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

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.