Partner Organizations - Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety

Southeast Georgia Communities Project, Inc.

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

The Southeast Georgia Communities Project (SEGCP – https://segcp.org/) is located in 3 of the 4 poorest counties in Southeast Georgia with high concentrations of LatinX residents working mainly as agriculture workers. The mission of the organization is to serve these communities by promoting self-empowerment in the areas of health and education. Volunteers accomplish these goals by serving as liaisons and translators for workers; providing health education workshops; conducting outreach to help communities navigate social and medical services; and providing support services through a food pantry, clothing closet, utility and prescription assistance program, and transportation.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, SCCAHS supported volunteers who distributed 1,500 bags containing COVID-19 information in English and Spanish, face masks, and hand sanitizer throughout four counties. Due to the easy spread of COVID, farmers frequently requested for SEGCP to work with liaison in charge of worker’s needs to organize the dissemination of prevention and virus summary fact sheets and supplies.

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Florida Institute for Community Studies, Inc.

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

The Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS – https://www.ficsinc.org/) partners with communities across Florida to help them achieve their goals through research, education, training, social services, and the arts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SCCAHS support FICS work in the Wimauma area of Hillsborough County, home to many of the county’s farmworkers. FICS distributed disinfecting wipes, bleach, paper towels, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, garbage bags, laundry detergent, and 1,000 disposable masks, gloves at the La Estancia Apartment complex, which is designated farmworker housing. Additionally, FICS recognized the impact the pandemic had on farmworker children whose education had been disrupted. At the summer youth camp that FICS coordinates, the organization provided sanitizing cleaner for supplies; bilingual tutoring services; and personal school supply kits for each child receiving tutoring and learning supervision, including notebooks, reading logs, pencils, erasers, highlighters, and pencil cases

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Franklin’s Promise Coalition

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

Franklin’s Promise Coalition (https://franklinspromisecoalition.wildapricot.org/) is a group of organizations and individuals working together to address community issues in and around Franklin County of North Florida. The group sponsors a number of projects, including the Conservation Corps of the Forgotten Coasts, which has the broad goal of working with young people to positively impact their lives and their community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SCCAHS supported Franklin’s Promise as they deployed the Conservation Corps to respond to the crisis in their coastal community.

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Hispanic Health Initiatives

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

Hispanic Health Initiatives (HHI – http://www.hhi2001.org/) is a 20+-year-old nonprofit that addresses the unmet health needs of Hispanics and other medically disadvantaged populations of Central Florida through the efforts of volunteers. It has a specific goal of educating these populations, so they are better able to make informed decisions about health, wellness, and care options. During the COVID -19 pandemic, SCCAHS provided emergency funding for HHI to conduct community outreach and distribute PPE to residents in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, and Volusia counties. HHI launched a grassroots Community Health Worker (CHW) COVID-19 awareness, education, outreach, and prevention campaign during June in Central Florida (Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia Counties) to help the community understand the importance of following CDC’s guidelines and protocols to encourage adherence. HHI also assembled “hygiene prep” bags containing: a digital thermometer, hand sanitizer, gloves, mask, and a package of tissues for CHWs to use as outreach tools to help explain the use of each item as it related to CDC’s guidelines.

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Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. (FWAF)

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

The Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF – https://floridafarmworkers.org/), established in 1983, is a community-based non-profit with more than 10,000 Haitian, Hispanic, and African American members and five offices in the state of Florida. Their goal is to work with farmworkers by building power to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that impact their lives. SCCAHS supported FWAF train-the-trainer events on pesticide exposure and heat-related illness that resulted in updating an original training program, instructing additional Community Health Workers on the program, and training 22 participants in workshops. SCCAHS also supported FWAF in training two university student assistants working on heat-related illness research projects about Community Based Participatory Research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SCCAHS supported FWAF’s production of culturally appropriate educational videos that provided farmworkers with information related to the virus and to vaccination efforts.

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Rural Women’s Health Project

Ashley McLeod — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:36:45 +0000

The Rural Women’s Health Project (RWHP – https://www.rwhp.org/) serves immigrant farmworkers and rural communities in North Florida by strengthening their understanding of critical health, occupational, and family issues. With support from SCCAHS, RWHP worked with Madres Sin Fronteras to conduct training programs for 24 farmworker women in the local area on domestic violence and reproductive health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the RWHP provided and evaluated COVID-19 information in the form of audio, video, and print materials in various indigenous languages, including Spanish, Kiche, Mam, Mixteco Alto, and Q’anjob’al. Through a SCCAHS-facilitated collaboration with Walgreens, RWHP also hosted vaccination clinics for farmworkers and rural communities in the North Florida area. At one vaccination event in Marion County, more than 100 horse farmworkers were vaccinated.

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Rural Women’s Health Project

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Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. (FWAF)

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Hispanic Health Initiatives

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Franklin’s Promise Coalition

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