Health and Safety Curriculum and Resources for Community Health Workers
MCN's Kate Kruse leads a training of farmworker parents.
Description of Content
This curriculum is for individuals conducting workshops to educate community health workers (promotores de salud) on ways to minimize risks from agricultural hazards among farmworker families. Included is a detailed guide to help CHWs introduce and teach parents relevant messages using participatory education methods geared towards adult learners. Also included are resources for CHWs to distribute to parents to help reinforce safety measures and culturally appropriate evaluation tools to help measure impact.
Training attendees participate in a variety of activities.
Curriculum and Resoruces for Community Health Workers
This training walks the community health worker through the process of conducting a community workshop on environmental exposures. It offers a step-by-step guide on how to initiate the training and introduce educational materials to parents. The content also gives CHWs a detailed overview of environmental contaminants and how to minimize children’s exposures to them. A framework for dialogue and activities is provided.
Download Curriculum Slides: English | Spanish
Download Bilingual Facilitator Guide
Community Health Worker Manual
A manual for community health workers on pesticides and environmental contaminants.
Download Manual: English | Spanish
Several simple evaluation tools are included in order to assess the training process and to evaluate change in knowledge. The evaluaton tools consider literacty levels in their design.
Download Evaluation Tools
Health and Safety Resources for Workers and Parents
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Seguridad en palabras Bilingual picture dictionary that illustrates work place hazards and best practices for health and safety in agriculture.
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Juan abre los ojos: como protegerse de los pesticidas This comic book details how farmworkers can protect themselves from pesticide overexposure under the Worker Protection Standard (WPS).
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Aunque cerca... Sano
This 16-page pesticide comic book targets farmworker families to educate parents about children's risks to pesticide exposure and ways to minimize these risks.
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Lo que bien empieza... Bien acaba
This educational comic book addresses pesticide exposure in women of reproductive age.
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Exposición a pesticidas Materials on different aspects of pesticide exposure in both English and Spanish.
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Farmworker Justice Lead and Asthma brochures A collection of three brochures developed by Farmworker Justice in English and Spanish. The materials cover asthma, lead, and at-home pesticide use.
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