Register now for the WESTERN MIGRANT STREAM FORUM Pre-conference Workshop!

Early registration deadline is December 23^rd

 

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Workplace Safety & Health Interventions: A Participatory Workshop

Thursday, January 26, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront

 

This participatory workshop will use case studies to demonstrate the tools necessary to address typical problems encountered in promoting and maintaining workplace safety and health and community health for farmworkers. Case studies include: 

1)     Evaluating Your Home-Based Promotora Women’s Health Education Program, Elizabeth Cartwright, PhD, Idaho

     State University

                      2) Certificates for Proper Bending and Lifting, Pamela Elkind, PhD, Eastern Washington University

                      3) Wine Grape Vineyard Case, Julia Faucett, RN, PhD, FAAN, University of California, San Francisco

                      4) Diabetes Dental Case, Sherri Lukes, RDH, MS, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

 

            Learning Objectives:

·         How to examine a problem and to suggest potential causal relationships

·         How to design an intervention to measure the suspected causal factors and presumed intervention

·         How to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention

 

The workshop is suitable for migrant clinic staff, promotoras, outreach workers, health educators, clinicians, as well as occupational safety and health professionals, and researchers.  Facilitated by: Ted Scharf, PhD, National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety; John “Val” Valosen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Visit www.nwrpca.org or view the attachment for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Powell

Resource Specialist - Farmworker Health

Northwest Regional Primary Care Association

6512 23rd Avenue NW, Suite 305

Seattle, WA 98117

206-783-3004, ext. 16

www.nwrpca.org

 

Register now for the 15th Annual Western Migrant Stream Forum, scheduled January 27-29, 2006 in Portland, OR! Visit www.nwrpca.org for details.