Name
Building Foundational Bridges to Enhance Behavioral Health Screening and Connections to Care for Agricultural Workers and their Families in North Carolina
Description
This session will provide an overview of the North Carolina Farmworker Health Program and their current initiatives to empower and enhance behavioral health screening for farmworkers and their families across North Carolina. The presentation will include a panel of community health workers to provide reflections on the barriers of overcoming stigma, access, cultural and language barriers to achieve best health and well-being within the agricultural community. The session will also highlight strategies on expanding substance use screening and access to services for farmworkers in North Carolina.
Speakers
Modjulie Moore MD, Family Medicine Physician, UNC Department of Family Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Rosa Miranda, Behavioral Health Program Specialist, NC DHHS Office of Rural Health Farmworker Health Program,
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
SBIRT Model of Integrated Care, Substance abuse management, Underserved populations such as LGBTQ+
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH)
Objective 1
Understand unique barriers farmworkers and their families face in accessing and addressing behavioral health needs to improve overall health and well-being
Objective 2
Describe foundational steps to create enhanced screening models for patients in the farmworker populations and in rural communities as well
Objective 3
Reflect on voices of community health workers that highlight the challenges of screening for and responding to the behavioral health needs of farmworkers and their families.
Content Reference 1
Ingram, M., Murrietta, L., de Zapien, J. G., Herman, P. M., & Carvajal, S. C. (2015). Community health workers as focus group facilitators: A participatory action research method to improve behavioral health services for farmworkers in a primary care setting. Action Research, 13(1), 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750314565913 (Original work published 2015)
Content Reference 2
Harwell, E. L., LePrevost, C. E., Cofie, L. E., & Lee, J. G. L. (2022). Community Health Workers’ Role in Addressing Farmworker Health Disparities. Journal of Agromedicine, 27(4), 391–401. https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2022.2040069
Content Reference 3
Weybright, E., Doering, E. L., Hampilos, K., Roll, J. M., Barbosa-Leiker, C., & McDonell, M. G. (2024). Cooperative extension as a key partner to behavioral health in rural communities. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 48(2), 109–119.
Content Reference 4
Roxanne Keynejad, Jessica Spagnolo, Graham Thornicroft - WHO mental health gap action programme (mhGAP) intervention guide: updated systematic review on evidence and impact: Evidence Based Mental Health 2021;24