Local vaccination teams are hard at work in counties across North Carolina to make sure farmworkers have access to COVID-19 vaccinations. Read more about the Vaccination Plan for Farmworkers. Below is a compilation of news pieces highlighting just some of these efforts. About 100 seasonal and migrant workers received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at […]

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP) has operated its early childhood education centers for farmworker families in Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia. NCFHP has long partnered with East Coast Migrant Head Start Project in serving farmworker families. Now, there is also a formal strategic partnership with NCDHHS […]

NCFHP was one of four programs nationwide highlighted by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) for innovative approaches to outreach, case management, health education and other enabling services. Click here to read the full article as well as the case study on NCFHP. The case studies have been shared nationally with administrators from […]

“There’s a lot that goes into providing healthcare for any specialized population, but certainly one that’s so marked by recent trauma,” Vecinos executive director Marianne Martinez said. “Barriers to care, like transportation, like language, like costs, like timing — this is why Vecinos exists.”  Vecinos was featured in Blue Ridge Public Radio’s two-part story on […]

This year, in Puerto Rico, staff from NCFHP and three NCFHP-funded sites (Vecinos, Black River and NC Farmworkers Project) presented at the East Coast Migrant Stream Forum: Vecinos presented on the process they went through to establish integrated behavioral health services for farmworkers in their region, including a needs assessment, the development of a Mental […]

On Sept. 19, 2019, NCFHP celebrated over 25 years of partnerships at an event in Chapel Hill, highlighting outreach and enabling services as essential components of care for farmworkers. The over 100 attendees included outreach workers, providers, clinic administrators, current and past board and staff members and representatives from partner agencies such as non-profits, state […]

NCFHP congratulates Janeth Tapia, farmworker health outreach coordinator at NC Farmworkers Project in Benson, NC for being selected by Hispanics in Philanthropy as a 2018 recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Equity Award! RWJF’s post reads: “Providing access to affordable, quality health care for a population that is often politically marginalized and isolated is a […]