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Addressing Health Topics in Rural Latino Communities

Newsletters - Spring 2010 Newsletter

The FJ Health Initiative, Poder Sano, is pleased to announce the launch of its bimonthly webinar series presenting topics of interest to organizations promoting health in rural Latino communities.

Through this series, FJ will improve the knowledge and capacity of service providers in subjects as diverse as HIV/AIDS in rural communities, working with the media to promote health, and conducting community needs assessments. Each multimedia webinar will feature an extended interview presentation from a nationally recognized expert in the topic area, and allow for a question and answer period from participants.

The first webcast of the series, “Community Mobilization for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Rural Latino Communities,” was presented on March 22, 2010 and featured our own Director of Health Programs, Carlos Ugarte. This webinar discussed best practices in community mobilization efforts utilizing promotores de salud, or lay health educators.

Using NCLR’s groundbreaking Sana La Rana community health mobilization program (“rana” means frog and the name comes from a popular children’s rhyme about being healthy), Ugarte demonstrated how successful promotores can be in effecting healthy behavior changes and encouraging people to get screened by providers. This first webinar drew 32 attendees from 26 organizations from across the country.