Pesticide Education Materials

[Guest guest]

During the past few months, I have had an extraordinary virtual

journey that has taken me across the country in an effort to

identify pesticide education materials with a focus on women of

child bearing age and young children. Although materials with this

focus have been extremely limited, the journey has given me the

opportunity to make many new friends and discover many new

resources. The information that has been gathered has already begun

to be put to use by providers, researchers, outreach workers, and

others in an effort to strengthen pesticide education efforts

targeting migrant and seasonal farmworker families. The journey,

however, is not yet complete and hopefully you or someone you know

will be able to guide me in the right direction to identify other

pesticide education materials that have not yet been discovered. At

this point, I am interested in identifying not only any materials

that I might have missed relative to women of childbearing age and

young children, but pesticide education materials in general that

target migrant and seasonal farmworkers. I am also particularly

interested in identifying materials available in indigenous

languages as many of the families we serve in NC do not speak

Spanish but Mayan dialects. I do have materials from Wake Forest

University,MCN,Hesperian,EPA, AFOP( Aprende), Farmworker Health

Services (COCHEcito),Oregon (Reducing Pesticide Exposure in Minority

Families), and a few others that I will not mention here. None of

these of course are in indigenous languages although permission has

been received to duplicate at least one of these using indigenous

languages. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the matrix

for your own use and/or for reviewing for feedback, please let me

know and I'll be happy to forward it. Thanks in advance for your

help with this project. I look forward to hearing from you.

Robin Tutor

Health/Disability Services Specialist

NC Direct Services

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project

4901 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 300

Raleigh, NC 27612

tutor@...