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The Rural Women's Health Project

The Rural Women's Health Project (RWHP), founded in 1992, develops community-based health education materials for Spanish-speaking women and their families from farmworking communities. In the last nine years, the RWHP has focused on four critical issues: HIV/AIDS, sexual violence prevention, injury prevention and accessing health care.

The RWHP produces projects independently as well as in collaboration with other grass-roots organizations. RWHP projects, while always responding to community needs, have been used nationally to support the health education of organizations, clinics and outreach programs working with Farmworkers.

The RWHP facilitates workshops on the development of community-based educational materials for Farmworker organizations and clinics throughout the United States. The RWHP also publishes The Exchange, which links community-based health organizations and shares their successful education techniques.
Phone: 352-372-1095
E-mail: rwhp@cafl.com
http://www.rwhp.org

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Midwest Farmworkers Eye Injury Prevention Partnership

The Midwest Farmworkers Eye Injury Prevention Partnership is working on a study to develop and assess the effectiveness of intervention strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related eye injuries in Latino farmworkers in Illinois and Michigan.

The Partnership is a collaboration between the UIC Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Heath (GLCOESH), Community Health Partnership of Illinois (CHP), Migrant Health Promotion (MHP) and local farm owners.

This is a five year project, funded by NIOSH. For more information, call Joseph Zanoni, Associate Director of Continuing Education/Outreach Great Lakes Center/UIC/School of Public Health at 312-996-2613; jzanoni@uic.edu

For a description on this project, Click here.

The Migrant Clinicians Network

The Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) is a national network of professionals working in primary care and public health settings with migrant farmworkers and their families. The mission of MCN is to promote the health of farmworkers by providing a framework for professional development to clinicians and healthcare providers. MCN accomplishes this by providing clinical tools and publications, and conducting research to advance clinical effectiveness. MCN believes in the importance of partnering with collaborating agencies to address health issues of concern, and responding to the expressed needs of its membership.