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Ann O’Fallon, RN, MA Sara Chute, MPP Refugee Health Program, MN Department of Health

Low cost/No cost Health Ed. Ann O’Fallon, RN, MA Sara Chute, MPP Refugee Health Program, MN Department of Health RHIN Conference November 17, 2008. Refugee Health Program- Minnesota Department of Health. Overview. Community Forums Professional Forums Radio/TV ECHO Experimenting

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Ann O’Fallon, RN, MA Sara Chute, MPP Refugee Health Program, MN Department of Health

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  1. Low cost/No cost Health Ed Ann O’Fallon, RN, MA Sara Chute, MPP Refugee Health Program, MN Department of Health RHIN Conference November 17, 2008 Refugee Health Program- Minnesota Department of Health

  2. Overview • Community Forums • Professional Forums • Radio/TV • ECHO • Experimenting • Next Steps

  3. Who is coming to MN?

  4. Refugee Arrivals to MN by Region of World 1979-2008* Refugee Health Program, Minnesota Department of Health

  5. Community Forums We initiate contact or They initiate contact

  6. Health forum for Karen

  7. Hmong Resource Fair

  8. African World AIDS Day

  9. Poisonous Mushrooms Forum

  10. Somali Forum on Autism • Public/private partnership • Goal to educate Somali community about autism • Study group currently in progress

  11. Professional Forums We initiate or We collaborate/ask to join

  12. Metro Refugee Health Task Force CHWs Asylees Health materials Karen refugees Cultural Competence Refugee Health Screening African Born and HIV-AIDS And many more…

  13. Global Brown Bag Forums

  14. Pan Flu Workshops Mankato Minneapolis Moorhead St Paul Rochester St Cloud

  15. Committee Member

  16. World Refugee Day 2007

  17. Health Articles in Ethnic Press TB Hepatitis B IZ Cancer HIV/AIDS Preventive Care

  18. Key to success: meet editor in person! Several paragraphs in length Simple language In English (all press are bi-lingual) Topic of relevance to community Charts and graphs okay Development of Ethnic Media Directory Asian American Press Hmong Today Hmong Times Mshale Mestawet African News Journal Tesfa Asian Pages Insight News Warsan Times Get Buy-In From Editor

  19. Community Radio • Monthly shows • Voice of Ethiopia • Somali Voices • Hmong Health Talk • KMOJ: African Roots • Native speaker if possible • Host paraphrase • Call in options • Docs take over

  20. Radio Shows Mental Health Cancer Poisonous Mushrooms

  21. Experiment: ESL Classrooms • Classrooms of highest level ELL adult students • English speakers with topical expertise • Monthly classes • Evaluation and feedback from student/teachers • Cross cultural learning opportunities

  22. ESL Classes TB

  23. HIV Nutrition Mental Health Health Access

  24. ECHO/MIHV

  25. Hep B TB ECHO TV and DVDs

  26. Minnesota International Health Volunteers Somali Health DVDs

  27. MN Refugee Health Program Phone: 651-201-5414 or 1-877-676-5414 Website: www.health.state.mn.us/refugee

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