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El Fondo de Nuestra Comunidad

El Fondo de Nuestra Comunidad, an affiliate of The Saint Paul & Minnesota Community Foundations, is currently seeking proposals for projects, initiatives or programs providing immigration-related legal services, outreach around legal services or programs that help people on the pathway to citizenship, civic engagement, increasing access to culturally sensitive mental health services and organizing to ensure a robust response to the 2020 census. …

Working Together is Success – Ag Centers serving the Midwest Region

The three US Ag Centers serving the Midwest Region have come together to reach farmers with specific safety and health information to improve the lives of farmers, farm families and farm workers. While each center has a unique focus - we all share information and resources across state lines for the betterment of agriculture in our region. …

Faces of UMASH: Meet Chela Vázquez

Hello! My name is Chela Vázquez. Hello! My name is Chela Vázquez. In 2018 I began working for UMASH as project coordinator and trainer for the Promoting Safety and Health for Immigrant Dairy Workers program. My previous experience working with immigrants in California, Southeast Asia, and Minnesota has taught me that agricultural workers face similar …

SPOTLIGHT: New and Improved Farm Safety Check

We’ve performed a quality review on all of our checklists to update links and resources, and created a new two-page fillable pdf with additional space for custom lists and recommended resources. …

SPOTLIGHT: Farming in Tough Times

UMASH collaborator Emily Wilmes talks about stress in farm country though collaborations and workshops like Farming in Tough Times. …

SPOTLIGHT: Cultivating Resiliency for Women in Agriculture

A new interactive online series is setting out to help women in agriculture cultivate resiliency by focusing on what they can control in these challenging times and connect them with resources and information that can help them weather stress. …

Resilience in the Face of Change Workshop

Dennis Hoiberg, an Austrailian change consultant, led a workshop to help farmers and those who work closely with farmers, rural communities and business leaders develop resilience to cope with change - at the personal, family, business and community level. …

Stressing Resilience at MRASH

The 2018 Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health ( MRASH) was held November 27 - 29 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Megan Schossow and Carol Peterson represented UMASH with an exhibit and three posters showcasing recent projects from the center. …