Health Work Group

Lower San Antonio Collaborative
June 9, 2004
3:30-5:00pm
La Clinica de La Raza

Next Meeting:

Wednesday July 14 – 3:30-5:00pm

Decisions/Agreements:

• We agreed that it makes sense for the health work group should serve as the advisory group for the non-Spanish speaking arm of the Promotoras project. Kristen is going to work on developing a structure for the advisory group, including the objectives, responsibilities of the group and we will come back together to discuss.

Next steps:

• Mara will make calls to work group members who have not recently been present.
• Mara will investigate Asian Health Services’ history in the LSAC
• Send ideas to Kristen about who might be appropriate to serve on the Promotoras advisory group.
• Mara will send Kristen the FES survey instrument

Attendees: Samantha Blackburn, Anna Dorman, Tamar Fendel, Kristen Graser, Mara Guccione, Francell Haskins

Announcements

Joy Ramos is taking over this contract from Tamar and will be the primary administrative contact at La Clinica. She is currently at a Casey-sponsored Holistic Community Health Conference.

Promotoras Update

Kristen reported that they are in heavy recruitment for Promotoras now because they want to catch parents at the tail end of the school year and so that they can start the Spanish pilot program in the summer. There is a flyer that will come out soon (it will be posted on the list serve) for the information/orientation night that they are planning to hold during the first week of July at East Side Arts Alliance. The flyer is mainly to provide additional information for people who are already interested or being recruited.

Kristen also brought up the idea of having the health work group serve as an advisory group for the programs that will start in languages other than Spanish. They would probably also want to invite other people in to the group and spend some, not all, of the work group time devoted to this. Francell, Samantha and Mara supported the idea with the acknowledgement that it is best not to duplicate meetings and ask people to attend too many meetings; also, it may give people a reason to attend. The other invitees may include David or someone from EBAYC, Jenny or someone from Lao Family, Sean Kirkpatrick from APPS, and others. Send ideas to Kristen. Kristen is going to work on developing a structure for the advisory group, including the objectives, responsibilities of the group. Francell asked if the existing advisory group for the Fruitvale project could be used as a model for this one.

In terms of the non-Spanish speaking program, the tasks Kristen is considering include a selection of the target group, figuring out the best way to reach them, curriculum development, looking into other health promoter programs with the target population, and thinking through the cultural issues.

Important considerations:

• Where is Asian Health Services? They could be a great resource. Mara will investigate their participation in the LSAC.
• If we bring in residents to sit on the advisory group, we may need to change the time we meet.
• Consider hiring parent organizers from EBAYC to train/assist us.
• What about San Antonio Health Center ? Could they also sit on the advisory group?
• Who are our contacts for outreach?