Fotonovelas and outreach guides created by Farmworker Justice and Rural Women’s Health Project for the PODER en SALUD project funded by PROCEED, Inc.
Resource Center Health Tags: Outreach
Medical-Legal Partnership Resource Guide for Farmworker-Serving Organizations
A guide developed by FJ and Health Outreach Partners with information, including strategies and resources, about developing or strengthening medical-legal partnerships in farmworker communities.
Con la Lupa en la Piel (flip chart)
Farmworker Justice's Unidos project has developed skin cancer resources for promotores de salud to use in outreach and to distribute to farmworkers, developed with community partners Campesinos Sin Fronteras and Vista Community Clinic, and with funding from the Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation. This flip chart, for promotores de salud to use in educational outreach, discusses skin cancer and skin cancer prevention strategies as they pertain to farmworkers. To print, choose "print on both sides" and "flip on short side." Available only in Spanish.
How Can We Protect Ourselves and Our Families from the Dangers in the Fields?
After receiving training using the curriculum, Pesticide Hazards, Field Sanitation, and Heat Stress for Farmworkers: A Training Curriculum for Lay Health Educators, promotores de salud can use this flip chart as a guide for their presentations to farmworkers. Promotores can also practice using the flip chart during the training session. Available in Spanish.
Special instructions for use of flipchart:
-Print the pages on both sides of the paper
-This flip chart is designed to be held on the presenter's forearm. Make sure that the odd numbered pages are facing the audience which will allow the speaker to read the text prompts that are on the opposite pages. For example, while displaying page 3 to the workers, text prompts are displayed on page 2, which faces the speaker.
Promoting Health Care Access to LGBT Farmworkers
A resource for health centers about LGBT farmworkers and their health care needs, including strategies to promote health care access to this population. This resource was jointly developed by FJ and the National LGBT Health Education Center.
Federal Housing Assistance in the Event of a Major Disaster
Information about housing assistance availability after a major disaster, including eligibility for emergency housing assistance.
Federal Income Assistance in the Event of a Major Disaster
Information about income assistance availability after a major disaster, including eligibility for Disaster Unemployment Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids: How Farmworker Families Can Better Protect Their Home Environments from the Dangers of Pesticides and Lead
A curriculum for promotores de salud on how to educate farmworker families about the dangers of pesticide exposure. Includes a section on lead.