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2004 Highlights 2004 has been the year of youth! The RWHP has enjoyed the challenges and rewards of working with farmworker youth in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California! Project Claridad has been the heart of RWHP work this year. Claridad is a new HIV prevention project for farmworker youth, thanks to three-year funding from the Pfizer Foundation (HIV Southern HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative). We have been working with our collaborating partner’s; Putnam County School Board’s Migrant Education Program in Crescent City and the Farmworker Coordinating Council in Belle Glade/Pahokee in Southern Florida. In these two sites, we have given birth to two farmworker youth, peer education programs focusing on HIV prevention. Secondary to the development of these peer educator programs is the development of popular education materials, with the youth, that will then be available nationally. Working with long-time partner, the Farmworker Justice, the RWHP facilitated a busy, weeklong workshop with farmworker youth promotores from Texas, Arizona and California in South Padre Island, TX. This fast-paced workshop netted the writing, filming and layout of three original bilingual HIV educational materials. The materials focused on HIV transmission, STDs and male sex with male transmission. These materials, funded by the Center for Disease Control, were all shot on location in Brownsville, Texas and will be distributed through FJF programs and available from the RWHP! Opening Doors, a series of three regional workshops for clinicians and service providers in North Central Florida, focused on farmworker culture. Funded by North Central Florida March of Dimes, these interactive workshops were carried out in Levy, Putnam and Lake Counties. Even with a season of hurricanes all workshops had full attendance. Two of the three-planned sister workshops with farmworker women were canceled due to hurricanes. Excellent materials were developed as a result and quickly made available for health education with women of reproductive age in Central Florida. Thanks to the partnership with The Suwannee River Area –AHEC, Continuing Education credits were available for all. New on-line order form for education materials has helped to get community-based education materials out into many communities! National distribution of our HIV materials is now over 60,000.
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