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Farmworker Outreach Resources

Farmworker-serving organizations such as health centers, legal aid organizations, and community-based organizations play a critical role in reaching communities of farmworkers, who often experience multiple barriers in accessing community resources. Outreach workers and Community Health Workers (CHWs) have the opportunity to be proactive in providing farmworkers with the appropriate information and supplies they need during the pandemic and beyond. NCFH is committed to working with farmworker-serving organizations to equip advocates with valuable resources for farmworker outreach. If you would like to get involved in our farmworker network such as participate in a coalition, questions about farmworker outreach or would like NCFH to include your resource on our webpage, contact Yvette Salinas.

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Digital Tools and Templates

NCFH has compiled some digital tools that can help with farmworker outreach planning and data collection during outreach events. Explore the tools below! 

Useful Planning Tools

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H2DATA: H-2A AND H-2B JOB POSTING DATA

H-2 tool developed by Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA) allows farmworker advocates to track job postings and plan for outreach. Quarterly and daily data is updated automatically from the DOL's seasonal jobs website.
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H2DATA VIDEO SERIES: TRLA H2 DATA TOOL TRAINING
View these simple video tutorials on using the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid's H2 tool as farmworker advocates searching for data to inform outreach planning to H-2A workers. The English and Spanish video series demonstrate the "All Search Data" feature, the various uses of the map function, and how to search for farmworkers by employer name. The videos are brought to you by the Farmworker Paralegal Team at Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.​
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Farm Labor Data Dashboard

The Farm Labor Data Dashboard was developed by NCFH to centralize nationally available data related to farmworkers in the U.S. The dashboard is an interactive, web-based tool that integrates data from sources such as the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and others to gain an understanding of the national landscape of farm labor. 
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Seasonal Jobs Website

The Department of Labor’s FLAG system is a portal used by both employers and federal agencies to access the database of current H-2A work orders. The system provides employers and applicants access to track time-sensitive information related to temporary labor certification applications with the Office of Foreign Labor Certifications (OFLC).  The work orders detail when H-2A workers are in a state, how many workers were certified and where they live during their stay in the United States. Because this data is public, farmworker serving-organizations can use this tool to inform outreach plans throughout the year. 
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Outreach Apps to Consider for Data Collection

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Kobo Tool Box

Kobo Tool Box is a free data, open-source collection app that allows users to build forms and collect interview responses. The app can be used online and offline and has a strong safeguard against data loss. The synchronize data via SSL features ensures data can’t be read by a third party. NCFH has field-tested this tool and has found it to be very reliable even in areas where there is no cell service, and the tool can be used in multiple languages. 
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Digital How-to's

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How to Add a Voiceover to Printed Outreach Materials

Legal Aid of North Carolina has compiled a step-by-step process on adding voice overs to printed outreach materials. In the name of making outreach materials--like booklets, brochures, calendars, and handouts—more accessible for people with limited literacy, find out how to link audio versions to materials your organization creates. 
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How to Use Facebook and Ads to Reach Farmworkers

​A how-to guide in boosting Facebook posts to reach farmworkers online which include different features and opt-in to help spread the word about current events affecting farmworkers in your community


Tools for Health Outreach Staff


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H-2A Worker Outreach Protocol
​NCFH has compiled best practices and important considerations for conducting outreach to H-2A guest workers. This document can be used as a template that organizations can use and adapt to meet their specific outreach needs.

Get Your Foot in the Door:
Health Center Strategies for Initiating Relationships with
Growers, Contractors, and Employers

This resource provides strategies, specifically for health centers, in identifying and connecting with growers, contractors, and employers that employ Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs). These four strategies are a compilation of successful approaches health center staff and outreach specialists have used to prepare for reaching out to growers, contractors, and employers to increase MSAW access to essential health care services. The resource also includes tools available for you to implement each recommended strategy.
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Una Voz Para la Salud/Call For Health Request Form
Una Voz Para la Salud is a nation-wide, toll-free, bilingual, health information and referral service program for farmworkers and their families. The purpose of the program is to increase access to health care services for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers and their families.

Una Voz Para la Salud /Call For Health would like to offer you an opportunity to receive complementary promotional materials to distribute to agricultural workers. Una Voz Para la Salud /Call For Health materials will help ensure that your staff and the agricultural workers you serve are aware of our services and will be able to utilize the resources of our program.  If you are interested in requesting keytags and posters, please complete the following order form. 
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Follow Una Voz Para la Salud/Call For Health on
​Facebook and Instagram 
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Flu Outreach and Social Media Toolkit
for Agricultural Workers
This toolkit provides information and tangible tools to support health centers and other community-based organizations on using social media platforms to share effective messaging about the flu to agricultural workers and their families. This toolkit will assist outreach educators, community health workers and other staff members in assessing current social media efforts and outcomes and help identify new opportunities for increasing agricultural worker engagement through tailored social media messaging and cross-promotions with partners. 
Spanish version available here.​
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Outreach Manual - A Guide for Farmworker Health Outreach Staff

A guide for Farmworker Health Outreach staff developed by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose of this publication is to provide guidance to administrators, program coordinators, outreach workers, and others tasked with incorporating enabling services into their agency’s health service approach. 
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Health Educators and Outreach Workers

​The CHW Career Web Model Educational tool developed by MHP Salud can be used by organizations that work with Health Educators and similar professions to help explain the different career trajectories that those in the CHW and similar work forces have. 

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A Guide to Research for Outreach Workers

This guide was developed for farmworker health outreach workers with input from outreach workers, researchers, and farmworker health specialists. It is a tool created by the Duke University School of Nursing for outreach workers who are currently involved in research or who are considering getting involved with a research project. 

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Farm Health Literacy

The Farmworker Health Literacy project addresses Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Health Disparities with Information Resources and focuses on improving the daily lives of migrant seasonal farmworkers by expanding internet connectivity and access to online health information for farmworkers and their families. 

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Find Health Information Online

Watch the following videos to learn how to more confidently search for health or patient education materials online brought to you by East Carolina University. 
 
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Outreach Worker Guide to Health Insurance

This guide created by Farmworker Justice will familiarize outreach workers with some of the basics of health insurance, so that they can better answer farmworkers’ questions and prepare them to visit patient navigators/in-person assisters.
 
Resource also available in Spanish
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Clinical Outreach Chapter

The purpose of this chapter is to support health centers by providing a practical framework and guidance on undertaking clinical outreach efforts. It explores the different facets of clinical outreach and how it can be planned and implemented. The clinical Outreach chapter was created by Health Outreach Partners.
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Outreach Reference Manual 2nd Edition

Health Outreach Partner’s 2nd Edition Outreach Reference Manual is a comprehensive reference for farmworker outreach programs and outreach staff. Topics include understanding farmworkers, maximizing resources, hiring an outreach team, retaining an outreach team, conducting a farmworker needs assessment, health education fundamentals, and many more.
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Outreach Promising Practices


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Call for Promising Outreach Practices to Farmworkers

Our friends at Health Outreach Partners (HOP) have compiled a collection of innovative, sustainable, and equitable Outreach Promising Practices implemented by organizations serving the agricultural worker community.  Follow the links below to learn more about these creative and diverse strategies.
  • Late Night/Early Morning Outreach to Connect with the Farmworker Community Along the Arizona/Mexico Border   
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  • Programming and Partnerships Create Access to Comprehensive Care and Services at Onsite Housing Facilities using a Mobile Clinic 
 
  • Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Information in Indigenous Farmworker Communities through Local Testimonials 
 
  • Leveraging a Regional Coalition to Create a Coordinated COVID-19 Response for Farmworkers
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  • Integrating Outreach in Care Coordination
 
  • “Vive Hoy”: A Popular Education Curriculum to Foster Emotional Health among Farmworker Communities

  • The Evolution of Outreach to Meet the Needs of Farmworkers Along the U.S/Mexico Border

  • Developing a Community-Tailored Health Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic ​

  • Incorporating Safety Measures in Farmworker Outreach Protocols
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  • Innovative Text Messaging Strategies to Reach Indigenous Communities 
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Utilizing WhatsApp for Real-Time Language Interpretation on Agricultural Worksites
NCFH staff tested out using WhatsApp to interpret health education talks for farmworkers who speak Tsotsil and Spanish. Learn more about how it went and our tips for using this in the field.
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Community Advocacy and Education


Facilitation

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Tips for Conducting One-on-One Relational Meetings

Developed by the Regional Center for Health Communities, a One-on-One tips for building trust and establishing a relationship through conversation and sharing stories.
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Popular Education

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Popular Education Manual Multnomah County Public Health Division Community Partnerships unit

Created by Multnomah County Public Health Division Community Partnership unit. This Popular Education manual features dozens of popular education methods for group meeting settings.
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NDLON

The National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON) website offers a list of popular education tools which include videos, popular education flyers, vignettes, guides and other documents to raise awareness on the spread of COVID-19.
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A Few Tips for Network or Coalition Building

This one page document authored by Leah Wise from the Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network (REJN) covers key ideas for creating a unified, cohesive coalition.
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Train-the-Trainer Manual for Community Mobilization

This manual compiled by Civic Education and Community Mobilization (CIVCOM) Partners is a training guide for facilitators based on participatory, problem posing methods whereby participants are encouraged to analyze problems and search for their own solutions. 
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Quarterly Round-up of ​Farmworker Friendly Material

​The following farmworker-friendly materials were carefully selected and assessed by NCFH staff to support your outreach activities. Let us know if you would like our team to assess and include your organizations health education material in our resource round up! Please note that new resources are being added on a regular basis. If you would like to suggest a resource, please contact Lisbeth Gall.  

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August 2022 Resource Round up
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July 2022 Resource Round up
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May 2022 Resource Round up

Leadership Spotlight

​Farmworker-serving Outreach Teams representatives have nominated members of various communities to celebrate their contributions to make the world a better place. NCFH proudly presents the following leaders across the nation.


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