NCFH’s mission is to improve the health of farmworker families. As part of our mission, we strive to have a positive impact on all of America's farmworkers, organizations who serve special and vulnerable populations, and within our own communities.
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NCFH is proud of these major accomplishments! 

Annual Reports

Year in Review: NCFH is happy to share our 2023 Impact Report! This report captures all of the work done in the last year and focuses on four main areas: Capacity Building, Health Promotion & Education, Farmworker Outreach, and Research & Data Collection.  ​​​​​

Program Updates

Increase Access to Care (IAC) Update: Through our Increase Access to Care (IAC) Program, NCFH is contributing​ to the Ag Worker Access Campaign in providing IAC trainings and helping health centers modify their current systems and registration processes to better identify, classify, and report agricultural worker patients to the Uniform Data System (UDS).    
  • In 2023, there was a 29% increase in Ag Worker Access Campaign members, resulting in a total of 629 members.
  • To learn more about the Ag Worker Access Campaign and IAC Trainings, please click here. 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Efforts: NCFH has collaborated with numerous partners including the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston among others, to further prevent, manage, and treat agricultural worker populations impacted by chronic disease, including diabetes.
Farm and Food Worker Relief Program (FFWR): ​The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm and Food Worker Relief (FFWR) program provides a one-time $600 payment to front-line farmworkers for expenses incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eligible farmworkers must have worked in eligible jobs in agriculture during the national public health emergency from January 27, 2020, to May 11, 2023. NCFH is one of fifteen grantees awarded to distribute FFWR relief payments. NCFH is working with 24 farmworker-serving organizations in select counties across 21 states to collect applications in person and is only providing relief payments to farmworkers.
  • In 2023, NCFH provided $16.3 million in relief funds to 27, 192 farmworkers through the FFWR program funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
  • To learn more about the FFWR, please click here.
Efforts to Combat Infectious Diseases: Since 2020, NCFH has collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support outreach and education services to community-based organizations around the country.
  • In 2023, NCFH a network of 27 farmworker-serving organizations provided over 300,000 outreach and education interactions to farmworkers in their community, supported the distribution of over 24,000 vaccine doses, and provided more than 299,000 referrals to farmworkers seeking COVID-19 testing.
  • To learn more combatting infectious disease, please click here.
Call for Health (CFH) Program: Through our Call for Health (Una Voz para la Salud) nation-wide program, NCFH offers free, bilingual health information and referrals to farmworkers and their families. 
  • In 2023, NCFH provided support to more than 2,500 individuals through CFH by connecting them with primary care services, supporting interpretation needs, identifying transportation resources, and assisting them with financial support for healthcare costs.
  • To learn more about Call for Health and donate to this initiative, please click here.

Training and Technical Assistance ​

One of NCFH's primary areas of focus is to function as a subject matter expert on agricultural worker health issues for the network of Community and Migrant Health Centers and other organizations serving the agricultural worker community. NCFH provides technical assistance, training, and engages in a variety of collaborative activities with both Health Centers and other organizations serving farmworkers.​  

In 2023, NCFH provided the following to health center program grantees in order to enhance their ability to address the health needs of Migratory and Seasonal Agricultural Workers (MSAWs) and their families:  ​

227 Trainings
​completed with 11,578 participants

217 Technical Assistance encounters with 4,162 participants

661 Attendees provided 94 sessions at Regional Stream Forums
Learn more about our Training and Technical Assistance services here. ​
Agricultural Worker Symposia: NCFH, in partnership with the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), is excited to announce a new era for agricultural worker-specific workforce development training opportunities, as we transition from the Regional Stream Forum format we have historically offered. To keep up with the ever-changing needs of the health center workforce, we will host two national Agricultural Worker Health Symposia a year moving forward. Each training event will focus on a topic area of high priority to staff and board of health centers and other agricultural worker-serving organizations.
  • To learn more about this new training opportunity, please visit our Symposia webpage coming soon. 
  • To view past Midwest Stream Forum events and materials, click here.

Learning Collaboratives ​

Learning collaboratives provide participants with regular training sessions, technical assistance, and time to strategize with and learn from peers around the country. 
  • In 2023, NCFH offered health center staff the opportunity to participate in ten different learning collaboratives. Topics included healthcare access; diabetes and chronic disease management; governance; social drivers of health; voucher service delivery models of care; language access and Indigenous communities; health education and outreach; and professional development.
  • Learn more about our Learning Collaboratives here. ​
366 LC Participants from health centers, Primary Care Associations, Health Center Controlled Networks, and farmworker community-based organizations