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Health Education Recipes
Methodology
Tools
Icebreakers
Dividing into Teams
Low-cost Incentives
Evaluation Tools
Recipes
Pesticide Exposure
Heat Stress
Diabetes & Obesity
Stress/Mental Health
STIs
Family Communication-Sex
The following health education recipes and tools can be used for facilitating what HOP calls outreach centered health education, a concept originally introduced in our Curriculum for Outreach Centered Health Education (COCHE). This type of instructive approach is unique, as it focuses on delivering health education in an outreach context that responds to the health needs of farmworkers. The health education resources and recipes in this chapter can be implemented during a short period of time and within an outreach setting (where farmworkers live, work, and congregate). Each recipe was designed to provide outreach staff with a set of hands-on, practical tools that can be readily used with farmworkers and other underserved populations.
Introduction
Health education and promotion are essential strategies for fostering farmworkers’ engagement in their health behavior. Oftentimes, outreach staff addresses the health needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers through targeted health education. Outreach workers are renowned for their ability to relay valuable health messages to farmworker audiences. Sometimes these educational encounters are specially designed and need significant planning. Other times, they are unstructured, more spontaneous, and occur in situations that require adapting content according to farmworker’s schedules. But because outreach staff practices various health education methods, HOP developed this chapter to introduce structured health education lessons targeted towards migrant and seasonal farmworker populations.
This chapter offers outreach staff health education recipes and tools for facilitating what HOP calls outreach centered health education, a concept originally introduced in our Curriculum for Outreach Centered Health Education (COCHE). This type of instructive approach is unique, as it focuses on delivering health education in an outreach context that responds to the health needs of farmworkers. The health education resources and recipes in this chapter can be implemented during a short period of time and within an outreach setting (where farmworkers live, work, and congregate).
The recipes in the following pages provide examples of reliable models for delivering outreach centered health education. Each recipe was designed to provide outreach staff with a set of hands-on, practical tools that can be readily used among diverse farmworker audiences. This chapter contains two primary sections with health education activities:
Quick & Easy Health Education Tools
These Quick and Easy Health Education Tools provide outreach staff with brief activities to last about 5-10 minutes. Each tool serves a purpose, including icebreakers, dividing groups into pairs/teams, evaluation, and incentives. These tools can be used in conjunction with many other health education topics.
The Health Education Recipes
The Health Education Recipes section provides a set of hands-on, practical health education activities to be used among farmworker audiences. This section includes “recipes” that lay-out a series of steps to carry out a 30-60 minute health education session along with Information Sheets that provide useful background information on the topic at hand. The Information Sheets are written for health educators only. These sheets are not a comprehensive summary of all there is to know about the topic; instead, they capture key information relevant to the Health Education Recipes that correspond to that topic.
Each Health Education Recipe is intended to stand alone; however, one, two, three, or more recipes can be delivered in any order and independent of one another. Recipes can be used in conjunction with existing curriculum, but should not be considered a substitute for a comprehensive health education curriculum for the topics addressed in this chapter. Specifically, the Health Education Recipes are organized in the following manner:
Pesticide Exposure
- Health Education Recipe: Body Mapping
- Health Education Recipe: How Do Pesticides Enter the Body?
- Health Education Recipe: Drawing Pesticide Solutions
- Health Education Recipe: Help a Friend!
- Health Education Recipe: Heat Safety Cards
- Health Education Recipe: Physical Activity Paper Ball Game
- Health Education Recipe: Lower Trans Fats
- Health Education Recipe: Portion Control
- Health Education Recipe: Managing Stress
- Health Education Recipe: Coping with Culture Shock and Displacement
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Health Education Recipe: Fruity Fun
- Health Education Recipe: Signature Hunt
Family Communication about Sexuality
- Health Education Recipe: Attitudes and Beliefs
- Health Education Recipe: Talking about Sexuality and Values
Health Outreach Partners One of HOP’s primary purposes for developing this chapter was to equip outreach staff (as well as other health educators) with field-tested educational tools and resources that will encourage farmworkers to take an active role in maintaining their health. HOP hopes to supplement your current programs with these materials, thereby relaying valuable health information to farmworker populations. After all, our mutual goal is to enable farmworkers to make healthy choices for leading a healthy life.
The contents of this chapter can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your farmworker–serving organization and target population. Should you require additional resources or instruction for using the outreach centered health education recipes outlined in this chapter, HOP can provide you with information and training on how to deliver recipes included in this chapter. Please contact HOP directly at:mail@outreach-partners.org.
Methodology
According to HOP’s 2005-2006 National Needs Assessment of Farmworker-Serving Health Organizations health education was the second most frequently performed outreach activity and the number one most desired future activity. Health education skills are integral to the effectiveness of any outreach program to farmworkers and their families. As such, HOP has designed a host of products and services that address the demands for this critical skill set. This chapter is just one part.
Outreach Centered Health Education Recipes format was designed by the staff at HOP. Each Health Education Recipe falls into one of four overall topics: Mental/Behavioral Health, Nutrition, Occupational Health, and Sexual Health. These four topics were identified based on findings from the 2005-2006 National Needs Assessment of Farmworker-Serving Health Organizations as well as anecdotal information collected through interactions with farmworker-serving organizations nationwide. Upon selecting these four topics, an advisory council on each topic comprised of migrant health leaders was organized. Each council provided guidance on what specific areas should be emphasized within the Health Education Recipes. Based on this information HOP identified health education recipes from organizations that have used these recipes with farmworker populations and/or in outreach settings. Additionally, farmworker parents involved in the leadership of a Migrant and Seasonal Head Start agency, also contributed to this process.
HOP wishes to thank the following people and organizations for their generous contributions to the Outreach Centered Health Education Recipes chapter:
Rhonda Cameron, Premier Community Healthcare, FL; Jose Chibras, Salud Para la Gente, CA; Dori Rose Inda, The Watsonville Law Center, CA; Maria Ketter, Blue Grass Farmworker Health Center, KY; Jacqueline Thompson, Diabetes Health Center, CA; Monica Saavedra- Embesi, National Center for Farmworker Health, TX; Helen Visarraga, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Technical Assistance Center, Washington, DC; Dana Wagner, WIC Santa Cruz County, CA; Amanda Wickman, Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education, TX, for their significant contributions as advisory council members on the Health Education Recipes segment of the chapter.
The Parent Policy Council of Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. (MN) for the insightful feedback on the Health Education Recipe segment of the chapter.