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Healthy Farms Promotores Graduate

By sochi Community Initiatives, Healthy Farms

SEAHEC’S Healthy Farms Makes Strides

By sochi Community Initiatives, Healthy Farms, Our Programs

This month SEAHEC’s pilot community health worker training pilot project will wrap up, having recruited and trained 15 farmworkers to provide work place health and safety education. Topics included dealing with workplace injuries, heat and sun safety, cold and flu prevention, First Aid/CPR, and chronic disease management. The trainings also covered children’s health, nutrition and management of stress and depression.

SEAHEC Launches Pilot Project Healthy Farms

By sochi Community Initiatives, Healthy Farms, Our Programs

Arizona Farmers Earn Healthy Farms Recognition

http://fillyourplate.org/blog/arizona-farmers-earn-healthy-farms-recognition/

Posted on September 21, 2011 by fillyourplate

Bill Neubauer, Co-Chair of the U.S.-Mexico Commission’s Health Services Committee, presents Ed Curry with the 2011 Healthy Farms Recognition for Curry Farms

Two Arizona farms were recently recognized for being “Healthy Farms” by the Arizona-Mexico Commission.

As of summer 2011, the Arizona-Mexico Commission has begun publically recognizing farms that meet high standards for health, safety, and sanitation and collaborate with a local Community Health Center to bring health outreach services and basic health education to workers.