Partners:
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) | La Clínica de la Raza | ZeroDivide

Abriendo las Cajas (Opening Boxes) seeks to reduce incidences of domestic (familial) violence amongst the Latin American immigrant population in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, and to provide a safe and empowering space for youth, men, and women of this community to share their experiences with their families, community, and general public. Read More

Partners:
La Raza Centro Legal | Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley | Underground Advertising

The Domestic Worker Safety & Dignity Project will address the work life of immigrant Latina domestic workers, with the vision of transforming the conditions within and the perception of this industry from undervalued women’s work to a respectable component of the economy. Read More

Partners:
Confederation of Somali Community | ECHO Minnesota (Emergency, Community and Health Outreach) | KFAI Community Radio | Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN)

Egal Shidad hosts community meeting about mental health: Partners of the Egal Shidad project are hard at work on the the first of three Somali health programs. Read More

Partners:
Clarkston Community Center | Emory University | Sagal Radio

East African refugees – now New Americans – and their Atlanta neighbors will collaborate to create on-air, on-line, and on-stage productions promoting health and cultural competency in their community. Read More

Partners:
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition | Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning | Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Health Policy | University of Pennsylvania Department of Family Medicine & Community Health | WHYY

Media Partnerships for Community Engagement in Southeast Asian Immigrant Health project aims to engage immigrant Laotian and Vietnamese seniors in the process of health needs identification, first-person storytelling, video production, and community discussion about health. Read More

Partners:
Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART) | Chinatown Service Center | LA 18 KSCI TV

Navigating Health Care in the U. S. for Chinese American Seniors will enhance the ability of Chinese American seniors to overcome cultural, language, and navigational barriers in order to communicate effectively with their adult children caretakers and health care providers; and improve their ability to navigate the U.S. Read More

Partners:
National Program Office

The purpose of New Routes to Community Health is to improve the health of new US immigrants and refugees using locally-focused media. This national program supports 8 local partnerships made up of immigrant organizations, media production centers, and established community institutions. Read More

Partners:
Latinos Progresando | National Museum of Mexican Art | Radioarte WRTE

Salud: Healing through the Arts, will collaborate on programming that engages a predominantly Latino immigrant youth population. Partners will create a series of theater productions and radio programming that has a message of making better health decisions for the community. Read More

Partners:
Haitian American Public Health Initiative | Haitian Media Network | Institute for Community Inclusion

The Twa Zanmi Project will nurture a new Haitian immigrant community production team to produce and market a “Telenovela” program. The objective is to familiarize the Haitian community with the real experiences of immigrants living with depression and anxiety as an understandable result of acculturative stress. Read More