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Capability: Community Engagement and Health Education

Project Timeline: 2011

Sequoia Foundation, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health, held an environmental health symposium for promotores de salud (health promoters) and community health workers.  In many Hispanic communities, promotores play a key role in advancing the wellbeing of the neighborhoods they serve. The forum trained the workers in practical information on environmental and occupational health issues of importance to their families, communities, and workplaces. Staff from the Sequoia Foundation, the Environmental Health Investigations Branch, the Occupational Health Branch, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, and the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion participated in the symposium. Presentations were simultaneously interpreted to Spanish.  Representatives from 25 California counties participated in the forum.

Projects

  1. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  2. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  3. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  4. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  5. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  6. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  7. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  8. Early Childhood Mortality Study
  9. Preterm Markers Study-2006/07
  10. Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth: the Inflammatory Response
  11. Preterm Markers Study-2009/10
  12. Development of a Research-Ready Pregnancy and Newborn Biobank in California
  13. National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center
  14. Newborn Blood Spots, Collaborative Project with UCD Public Health Sciences Department
  15. Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia
  16. Evaluation of the Partnership for Smoke-Free Families Program
  17. Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth Study
  18. Outcome Prediction in Children with Positive California Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
  19. Prenatal and Neonatal Biologic Markers for Autism
  20. Ascertain Environmental Exposure During Pregnancy
  21. Enhancing the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program
  22. CA Title 17 Analysis: Training/Certifying Renovation, Remodeling, and Painting Activities
  23. Children's Health Initiative - Impacts of Childhood Asthma in California
  24. Prenatal Smoke Exposure and Age at Menarche
  25. Selection In Utero: A Test of Competing Explanations
  26. iCARE General Population File
  27. Case-Control Study of Maternal and Infant Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth
  28. California's Chronic Disease Environmental Health Surveillance System
  29. Design of California's Response and Surveillance System for Childhood Lead Exposures (RASSCLE II) System
  30. Data Mapping California's Blood Lead Testing Reports
  31. California Electronic Blood Lead Reporting Security and Data Transmission Upgrades
  32. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Data Analysis

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