ACA Toolkit:

Available in English and Spanish

Health Insurance Guide:

Available in English and Spanish and Haitian Creole

Older Guides:

Available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole for workers on employer-provided health insurance

Created by Farmworker Justice.

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cosmetics/Pages/default.aspx

An online, searchable database that allows salon workers and others to learn about and report toxic chemicals found in nail salon products and other cosmetics.

Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc. (MCN) will work during the next two years to engage members of our clinical network and all relevant stakeholders to advance health justice for the mobile poor. Our advocacy and education priorities focus on safe and legal entry into the United States, as well as strong and equal protection for workers in all occupations. Advancement in these areas creates the greatest opportunity for all to access high-quality, affordable healthcare. 

• Comprehensive Immigration Reform
• Access to Health Care

Messages to Millions is designed to provide consistent, science-based Million Hearts® messages to disseminate to partners and supporters on a quarterly basis. Message maps provide key and supporting messages that stress the steps that can be taken by consumers, health care providers, and other audiences to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

These bilingual posters educate workers on how to work safely with machinery on the farm.  Developed by two Occupational Health Interns (OHIP) during their internship with the National Farm Medicine Center, these posters accompany the Seguridad en las Lecherías curriculum.

Part 5 of the 6 webinar series: Essential Clinical Issues in Migration Health

DATE RECORDED: June 5, 2014
PRESENTED BY: Katherine Brieger, RD and Elizabeth Magenheimer

View Recorded Webinar

Participant Evaluation  

Presentation Slides (PDF)

Diabetes continues to be one of the most common and challenging health condition confronting migrants and other underserved populations. It is clear that a healthy lifestyle is critical to mitigating the impact of diabetes on individuals and the population, however effective and appropriate interventions can be difficult to design. Fairhaven Community Health Center in Connecticut and Hudson River Healthcare in New York, are two health centers that have long led the way in creating culturally appropriate lifestyle programs for migrants and other underserved patients. In this session the presenters will discuss lessons learned from the development of a variety of programs for diabetics and other patients including a community garden, nutrition classes, cooking classes, weight management and strategies to encourage exercise. The session will address the clinical core measures related to nutrition and BMI and will also discuss current research test second line drug effectiveness in Type 2 DM. Available in English

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe culturally appropriate diabetes intervention strategies
2. Identify strategies to address clinical core competencies related to nutrition and BMI to improve quality care.
3. Receive “take home” examples of how to incorporate effective nutrition, weight loss, exercise and other health lifestyle strategies.

These files are part of the Engaging Migrant Men project.

MCN developed 3 vignettes that portray the three messages developed in video and printed form.

Hombres Unidos is a peer-led workshop focused on the primary prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence (s/ipv) with Latino migrant men.  Developed in 2005 with the support from the Centers for Disease and Control, this five session workshop is implemented using a popular education technique (Paulo Freire) which is a concept that incorporates notions of class, political struggle and social transformation.  

This webinar (sponsored by the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs) focuses on the collaborative development of a primary prevention workshop for Latino migrant men, the evaluation of the workshop, and the continuing effort on engaging Latino migrant men as allies with women in s/ipv prevention after the five session workshop.

After this webinar, participants will be able to identify:

• methods on how to begin a conversation on sexual and intimate partner violence with Latino migrant men
• process and outcome evaluation techniques on a primary prevention workshop developed for a specific population
• efforts to continue to engage Latino migrant men in sexual and intimate partner violence prevention
• how to incorporate existing efforts with your population

Recording & Materials

• Audio & Visual Recording
• Slides

During the webinar, Adrian referenced a few handouts that are used in the program.  Below you will find a few of these in Spanish.

• Continuum of Emtional & Psychological Abuse
• Equality Wheel
• Immigrant Power & Control Wheel
• Power & Control Wheel

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