Calling All Outreach Staff! FHSI's Community Forums

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Calling All Farmworker Outreach Staff!

Please join us for a Community Forum,

“Voices from the Field: A Community Forum for Outreach Staff

Perspectives, Insights, & Experiences!”

Farmworker Health Services, Inc. (FHSI) cordially invites outreach

staff attending any one of the three migrant stream forum conferences to attend

a compelling community

forum about important topics relevant to farmworker outreach programs

nationwide. FHSI will facilitate a lively discussion that will touch upon

timely topics such as health outreach and enabling service models, approaches

to measuring success, cultural sensitivity practices, and strategies for

increasing care. The information gathered from these community forums will be incorporated into

FHSI’s 2009 National Needs Assessment.

This is outreach staff’s opportunity to exchange ideas,

experiences, resources, and strategies with other specialists in the outreach

field. We anticipate them to be highly interactive and innovative

sessions that will be especially relevant to outreach workers/coordinators, promotores/as, clinical outreach staff,

mobile health unit workers, and health educators.

Community Forums will be taking place at the following locations:

·

Community Forum #1: East Coast Migrant Stream Forum (Providence, Rhode

Island) - Friday, October 24th, 2008 at

3:30 – 5:00 PM

·

Community Forum #2: Midwest Farmworker Health Forum (New Orleans, LA)

– Friday, November, 19th, 2008 at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

·

Community Forum #3: Western Migrant Stream Forum (San Diego, CA)

– Saturday, January 24th at 3:00 – 4:30 PM

FHSI invites you to be part of this important needs assessment study! Your voice is not only welcomed, it’s needed!

This research provides sought after information to outreach programs, advocates,

and funders in order to respond to the disparities farmworker face. Findings

from the 2009 National Needs Assessment will

be presented at the 2009-2010 stream forum conferences and a written report

will be made available.

If you have any questions please see the contact information below.

We hope you can join us! Thank you!

For more information please contact:

Gardner, Project Manager

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

(202) 347-7377

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