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MCN's e-newsletter, Network News, provides you with news and resources available from MCN and our partners. We welcome your feedback and/or suggestions for content. Please email Jillian Hopewell with your comments. |
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Upcoming Free MCN Webinars
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June 12
Wednesday
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Creating a Patient Centered Medical Home for Patients on the Move
part 5 of our 7-part series Clinician Orientation to Migration Health
Presented by Dr. Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH.
Register here!
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June 26
Wednesday
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Caring for the Injured Worker: Effective Partnerships between Clinicians, Health Centers and Lawyers
Topics to be addressed will include: helping migrant clinicians to identify which of their patients are eligible for workers compensation coverage; how to complete reports and secure reimbursement; helping patients navigate the system, etc.
Presented by Brent Probinsky, JD and Ed Zuroweste, MD.
Register here!
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Emergency Preparedness webinar by Farmworker Justice
Title: Developing an Emergency Preparedness Plan for Farmworker Communities Date: Monday, June 17, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Presenter: Ana Palomo-Zerfas, Program Manager. Migrant Health and Outreach, Vista Community Clinic
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Annual Training Conference
Title: Treatment of HIV, STDs, TB, Hepatitis C and Substance Abuse on the Border:
Date: Friday-Saturday. June 28-29th
Location: San Diego, CA
Pre-registration is required for attendance.
There is no fee for this course.
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BLOG ENTRY
Engaging Migrants in Participatory Research
By student from Miami, Rachel Becker
A paucity of literature provides an in-depth exploration of the mental and physical health of migrant workers. Researchers and clinicians have a variety of unanswered questions that could help them better serve this community, ranging from methods of health promotion to help-seeking behaviors to resiliency factors. High quality research will not only provide them with a better understanding of this population, but also assist them in tailoring their efforts and interventions.
Given the historical trauma, marginalization, and disenfranchisement of migrant workers, research frameworks must empower communities to have a strong voice in the focus, process, and dissemination of research. Without this type of paradigm, the best-intentioned research projects can maintain the status quo, silencing and pathologizing the community. Furthermore, without extensive community input the results of research might not have strong validity and applicability. In this article, we outline community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology that privileges the needs and input of the community throughout the entire research process. We, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Miami, are currently working with the Everglades Community Association (ECA; a migrant worker camp) and EnFamilia (a community organization that provides a wide range of services to ECA) to examine aspects of educational attainment and mental health. We will use our experiences in our current work to illustrate the core elements of CBPR and to provide other practitioners with ideas on how to incorporate these principles into their clinical work and research... [read more]
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Announcing New MCN IRB members
The MCN institutional review board (IRB) has recently welcomed three new members to the Board. They are Mr. Alberto Moreno, Ms. Lisa Nieri, and Ms. Laura Trevino. Mr. Moreno is the Executive Director for the Oregon Latino Health Coalition, a statewide organization whose mission is to eliminate health disparities for Latinos in Oregon. Ms. Nieri is the Director of Community Development and Special Populations at the Arizona Association of Community Health Centers. Ms. Trevino is the Regional Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development Colonias Program. Our other members of the MCN IRB are Dr. Loretta Heuer (Chair), Dr. George Davis, Mr. James O'Barr, Dr. Evelyn Clingerman, Dr. Maria de Jesus Diaz-Perez, and Dr. Alice Larson.
All of these members dedicate their time and attention to reviewing research protocols that involve human subjects, specifically migrant and vulnerable populations. The MCN IRB is happy to have new members with such exceptional experience and extensive knowledge of these populations.
We extend our deepest thanks to these incredible individuals for volunteering their time to work with the MCN IRB!
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Change of Phone Numbers
Please note the new direct telephone lines for MCN staff in our satellite offices begin with (512) 579-:
El Paso, TX
California
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Jillian Hopewell
Jennifer Sanne
Erin Sinclair
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x 4530
x 4531
x 4532
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Maryland
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Amy Liebman
Michael Piorunski
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x 4535
x 4536
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Pennsylvania
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New EOH Tool for Pesticide Exposure
New resources to help clinicians protect the health and safety of agricultural workers are now available on the MCN website. MCN's Acute Pesticide Exposure Clinical Guidelines and accompanying Pesticide Exposure Assessment form are critical for use in health centers that care for farmworkers, the population most overexposed to pesticides. These tools were reviewed by MCN's expert advisory committee on environmental and occupational health.
The clinical guidelines were adapted from guidelines drafted by Dennis Penzell, DO, MS, a former medical director at a federally funded health center in Florida who treated and managed farmworker patients poisoned in one of the largest pesticide poisoning incidents in the US. The pesticide exposure form was adapted from a resource created by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, director of the National Farm Medicine Center and an occupational medicine specialist renowned for his research and clinical work with farmworkers and pesticides. Dr. Keifer's data collection tool and other pesticide resources will be included in EPA's forthcoming Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, 6th edition.
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FIELDS OF CARE
For Migrant Clinicians Network
by Jennie McLaurin
Earth-crusted hands ache unseen
Brother, son and sister young
Gather groaning buckets, bent to feed a nation.
Emptying fields, harvest calls, move on, move on.
Oh count the pulse that takes no rest
Stand the stooped and hear each breath
Sow healing justice, make well the root
In fullness birth a season new, a season new.
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Pesticide Comic Books Now Available
The Migrant Clinicians Network and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation are pleased to announce the availability of three educational, Spanish-language pesticide comic books. All organizations and agencies are welcome to order the pesticide comic books free of charge.
These educational comic books target migrant and seasonal farmworker families to educate parents about children's risks to pesticide exposure, ways to minimize risks, pesticide exposure in women of reproductive age, and ways to minimize risks in the home setting.
- Aunque Cerca...Sano
- Lo Que Bien Empieza...Bien Acaba - Consejos para las mujeres para prevenir danos a la salud y a sus bebes causados por pesticidas
- Poco Veneno...¿No Mata?
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Mother's Day Cards a SUCCESS!!
MCN's Mother's Day Campaign to help migrant women gain access to care was a success because of YOU! Your contributions ensure that migrant moms have healthy pregnancies and babies.
Your efforts touched many lives, whether you entered our photo contest for the card or sent cards and eCards to those you cherished.
Heartfelt thanks from all of us at MCN
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Health Network
Health Network is a program to establish continuity of care for mobile patients. We are currently scheduling Health Network enrollment trainings. If you are interested in this free program please contact Ricardo Garay at (512) 579-4508 or rgaray@migrantclinician.org
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A special thank you:
Spanish translation by
Ricardo Garay and reviewed by Alejandro Ahuja.
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