Additional Resources:

MCN Women's Health page

MCN Health Network: 

Any prenatal patient who may move out of your area before giving birth is eligible to be enrolled in the Health Network. MCN will provide care coordination throughout the course of her pregnancy, until her postpartum visit is completed, to help ensure that there are no gaps in her health care.  512-327-2017 or 800-825-8205.

MCN Environmental Health/Pesticides Resources

• Pesticide Comic Book Order Form. 
• Lo Que Bien Empieza…Bien Acaba (What Begins Well, Ends Well): Spanish comic book for women about pesticides and pregnancy
• Aunque cerca...sano (Close but Healthy): Spanish comic book for preventing pesticide exposure in children and families working in and living near agriculture
• Pregnancy, Reproductive Health and Pesticides Monograph (available in English and Spanish)
• Lead Guidelines for the Pregnant Migrant Woman
• Environmental health screening tool for the primary care setting
• Environmental health clinical guidelines
• Assessment of Maternal Occupational Pesticide Exposures during Pregnancy and Three Children with Birth Defects: North Carolina, 2004
• Case Report: Three Farmworkers Who Gave Birth to Infants with Birth Defects Closely Grouped in Time and Place - Florida and North Carolina 2004-2005

MCN Family Violence Resources

• Addressing Domestic Violence in a Clinical Setting - Manual for Health Care providers, with Screening Tool (English)
• Training Manual on Family Violence (English/Spanish)
• “La Vida Mia”Photonovella & Training Video  (English/Spanish)

MCN Streamline articles

• Feb 02 “Exploring a Paradox” (the Hispanic perinatal paradox)
• Mar/Apr 06 “Screening for Pesticide Exposure”
• Jul/Aug 07 “Lead screening in Pregnancy”
• Sept/Oct 07 “Pesticide exposure and self-reported gestational diabetes in the Agricultural Health Study”
• Oct/Nov 11 “Preventing Partner Violence in Refugee and Immigrant Communities” (pg 3)

Other Women’s Health Resources for Migrant/Immigrant Care

• Text4Baby:  A free service that provides health education by text to pregnant women and new mothers in English and Spanish
• The Perinatal/HIV Hotline: The National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal Hotline) provides 24-hour advice from HIV experts on indications and interpretations of HIV testing in pregnancy as well as consultation on treating HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants. The Perinatal Hotline (888-448-8765) is available 24 hours, seven days per week.
• Centering Pregnancy: A model of group prenatal care widely used in a variety of settings, including FQHCs and with immigrant populations.  Materials are available in Spanish.
• Rural Women’s Health Project  Pregnancy fotonovelas in English and Spanish.
• Auger Communications “Teach with Stories” Prenatal Care fotonovela series and “Pregnancy and Diabetes: Lucia’s Story”
• Wake Forest University One-page pesticides and pregnancy handout in English and Spanish. 
• Migrant Health Promotion Farmworker Doula Manual
• National Women’s Health Information Center. This website and toll-free call center were created to provide free, reliable health information for women everywhere, including lots of materials in Spanish.
• March of Dimes  An array of materials at various literacy levels and almost everything in Spanish. Pamphlets, videos, "Comenzando Bien" curriculum.
• Centers for Disease Control The CDC's Spanish website for women's health includes handouts in Spanish that can be printed from the website
• National Perinatal Association Published transcultural perinatal education curriculum.
• California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program.  Catalog of patient education materials in English and Spanish for perinatal issues related to diabetes and gestational diabetes.
• “Diabetes gestacional: Guía para la mujer embarazada”.  Spanish language guide on gestational diabetes from AHRQ.
• Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs: “The Fields: The Hidden Faces of Farmworker Women” Interviews and stories about the issues that matter most to farmworker women’s health and well-being
• Human Rights Watch:  “Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment”
• Legal Momentum Immigrant Women Program legal rights for immigrant women
• Trafficking information

Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, Specialist in Clinical Systems & Women's Health, Migrant Clinicians Network

ckugel@migrantclinician.org

Candace Kugel is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife with over twenty years of experience in health care for the underserved. She has worked in various clinical settings, including family planning, migrant health, community health center, and private practice. She has worked almost exclusively in rural settings.

Candace has also been active in aspects of health care other than direct patient services. She has served as a clinical instructor for nurse practitioner, nurse-midwife, nursing, and medical students, and currently has faculty appointments with the University of Cincinnati and Penn State University’s Schools of Nursing. She has worked in program development in various arenas, including co-founding a “Stork’s Store” prenatal incentive program, initiating a natural family planning education program, and teaching childbirth education classes.

Melissa Bailey, Executive Director of North Carolina Field, Inc.

 mbailey@lenoir.k12.nc.us

Melissa Bailey is a native of southern West Virginia. She has worked in North Carolina migrant education programs since 2001. In 2010 AFOP’s Children in the Fields Campaign assisted community workers with forming the nonprofit NC FIELD. This effort aimed to establish an organizational empowerment and advocacy model to build capacity in farmworker communities, particularly among child laborers in agriculture. In 2012 Melissa became the Executive Director of NC FIELD. 

She has presented to local, state, and national stakeholders; assisted media; has worked as a research assistant on farmworker studies; assisted with organizational development and the leadership training of child farmworkers, and is a successful field organizer, consultant, and project manager. Melissa holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University, among other certifications related to the delivery of supplemental education services and data.

In her spare time Melissa enjoys reading, writing, gardening, and spending time with loved ones.