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MSAW and Latino Communities Managing Diabetes
Diabetes affects Americans of all socioeconomic statuses, races, cultures, and ethnicities. However, Hispanic/Latinos are at higher risk of having type 2 diabetes as compared to other ethnic groups. Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) are predominate of Hispanic/Latino descent placing them at higher risk for type 2 diabetes.
News & Updates
MSAW and Latino Communities Managing Diabetes
Diabetes affects Americans of all socioeconomic statuses, races, cultures, and ethnicities. However, Hispanic/Latinos are at higher risk of having type 2 diabetes as compared to other ethnic groups. Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) are predominate of Hispanic/Latino descent placing them at higher risk for type 2 diabetes.
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Build teen Community Health Worker Competency with the new Infórmate Program Manual
With training, information and resources, Peer Advocates improve the health of their communities by: addressing difficult topics that influence our individual and community options, educating our peers about the positive and negative consequences of our choices, linking peers and their families to mentoring, health care and social services, and working as advocates that mobilize for positive change.
El Arte de Sobrevivir: Embedding support for survivors in the community with the multi-tiered Promotor(a) de Salud model
El Arte de Sobrevivir (The Art of Surviving) is a support group program that uses the multi-tiered Promotor(a) de Salud model to provide support to low-income, Hispanic, Spanish-speaking survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and/or stalking. This model employs a Promotora (also known as a Community Health Worker) who is a member of the community served: those living in colonias in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Colonias are unincorporated neighborhoods developed outside of city limits that lack city services such as transportation, utilities and road signs. As part of the multi-tiered approach, the program also recruits líderes, or community leaders, who are independently contracted to fully embed the program into the culture of the colonia in which they live.
New Cada Paso del Camino Program Teams Up with Clinic to Provide Cancer Services
According to the American Cancer Society, Hispanics are more likely to die from cancer than non-Hispanic whites. These disparities begin in communities with existing social determinants of health long before a diagnosis is ever reached. To combat this trend, MHP Salud has teamed up with Nuestra Clinica del Valle to provide low-income Latino communities with holistic cancer prevention, screening, and treatment services in Hidalgo and Starr Counties in Texas.
Build teen Community Health Worker Competency with the new Infórmate Program Manual
With training, information and resources, Peer Advocates improve the health of their communities by: addressing difficult topics that influence our individual and community options, educating our peers about the positive and negative consequences of our choices, linking peers and their families to mentoring, health care and social services, and working as advocates that mobilize for positive change.
El Arte de Sobrevivir: Embedding support for survivors in the community with the multi-tiered Promotor(a) de Salud model
El Arte de Sobrevivir (The Art of Surviving) is a support group program that uses the multi-tiered Promotor(a) de Salud model to provide support to low-income, Hispanic, Spanish-speaking survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and/or stalking. This model employs a Promotora (also known as a Community Health Worker) who is a member of the community served: those living in colonias in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Colonias are unincorporated neighborhoods developed outside of city limits that lack city services such as transportation, utilities and road signs. As part of the multi-tiered approach, the program also recruits líderes, or community leaders, who are independently contracted to fully embed the program into the culture of the colonia in which they live.
New Cada Paso del Camino Program Teams Up with Clinic to Provide Cancer Services
According to the American Cancer Society, Hispanics are more likely to die from cancer than non-Hispanic whites. These disparities begin in communities with existing social determinants of health long before a diagnosis is ever reached. To combat this trend, MHP Salud has teamed up with Nuestra Clinica del Valle to provide low-income Latino communities with holistic cancer prevention, screening, and treatment services in Hidalgo and Starr Counties in Texas.
