The Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit: An Innovative Model for Developing an Evidence-Informed Program for a Low-Literacy, Latino Immigrant Audience

Authors

Catherine E. LePrevost, North Carolina State UniversityFollow
Julia F. Storm, North Carolina State UniversityFollow
Cesar R. Asuaje, University of FloridaFollow
W Gregory Cope, North Carolina State UniversityFollow

Volume

52

Issue

3

DOI

10.34068/joe.52.03.12

Abstract

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are typically Spanish-speaking, Latino immigrants with limited formal education and low literacy skills and, as such, are a vulnerable population. We describe the development of the Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit, a pesticide safety and health curriculum designed to communicate to farmworkers pesticide hazards found in their working environments. Using evidence-informed principles, the Toolkit curriculum for low-literacy, Latino farmworkers and its developmental process described herein serve as an innovative and useful model for Extension programming with non-traditional audiences.

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Recommended Citation

LePrevost, C. E., Storm, J. F., Asuaje, C. R., & Cope, W. (2014). The Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit: An Innovative Model for Developing an Evidence-Informed Program for a Low-Literacy, Latino Immigrant Audience. The Journal of Extension, 52(3), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.52.03.12