NC Farmworkers Project

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The NC Farmworkers’ Project serves as the resource center, home base, and connection to care for more than 2,000 farmworkers in five counties around Benson, North Carolina

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April 2, 2020 by Anna Jensen

Our Work in the Time of COVID-19

Have you been feeling strange and disconnected and lonely these last few weeks? We have, too. I’ve also been thinking about how many farmworkers often feel that way in a normal year. Many times, they only leave their houses to go to work, or to go to the store once a week. They’re separated from […]

Filed Under: Outreach Tagged With: COVID-19, outreach

April 22, 2019 by Anna Jensen

The 2019 Season Begins!

This is a guest post by Mackenzie Mann, a former outreach worker with the NC Farmworkers’ Project who also founded our ACA program and directed the program for two years. In 2017, she left to pursue her MSW. I always reflect fondly upon my time at the NC Farmworkers Project. When I first started working […]

Filed Under: Outreach

November 1, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Beauty in the mayhem: night clinics for farmworkers

Blog post by Linda Chamiec-Case, Seasonal Outreach Worker Preparation Every Thursday during the growing season (June-October) the NC Farmworkers’ Project gears up for our weekly farmworker clinic at Benson Area Medical Center (BAMC). Outreach workers at the Project partner with the health center to provide high-quality, accessible medical services to farmworkers in the area. Throughout […]

Filed Under: Healthcare, Outreach Tagged With: clinic, healthcare, outreach

August 10, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Slow Going / “Despacito”

A guest post by summer intern Liz Sielatycki   Ask Certified Application Counselors (CACs) Neissly Tapia and Ana Beltran what song comes to mind when they are enrolling H-2A migrant farmworkers in health care plans under the Affordable Care Act, and they may break out in song to “Despacito.” Aside from typical job duties like […]

Filed Under: Outreach Tagged With: ACA, insurance, popular education

August 9, 2017 by Anna Jensen

“Liderazgo”

Guest post by summer intern Liz Sielatycki Driving around the Eastern NC countryside with the Farmworkers’ Project Community Educator Leonardo Galván is like traveling with everyone’s favorite cousin. Each farmworker camp we show up to is uniquely familiar to Galván, and he can navigate directions to each while speaking miles per minute and never missing […]

Filed Under: Outreach Tagged With: health education, leadership, promotores

June 1, 2017 by Anna Jensen

Delivering Mobile Healthcare

Every Tuesday night, beginning in April and running through October, staff at the NC Farmworkers’ Project load up a mobile medical van with supplies, meet  up with physicians and students from UNC Department of Family Medicine, and head out to a farmworker camp to provide medical appointments to farmworkers in their homes. Each night of […]

Filed Under: Outreach Tagged With: healthcare, outreach

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