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The Creation of the NCFH Logo
On this 45th anniversary, NCFH would like to acknowledge Luis Guerra for lending his artistry to the creation of the NCFH logo. In 1976, Mr. Guerra created a silkscreen print “Migrant Health” logo for the National Center for Farmworker Health, formally known as the National Migrant Referral Project (NMRP). The original “Migrant Health” logo is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Luis Guillermo Guerra is a painter, sculptor, and storyteller who divides his time between Real de Catorce, a mountain village in San Luis Potosí, and Austin, Texas. He is a recipient of various awards, including the Siqueiros-Pollock Award in the Binational Border Painting Competition of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico. Guerra’s artwork is also in numerous collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, D.C. For two decades, he narrated his Cuentos de la Sierra on NPR’s Latino USA. NCFH is thankful for Mr. Guerra’s contributions.
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month |
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This September during National Suicide Prevention Month, help us spread the facts about suicide and mental health. By educating ourselves and others using good resources, we can help save lives and break down the stigma surrounding suicide and mental health.
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Ag Worker Access Campaign Update |
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It’s official! Health centers across the U.S. served more than 1 million Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural workers and their families in 2019. We’ve surpassed our halfway milestone to reaching our Campaign goal of 2 million Ag workers served, but we need to keep moving forward!
Under the guidance of the Ag Worker Access Campaign Task Force, the Campaign is focusing on three priority areas to assist health centers in reaching their goals around increasing access to quality healthcare for Ag workers, including:
- Partnership/Coalition building at local, regional and state levels
- Identification/dissemination of promising practices
- Administrative policy recommendations
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Learning Collaboratives are Open and Accepting Participants! |
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Join one of NCFH’s new Learning Collaboratives (LC) to learn from both peers and experts in the field, and to collaborate and network with other Health Center staff. We have several LC options to choose from including Mental Health, Diabetes Control and Diabetes Prevention for Adults, Governance Training, Increase Access to Care (IAC) and IAC Plus, SDOH Screening, and SDOH Community Partnerships. Our Learning Collaboratives provide workforce development training; offer resources and tools; explore strategies and promising practices; and present an opportunity to improve your service delivery programs for Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) and other vulnerable populations.
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Customized Training Opportunities for Health Centers,
PCAs, and Other Health Center Networks
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Let us help you ensure your staff members are confident in accurately identifying and reporting their Ag Worker population in the UDS through our Increase Access to Care for Ag Workers (IAC) trainings. Contact our IAC Coordinator today for more information about our virtual health center trainings and virtual regional trainings for Primary Care Associations and other health center networks, customized to meet health centers’ needs.
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How WE Stay Healthy at Home! |
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Keeping up with healthy routines when you’re staying at home can be a challenge. But it’s something that’s very important to the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program community!
Click and follow our NCFH Facebook page to watch three upcoming testimonial videos that feature real lifestyle change program coaches and participants from around the country who share how they eat healthy, stay active, and manage stress while staying at home.
Be sure to leave a comment about the video and tell us if you try any of the tips! If there are other ways that you are staying healthy at home, share those with us too!
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Looking for a Resource? We Have You Covered! |
- A new, HRSA-funded online resource repository of training and technical assistance materials for health centers.
- Contains resources produced by the 21 HRSA-funded National Cooperative Agreement organizations serving health centers.
- Resource topics include finance, operations, workforce, quality improvement, capital development, HIT/data, governance, and emerging issues.
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Our Mission: To improve the health status of farmworker families through the provision of
innovative training, technical assistance, and information services to Migrant and
Community Health Centers.
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This project was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under U30CS0 9737, Technical Assistance to
Community and Migrant Health Centers and Homeless, ($1,583,856). This information or content and
conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of,
nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.
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