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.
NCFH is proud of these major accomplishments!
Annual Reports
Regional Stream Forums: Each year, regional agricultural-worker advocates, health and social service providers, policy makers, and other interested individuals gather in a series of three conferences called “Stream Forums.” Each conference is located in one of three loosely defined migratory streams, representing the flow of agricultural workers up and down the stream as they follow the harvest. The Western Forum for Migrant and Community Health is hosted by Northwest Regional Primary Care Association; the Midwest Stream Forum for Agricultural Worker Health is hosted by NCFH; and the East Coast Migrant Stream Forum is hosted by North Carolina Community Health Center Association.
- View the latest 2021-2022 Proceedings of the Migrant Health Stream Forums here.
- To learn more about our yearly regional conference, please click here.
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Diabetes Efforts: NCFH is collaborating 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 patient populations impacted by prediabetes and diabetes, including agricultural workers and their families.
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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).
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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 2022, 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:
In 2022, 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:
18,012 Total participants received T/TA |
585 total TA encounters completed with |
244 total Trainings conducted with |
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 2022, NCFH offered Health Center staff the opportunity to participate in eight different learning collaboratives in the areas of Emergency Preparedness, Diabetes Management and Prevention, Increase Access to Care, Social Determinants of Health, Governance, Voucher Programs, and Community Partnerships for Health Equity. Participants in the learning collaboratives represent:
In 2022, NCFH offered Health Center staff the opportunity to participate in eight different learning collaboratives in the areas of Emergency Preparedness, Diabetes Management and Prevention, Increase Access to Care, Social Determinants of Health, Governance, Voucher Programs, and Community Partnerships for Health Equity. Participants in the learning collaboratives represent:
126 Health Centers |
21 Primary Care
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43 Other Community Based Organizations |
Mitigating COVID-19 and other Infectious Diseases
NCFH is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to build strength & resilience among the many farmworker-serving organizations in the U.S. NCFH has focused on developing strategies & providing resources to help prevent and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on farmworker communities with the following:
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- National Radio Campaign: NCFH is working with Radio Bilingue, the Hispanic Communication Network, and Radio Indigena to conduct a national radio campaign to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations in farmworker communities. The campaign includes a radionovela about a farmworker family, a cumbia song, and “edu-tainment” type PSAs that can be download here. All of the radio messages were reviewed by CDC staff and by NCFH’s national farmworker health education committee, which includes farmworker members from Mexico and Honduras.
- Promising Practices: NCFH has partnered with Farmworker Justice and Health Outreach Partners to identify real-life examples of exemplary employer and community efforts to prevent COVID-19 infections among agricultural workers and their families, and to support those suffering from the physical, social, and economic effects of COVID-19.
- Demonstration Projects: As of June 2021, NCFH has awarded $1,281,395.07 in demonstration project subcontract funds to 19 health centers, agricultural employers, and farmworker-serving organizations. These projects ran from May through December 2021, and provided access to COVID-19 vaccinations, supported workers who had tested positive for COVID-19, and provided COVID-19 testing access and prevention education. These projects helped vaccinate over 60,000 farmworkers and their family members reached over 446,000 farmworkers and their family members through education and communications campaigns. You can view a report on the impact of the demonstration projects and an in-depth case study of one innovative project with NC Field in North Carolina.
Learn more about how NCFH has responded to COVID-19 and find additional resources here.