Press-Releases
2013 National Migrant Seasonal Head Start Association Internship
2014 National Migrant Seasonal Head Start interns farewell
2015 National Migrant Seasonal Head Start Internship
NFJP Half million dollar Success Story
PoisonPrevention Awareness Week 2015
Congressional leaders address children and tobacco
Philip Morris and Child Labor 2014 Children in the Fields’ Art and Essay Contest
Media Mentions
National Poison Awareness Week 2015 – El Semanario, New Mexico
National Farmworker Awareness Week 2015 – KEYC, Iowa and Minnesota
Internship for Migrant Seasonal Farmworker College Students – Porterville Recorder
Pesticides are Causing Farmers to become Suicidally Depressed – Munchies
Pesticides and depression – Epoch Times
Art and Essay 2014 – Laredo Morning News (Spanish)
Pesticides linked to suicide and depression – Environmental Health News
Art and Essay contest winners – Los Angeles Review of Books
Migrant farmworker children express – Al Dia News
EPA mulls changes to pesticide rule – Central Florida Agri-Leader (Tampa Tribune)
Kids take on Dangerous Work – Fusion Miami (ABC/Univision)
Working Through a Crisis – KHAS TV
Exploiting children – Aljazeera America
Children at work – Aljazeera America
It ain’t just tobacco – The Considerate Omnivore
Bolivia’s child labor laws and US – HuffPost Live
Art and Essay contest announced – Treviño TodaMedia, Grito Blast
From Fresno farm labor camps to possible “Madam Secretary” – Fresno Bee
Photos
2014 National Conference photos. http://bit.ly/1rd3mtA
AFOP Report for 2006-2010
The Washington Newsline
For your convenience, the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) posts a sampling of previous editions of the Washington Newsline a minimum of 60 days after its original publication. To request archived materials, please send a request to parks[at]afop.org. You may also purchase a subscription to receive the most up-to-date information on what is happening in the farmworker community, please see details below.
The Fields
Volume 2, The Hidden Faces of Farmworker Women, 2013.
Volume 1, Dangerous Exposure: Farmworker Children and Pesticides, 2011.
¡Salud!
This is a free publication produced by AFOP’s Health and Safety Programs. To request a copy, please email Rob Crumley at Crumley[at]afop.org.
References
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Purchase AFOP Publications
AFOP has the following publications available for purchase.
- A Taste of English
A low literacy English as a Second Language text that teaches basic nutrition.
$25 per Teacher’s Manual / $12 per Student Workbook
- ESL for Farm Safety
A low literacy English as a Second Language text that teaches farmworkers how to be safe with pesticides and prevent agricultural injuries.
$25 per Teacher’s Manual
- Washington Newsline (six issues per year)
AFOP’s national newsletter has the latest news affecting the National Farmworker Jobs Program and farmworker service providers. A subscription year is based on the program year, July 1 – June 30. Request subscriptions from nguyen[at]afop.org. $250 for six issues for member organizations; $295 for six issues for non-member organizations
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