• Walking the Talk: The Power of Promotoras in Mobilizing Community Walking Groups
• How to Talk About Physical Activity
• Developing Physical Activity Programs for the Latino Community: A Case Study of the "Pasos Adelante" Program
• Community Coalition: Implementing Asthma Interventions to Promote Local Policy Change
• Pasos Adelante (Steps Forward): A bilingual curriculum dedicated to the prevention of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases through the promotion of improved nutrition and physical activity
• Assessing Health Needs of Microcredit Borrowers in Nogales, Sonora
• Microcrédito integrado: Un enfoque de participación, promoción de salud, y desarrollo económico
• From Program to Policy: Expanding the Role of Community Coalitions
• Chronic Disease Prevention and Control in Community Settings: Arizona Experiences
• Evidence Based Practice: Maternal and Child Health and Obesity
• Serving the Need of Promotores/CHWs to Address Depression Associated with Diabetes in U.S.-Mexico Border Populations: SONRISA, A Curriculum Toolbox
• Presenting SONRISA: A Curriculum Toolbox for Promotores/CHWs to Address Mental/Emotional Health Associated with Diabetes
• Presentando SONRISA: Un Instrumento de Plan de Estudios para Promotores/Trabajadores de Salud Comunitaria para Abordar Problemas de Salud Mental/Emocional Asociados con la Diabetes
• Diabetes Research along the Arizona/Sonora Border
• Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion: A CDC Prevention Research Center
• Community Organization Strategies
• Participatory Community Mobilization to Design and Implement Policy

CRCPHP posters:

• CRCPHP Overview: A Multicomponent Approach to Diabetes Prevention and Control
• Family Component Intervention Model Diagram
• Why Promotoras Are Effective
• Mature Men's Health
• The Use of Arizona BRFSS Data to Estimate Health Disparities in Hispanics
• Process Evaluation of La Diabetes y La Unión Familiar Pilot Study

Steps Forward/Pasos Adelante Curriculum

The Steps Forward/Pasos Adelante curriculum focuses on healthy food choices and preparation, chronic disease risk, community health, and participant advocacy.  It is an adaptation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) program Your Heart, Your Life/Su corazón, su vida. The adaptation of the curriculum occurred in partnership with community health outreach workers from the Mariposa Community Health Center (MCHC) in Nogales, Arizona and Regional Center for Border Health, Inc./Western Area Health Education Center (RCBH/WAHEC) in Somerton, Arizona and faculty and staff at The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. The Steps Forward/Pasos Adelante program expands the NHLBI’s Your Heart, Your Life/Su corazón, su vida curriculum to include additional information about diabetes, community advocacy, and how to organize walking groups. In addition, the Steps Forward/Pasos Adelante curriculum has been expanded to include information on emotional/mental health.  The program focuses on increasing regular physical activity and healthy food choices. 

Englisgh Version (Coming soon!)

Spanish Version

SONRISA: A Curriculum Toolbox for Promotores/Community Health Workers to Address Mental/Emotional Health Associated with Diabetes

SONRISA was designed for promotores/Community Health Workers (CHWs) to use in their work with clients to prevent or manage diabetes and its mental/emotional health complications. It was developed in response to a need expressed by promotoras working with the Border Health Strategic Initiative (BHSI) program and CRCPHP community partners. Addressing depression and other mental/emotional distress along with diabetes will increase the effectiveness of chronic disease prevention and health promotion interventions. Growing out of a community-based participatory research project, the bilingual curriculum was completed in December 2005.

SONRISA Toolbox (English version)

SONRISA Toolbox (Spanish version)

Digital Stories

Throughout history, story has been used to teach, to express, to advocate, and to organize.  It is through the sharing of stories that we remember our past, understand our present, and imagine our future.  For public health professionals, stories can be an effective tool to create dialogue, to conduct outreach, and to increase awareness of health issues in underserved communities.  Digital Storytelling is an innovative methodology that integrates participants' own voice, existing images, and video clips into brief first person narratives that can engage others into a given subject.

Salud Para Mi (SPM) is a 3-year Health Resources and Services Administration funded program, implemented by Platicamos Salud, Mariposa Community Health Center’s Health Promotion/Disease Prevention department in Nogales, Arizona. SPM is tailored to overweight and obese women to assist them in weight management, physical activity, stress management and tobacco use cessation and prevention. The approach includes a team made up of a promotora de salud , a nutritionist and a physical activity fitness specialist.  SPM decided to utilize Digital Storytelling to highlight participants' experiences and assess the impact of the program.

 "Life is a Battlefield" by Rita Perez Abreu

Vital and Health Statistics Report

Check out the Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics report Number 344 entitled: "Access to Health Care Among Hispanic/Latino Children: United States, 1998-2001" published on June 24, 2004 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad344.pdf