New bilingual resource available April 2014!

Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has been using theater as an educational tool with farmworkers for over twenty years. By drawing on techniques of popular theater, SAF performs culturally appropriate, lively skits and facilitates theater workshops at farm labor camps. These performances spur conversations about mental and physical health, living and working conditions, and farmworker movements for social justice.

Many of SAF’s performances have focused on health issues, and they aim for this guide to offer dynamic tools for health care providers, educators, outreach workers, and public health innovators. Practitioners can also use these techniques with other populations across the social justice spectrum. For both organizers and educators, SAF hopes that popular theater can bolster the messages and information that you so readily share and provide a dynamic approach to outreach. Resources include songs, scripts, theater games and icebreakers. Printed copies are free, but SAF accepts small contributions to cover shipping and handling ($5-10/copy).

Available in print and online

Contact: Laxmi Haynes , 919-660-3660

These files are part of the Engaging Migrant Men project.

Accompanying discussion guides were created to be used by male peers, community leaders, or outreach workers for one-on-one and small group discussions with men.

Summary of Results from the California Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program - 2010.  

 The Department of Pesticide Regulation administers the California pesticide safety program, widely regarded as the most stringent in the nation.  Mandatory reporting of pesticide illnesses has been part of this comprehensive program since 1971.  Illness reports are collected, evaluated and analyzed by program staff.  PISP is the oldest and largest program of its kind in the nation; its scientists provide data to regulators, advocates, industry, and indivudal citizens.

The resources listed below are available from the National Immigration Law Center’s website, www.nilc.org. Each of them is subject to being updated or otherwise revised as new developments warrant. The documents available from the links provided here may be downloaded by individual readers and either printed out or viewed electronically, but electronic copies of the documents MAY NOT BE UPLOADED TO ANY WEBSITE other than NILC’s.

• Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs (see page 4 for a list of “qualified” immigrants) – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=108
• Maps: Health Coverage for Immigrant Children and Health Coverage for Pregnant Women – www.nilc.org/healthcoveragemaps.html
• Medical Assistance Programs for Immigrants in Various States – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=159
• Sponsored Immigrants & Benefits – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=166
• “Lawfully Present” Individuals Eligible under the Affordable Care Act – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=809
• Frequently Asked Questions: Exclusion of Youth Granted “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” from Affordable Health Care –www.nilc.org/document.html?id=802
• A Quick Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for ACA and Key Federal Means-tested Programs – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=844
• Typical Documents Used by Lawfully Present Immigrants – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=35
• Federal Guidance on Public Charge: When Is it Safe to Use Public Benefits? – www.nilc.org/document.html?id=164

This resource summarizes key points to bring up with your patients who have questions about ACA.

Families Talking Together (FTT) is an evidence based program designed to help Latino parents better communicate with their children and teens about healthy relationships, sex, contraceptive use, and preventing pregnancy.  Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, the creator of the program and co-director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at New York University’s Silver School of Social work, along with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and Visión y Compromiso, recently enlisted 25 promotores (community health workers) from three communities in California with high rates of teen pregnancy and high percentages of Latinos in an effort to help Latino parents address teen pregnancy. Over a four-day period, the 25 promotores were trained to deliver the FTT intervention.  In the next two months, the promotores will deliver the intervention to 250 families in California.  The National Campaign wishes to recognize and thank Dr. Guilamo-Ramos, PPLA, and Visión y Compromiso for their work on this innovative and important project. 

The FTT intervention—both the community health worker curriculum and parent materials---are available online, free of charge.  

Dramatic, visual and culturally relevant, fotonovelas are a successful means of communicating health information. The following fotonovela materials are downloadable.

Provided by Farmworker Justice

Two high-production value, Spanish radio public service announcements(PSAs) to promote HIV testing services at local agencies. One PSA targets men and the other women. Each PSA features a blank space for you to record your organization’s contact information. Provided by Farmworker Justice

This website and training material were developed to give communities and promotores ways to help farm workers learn how to protect themselves from pesticide exposure.

The project and all materials on the website were developed by the California Poison Control System in collaboration with the the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at the University of California, Davis and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.

!Cuídate! es un recurso educativo sobre la prevención de lesiones musculoesqueléticas en el trabajo. Este libro cómic está disponible en español, inglés y criollo haitiano.

Patient education handout in English and Spanish on colorectal cancer from the American Cancer Society.