s

activities to farmworkers’ pay stubs.

·

A health center in the Midwest

has implemented several strategies to employ and retain bilingual nurses. Retention strategies include

alternative compensation methods such as diversifying work tasks and increasing

flexibility in work schedules.

·

An outreach program in the West, in

partnership with the local Housing Authority, has established its main office

in the area’s largest labor camp.

We want to

share your

successful practices with your farmworker health colleagues! Farmworker Health Services, Inc., is

currently accepting submissions for our 2006 Innovative Outreach Practices Report. All 330(g) grantees are eligible to submit an

innovative outreach practice. In

addition, organizations that deliver health services to farmworkers in local

communities will be considered for the Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award in their

migrant stream.

The deadline

for submissions is this Friday (September 16th) at 5:00

p.m. Guidelines and the

submission form are available at: http://www.farmworkerhealth.org/sister.jsp. Call or email Stoimenoff at

202-347-7377 (kristen@...)

if you have questions or would like to receive the information via email or

fax.

Best wishes,

Stoimenoff

Project

Manager

Farmworker

Health Services, Inc.

1221

Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Suite

5

Washington, D.C. 20005

202-347-7377

(phone)

202-347-6385 (fax)

www.farmworkerhealth.org

*******Attention 330g grantees!!! ********

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

is currently accepting submissions for our 2006 Innovative Outreach Practices

Report. Submitting

organizations will automatically be considered for the Sister Cecilia B. Abhold

Award. Visit http://www.farmworkerhealth.org/sister.jsp

for guidelines and a submission form.

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, September 16, 2005. Call

or email Stoimenoff at 202-347-7377 (kristen@...)

with questions.

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