Hispanic and Latino Communities
Collaborting with partners to serve the Hispanic and Latino communities in Colorado.
About
We are collaborating with organizations serving the Hispanic and Latino communities in Colorado. These partnerships include Adelante Community Development (CDM), an organization dedicated to promoting economic and educational opportunities to the Latinx community in Colorado, Centro Humanitario, Denver's only day laborer center promoting work, dignity, and community, and the Latino Research and Policy Center (LRPC).
Through our collaborations, we are developing and delivering trainings for this community to improve worker health, safety, and well-being and to empower leadership in practice.
Katherine James, PhD, MSPH, MSCE, is working alongside many community partners in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. In this predominantly Hispanic and Latino community, James and her team are exploring issues related to the impacts of environmental and climate exposure and human health. Each study explores a different sector of this community including pregnant women and children, agricultural workers, and community members using well water.
Our projects:
- Latinx-Owned Business Health and Safety Needs Assessment to better understand barriers and facilitators to Latinx worker engagement in promoting workplace health and safety.
- Community forums to increase workplace health and safety awareness, knowledge, and skills
- Total Worker Health® trainings for Spanish-speaking business owners, managers and employees
- Metals and Metal Mixtures: Cognitive Aging, Remediation, and Exposure Sources (MEMCARE)
- Mental Health in Farming Populations
- Well water testing project
Partners
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Support for this work comes from funding from Pinnacol Assurance and a cooperative agreement (2 U19OH011227-06-00) with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as part of one of 10 national Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health and a cooperative agreement (T42OH009229) with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as part of one of 18 national Education and Research Centers.
Total Worker Health® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Participation by the Center for Health, Work & Environment does not imply endorsement by HHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.