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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Promotores offered by Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Skagit Valley

125 North 18th Street, Suite A, Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Eligibility

Focuses on the needs of the migrant farmworker community, both those who migrate annually and those who stay year round.

Languages

Spanish

Application process

Call for information.

Fees

None.

Service area

Skagit, WA
Snohomish, WA

Other Information

Languages

Spanish

Focus Population

Farmers/Farm Workers
Hispanic
Immigrant

Payment Options

Free

Description

Provides linguistically and culturally appropriate health care services and health information to the migrant farmworker community. Farmworkers face many barriers to health care ranging from language barriers, long work hours, lack of transportation, work hazards, and migratory status. The type of services and information varies throughout the year - High migrant season - mobile medical and mobile dental clinics at farms, farmworker camps and housing sites - Off-peak season- culturally-appropriate workshops, presentations and events to farms, housing sites and gathering spaces on critical health topics. Provides indigenous-speaking staff and recruits indigenous-speaking promotores de salud (health promotors) who come from these same communities.

Providing organization

Sea Mar Community Health Centers in North Sound

Provides comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, and maternal health services. Sensitive to the needs of the Latino community.