Establishing & Sustaining a Community Committee

A Community Committee is a structured group of community members representing a specific population that a community-based organization (CBO) engages to provide input, feedback, and support in achieving its mission. This toolkit provides practical steps, tips, templates, and downloadable resources to help you successfully develop and sustain a meaningful Community Committee that uplifts community voices, builds trust, and drives impact. Also available in Spanish.

NATIONAL FARMWORKER RESOURCE

In response to Florida’s SB1718 becoming law, NCFH created a National Farmworker Resources one-pager for outreach staff to support farmworkers in circumstances of moving away from Florida and in search of housing, farmworker jobs, migrant health centers, and other farmworker serving organizations and services across the United States.

Spanish Outreach Protocol

This Spanish Outreach Protocol booklet highlights outreach safety tips for farmworker-serving outreach staff, including some key challenges and how to address them. All tips were compiled by NCFH based on input from farmworker-serving organizations and NCFH’s own experience conducting outreach.  

Utilizing WhatsApp for Real-Time Language Interpretation on Agricultural Worksites

This promising practice resource explains the details and lessons learned by National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) staff in using WhatsApp group calls to interpret three health education talks.

Una Voz Para la Salud/Call For Health Request Form

 Una Voz Para la Salud /Call For Health 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 migratory and seasonal agricultural workers and their families. 

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. 

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. 

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 workforces have. 

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. 

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. 

Find Health Information Online

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. 

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

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. 

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.

NCFH Radio PSAs

In 2024, NCFH produced two radio PSAs informing potential potential farmworkers of available health centers in the USA. Each PSA was translated into seven indigenous languages including Nahuatl, Purepecha, Tsotsil, Tzetal, and Zapoteco. Share these 60-second informative audio and video with farmworkers in your area.