Issue brief prepared for FJ’s Environmental Justice Symposium (May 17 & 18th, 2022) addressing the impacts of the climate crisis on farmworkers in the areas of heat stress, pesticide exposure, food security, and water access.
A final evaluation report on the three years of work completed during the Unidos project. This project focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating skin cancer in farmworker communities through community mobilization.
An issue brief for health centers and clinicians outlining the continuing challenges in providing specialty care to agricultural workers and their families. The brief discusses lessons learned from FJ's Unidos project. The brief then explores opportunities for telehealth, based on a related effort with Harvard’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) that involved workers directly in … Read more Issue Brief: Barriers Encountered by Agricultural Workers Seeking Specialty Care and Potential Solutions
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 fotonovela, for farmworkers and their families, focuses on skin cancer, and skin cancer prevention. To print, choose "print on both sides" … Read more Con la Lupa En La Piel (fotonovela)
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: … Read more How Can We Protect Ourselves and Our Families from the Dangers in the Fields?
A training-of-trainers curriculum to prepare promotores de salud for performing outreach and education for farmworkers in their communities. The curriculum provides information on occupational health hazards experienced by farmworkers across the US, gives an overview of workers' rights to a safe workplace, and includes modules on effective teaching techniques and presentation practice. Available in English … Read more Workplace Safety and Health for Farmworkers: Pesticide Hazards, Field Sanitation, and Heat Illness
Information about housing assistance availability after a major disaster, including eligibility for emergency housing assistance.
Information about income assistance availability after a major disaster, including eligibility for Disaster Unemployment Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
A guide explaining the basics of heat-related illnesses, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
A curriculum for promotores de salud on how to educate farmworker families about the dangers of pesticide exposure. Includes a section on lead.