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Technical Documentation with and for Mesoamerican Indigenous Language Speakers (44848). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The RWHP team and their collaborators tested participatory strategies to create multilingual resources alongside Indigenous communities. Materials included information about the COVID19 pandemic through mediums such as fotonovelas, audionovelas, and flyers translated into Indigenous languages and representing Indigenous peoples. Through an iterative process of evaluating and designing materials with feedback from Indigenous partners, RWHP focused on “localizing” resources to resonate better and ultimately better serve Indigenous communities. More Details...

Removing vaccine access barriers by hosting on-farm vaccine clinics for dairy workers and their families    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting March 31, 2021, Dr. Anabel Rodriguez’s UT Health team and volunteer interpreters facilitated on-dairy farm COVID-19 vaccine clinics by bridging established relationships with Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Public Health Region 1 in Lubbock, Texas, and Aurora Organic Dairy in Stratford and Dublin, Texas. Dr. Rodriguez’s and her team’s farmworker research and outreach efforts and pre-existing relationships with producers in this rural region of Texas helped propel this initiative into action. This multi-agency vaccine collaboration created an open line of communication between the public health offices in the Texas Panhandle and the dairy farm leadership, dairy farm workers, and their families. More Details...

Prácticas prometedoras de alcance a lost trabajadores agrícolas: Lecciones del campo (44791). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health Outreach Partners (HOP), in collaboration with NCFH, interviewed and documented promising outreach practices of farmworker-serving organizations across the United States. This webinar will feature 3-4 experts who will share their outreach practices, key strategies, and lessons learned while giving participants an opportunity to ask questions about the development and implementation of the practices. More Details...

Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Identification, registration and Reporting in the UDS (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is intended for health center personnel responsible for determining agricultural worker special population designation for their patient populations. Learn the skills and tools needed to properly identify agricultural worker patients and the steps for accurate documentation and reporting. More Details...

Influenza and the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media Toolkit (44652). Resource Type: Publication . Description: The Influenza and the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media Toolkit contains resources to amplify your organization's social media messaging about the flu season during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides information on how to develop a social media campaign and tools to aid in content creation. More Details...

Implementing a Cohort Process to Minimize COVID-19 Infection for Migrant Farmworkers    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) experienced fewer protections due to their migratory patterns and work conditions. As the 2020 season started, MSFWs were traveling from Texas or Mexico to Iowa, and in July 2020, a family farm in Iowa experienced an outbreak of COVID-19 cases among its migrant and H-2A guest workers. As workers returned for harvest later that year, Proteus, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), implemented a cohort process to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection during travel to Iowa in August and September of 2020. More Details...

Impact of a Multilingual Outreach Model on COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for Farmworkers and their Families at Community-based Events   (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Starting the summer of 2021, Healthcare Network’s COVID-19 Response Team and Golisano Children’s Hospital facilitated community-based COVID-19 vaccine and testing sites in Immokalee, Florida. By bridging the clinical services and the community, their collaborative work and community outreach and education removed barriers to vaccine access for farmworkers and their families in a multilingual community. This multi-agency vaccine collaboration created an open line of communication between the local Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and children’s hospital and the farmworker communities they serve. More Details...

Health Education Farmworker Feedback Committee (44867). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, accessing farmworker-friendly health education materials to conduct outreach and education activities became an evident challenge, namely due to language barriers as much of the material published was in English. This led NCFH to work together with network organizations and other farmworker-serving organizations in the development of new resources. The process included the formation of a Farmworker Feedback Committee to review and provide feedback on health education resources created by NCFH, which has been instrumental in making material suitable for farmworker audiences. More Details...

Farmworker Outreach Promising Practices: Lessons from the Field (44791). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Health Outreach Partners (HOP), in collaboration with NCFH, interviewed and documented promising outreach practices of farmworker-serving organizations across the United States. This webinar will feature 3-4 experts who will share their outreach practices, key strategies, and lessons learned while giving participants an opportunity to ask questions about the development and implementation of the practices. More Details...

Farmworker Outreach 101: Do's and Don'ts (44742). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) discusses important Do's and Don'ts during farmworker outreach and shares tips to develop an effective outreach strategy. Participants learned about challenges farmworkers face throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and how to mitigate them. This webinar was delivered in partnership with the National Center for Farmworker Health. More Details...

Effective Communication with MSAWs during National Emergencies (44651). Resource Type: Publication . Description: Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) can encounter particular threats in the face of a national emergency and miss life-saving communications. This new resource informs health centers on the challenges faced by MSAWs during national emergencies, and how to initiate effective emergency communications with this population. More Details...

Effective Communication with Indigenous Populations during National Emergencies (44681). Resource Type: Publication . Description: This resource will provide health centers with information about the indigenous agricultural worker population, ways national emergencies impact them, and share tips to improve emergency response and communication efforts with this population. The resource offers specific, step-by-step tips for health centers to initiate emergency response communications with this population, including the best channels to reach the indigenous agricultural worker community. More Details...

Cultural Navigators to Liaise Between Indigenous Communities and Public Health Systems    (44841). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice describes the collaboration between Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) and Ventura County Public Health (VCPH) to provide services at mobile vaccine clinics to community members, including interpretation in Purépecha, Mixteco, and other languages. More Details...

COVID-19 Messaging Social Media Toolkit (44348). Resource Type: Publication . Description: The COVID-19 Messaging Social Media Toolkit contains resources and information tailored for farmworker communities to amplify your organization’s social media campaign against COVID-19. It specifically includes a social media guide and media repository to aid in content creation and customizable branding content. More Details...

Comunicación Efectiva con Trabajadores Agrícolas Indígenas durante Emergencias Nacionales (44681). Resource Type: Publication . Description: Este recurso proporcionará a los centros de salud información sobre la población de trabajadores agrícolas indígenas, las formas en que las emergencias nacionales los afectan y compartirá consejos para mejorar la respuesta de emergencia y los esfuerzos de comunicación con esta población. El recurso ofrece consejos específicos paso a paso para que los centros de salud inicien comunicaciones de respuesta de emergencia con esta población, incluidos los mejores canales para llegar a la comunidad de trabajadores agrícolas indígenas. More Details...

Comunicación efectiva con trabajadores agrícolas migratorios y de temporada durante emergencias nacionales (44651). Resource Type: Publication . Description: Los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes y de temporada (MSAW, por sus siglas en inglés) pueden enfrentar amenazas particulares frente a una emergencia nacional y perder las comunicaciones que salvan vidas. Este nuevo recurso informa a los centros de salud sobre los desafíos que enfrentan los MSAW durante las emergencias nacionales y cómo iniciar comunicaciones de emergencia efectivas con esta población. More Details...

Ag Worker Identification Digital Story (2018). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This digital story is designed to help Health Centers identify Ag Workers for identification and registration purposes. It is perfect for playing in waiting rooms and is a great educational resource for community outreach and other health care professionals. This digital story is also an excellent staff training tool. More Details...

Accessing Farmworker-Friendly Health Education Material (44862). Resource Type: Publication. Description: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, accessing farmworker-friendly health education materials to conduct outreach and education activities became an evident challenge, namely due to language barriers as much of the material published was in English. This led NCFH to develop a process to systematically find and assess culturally and linguistically relevant multimedia resources from external sources for farmworkers and their families. The process included the creation of a national inventory of COVID-19 & influenza-related health education resources through a careful assessment and selection process by a trained review team. More Details...

Issue Brief on Perceptions of Diabetes in Agricultural Worker Communities (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This issue brief is a summary of agricultural worker preceptions of diabetes and barriers to testing and treatment in agricultural worker communities. More Details...

Federal Housing Assistance in the Event of a Disaster: An Emergency Preparedness Resource (English) (n.a.). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Information about available housing assistance after a major disaster. More Details...