4girls Health
Site promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
Childbirth Graphics
COMIC: Aunque Cerca...Sano
This 16-page pesticide comic book targets migrant and seasonal farmworker families to educate parents about children's risks to pesticide exposure and ways to minimize these risks. Available in English and Spanish.
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- Aunque Cerca Comic Book ( 12 Mb )
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- Mcn Comic: Pesticides Nearby ... But Staying Healthy ( 1 Mb )
Cutting Edge Press
Comfort Measures for Childbirth: The Rebozo Way--video and book. Bienvenido a la Vida: 3 Spanish Birth Stories--video about labor and birth
Environmental Health Training Modules for Promotoras
Bilingual training modules on Asthma, Lead, Pesticides, Water and Sanitation and Popular Education. Produced by Farmworker Justice as part of their Clean Environment for Healthy Kids. Contributing authors include Amy Liebman, Shelley Davis and Virginia Ruiz.
Health and Medical Care among the Children of Immigrants
New research out of Cornell University's College of Human Ecology found that low-income children of immigrants have much poorer health than low-income children of citizens, as reported in a special section of the journal Child Development.
National Perinatal Association
“Mama Sana—Bebe Sano”—National Center for Farmworker Health
Aunque Cerca...Sano Pesticide Training Manual
A step by step educational manual to train outreach workers and promotores de salud about pesticides. Includes exercises to help workshop participants help parents protect children from pesticide exposure.
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- Spanish Manual ( 1 Mb )
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- English Manual ( 1 Mb )
Children's Health Fund
Founded by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD in 1987, The Children's Health Fund (CHF) works nationally to develop health care programs for the nation's most medically underserved population - homeless and disadvantaged children. CHF brings medical care and essential services directly to underserved children in rural and urban communities via Mobile Medical clinics (doctor's offices on wheels) and fixed site clinics.
