Health
Free Drive-Thru Flu Shots
Free Drive-Thru Flu Shot Clinic organized for our underserved community organized by the Promotores Program this Fall. This service is for people 18+ years old, low income, and uninsured community that do not have access to the service. Anyone that meets the qualification is welcome to schedule an appointment.
When: Saturday, November 7th & 14th of 2020
Safety Practice: Face masks are required. Patients will be evaluated for COVID-19 symptoms before and on day of the appointment. Please stay home if you are sick.
APPOINTMENT IS REQUIRED.
To make an appointment call the designated number next to preferred appointment time & place.
| Date | Location | Call for Appointment |
|---|---|---|
| 11/07/2020 | St. Anthony Catholic Church 9905 SW McKenzie St, Tigard, OR 97223 | 9am-12pm Ana H. 971-703-9337 12pm-2pm Irma B. 503-849-1603 |
| 11/14/2020 | St. Peter Catholic Church 5905 SE 87th Ave, Portland OR 97266 | 9am-12pm Norma 503-254-4415 12pm-2pm Micaela 971-235-9060 |
| 11/14/2020 | St. James Catholic Church 1145 SE 1st, McMinnville, OR 97128 | 9am-12pm Elizabeth 503-864-5835 12pm-2pm Delfina 503-780-6426 |
A big thank you to Providence Express Care and collaborative parishes for making this event possible.
For any general question about the service, feel free to follow up with Delfina Hernandez.
Delfina.hernandez@providence.org or call 503-216-7192.
Featured Post
Outreach: Cover All Kids + OHP Coverage
Familias en Acción is a proud partner in the Cover All Kids hub coordinated by the Oregon Latino Health Coalition. This regional hub is committed to conduct outreach, enrollment, and system navigation within Multnomah and Clackamas counties for Latino individuals and families. We want to create awareness and access to health coverage!
The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) is open to all children and teens younger than 19, regardless of immigration status. OHP is free health coverage for people who live in Oregon and who meet income and other criteria. It covers the health care services children and teens need to thrive such as check-ups, vaccinations, mental health care, glasses, tooth fillings and prescriptions. It also covers labs, x-rays and hospital care. It even pays for rides to and from medical appointments. Apply today to see if your children, teens and/or family qualifies. Help is free.
If you have families that need access to health coverage, or would like to host an outreach event, please contact us at 503-939-2679 or jocelin@familiasenaccion.org.
Abuela, Mamá, y Yo
Featured Recipe: Adriana Govea’s Vaquera Salad, Winter 2020
We want to share a little of Adriana Govea’s story with you. She’s from Mexico City and moved to the United States in 1994. She began participating at Familias en Acción in 2018, where most of her effort has been devoted to our Abuela, Mamaá, y Yo (AMY) program. Adriana has also taken part in Familias’ leadership training programs, including AMY training, and she has become an active advocate for improving the health of her family and community. When asked about AMY, she said, “I love it. I grew up with my Grandma, and this program reminds me of her and her traditional dishes. For me, she is still alive and present; she made me what I am today. AMY takes you back and makes you think about your roots and where you came from. It’s easy to move somewhere and adapt to the culture, forgetting who you are. So AMY makes you reflect on who you are and think, ‘Why am I here, what am I doing? I came for a dream, to keep my family moving forward…”
She believes AMY “promotes leadership and provides a model that doesn’t try to change people…It helps you recognize that you have a voice and makes you see a reflection of yourself.”
Adriana sees her community as strong and connected. “We treat everyone equally, we are united, and we strive even while living in a place with so much hate and with people reminding us that we’re not from here…yet we can still remain positive.” However, Adriana wants to see more “equity and more opportunities for everyone, especially more programs like AMY. AMY is a welcoming program where “You want to be here because of who you are, not who you represent.”
Here is one of Adriana’s favorite recipes that she would like to share with our communities:
Recipe: Vaquera salad
Ingredients:
- 1 cup each of four types of beans:
- black, pinto, kidney, peruvian
- Bell peppers:
- 1 green, 1 yellow, 1 red
- 2 tomatoes
- Cilantro
- 2 cloves of Garlic
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable or olive oil
- Juice of ½ large lime or 1 medium lime
- Pinch of salt and pepper
- ½ Sweet onion
- Optional: chopped spicy peppers
- Optional: avocado
Instructions:
Cook each type of beans until well-cooked. Chop the peppers, onion and tomatoes in cubes. Put the vegetables in a large bowl and add all the cooked beans. Peel and chop the garlic. In a small bowl, combine it with the oil, salt, pepper and lime juice to make the dressing. Add the dressing to a large bowl and mix well. Garnish with cilantro or avocados. Enjoy!
Education
END HUNGER IN OREGON SCHOOLS
Now is the time to end hunger in Oregon’s Schools!
Healthy school meals are just as important to learning as textbooks or pencils. Children who participate in school meals are shown to: attend more days of school, show improved test scores, be more likely to graduate, and earn more as adults.
Every student, classroom, teacher, and community is better off when kids start the school day well-nourished and ready to learn. Oregon has the opportunity to become the first state in the nation to offer healthy, tasty school meals to all children at no charge – helping every student learn, grow, and succeed in life!
Why Universal School Meals?
- Reduces stigma. Universal meals level the playing field for all students. It’s just classmates breaking bread together.
- Equity. In this time of fear and uncertainty around immigration, reports are widespread of immigrant families being reluctant to apply for benefits for which they’re legally eligible – including school meals. No child should go without a meal due to fear.
- Centers the needs of kids and working parents. In listening circles with parents and students, the idea of universal meals emerged as a key issue.
- Eliminates the “Benefit Cliff.” Due to the high cost of housing, 37% of kids in Oregon who experience food insecurity are in households that earn too much to qualify.
That’s why Familias en Acción supports Universal Access to School Meals (HB 2760) and Breakfast After the Bell (HB 2765).
Tell your legislators to take action today!
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Abuela, Mamá, y Yo
Abuela, Mamá y Yo
For information about registering to our AMY classes, visit here.
What is Abuela, Mamá y Yo (AMY)?
Abuela, Mamá, y Yo is a state-wide Latina/x program that provides information on:
- Healthy eating that helps create strong and healthy children
- The impact of the food we eat on our bodies
- Advocacy for better nutrition
- The impact that climate change has on mental health
- How healthy foods reduce the risk of diabetes and chronic diseases
Classes are for members of the Latina/x community who care for children ages 0-5, pregnant women, and anyone interested in gaining knowledge about nutrition and food equity.
Why is this so important?
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) research tells us that a baby’s health is impacted by three generations of their family. This genetic chain is also modified by environmental issues and social determinants of health (SDH), such as poverty, driving the increase of chronic diseases among our populations. Currently Latinos are experiencing an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the US today,, about 25% of US Latino children ages six to 11 years of age are obese, and over 33% of Latino children live in poverty.
Our project responds to an urgent need to build Latino advocacy and knowledge between social inequalities and healthy families. Current public health education programs often focus on individual responsibility for having a healthy family. However, it is equally important to develop equitable public policies to improve the social, physical, and economic environments so that Latino families can build healthy lives.
Listen to what class participant Luz Gaytan has to say about our AMY classes:
Food Equity for healthy Latino families differs from traditional nutritional programs because it addresses the root causes of health inequities. The curriculum enhances knowledge of the role of the community environment in the availability of appropriate nutrition and level of social stress experienced prior to and during pregnancy. Participants build their knowledge about the health impacts of poverty, racial discrimination, social disadvantages, and overall toxic stress on themselves and their children. Self advocacy skills in food justice will build self-sufficiency for participants.
PARTNERSHIP: In 2018, Familias en Acción started this project in collaboration with the OHSU Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness. Through Focus groups we gathered data and information about eating habits, food access and health education. With this information and research on epigenetics, nutrition and the developmental origins of Health and Disease we created our curriculum that is currently used today.
AMY NEWSLETTER: In our Abuela, Mamá y Yo Newsletter, we will share news about AMY trainings, public policies relevant to food and health equity, advocacy days, healthy recipes and more! Sign up now.
EVALUATION & FEEDBACK: Hear what our community has to say about our AMY program.
Education
Latinos Vote 2016 Campaign
We support the Latinos Vote 2016 campaign.
As a member of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) we are working to make sure that the 12 million eligible Latinos have the information and tools they need to register and vote on Election Day. NCLR partnered with MiTú to create a voter registration website, www.latinosvote2016.org, to make registering easy and convenient, especially for young voters.
The new app, Latinos Vote, allows users to seamlessly register to vote right from their smartphone. This targets a pivotal demographic as one million Latinos turn 18 every year.
In 2012, 11.2 million Latinos voted and made headlines. Today, there are more than 10 million Latinos eligible to register to vote. Many Latinos will be the first in their families to become a voter, and many of them say they do not know where to register. Working together we can make sure that they have the information and tools they need to register, and to vote on Election Day.
Education
Answer2Cancer Conference
Answer2Cancer is happening April 23, 2016 in Portland, Oregon
Those undergoing cancer treatment (and their caregivers) know there is so much to know. While Portland, and all of Oregon, are the hotbeds for cutting-edge cancer research, Answer2Cancer has been created to help patients and their caregivers/ helpers overcome the challenges of treatments and learn helpful, healthful survivor strategies. We’re creating community for patients with all types of cancer. We don’t discriminate, because cancer doesn’t.
Answer2Cancer is by and for patients who, while going through cancer treatments, realized they didn’t know what they didn’t know. So why not pass along the hard-earned wisdom? We’re planning an all-day event on April 23, 2016 to address the myriad questions that we patients have about all things cancer: treatment protocols, survivorship planning, finances, health plan coordination, intimacy, exercise, nutrition, etc.
