Ann O’Fallon, RN, MAAnn O’Fallon, RN, MASara Chute, MPPSara Chute, MPPRefugee Health Program, MN Department of HealthRefugee Health Program, MN Department of Health

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Refugee Health Program- Minnesota Department of Health

Overview

• Community Forums

• Professional Forums

• Radio/TV•ECHO

• Experimenting

•Next Steps

Who is coming to MN?

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Refugee Health Program, Minnesota Department of Health

Community Forums

We initiate contact

or

They initiate contact

Health forum for Karen

Hmong Resource Fair

African World AIDS Day

Poisonous Mushrooms Forum

Somali Forum on Autism

• Public/private partnership

• Goal to educate Somali community about autism

• Study group currently in progress

Professional Forums

We initiate

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We collaborate/ask to join

Metro Refugee Health Task Force

CHWs

Asylees

Health materials

Karen refugees

Cultural Competence

Refugee Health Screening

African Born and HIV-AIDS

And many more…

Global Brown Bag Forums

Pan Flu Workshops

Mankato Minneapolis

Moorhead St Paul

Rochester St Cloud

Committee Member

World Refugee Day 2007

Health Articles in Ethnic Press

TB Hepatitis B IZ

Cancer HIV/AIDS Preventive Care

Get Buy-In From Editor• Key to success: meet editor

in person!

• Several paragraphs in length• Simple language• In English (all press are bi-

lingual)• Topic of relevance to

community• Charts and graphs okay

• Development of Ethnic Media Directory

• Asian American Press• Hmong Today• Hmong Times• Mshale• Mestawet• African News Journal• Tesfa• Asian Pages• Insight News • Warsan Times

Community Radio

• Monthly shows– Voice of Ethiopia– Somali Voices– Hmong Health Talk

• KMOJ: African Roots• Native speaker if

possible• Host paraphrase• Call in options

• Docs take over

Radio Shows

Mental HealthCancerPoisonous Mushrooms

Experiment: ESL Classrooms

• Classrooms of highest level ELL adult students

• English speakers with topical expertise

• Monthly classes

• Evaluation and feedback from student/teachers

• Cross cultural learning opportunities

ESL Classes

TB

HIV

Nutrition

Mental Health

Health Access

ECHO/MIHV

ECHO TV and DVDsTBHep B

Somali Health DVDs

Minnesota International Health Volunteers

MN Refugee Health Program

Phone:Phone:

651-201-5414

or

1-877-676-5414 Website: www.health.state.mn.us/refugee