Re: Re:Substandart housing

[Guest guest]

o,

Here are some possible contacts for the pictures you need:

Bob Sandoval at the Washington Department of Community Development,

Farmworker Housing. His number is 360-725-2913.

Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing in Yakima at 509-248-7014.

Thane is the Director.

Gardipee is the Director of the Agriculture Employee Program at the

Washington Department of Health. She has been working on the Governor's

farmworker housing initiative.

Hope one of these folks can give you what you need.

Alice

Alice C. Larson, Ph.D.

las@...

206-463-9000 (voice)

206-463-9400 (fax)

P.O. Box 801

Vashon Island, WA 98070

----- Original Message -----

From: " o Astorga " <manchego99@...>

< >

Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:03 PM

Subject: [ ] Re:Substandart housing

> Hello every body!

>

> I need to get some photographs of the cherry camps in

> Eastern Washington. These pictures will be utilized to

> proved the deplorable conditions of the camps in this

> part of the country. Do you have any ideas about

> where can I get some prints other that the newspapers?

>

> I appreciate what ever you can do to help.

>

>

> Respectfully,

>

> o Astorga,

>

> Farm Worker Project Manager

> NWRPCA

[Guest guest]

Columbia Legal Services has represented cherry harvest workers in

litigation and in regulatory efforts to improve conditions for those

workers. They have lots of pictures. Contact Dan Ford (20i6) 464 1122 or

dan.ford@...

At 02:03 PM 6/12/2001 -0700, you wrote:

>Hello every body!

>

>I need to get some photographs of the cherry camps in

>Eastern Washington. These pictures will be utilized to

>proved the deplorable conditions of the camps in this

>part of the country. Do you have any ideas about

>where can I get some prints other that the newspapers?

>

>I appreciate what ever you can do to help.

>

>

>Respectfully,

>

>o Astorga,

>

>Farm Worker Project Manager

>NWRPCA

>--- elia@... wrote:

>> Bobbi,

>>

>> I want to give you a California solution to the

>> " bigger problem " . As has

>> been mentioned, for more than 15 years under federal

>> law, undocumented women

>> have been eligible to receive emergency medical

>> services for labor and

>> delivery. California has run a state-funded program

>> for prenatal and

>> postpartum care for this population since September

>> of 1988.

>>

>> California was able to implement this program

>> because of very strong

>> arguments on the cost-effectiveness of providing

>> prenatal care (both in

>> terms of human suffering but also in terms of low

>> out-patient versus

>> in-patient emergency room costs). The original

>> legislations was brought by

>> a very strong Republican health advocate, Senator

>> Ken Maddy. These services

>> were under assault recently under California's

>> previous Administration (the

>> Administration), which sought to end all

>> public benefits to the

>> undocumented population. I am attaching a policy

>> brief that CPCA produced

>> when these services were under assault by the

>> Administration.

>>

>> These services were again attacked by welfare and

>> immigration reform, which

>> was implemented under the Clinton Administration.

>> Welfare reform gave

>> state's the option to end or preserve non-emergency

>> Medicaid and SCHIP to

>> most LEGAL immigrants. After the passage of welfare

>> reform, Wyoming was the

>> only state that opted to end Medicaid benefits for

>> legal immigrants.

>> Welfare reform also included provisions that deny

>> access for five-years to

>> " federal means-tested public benefits " (Medicaid and

>> SCHIP) to some LEGAL

>> immigrants, who LEGALLY entered the U.S. on or after

>> the implementation of

>> welfare reform (8/22/96). So not only is the

>> undocumented population denied

>> prenatal care, in many states new legal immigrants

>> are also denied access to

>> this critical care.

>>

>> California has implemented legislation that covers

>> undocumented women for

>> prenatal care and full scope Medicaid and SCHIP to

>> all new legal immigrants

>> with state-only funding. CPCA is finalizing a

>> Policy Brief on " Expanding

>> Immigrant Access to Health Care Services " based on

>> California's experience.

>> This Brief is intended to assist Primary Care

>> Associations and community

>> health centers in advocating for expanded immigrant

>> access to care. It

>> outlines the changes that occured with welfare and

>> immigration reform and

>> state options (such as the adoption of legislation)

>> to address these

>> changes. This Brief will be distributed to all PCAs

>> and I'll make sure that

>> MHP central grantees also get a copy. I believe it

>> will also be posted on

>> our website by the end of this month www.cpca.org.

>>

>> Elia

>>

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Bobbi Ryder [mailto:ryder@...]

>> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 8:56 AM

>>

>> Subject: [ ] Thank you Celine

>>

>>

>> Celine, thank you so much!!! We will take you up on

>> your offer. I will

>> respond in more detail privately.

>>

>> Thanks to all of the rest of you also for your

>> responses to our request for

>> assistance with this patient, we have followed up on

>> all of your leads and

>> the basic problem is that there is only one provider

>> in the area that will

>> take a high risk pregnancy and they will not accept

>> less than $1000 for the

>> patient to be seen. Delivery is extra.

>>

>> We will get her in for prenatal care right away,

>> thanks to the generous

>> support of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network.

>>

>> I am moved to comment on the " bigger " problem, and

>> that is that there are

>> hundreds,if not thousands of undocumented pregnant

>> women in need of prenatal

>> care who are not getting it. Any ideas about

>> " bigger " solutions? Anybody

>> doing research on what happens to prenatal outcomes

>> when there is no

>> prenatal care? A cost benefit analysis might be in

>> order.

>>

>> We all know how essential basic prenatal analysis is

>> to safe deliveries. In

>> caring for this 19 year old patient we learned of

>> another prenatal patient

>> in the Decatur Alabama area who lost her baby after

>> delivery due to a

>> maternal metabolic condition. The baby's death was

>> preventable, had the

>> mother's condition been known to the delivering

>> physicians.

>>

>> Anyone know of funding resources to try to research

>> and document the

>> enormity of this problem?

>>

>> Bobbi Ryder

>>

>>

>> cmfncc@... wrote:

>>

>> Hi, Bobbi,

>>

>> Sounds as though you need help with the pregnant

>> farmworker right away and,

>> as

>> much as it is hard to have to pay the $1,000, it

>> seems the only quick

>> solution. Am

>> I right? If so, the Network will pay the remaining

>> $400. Maybe you have

>> other solutions by now. Please let me know.

>>

>> Celine Caufield

>> Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network

>>

>>

>>

>>

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