Training Modules

  
Training Curricula, used by the Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. and its partners, in Project Clean Environment for Healthy Kids, are available.  These curricula are used to train promotores de salud (lay health educators) in farmworker communities.  You may download our training modules.  FJF also distributes a Reference Manual to health professionals (see below).  These documents are in Acrobat (pdf) format (for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader).  To download any of these documents, click on the title.
 


Introduction
Curriculum -- Introduction

Handouts in Spanish
Handouts in English

Asthma
Curriculum -- Reducing the Frequency and Severity of Childhood Asthma
Handouts in Spanish  
Handouts in English 

Lead
Curriculum --  Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning
Handouts in Spanish
Handouts in English

Pesticides 
Curriculum --  Protecting Families & Farmworkers from Pesticides 
Handouts in Spanish  
Handouts in English

Drinking Water/Waste Disposal
Curriculum --  Clean Drinking Water and Safe Waste Disposal to Prevent Illness 
Handouts in Spanish 
Handouts in English 

 

Reference Manual

     Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. distributes a reference manual to health professionals who attend our workshops on the recognition, management and reporting of acute and chronic pesticide-related health problems. The reference manual is written by Dr. Marion Moses, president of the Pesticide Education Center in San Francisco, CA.

   There are seven chapters and appendices. You may download the the cover page, the chapters and the appendices of the reference manual in pdf format (for which you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader).  To download any of these documents, click on the title.


Cover page
 
Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2: Exposure

Chapter 3: Acute Effects 

Chapter 4: Children and Pesticides 

Chapter 5: Chronic Effects - Cancer in Adults

Chapter 6: Chronic Effects - Reproductive System

Chapter 7: Chronic Effects - Neurological

Appendices

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