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SER Pilot Study: Salud, Estres y Resiliencia

5/8/2017

I have attached flyers for a research study we are conducting to assess the impact of stressors associated with being a Latino Immigrant in the research triangle area on behavioral, mental health, and physical health outcomes. As you well know the Latino community is incredibly resilient, so we will be exploring the impact of this as well.

Please share this opportunity with your networks. We are not collecting any social security numbers or tax ID #s from participants and will be compensating them $50 in cash. The data collection will be completed in participants home at their convenience which will take approximately 2 hours.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you so much for your time,
Rosa

Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD, MPH, CPH, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Duke University School of Nursing
307 Trent Drive, DUMC 3322
Durham, NC 27710
919.613.2634 (Office)
rosa.gonzalez-guarda@duke.edu

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Digital Connectors Application

5/8/2017

Please help me share with your friends and contacts this great opportunity for 14-21 year old Raleigh residents. Selected Raleigh Digital Connectors, will join a national group of young leaders who are making a positive difference in the lives of others and opening doors to opportunity!

Attached please find the 2017-2018 Raleigh Digital Connectors application and program fact sheet. The application deadline is Friday, July 7th by 12noon.

Also, here is the published link to the recruitment information: http://www.raleighnc.gov/parks/news/content/CorNews/Articles/PRecDigitalConnectorsApplications.html. This link contains more detailed information about the program and a video.

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Help Reinforce Driver Safety

5/8/2017

This holiday season it really hit home for me that more people seem to be forgetting best practices for safe driving. I saw a lot of people on their phones, I saw people running red lights, and I saw people who looked like they were generally not paying attention. People forget that they are hurling a two-ton machine along the road that can actually cause fatal damage if not handled properly!

As a public health advocate, I consider driver safety to be just as important as other health issues. And driver safety awareness shouldn’t stop after someone gets their first driver’s license; we should always be monitoring our skills and readiness behind the wheel.

The 9 Most Dangerous Things Drivers Do

Drugged Driving Prevention: Intervention Techniques to Keep Them Out of the Driver's Seat and Off the Road

Age and Driving: Safety Tips and Warning Signs for Older Drivers

Transportation Options for Seniors Who Don't Drive

Mental Preparation for Driving

Safe Driving Practices

Thanks for your consideration, and safe travels!

Best,
Steve

Steve Johnson
Publichealthlibrary.org | steve@publichealthlibrary.org
2885 Sanford Ave SW #35235
Grandville, MI 49418

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ALPES Featured in La Conexion!

5/1/2017

ALPES, along with the ALPES president, Carla Mena, were featured in a newspaper article from La Conexión, se llaman, "Por miedo a ser deportadas mujeres están pariendo sin supervisión médica ni capacitación en sus hogares".

Raleigh, N.C. 18 abril 2017-Aunque los partos asistidos en casa han existido desde la antigüedad y se siguen realizando en nuestros días, las razones por las que algunas mujeres indocumentadas en Carolina del Norte están dando a luz sin supervisión ni capacitación en sus hogares es motivo de alerta y reflexión para las autoridades locales. "Por el miedo a ser deportadas si van a un hospital, muchas mujeres están teniendo partos en casa y no solo eso, se están privando y privando a sus hijos de las revisiones médicas que les corresponden", comenta en entrevista para La Conexión, Carla Mena, Presidenta de la Alianza Latina Pro Educación en Salud (ALPES).

Cómo afecta el miedo a la deportación?
SALUD:
"El miedo a que la información personal sea compartida con autoridades de inmigración es otro de los factores por los que los padres de familia están retirando a sus hijos de programas como Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)" de acuerdo a lo que señala Mena. "Un representante de WIC nos ha compartido en una sesión informativa que por miedo y desinformación algunas personas piden que saquen a sus hijos del programa, a pesar de que sus hijos tienen derecho a ello por ser ciudadanos".
- See more at: http://www.laconexionusa.com/noticias/20170419_7044301919.asp#sthash.EdWRGidg.dpuf

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ALPES April 2017 Meeting Agenda!

4/5/2017

ALPES invites you to our next meeting which will be held on Monday, April 10, 2017 at 5:15 PM! We hope to see you there!

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Free Food Giveaway

4/4/2017

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Come out to the Free Food Giveaway on Saturday, April 8th, May 13th & June 10th at 9:00 AM!
Where: Wake Chapel Church Life Enrichment Center 3805 Tarheel Club Road, Raleigh, NC
Sponsored by Wake Chapel Church and The Food Bank of NC.

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Water Champions Push H2O for Latino Kids, Families

3/31/2017

Posted: 30 Mar 2017 06:34 AM PDT
Water isn’t magic, but it can help you stay hydrated (and improve brain functioning), control calories, energize muscles, and help your skin and kidneys.
But Latino kids don’t drink enough water.
In fact, Latino kids drink less plain water and more sugary drinks than their white peers as early as age 6 months, according to a research review by Salud America!, a national Latino childhood obesity prevention network based at UT Health San Antonio.
That’s why we at SaludToday are spotlighting heroes who work hard to push water for Latino kids and families!
Praxina Guerra: 5th-Grader Gets Hydration Station in SchoolSan Antonio fifth-grader Praxina Guerra and her mentor, Cathy Lopez, are true Salud Heroes when it comes to creating a healthy school environment.

Praxina Guerra

Praxina, spurred on by Lopez, joined the city’s San Antonio Student Ambassador program and created a student club to encourage students to adopt healthier practices.
Praxina and her club wanted to give students access to water throughout the school day at Five Palms Elementary School in South San Antonio Independent School District.
So Lopez looked online and found hydration stations, which are filtered water fountains for refillable water bottles.
Praxina and Lopez worked hard to seek funds for a hydration station.
“It’s an amazing asset for the school” and it motivates students to bring water bottles and drink more water, said Stacey Estrada, a school board member.
Alma Galvez: “Rethink Your Drink” Bilingual CampaignAmid a growing Latino population in Minneapolis, Minn., Alma Galvez saw heavy sugary drink consumption and obesity-related heath issues among children through her role as a community health worker with and in St. Mary’s Health Clinics.

Alma Galvez

In 2013, Galvez and others with St. Mary’s Clinics learned the Minneapolis Health Department was working on a campaign to reduce sugar consumption.
They partnered with the health department and culturally tailored the Rethink your Drink, Every Sip Counts campaign for the local Latino population.
That included doing bilingual educational events, using Latino role models to spread water-promoting messages, and adding a Spanish tagline, Sabes lo que bebes? Piénsalo dos veces! (Do you know what you are drinking? Think twice!).
“People don’t want you to tell them to stop drinking soda. But when you show them how much sugar is in their 20-ounce bottled soda they get really impressed by how much sugar is in their soda, and they always want to know how to stop, because sometimes it is not easy,” Galvez explained.
Juana Flores: A Role Model for Water’s Weighty BenefitsJuana Flores, a community health worker with Border Partners near El Paso, Texas, began feeling short of breath a few months ago. She also felt sluggish and tired all the time.

Juana Flores

After years of teaching healthy living, Flores took her own advice and started regular physical activity (walking, running, attending yoga and Zumba classes), gave up pork and red meat, and added more veggies, according to a news report by Border Partners.
Water was her secret weapon—six liters a day.
Today, after dropping 38 pounds and improving her cholesterol levels in five months, Flores is a real-life role model for the benefits of healthy eating and drinking water.
“Juana does so much good for the community. She has taught nutrition to Palomas families and children for the past two years with the support of HEAL grant funding from the Paso del Norte Health Foundation,” according to the report. “Board member Polly Edmunds calls Juana Flores a ‘mainstay of Border Partners’ progress in Palomas.'”
Juana adds:
“Fight for your health; fight for your life! It’s so important.”
Dr. Marta Katalenas: No-Soda Resolution for PatientsGrowing up in Spain, Dr. Marta Katalenas ate home-cooked meals made with fresh ingredients.

Dr. Marta Katalenas

When Katalenas moved to the U.S. in 1984 to learn English and become a pediatrician, she saw a different way of life that included way more juices and sugary drinks.
As she began her practice at the Pediatric Center of Round Rock, Texas, she said she saw a growing association between kids drinking too much sugar and being overweight.
Katalenas decided that if she was going to help Austin-area parents set their kids on a path of health, she needed to get the whole community involved in promoting water and reducing sugary drink consumption—so she made reducing sugary drinks part of her new monthly health challenge for families.
“Sometimes psychologically if you know something’s going to be just for a limited amount of time you are more likely to engage,” she said. “And they say if you do something for 30 days it forms to part of your life; that’s what my hope is.”
The post Water Champions Push H2O for Latino Kids, Families appeared first on SaludToday Blog.

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Free Medical, Dental and Vision Clinic!

3/27/2017

Free Medical, Dental and Vision Clinic!

Saturday, April 8, 2017
Tickets are given out starting at 8am until there are no more left
Living Word Family Church
10520 Star Rd, Wake Forest, NC 27587

www.lwfc.org

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Promotores de Salud de Carolina del Norte/Invitacion especial para la Comunidad afectada por el Cancer

3/22/2017

Buenas tardes a todos!,

Queria compartir con ustedes la informacion de una Invitacion muy especial para los Latinx afectados por el Cancer.

Estan bienvenidos los que tienen y ya pasaron por esta enfermedad y sus familias.

Ofreceremos cuidado de ninos.

Adjunto el flyer/invitacion para que lo puedan compartir con la comunidad y/o sus Iglesias para que tome el mayor numero de personas provecho de este lindo Seminario Gratuito.

Por favor dejenme saber si recibieron esta informacion y si tienen algun nombre que compartir que pueda yo personalmemte invitar por telefono.

Dios les bendiga y quedo en espera de noticias suyas,

Claudia Rojas
UNC CELAH Center for Latino Health
cerojas@med.unc.edu
cel. 919-259-0279

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Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers

3/22/2017

Dear Colleagues,

I do recognize that our community has many challenges at this time. One good news related to our work on “access”…over 96% of children in NC have health insurance (public and private). I want to thank you all for your collaboration over the years. See the 2017 Child Health Report Cardfor other areas of success and concern.

The article below focuses on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). I share as an issue related to children’s health and what we may be able to do to ameliorate the stress (PTSD) our children live with daily. Note that I am not an expert on immigration policy; but I do know children’s health and the effects of toxic stress on child development.

Kind regards,
Norma

Norma Martí
Health Check (Medicaid for Children)/ NC Health Choice Minority Outreach
Division of Public Health, Children & Youth Branch
NC Department of Health and Human Services

Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers

Dear colleagues,

Please read below for another powerful example of how physicians can effectively advocate for child health. Our Seattle pediatric resident, Mike McNeil, just published a touching and compelling op-ed about the devastating short- and long-term impact that deportation has on children of immigrants in America. He shares his story of diagnosing PTSD in a 5-year old who witnessed his father being apprehended and deported. He explains the long-lasting harm on child health from such adverse child experiences, and describes the disparities in child education and cognitive development faced by these children.

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/our-deportation-policies-harm-the-children-left-behind/

The power of Mike’s story lies in his focus on and commitment to child health as a pediatrician and father. Please share with others to encourage them to share their stories with the public.

This is a great reminder that we each have a role, especially clinicians on the frontline of care for children of immigrant families, to bear witness to the impact of deportation and xenophobia on child health that is otherwise hidden from the public.

Thanks, Mike!

Suzinne
spakgor@uw.edu

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