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 […]

This summer, for National Farmworker Health Day (part of National Health Center Week) the farmworker outreach team at Rural Health Group tried something new. With one of their behavioral health therapists and their HIV team they visited one of their local farmworker camps to offer depression and HIV screenings to workers. 16 farmworkers (of the […]

NCFHP contract site Vecinos in Western North Carolina is highlighted in a recent issue of The Mountain Express including stories from staff and the farmworkers they work with. “Despite their importance to the region’s economy, these workers often labor in conditions that make obtaining health services difficult or impossible. Some dedicated advocacy organizations and health […]