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VF2021 - Innovative Strategies for Expanding Health Care Access to Farmworkers

Presented by Yissette Rivas, Finger Lakes Community Health; Mary Jo Dudley, Cornell University Deemed by the federal government as “essential” workers, farmworkers were instructed to keep working despite statewide stay-at-home directives in New York State. Due to the nature of their working and living conditions, social distancing among farmworkers was nearly impossible and farmworkers were not provided personal protective equipment (PPE) until infections were at an alarmingly high rate. Once infected, farmworkers were directed to contact County Health Departments that were often unfamiliar with this population and lacked the necessary language or cultural competency skills to provide services to farmworkers. This workshop will address how Finger Lakes Community Health created a COVID response team, continued farm outreach and testing and new practices to address farmworker’s critical health needs. In partnership with the Cornell Farmworker Program (CFP) our team provided several Spanish language calls/webinars with medical providers, coordinated mask and food distribution, and conducted virtual outreach to 3,000 farmworkers for whom the CFP had personal cell phone numbers.